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La Cucaracha (1976-1983) was an English and Spanish bilingual newspaper created by and for the Chicano community of Pueblo, Colorado. Creators Juan Espinosa, Deborah Espinosa , David Martinez and Pablo Mora recognized the exclusion of Chicanos in popular media and published the first issue in 1976.
Los Seis were active in the UMAS (United Mexican American Students) at the University of Colorado Boulder.At the time [1967-1979] [4] [better source needed], Colorado was one of fewer than 10 U.S. states in which Chicanos (mid-20th century political/cultural term used by some Mexican Americans) were initiating the original MECha groups.
When they returned to the US, they settled in Pueblo, Colorado. They have four daughters. Espinosa returned to college at the University of Southern Colorado. She received a B.S. degree in history and Chicano studies in 1975. [3] The Espinosas, David Martinez, and Pablo Mora started the Pueblo-based newspaper, La Cucaracha. It focused on issues ...
The founding of La Raza was spearheaded by Episcopalian Reverend John Luce, Cuban-born activist Elizier Risco, and Ruth Robinson, Risco's girlfriend. The three initially met in early 1967 while Robinson and Risco were working for Cesar Chavez on El Malcriado, the Chicano farmworker's union newspaper, when Chavez asked Luce to provide housing and food to farm workers. [1]
In April 1938, Luisa Moreno and group of Mexican American labor activists, including Josefina Fierro, Eduardo Quevedo, and Bert Corona, organized the inaurural conference of El Congreso de Pueblos de Hablan Española in Los Angeles, an organization meant to promote a broad agenda of working class empowerment, civil rights, and Latino unity. [305]
Reies López Tijerina (September 21, 1926 – January 19, 2015), was an activist who led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners. [1]
El Teatro Campesino's La Carpa de los Rasquachis is a play written by Luis Valdez in 1972, which tells the story of a farmworker that has migrated to the United States from Mexico; this play teaches the audience to look for ways to be resourceful. [66] Chicano Art developed around the 1960s during the Chicano Liberation Movement.
The List of the People (Spanish: La Lista del Pueblo) was a loose coalition of independent candidates that was created in Chile to participate in the 2021 elections for members of the Constitutional Convention. Despite its success in the May 2021 elections, a series of scandals made most of its members have to leave the coalition since then.