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Racist gubernatorial candidate.(Insider Report)
California Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante is the front-running Democratic candidate to replace incumbent Gray Davis should Davis be recalled. What should concern Californians is that he was a member of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) as a student at Fresno State University. MEChA is a radical, violent exponent of "La Reconquista"--the "re-conquest" of the southwestern United States (which it calls Aztlan) by people of Mexican descent. The group's constitution explains that "general membership shall consist of any student who accepts, believes and works for the goals and objectives of MEChA, including the liberation of Aztlan, meaning self-determination of our people in this occupied state and the physical liberation of our land."
Were MEChA's goal to be realized, Aztlan would become the exclusive domain of what it calls "La Raza"--"the race," meaning those of Mexican descent. Miguel Perez of Cal ...
- Ignoring radical racialism.(Cruz Bustamante's ties to Movimiento Estudiantil...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Leo, John September 15, 2003 700+ words
...if not racist. A MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) slogan translates...nothing." El Plan de Aztlan, a founding document carried now on many MEChA Internet sites...Northridge's MEChA raised the issue...cleansing. Once Aztlan has been taken over...
- Mexican exhibit takes root: A new art show in Los Angeles examines the cultural...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 18, 2001 700+ words
...they settled...." - an Aztec legend Aztlan. A mythic homeland, as described in...that translates "place of the herons": Aztlan is both a place and an enduring cultural...ancestry lies in the American Southwest, Aztlan is also the answer to such fundamental...
- The utopia/dystopia of Latin America's margins: writing identity in Acadia and...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Spires, Adam January 1, 2008 700+ words
...the literary traditions of Acadia and Aztlan, arguing in favour of their mutual belonging...suroeste de los EEUU bajo el nombre de Aztlan. Mas especifi camente, nos enfocamos...American activists under the name of Aztlan. (4) Luis Leal explains: [Aztlan...
- Rolas de Aztlan: Songs of the Chicano Movement.(Sound recording review)
- Magazine article from: Latin American Music Review Romero, Brenda M. March 22, 2006 700+ words
Rolas de Aztlan: Songs of the Chicano Movement, compiled...the very excellent compilation Rolas de Aztlan: Songs of the Chicano Movement, compiled...in full force during the early 1970s. Aztlan, a term attributed to Chicano activist...
- Welcome to Aztlan. (Teatro Nacionales de Aztlan festival at San Antonio, Texas)...
- Magazine article from: American Theatre Morales, Ed March 1, 1993 700+ words
...November it became the spiritual center of Aztlan, a legendary land ruled by indigenous...of the '60s, these days the idea of Aztlan is largely kept alive by Chicano theatre...organization, TENAZ (Teatros Nacionales de Aztlan), held its 16th festival at the extraordinary...
- Immigration controversies.(United States)(western US said to be mythical Aztlan...
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight June 1, 2006 700+ words
...chief of the Los Angeles-based Voz de Aztlan news service, which one critic describes...belong to the "mythical" homeland of Aztlan. It is contended that these lands are...2005) alone." A recent article on the Aztlan website declared "there is no doubt a...
- 'Never Leaving Aztlan' is theme of ASC art show.
- Newspaper article from: Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colorado) September 1, 2006 700+ words
...Sep. 1--ALAMOSA - "Never Leaving Aztlan" is an art exhibit of Hispanic artists...Briones and Guerrero. "Never Leaving Aztlan" examines 14 Chicano artists, both locally...and two art videos. "Never Leaving Aztlan" is a revelation by each artist of his...
- Cherrie Moraga: mapping Aztlan. (playwright)
- Magazine article from: American Theatre DeRose, David J. October 1, 1996 700+ words
...California landscape racial memories of Aztlan, the ancient North American homeland...landscape, I start thinking a lot about Aztlan: that this land was originally Mexico...has painted giant letters spelling out AZTLAN. "For a moment I don't know if it...
Source: HighBeam Research, Racist gubernatorial candidate.(Insider Report)