During the Vietnam War, the Mexican-American (Chicano) community, realizing that so many youth from that community were being used as canon fodder and were dying at a rate of 3 to 1 Anglo deaths, rose up en masse on August 29, 1970.

Now, 40 years later, the still active Chicano Moratorium Committee, along with the Brown Berets, are keeping that moment alive. The Anniversary March and Rally took place on August 28, 2010 with a march down Whittier Blvd. in East L.A., culminating in a rally at the renamed Salazar Park in memory of the great reporter who has become the roll model for so many.

Today the march commemorates what happened 40 years ago, when the Los Angeles County sheriffs attacked an anti-war protest in the park…. opened fire on the protest with 12 gauge shotguns… killing three activists including a young Brown Beret. Later that day Sheriffs shot and killed Ruben Salazar a Los Angeles Times reporter, as he sat in the Silver Dollar café. The sheriffs shot Salazar with a tear gas gun canister, hitting him in the head.

At this years march people placed heaps of flowers on the sidewalk on Whittier Blvd where the Silver Dollar used to be. Marchers all stopped along the march to pay respects to the reporter assassinated by the Los Angeles County sheriffs department. Report from the newswire: Pics of Chicano Moratorium anti war protest and march by hellokitty siempre | | Past Coverage: 2009 | 2006

Related: Ramsey Muniz: Guilty of Being Latino and Activist in America

The wealthy merchants of Gallery Place, horrified that young people of color are attracted to the area, have installed a device called the "Mosquito" that attempts to sicken and drive away anyone under 25 with high pitched sound.

On Saturday, August 28, two competing marches were held to interpret the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream Speech," delivered on August 28, 1963 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Here is a roundup of coverage from DC-IMC.

Pictured: Marcher wearing "Original Project 9-12" T-shirt

Text, Audio & Video of "I Have a Dream" Speech | Wikipedia Article on Speech's Significance | Music Video by Common

Reclaim the Dream March could have been better.

I can say that probably more than 10,000 people took part in “Reclaim the Dream” March. It started at Dumbar High School culminating at the Washington Mall. The march did not have radical speakers or left leaning or calls for actions but rather it was more of a loud sermon since many of the speakers were reverends with their Jesus loves you speeches and God Bless America. It was more of a religious, Christian, and nationalist March with some complaints about the social and economic plight of African Americans. Other speakers included government officials, union leaders and Democratic Party elected officials and two token Latino speakers

From the Human Rights Coalition: Muslim men at SCI Coal Township under fire for observing Ramadan, Prisoners refused food, called 'cave monkeys' & 'terrorists' by racist guards.

Photo from Imam Jamil Al-Amin on Liberating the Soul

Past Coverage by HRC: Former Prisoners Testify at Hearing on Solitary Confinement... | Related: Black August Commemorative Educational Call: Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War in the United States and the legacy of repression and resistance

Sitting by the Washington Monument, Joel Segal watched - and occasionally greeted - wave after wave of white people heading to the Lincoln Memorial for the "Restoring Honor" march. Just after I completed an interview with Segal, an activist with Progressive Democrats for America, he asked an elderly man what he thought of President Obama. The elderly man responded by saying that Obama is the first nigger President.

From the Open Posting Newswire: Ramiro (Ramsey) Muniz [has been] imprisoned for life without parole on a bogus drug charge. Now age 67, he's been incarcerated nearly 17 years, earlier at Leavenworth, KS federal prison, the country's largest maximum security one, more recently at the US Medical Center, Springfield, MO recovering from life threatening complications from surgery.

A Corpus Christi, TX native, he "contributed greatly to the Chicano Civil Rights Movement during the 1970s as a leader for justice and equality for all Mexican Americans, Hispanics, and Latinos throughout the United States. In 1972 and 1974 (at ages 30 and 32), he was Texas gubernatorial candidate for the La Raza Unida Party (RUP), established to help Mexican Americans achieve greater economic, social, and political self-determination, especially in South Texas, where, though a majority in many counties and locales, they held little or no power.

