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Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | May 1, 2008
Ever wondered what it would be like to be invisible?
To walk down the street without anyone seeing you? Or to go to work every day without a voice? For the estimated 12 million undocumented workers living in the United States, the answers to those questions are a grim reality faced daily, but seldom challenged. Today, a predicted 3,000 people will march through the streets of San Diego in peaceful protest of social injustices and lack of immigration reform. “There is a lot of fear in this community due to immigration raids and border patrol injustices,” Christina Lares, chairperson for MEChA, a student organization that promotes social justice and higher education for underrepresented students, said. “But this march is a way for people to show that they do have a voice and that they don’t have to be afraid.”
Reconquista Armando Navarro
“Ladies and Gentlemen, what this means is a transfer of power, it means control, and it is the young people, the people who are now moving to develop an agenda for the twenty first century they are going to be in a position to really make the promise of what the Chicano movement was all about in terms of self-determination, in terms of empowerment, even in the terms of an Aztlan….”
La Voz de Aztlan
Radical politics have been part of the game on American campuses since at least the mid-1960s but have recently taken a new and disturbing turn. At colleges and universities across the country, the Movimiento Estudiantil de Chicanos de Aztlan (The Student Movement of Aztlan Chicanos) — better known by its acronym, MEChA — is calling for the surrender of wide swaths of American territory to Mexico. Worse yet, in doing so, it has the support of university administrators, elected officials, and — thanks to the mandatory student activity fees on which the organization depends — tuition-paying students. 1
Founded in the late 1960s, MEChA has spent the last three decades indoctrinating Latino students on American campuses in the ideology of reconquista (reconquest). According to MEChA propaganda, the Southwestern United States — including California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, as well as parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado — sits on the territory of the ancient (and mythical) “Nation of Aztlan.” Supposedly the cradle of Aztec civilization, MEChA charges that Aztlan was unjustly seized by the United States following the Mexican-American War. Now MEChA wants this territory given back to its alleged rightful owners: the people and government of Mexico.
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