It is with great honor that we announce another one of our 48th Chicano Moratorium Commemoration | B

It is with great honor that we announce another one of our 48th Chicano Moratorium Commemoration | Boyle Heights speakers: Raul Ruiz editor, photographer, and journalist of the all-Chicano newspaper La Raza.The commemoration event will take place at Self Help Graphics & Art, August 29th at 6:00 PMRaul Ruiz would become co-editor of La Raza. During this same time, the Chicano Movement as a whole would escalate tactics against national oppression of Chicanos - like the Chicano Moratoriums. La Raza’s first issue was the Chicano Moratoriums which editors covered.“We captured it. No one else was covering it,” says Ruiz who witnessed as many did, how a peaceful protest of thousands of women, men and children erupted into violence, arrests and the murder of four people, including prominent Mexican-American journalist Ruben Salazar.“It turned out to be a police riot. The police rioted against the people. The police assaulted the people,” says Ruiz recalling the scenes of violence and terror he and other La Raza photographers were able to capture on film. The death of Ruben Salazar, killed by a gas canister shot by police while in the Silver Dollar Saloon, provoked outrage among activists.If you too can’t wait to hear from Ruiz himself, please help us by donating to Centro CSO’s Go Fund Me to cover event costs. ✊ Gracias de antemano: -- source link

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