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Chicano conference programs and speeches, April 1973-May 1974

1973-04-14 Workshop II, Chicanos: Political Process Page 5

We need you. We need the expertness that you are going to acquire here in this University and in all universities throughout the country. If you are going to be lawyers, we need you to go back to our barrios to help defend our rights. If you are going to be doctors, we need you to go back to our barrios and colonias to cure our ills for the love of our people, not for the love of money. If you are going to be engineers, we need you to go back to our barrios to listen to our people's problems and to help straighten their heads.

So you the young people, the students of today: You can become one of the most powerflul weapons in our struggle for liberation. The wasr has just begun. Our people are waking up. You can help us, if you want to. You must help us. You can help us by being part of the movement to build our own political party. We see us having no other alternative to solve our problems. This party is going to to be your party, our partido. We have to unite, we have to fight together because we have no choice. If we do not start uniting, if we do not start working together for LA RAZA, regardless of wheter we are Chicano, Puerto Rica or Latino, if we do not get united and fight together, then carnales y carnalas, brothers and sisters "nos van a seguir jodiendo".

I would like to end this short presentation by saying one thing. Those that triumph are those that have power. Tose that have power are those that are organized. Those that are organized are those that are united. We have to form a united front, we have no choice.
Thank you very much.

GEORGE GARCIA: To summarize this decision, these institutions have continually thwarted our efforts of organization. The schools have  brainwashed us. The school has told us we have no history. The school has told us we come from a backwards culture, a backward genetic group and that we have to become americanized to succeed. I think that we have to begin to take control over the public education intitution in order that we can change the process of learning. This is one aspect of it. I think that Mr. Moreno is correct when he says we have to begin to establish our unit in our organization. Historically we have not been able to do that because the institutions have thwarted our efforts of doing it. So it's extremely important that we begin to think very seriuosly in terms of RAZA UNIDA politics. I will contain my remarks to that at this point.

JOHN SCHMIDAHAUSER: I would like to make a few introductory remarks in response to the opening comments.

Several years ago when LA RAZA was first organized in the Quad-City area I was invited. I was very proud to be invited

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We need you. We need the expertness that you are going to acquire here in this University and in all universities throughout the country. If you are going to be lawyers, we need you to go back to our barrios to help defend our rights. If you are going to be doctors, we need you to go back to our barrios and colonias to cure our ills for the love of our people, not for the love of money. If you are going to be engineers, we need you to go back to our barrios to listen to our people's problems and to help straighten their heads. So you the young people, the students of today: You can become one of the most powerflul weapons in our struggle for liberation. The wasr has just begun. Our people are waking up. You can help us, if you want to. You must help us. You can help us by being part of the movement to build our own political party. We see us having no other alternative to solve our problems. This party is going to to be your party, our partido. We have to unite, we have to fight together because we have no choice. If we do not start uniting, if we do not start working together for LA RAZA, regardless of wheter we are Chicano, Puerto Rica or Latino, if we do not get united and fight together, then carnales y carnalas, brothers and sisters "nos van a seguir jodiendo". I would like to end this short presentation by saying one thing. Those that triumph are those that have power. Tose that have power are those that are organized. Those that are organized are those that are united. We have to form a united front, we have no choice. Thank you very much. GEORGE GARCIA: To summarize this decision, these institutions have continually thwarted our efforts of organization. The schools have brainwashed us. The school has told us we have no history. The school has told us we come from a backwards culture, a backward genetic group and that we have to become americanized to succeed. I think that we have to begin to take control over the public education intitution in order that we can change the process of learning. This is one aspect of it. I think that Mr. Moreno is correct when he says we have to begin to establish our unit in our organization. Historically we have not been able to do that because the institutions have thwarted our efforts of doing it. So it's extremely important that we begin to think very seriuosly in terms of RAZA UNIDA politics. I will contain my remarks to that at this point. JOHN SCHMIDAHAUSER: I would like to make a few introductory remarks in response to the opening comments. Several years ago when LA RAZA was first organized in the Quad-City area I was invited. I was very proud to be invited