50 yrs ago today, tens of 1000’s marched thru East LA to protest the Vietnam War & raise up the Chicano experience. Police responded w/tear gas & arrests. 3 died that day
People are back to remember the #ChicanoMoratorium. Times are different but many problems are the same
Today’s #ChicanoMoratorium events remember the 3 who died in East LA 50 yrs ago today, incl journalist & civil rights leader Ruben Salazar. He was killed when police threw a tear gas canister into the Silver Dollar Bar.
His image faces that building.
Chicano Power signs brandished as #ChicanoMoratorium caravan gets underway with LA County Sheriff’s deputies monitoring
Maria said she took part in the #ChicanoMoratorium 50 years ago and the inequities she and thousands were marching about persist today in schools, work, health systems.
“We’re still going through our wars today.”
Maria, who marched in the #ChicanoMoratorium, said the caravan down Whittier Blvd was beautiful.
“A lot of people see it ‘Oh, they have better nothing to do but show their cars. No..These people are showing our pride in our culture from our clothes to our food to our cars.”
Whittier Boulevard, 50 years after the #ChicanoMoratorium
The march marking 50th anniversary of #ChicanoMoratorium has started
“F*ck Trump!” Signs for #VanessaGuillen and #BlackLiveMatter in the march through East LA remembering #ChicanoMoratorium
Car driving alongside protesters for #ChicanoMoratorium, providing a buffer, has these messages:
“Racism is LAME”
“Soy Negro y Chicano VIVA UNIDAD”
“Ruben Salazar VIVE”
Found Brown Beret Cynthia Baragas by the mural for the #ChicanoMoratorium.
The kids call her OG now. But she was 17 when she came from Riverside for the peace march through East LA. She recalls the chaos of that day.
Brown Beret Cynthia Baragas has gone on to be a foster and adoptive parent.
She’s here today to fight Trump, police brutality and educational inequities. She also wants to bring justice to #VanessaGuillen
If you haven’t had a chance, check out this collaboration on what the #ChicanoMoratorium means today from colleagues @ErickGEEE and @chavatweets1
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The car caravan and marchers for the #ChicanoMoratorium have merged & reached RubenSalazar Park, named after the groundbreaking @latimes columnist and Chicano studies leader at Cal State Long Beach. He died 50 years ago today, killed by a tear gas canister.
“Chicana Power!”
“Chicano power! #ChicanoMoratorium
Proud Boys mocked at Salazar Park.
“They don’t come to the barrio, homie, you know what I’m saying?”#ChicanoMoratorium
Activist Sammy Quetzalli performs a poem he wrote for his 2 young daughters, praising the Chicana leaders who nourish the community in multiple ways
Spotlighted early in the #ChicanoMoratorium event at Salazar Park are Palestinian American activists. Says Kareem Youssef of @uspcn to the crowd:
“We support you because there is joint struggle btw us — whether it is here in southwestern Tongva land or overseas in Palestine.”
Brown Berets have come from all over the country to LA this weekend to mark the #ChicanoMoratorium, a watershed moment in the movement
Yudith “Corazon” Salas is a 21 yo Brown Beret from Houston.
She wants to honor those who died in Vietnam and at same time discourage young people from joining the armed forces because “at the end of the day, they don’t care about you.”
Seeing @ProBonoASL at many protests.
This is how to say "decolonizing is a process" in ASL
Salazar Park goes quiet for family of Daniel Hernandez, who was killed by Officer Toni McBride, daughter of the LAPD union director.
Hernandez had emerged from scene of car crash w/a knife when he was shot 6x's. The family is suing, alleging excessive force. #ChicanoMoratorium
#ChicanoMoratorium at Salazar Park pretty much wrapped up but the signs, they live on like Salazar spelled with the anarchy symbol
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