Read Full Report by Stephen Lendman | Context: Political Prisoners in America | freeramsey.com

President Obama has recently pulled approximately 90,000 US troops out of the Republic of Iraq, leaving about 50,000 there. The Obama administration has referred to this move as an end to the “combat mission” there and is hailing this drawdown as an achievement. The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations calls for the complete withdrawal of all US and foreign troops and security forces out of Iraq. Related: A Combat Bridge Leaves; US War of Terror Against Iraq Continues | March & Rally: November 13th | Civil Rights or Civil War?

Ayatollah Beck rallied alot of white people to restore the pre-Civil Rights white Property Owner's Constitution. African-Americans are still marching to make the Amendments real. Some people still don't get it. Turning back the clock, was the whole damn point of the Beck rally, (in spite of 6 months worth of TV trying to show "The Tea Party isn't racist"). Read More || Censorship at Glenn Beck Rally Video || Reclaim the Dream Rally March pt.3 || Reclaim the Dream March || Teabagger gets punched for trying to smash camera

The California Nurses Association held a press conference Thursday, August 19th accusing Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center, which operates St. Luke's Hospital, of discriminating against Filipino nurses. The nurses presented declarations from three former hospital managers documenting a policy of discrimination and data showing a precipitous decline in the number of Filipino nurses hired at St. Luke's. Union and community leaders suggested that the decline is related to Filipino nurses' leadership in the 2008 campaign to save the hospital.

A rally to show unity with the struggle to free Diop Olugbala is planned for Monday, August 23, 2010, at North Broad Street and Erie Avenue in North Philadelphia. Olugbala, now president of International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, was attacked and arrested by police during a city council meeting. He is accused of carrying a sign that called for Africans to resist the war that the City of Philadelphia wages against our community. Before organizing in Philadelphia, Olugbala received worldwide media coverage when he publicly challenged then-candidate Barack Obama during a 2008 campaign event in St. Petersburg, Florida.

A personal statement to counter a new bout of Xenophobia, even among people I know and love.

Rally Against Islamophobia - NYC Indymedia, Follow-up: Call to Action - NYC Indymedia, Local view - PhillyIMC.

Greetings! Thank you for checking out the latest issue of the Activists Against Racism Movement (AARM) Newsletter. We are committed to keeping the Rochester community informed of anti-racist activity in the city and surrounding areas on a regular basis. Look for this newsletter each month. THIS ISSUE of the AARM Newsletter is a product of the rich discussions our members have had every Monday evening for the past month or so. These “critical thinking sessions,” as we’ve dubbed them, attempt to combine the theoretical with the practical in anti-racist struggle, and move us to appropriate and much-needed action. The discussions take place every Monday from 6-8 pm at the Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St) and are open to the public. Please join us in educating ourselves and those around us while we work toward a multi-racial, multi-generational movement against racial oppression. All are welcome!

On the afternoon of Saturday, July 31st about 65 people converged in downtown Portland to participate in the Call to Action Against Racism and Fascism, a coordinated effort by anti-racists in North America and beyond. In Portland, anti-racists from Portland Anti-Racist Action, Sisters of the Road, Rose City Copwatch, and Bring the Ruckus along with others from the community came together to oppose bigotry and white supremacist organizing in their city. The crowd was addressed by speakers from Rose City Copwatch and the Center for New Community who spoke to the need to confront racism and bridge struggles against white supremacist violence. The crowd then energetically marched through the Old Town neighborhood chanting "No Nazis, No KKK, No Fascist USA!" The anti-racists marched to the home of Jeffrey Jay Thomas at the Sally McCracken Building. Thomas (AKA Skinhead J) is affiliated with Blood and Honour American Division--a neo-Nazi group--and has also been involved with National Socialist Movement. The flyer distributed by the demonstrators

If you have information about neo-Nazi, fascist or white supremacist organizing in Portland or the Pacific Northwest, please contact Rose City Antifa/Portland ARA: 971-533-7832 (voicemail) or fight_them_back [at] riseup [dot] net.

Related: Portland anti-fascists protest outside neo-Nazi's apartment
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