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Cesar Chavez — Part 11
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‘ pations involved;
ln the words: of the ‘Second Dec-
laration of i of Havana, tell him of critical racisim_againsc all the
“misery, feudal exploitation, iI- colored peoples of the world —
Uteracy, starvation wages" and _ brown, yellow and black:
he will tell you thar you speak of, When police beutality, aatlonal
Texas: cell him of “discrimina-' and International,
unemployment, the policy of re! our foreign policy; .
pression against the workers,” and THEN, Senores, how can you mt
be will tell you thut you Speak of there so comfortably aware of your
California: tell him of U.S. domi= ““‘clvic dury' and expect me to 1% ih
nation in Latin America, and he spond to your call for more mi J=.
wil) tell you chat he knows that lens assassins? i ;
Shark and what he devours, be- You must think Iam « pacifist} ©
cause he has lived in its very Wiicb is to say thac I am not un-
“Whea Americs aspires a hypo- om nn
__ Mon, oppression by the oligarchies, : ; domestic way of Life ar well as
enteails.
When a liar like Lyndon “John- °
or’, who (the fact has been pub-
Hslea} first gained elective office
through the fraduluent use of 80,
000 Mexican-American ‘'votes”
in Texas, becomes President:
When a stupid, racist U.S. Sen-
ator such as George Murphy can
praise the use of bracero labor
because Mexicans are “buile
- gjoser to the ground’';
When reactionary, fascist gringo
farmers through the California
Growers Association refuse to pay .
Mexican - Americans slaving in
thelr fields the minimum wage
_ whling to learn the effective use
of firearms,.We are all murderers,
due to the simple fact of our exis-,
tence in an age of genocide and
mass destruction. | merely re-
serve the right to choose whom-
ever | must Kill
You must also know that I be- —
Heve in the Constitution and shall
indeed fight to preserve its prin=
ciples for all men. '
The events in Vietnam and the
Dominican Republic do, in fect,
endanger that Constitution. | {
But the problem is not the Viet~
"song. Jt is not the Dominican rebels
‘nither, Ir ts the POWER of our
cent of them Negro} are sent to ri
the’ Dominican Republic te sup-"" Latin America shall be free. The | -
pacessary to the survival of their ‘own country. It is the’ ever-fed
fymilies? but continue to harp and apathy of the American people,
pressure the boys In Washington ' who fail to see or care how their
to reinstate the defunct bracero | ‘‘Mandate for Peace’ has been
program: brutally and cynically mocked,
When Mexican-Americans are] Ik is the growing power invested’
counted among the dead in the re-| in one man, one insane Texan,
cent, prophetic insurrection in , Surrounded by sycophants and pro=
Warts, which immediatelyreminds fessional soldiers anxious and im-
ene of the infamous “Zoot Suit” ' patient for their professional wur.
riots in Los Angeles during World it Is cold piss-yellow fear a! a
War U; -" changing world andthe unconseipus -
When American Marines (4O0per “desire for nuclear suicide,
Nevertheless, Africa, Asia and
press a social revolution for con= United States cannot forever fatten
_stiutional reform, and to prevent’ ‘ton the bloody excrement of war.
the! legally elected President Juan? 1 WILL Not Fight ti Vietnam)
Bosch from returning we his Peon.
ple; :
When the United States main- ” wu
tains, retains, and protects dic-
tatorships, such as the Smeza bro- ~
thers in Nicaragua, France in
Spain, and Chiang in Formosa;die+
_tatorships all over the world
against the -pooular will of. the . 7
s Miguel Valdez ~
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