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Latino-Native American Cultural Center newspaper clippings, 1970-2001
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part of town. I got involved in the social action, trying to save marriages, putting up bail. That meant more trouble with the police. "When I started asking for social reforms I got offered a political job. Hell, I didn't need a job. I'd been supporting myself for years. But that's what politics is--personal gain. There's truth in the saying that today's militant is tomorrow's OEO agent." Gonzalez continued to work within the system and became Colorado's first Chicano Democratic State Chairman. "I was state coordinator for the Viva Kennedy Clubs, but when Kennedy nominated his reactionary schoolmate Byron White for the Supreme Court I began to see the contradictions of politics." Gonzales finally just became fed up with politics. "In '63 a kid I got out of jail died of a brain hemorrhage from a police beating. It was the sort of thing I'd seen all my life, blowing up in my face. I walked out on politics because it seemed so futile." Speech At his Friday night keynote speech, the excited scene of much footstomping and machismo backslapping, Gonzales told the audience that "nationalism was a means of organizing themselves." On Saturday morning, however, organization at the Chicano Conference was temporarily faltering. A dance the night before had kept many conferees up until 5:30 in the morning. By 9:30, the starting time, only a few people had straggled back to the Union. Until Gonzales returned the Chicano Conference seemed to mark time. One workshop had to be delayed : a rally at the Pentacrest had to be cancelled for lack of time One continued on page seven
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part of town. I got involved in the social action, trying to save marriages, putting up bail. That meant more trouble with the police. "When I started asking for social reforms I got offered a political job. Hell, I didn't need a job. I'd been supporting myself for years. But that's what politics is--personal gain. There's truth in the saying that today's militant is tomorrow's OEO agent." Gonzalez continued to work within the system and became Colorado's first Chicano Democratic State Chairman. "I was state coordinator for the Viva Kennedy Clubs, but when Kennedy nominated his reactionary schoolmate Byron White for the Supreme Court I began to see the contradictions of politics." Gonzales finally just became fed up with politics. "In '63 a kid I got out of jail died of a brain hemorrhage from a police beating. It was the sort of thing I'd seen all my life, blowing up in my face. I walked out on politics because it seemed so futile." Speech At his Friday night keynote speech, the excited scene of much footstomping and machismo backslapping, Gonzales told the audience that "nationalism was a means of organizing themselves." On Saturday morning, however, organization at the Chicano Conference was temporarily faltering. A dance the night before had kept many conferees up until 5:30 in the morning. By 9:30, the starting time, only a few people had straggled back to the Union. Until Gonzales returned the Chicano Conference seemed to mark time. One workshop had to be delayed : a rally at the Pentacrest had to be cancelled for lack of time One continued on page seven
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