{"id":2405,"date":"2020-09-03T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2021-02-23T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T22:30:03","slug":"la-raza-moratorium-peace-march-september-19-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=2405","title":{"rendered":"LA RAZA MORATORIUM PEACE MARCH – SEPTEMBER 19, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is an excerpt from my book chapter in The Chicano Movement: Perspectives From The Twenty-First Century<\/strong><\/em> (2014)<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

YA BASTA! THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY: THE CHICANO POWER MOVEMENT IN OXNARD, CALIFORNIA <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Flyer of the Oxnard\u2019s La Raza Moratorium Peace March<\/span>, September 19, 1970. Courtesy of the author\u2019s family collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

On the Oxnard Plain, the Chicana\/o community responded to the Viet Nam War and the NCMC by organizing their own moratorium event, the La Raza Moratorium Peace March in September 1970. To avoid violence, the police met with march organizers from MAPA and MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlanis<\/em>). John Soria of MAPA stated, \u201cwe don\u2019t want any difficulties, only an effective and peaceful march.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: The Press-Courier<\/em>, 17 Sep 1970.<\/p><\/div>\n

As part of the march activities, Roberto Flores, one of the march organizers, reported that fifteen members of the Oxnard Chicano Moratorium Committee would begin a fast on September 16 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in La Colonia <\/em>to highlight the eight thousand Chicana\/os killed in the Viet Nam War, which included thirty from Ventura County. <\/span>Focusing on one key point of the march, Flores stated, \u201cwe are marching in protest so that our youth\u2019s lives will not be used as pawns in a political game.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: The Press-Courier<\/em>, 19 Sep 1970.<\/p><\/div>\n

More than one thousand Chicana\/os marched from Colonia Park to Oxnard Community Center on September 19, in protest over the Viet Nam War. The crowd heard speeches from a number of local and national speakers. Ricardo Carmona of the Oxnard Chicano Moratorium Committee told the crowd, \u201cwe must band together and change our course by fighting for all of our rights.\u201d Another local speaker, Roberto Aliasa stated, \u201cwe just want to be liberated\u201d and \u201cwe have been raped of our land and heritage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: The Press-Courier<\/em>, 20 Sep 1970.<\/p><\/div>\n

Joey Garci\u0301a, a member of Teatro de la Esperanza<\/em>, a Chicano theater group from UCSB, read a powerful poem to the crowd on police brutality: \u201cwith a gun on your side\/you walk so tall.\/But I know you\u2019re afraid\/\u2019cause you can\u2019t kill us all.\/So just go away, until another day,\/When we shall meet face to face\/once again,\/at the moratorium.\u201d Rosalio Mun\u0303oz of the NCMC reminded the crowd, \u201cwe are nation of people rising on our home front to fight for justice and we must organize to pressure the issues of police brutality and working conditions.\u201d And finally, Reverend Blase\u0301 Bonpane pointed out that Chicana\/os \u201cwere the largest single race sent [to Viet Nam], but they receive the least from society and face hunger, injustices, and racism.\u201d The march ended with no violence and left a historical marker within the Chicana\/o community in Oxnard, which called on organizing for social and political justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

c\/s<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The following is an excerpt from my book chapter in The Chicano Movement: Perspectives From The Twenty-First Century (2014). YA BASTA! THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY: THE CHICANO POWER MOVEMENT IN OXNARD, CALIFORNIA On the Oxnard Plain, the Chicana\/o community responded to the Viet Nam War and the NCMC by organizing their own moratorium […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ibJA-CN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":123,"url":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=123","url_meta":{"origin":2405,"position":0},"title":"Winter Break Is Over, Hello Michigan Again…","date":"January 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I have spent the last five weeks in Oxnard writing a chapter titled, \u00a1Ya Basta!: The Struggle For Justice And Equality On The Oxnard Plain, which covers the Chicano Movement and UFW during the 1970s. 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