Thirty-two years in Chicano/a history is a capsule of the long history of activism in the Chicano/ Mexicano community.
Three decades ago the largest Chicano/a mobilization to protest the Vietnam War was seen as a threat from the peoples movement that questioned: US foreign policies, the high casualty rate of Chicanos killed in Vietnam, and the negative effects it had on its community at home.
Chicanos were sent in large numbers to fight a war against the peoples of Vietnam in their fields and lands of subsistence.
Just like at home Chicanos tried to raise awareness that the destruction of another nations homeland, was the same as the destruction of the Chicanos in the barrios of Los Angeles, California, Arizona, Nuevo Mexico, Colorado, Texas, and many other Southwest lands.
