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Written by the Chicano Workteam
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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
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(Introduction to the pamphlet version of Raza Youth Rise Up: Student Mobilizations in the 1990s)
March 2006 saw a stunning eruption of anger and determination by millions of immigrants -- undocumented and "legal" alike. We hit the streets in hundreds of places from Chicago and LA all the way to small towns like Smithtown, NC and Stony Brook, NY.
These demonstrations and Days of Absence were sparked by menacing legislation to increase penalties against immigrants and anyone helping them. The anger behind the protest comes from working hard for long hours and low pay to make this United States run and make its rulers rich beyond belief and getting rewarded with contempt and mistreatment. |
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Written by Marisol Padilla and Juan R. Taizán
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Tuesday, 12 April 2005 |
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Published by the Oppressed Nationalities Commission of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
 It has been approximately ten years since the most recent phase of Raza mobilization began here in California. The student walkouts that rocked many northern California high schools in 1993-2000 were the direct result of ongoing discriminatory policies within California's education system, as well as county and state policies (not to mention those of governor Pete "pito" Wilson) which were taking funding from education and placing it into the building of a police/prison state. The student upsurges, which took place in high schools in eight major Bay Area cities, helped to politicize many working class youth of color for the very first time, and were the beginning of an offensive against an unjust system.
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