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Chicano conference programs and speeches, April 1973-May 1974

1973-04-14 Keynote Speech Page 9

In Tejerina got finally upset with the hypocrisy of their words, picked up the gun and went and arrested elected officials in Tierra Amarill, at the court house. For a week or so the National Guad, certain division of the Army looked for Tijerina in the mountains of New Mexico an they could not find him.

Chicanos not only have distinguishd themselves in Viet Nam, Korea and World War II and World War I the soldiers of the enemy. We have distinguished ourselves in our own right. It was Robert E. Lee who failed to capture Juan Cortina. It was Pershing who failed to capture Dorateo Arango, better known as Poncho Villa. It was the National Guard and Army of New Mexico who failed to capture Tijerina. From Tijerina sprang the Brown Berets and many other groups who sought to emulate what Tijerina stood for as a symbol of resistance, a symbol of a man including his bdy physically on the line for what he believed. Other people at the same time began developing and blowing out in many directions. The outh who have always been excluded by the traditional organizations in 1968 walked out of the schools in L.A., Lincoln High, started it all. Three days later Elsa College walk outs in Tejas. From that day in Tejas alone there has been 39 school walk outs protesting the lack and irrelevantcy of education.

Then came the women who have always been a very vital part, who finally gave up on the reactionary of the politics of the Chicano counterpart, the male. They moved out on their own. Women have aleays been successful in winning. It was in the early thirties when the Chicano housewife in East L.A. got angry with the company called Carnation. They would brin day old milk at 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning and the driver was a very nasty insolent white bigot. The women organized themselves and boycotted Carnation. The barrio of East L.A, succeded not only in getting fresh milk early in the morning but changing the drivers to being Chicano drivers. They found jobs for their husbands.

Just like in Silver City, New Mexico when the Federal Judges ordered the picketing by the union members illegal, women took up the picket signs, braved the tears gas, because they stood in line for their husbands andt the injunction had not covered the women. They are the ones who won the strike.

Same thing with Marie Hernandez. She was a member of the Orden Hijos De America in 1927, Harlington. She was the only voice along with her husband Pedro Hernandez

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In Tejerina got finally upset with the hypocrisy of their words, picked up the gun and went and arrested elected officials in Tierra Amarill, at the court house. For a week or so the National Guad, certain division of the Army looked for Tijerina in the mountains of New Mexico an they could not find him. Chicanos not only have distinguishd themselves in Viet Nam, Korea and World War II and World War I the soldiers of the enemy. We have distinguished ourselves in our own right. It was Robert E. Lee who failed to capture Juan Cortina. It was Pershing who failed to capture Dorateo Arango, better known as Poncho Villa. It was the National Guard and Army of New Mexico who failed to capture Tijerina. From Tijerina sprang the Brown Berets and many other groups who sought to emulate what Tijerina stood for as a symbol of resistance, a symbol of a man including his bdy physically on the line for what he believed. Other people at the same time began developing and blowing out in many directions. The outh who have always been excluded by the traditional organizations in 1968 walked out of the schools in L.A., Lincoln High, started it all. Three days later Elsa College walk outs in Tejas. From that day in Tejas alone there has been 39 school walk outs protesting the lack and irrelevantcy of education. Then came the women who have always been a very vital part, who finally gave up on the reactionary of the politics of the Chicano counterpart, the male. They moved out on their own. Women have aleays been successful in winning. It was in the early thirties when the Chicano housewife in East L.A. got angry with the company called Carnation. They would brin day old milk at 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning and the driver was a very nasty insolent white bigot. The women organized themselves and boycotted Carnation. The barrio of East L.A, succeded not only in getting fresh milk early in the morning but changing the drivers to being Chicano drivers. They found jobs for their husbands. Just like in Silver City, New Mexico when the Federal Judges ordered the picketing by the union members illegal, women took up the picket signs, braved the tears gas, because they stood in line for their husbands andt the injunction had not covered the women. They are the ones who won the strike. Same thing with Marie Hernandez. She was a member of the Orden Hijos De America in 1927, Harlington. She was the only voice along with her husband Pedro Hernandez