“Go back to Germany where you belong!” he shouted. Their basic point is that current U.S. citizens are colonialists and European imperialists who stole the land of the southwestern United States from its true owners, the Mexican races dating back untold centuries. He is a Marine Corps veteran and received the Purple Heart for wounds sustained while serving in Vietnam.

The only trouble with annulling the Adams-Onis treaty is that would cede the western United States to Spain. In a land colonized by three European nations (Spain, France and the United States), the original occupants of these lands began to rebuild their own national identity, an identity focused on ancient ties to the occupied Americas and indigeneity. Mr. Gilchrist founded the volunteer Minuteman Project in 2004. Cal.

Our culture unites and educates the family of La Raza towards liberation with one heart and one mind. “North America is the geographical area of the culture of Anahuac, which is the culture of corn, which brought about our civilizations. The Xicano power movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a continuation of the centuries-old question surrounding the natural inheritance of indigenous people and national identity. El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan is about national liberation. Viva Cuba!”. 4. Ana Castillo, Reflections of Aztlan and its tole in the chicanx student movement by Nicolas Cruz, Return to Aztlan by Guillermo Lux and Maurilio E. Vigil, Strange Rumblings in Aztlan by Hunter S. Thomson, This page was last edited on 17 August 2020, at 04:19. This conversation around Indigenous national liberation and the expulsion of foreign invaders has a long history over the past 500 years. As Corky Gonzalez quotes, “Groups, Immigration,” listed with links on David Horowitz’s website. Obviously, street demonstrations involving tens of thousands of participants require elaborate planning and expensive, professional coordination. They in turn offer their responsibility and their lives for their people. they form equal parts of a rebellion and are inherent in it. Today, millions of Mexican illegal immigrants are pouring into the United States. Hispanic settlement of what is now California began in 1769 when the Presidio and Catholic mission of San Diego were established.

[2]  Mexica Movement, “Welcome to the Mexica Movement.” [3]  Movimento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, National Constitution. Kidron released the “anthem” in a multiple artist recording where background singers added additional variations that appeared to be background to the song’s rewritten “Star-Spangled Banner” lyrics. But NCLR defended that grant by asserting that MEChA�s �primary objectives are educational�to help Latino students finish high school and go to college, and to support them while at institutions of higher education.�.

We cannot, we will not, and we must not be made “illegal” in our homeland. Aztlan includes Sonoran Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, So. SELF-DEFENSE of the community must rely on the combined strength of the people. While Chicanos have not demonstrated political influence commensurate with their growing numbers, the increase in Chicano elected and appointed officials reflects growing Chicano political presence. document.cookie = "__adblocker=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT; path=/"; The goal of national mobilization is to create a nation a return to history. Aztlan may be to build power, and this power is based on historical facts and rightness. different places claim to be the home of the original aztlan, but experts have found strong evidence that it was in the area now known as the state of Utah.

The national constitution of MEChA is clear about its intent: The Chicano and Chicana students of Aztlán must take upon themselves the responsibilities to promote Chicanismo within the community, politicizing our Raza with an emphasis on indigenous conscious¬ness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlán.

David Horowitz’s important DiscoverTheNetworks.org website lists some fifty groups that are working together in the effort on the radical left. Reconquista activists plan that the states controlled by Mexican immigrants would secede from the United States and join Mexico, much as the southern states seceded during the American Civil War and formed the Confederacy. How will the Reconquista be accomplished? . The goal of creating Aztlán is the dream of another radical organization, the Moviemento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, which translates as the “Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán,” more commonly abbreviated to the acronyms “M.E.Ch.A” or “MEChA.” The symbol of MEChA is a black eagle against a red background. somewhere far north of present day mexico city, though nobody knows exactly where. 3. Now, you think you have a destiny to fulfill in this land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. In the politics of illegal immigration, Aztlán has come to represent that part of the U.S. that the Reconquista movement intends to reclaim for an expanded Mexico. The Plan Espiritual de Aztlán (English: "Spiritual Plan of Aztlán") was a pro-indigenist manifesto advocating Chicano nationalism and self-determination for Mexican Americans. “We, a non-conquered people living in a conquered land, come together hoping that a plan of liberation, a concrete revolutionary program acceptable to the entire southwest, will from this conference. This is one declaration of a sovereignty prior to the plan de Aztlan by a formerly sovereign people that continues the discussion of natural inheritance.

By their sheer presence and numbers, those in the Reconquista movement believe that a time will come when they can take political control of local communities where Hispanics are the majority. “La Crusada Para La Justicia exists as an expression of some members of La Raza consciously creating social systems that are parallel to and independent of the anglo systems imposed by war, annexation, and conquest. Aztlan is only good to build power for the Xicano Movement.

The front line defense will come from the barrios, the campos, the pueblos, and the ranchitos. For millions of Hispanics in the Unites States, and for millions more in Mexico, the assertion is made in deadly seriousness. .

Aztlan an abstract illusion of a Nation? 6. Mexica Movement, “Welcome to the Mexica Movement.” Movimento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, National Constitution. Nevada, etc. Still, students displayed openly the leftist ideas that they had been taught about immigration, although flying the Mexican flag above an upside down U.S. flag on a schoolyard was not the image that organizing groups like MEChA or the National Council of La Raza wanted to broadcast. #ga-ad {display: none;} We just have to survive. var script = document.createElement("script"); We are a new Mestizo Nation. It’s a matter of time. Your email address will not be published. For the very young there will no longer be acts of juvenile delinquency, but revolutionary acts. Behind the scenes, the left has organized one of the largest protest movements in America since the massive civil rights marches seen all across the country in the 1960s. Participants in this conference drafted the basic premises for the �Chicana/Chicano Movement� in a seminal document titled El Plan Espiritual de Aztl�n (EPEA). The youthful activism embraced the concept of Aztl�n as their spiritual homeland. Our cultural values of life, family, and home will serve as a powerful weapon to defeat the gringo dollar value system and encourage the process of love and brotherhood. This statement offers Xicanos / Xicanas a basis of what to accomplish and how to build power for the Xicano / Indigenous communities. POLITICAL LIBERATION can only come through independent action on our part, since the two-party system is the same animal with two heads that feed from the same trough. Political goals have included increasing the number of Chicano candidates, convincing non-Chicano candidates to commit themselves to the needs of the Mexican American community, conducting broad-scale voter registration and community organization drives, working for appointment of more Chicanos in government, and supporting passage of constructive legislation. The Mexica Movement What is known as the “Mexica Movement” is central to the Reconquista movement. The conference participants looked to the past of their indigenous ancestors and discovered that the Aztecs who settled in the Valley of Mexico and created the Aztec Empire had originated somewhere in the Southwestern United States in a place called �Aztl�n�.