(Online Since July 1999 with a one page website)
Linked with Elizabeth Betita Martinez – USA.
The National Chicano Moratorium Committee was re-formed in December 2, 1989 at a national meeting called by Union del Barrio and La Raza Unida Party in East Los Angeles over 20 people showed up from all over Occupied Mexico/Aztlan. The purpose of the meeting was to organize an Aztlan-wide mobilization for the « 20th Commemoration of August 29th, 1970 National Chicano Moratorium » in East Los Angeles. That initiative resulted in the largest Raza mobilization since the height of the Chicano Movement, over 8,000 Raza participants marched the streets of East Los Angeles to Salazar Park on August 25, 1990 … (full text);
Postal Address: National Chicano Moratorium Committee, P.O. Box 20411, Oxnard, Califas 93034-0411, USA; Contact by e-mail.
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The Chicano Moratorium – and related items – named and described on many other websites:
- The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based but fragile coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War. Led by activists from local colleges and members of the « Brown Berets », a group with roots in the high school student movement that staged walkouts in 1968, the coalition peaked with an August 29, 1970 march in East Los Angeles that drew 30,000 demonstrators … (full text on wikipedia). Its History on wikipedia;
- on calisphere /University of California – Homepage, Sitemap;
- the video: Ruben Salazar’s Legacy Lives On, 1.56 min, April 28, 2008;
- Chicano Moratorium, past and present;
- Protest marches;
- Protests against the Vietnam War;
- Mexican-American history; with Mexican Americans, Hispanic American history, History of the United States by ethnic group;
- History of Latino civil rights;
- History of civil rights in the United States;
- History of the United States (1865–1918), History of the United States (1918–1945), History of the United States (1945–1964), History of the United States (1964–1980).