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La Voz  de   Aztlan
CSU, Fresno
Anti-Draft^7
Conference
By Al Robles
Contributing Writer
Unlike the period surrounding
Vietnam the current phase of U.S.
militarism is being challenged by a
greater level of organized resistance
as was demonstrated in a recent
conference on the draft and U.S.
militarism held in San Jose, Nov. 17
and 18.
The significance ofthe conference,
distinguishing it from previous events
taking place around similar issues,
was underscored by the fact that it
was the first national gathering of
Third World anti-draft, anti-milita¬
rism, and non-intervention activists
and Vietnam veterans. Sponsored
by the Draft Information Alliance
(D1A), the Conference On U.S.
Militarism and Third World Com¬
munities dealt with a variety of
issues and perspectives on the draft
and U.S. militarism including strat¬
egies on education and resistance
within Third World communities.
The line-up of speakers reflected
upon the diversity of experiences
along cross cultural lines including
Thomas Banyacya, a Hopi elder and
keynote speaker who recounted his
efforts at resisting the draft during
WWII on thegrounds of his religious
beliefs and the ensuing harassment
from government officials resulting
in a jail sentence. Tom LeBlanc, of
the American Indian Movement and
the Inlernaional Indian Treaty
Council, related his experience in
the Vietnam war and the racism
directed against him by his fellow
combatants. The sense of alienation
that he experienced often, as he said,
led him to feel that he had more in
common with the Vietnamese as a
person of color.
The second keynote speaker was
Kwame Ture of the All African
People's Revolutionary Party who
delivered a vibrant message about
organizing the mass movement.
Ture's main point stressed organ¬
ization within any people's move¬
ment as the key factor in developing
beyond-the level of a spontaneous
movement. "The spontaneous move¬
ment," he stated "will force the
enemy to grant concessions with
inherent limitations."
Ture was well known in the 60's as
Stokely Carmichael, a founder of
the Student Non-Violent Coordinat¬
ing Committee (SNCC).
Equally captivating was the pre¬
sentation by Audrey Shenandoah,
of the Onondoga Nation, who arti¬
culated her experience as a mother
raising her sons to respect the tribal
values passed down through the
generations. She felt, as she stated,
that registration and the -draft re¬
present nothing more than a prepar¬
ation to go to war and, thus, in direct
contradiction of such values which
view life as sacred and command a
love of all humanity.
The entertainment offered a stim-
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December 13. 1984
Fresno State M.E.CH.A. at the statewide conference
November 11 and 12, 1984.
Jos« Robledo/La Voz de Aztlan
MEChA Statewide Review
By Larry Gonzalez
Staff Writer
lhe M. E. Ch. A. Statewide Confer¬
ence was held November 10, and 11.
1984, at the University of California,
Irvine campus: The conference theme
was, "De Los Despojos De lut Eterna
Lucha Brotan Nuevas Imagenes—
Brindis De Liberacion. " The confer¬
ence was sponsored by U. C. Irvine
M.E.Ch.A.
Manuel Gomez, director of U. C.
Irvine EOP/S A A, delivered the key¬
note address lo four-hundred stu¬
dents, representing M.E.Ch.A.
organizations from throughout the
state of California.
■■1984 at U.C. Irvine, the
M. E. Ch. A. Statewide Conference is
taking place and our history con¬
tinues. A history of our people
coming together, an event in the
memory of our people. Perhaps you
will recall the significance of today, "
Gomez said.
"Our history is not in the books,
magazines, or televisions, il is written
in the scars of your parents, the
wrinkles of your grandparents. You
must know thai you will continue
the struggle. Wc cannot forget the
assasinations of our past. We must
not isolate ourselves from the com¬
munity M.E.Ch.A. is the longest
standing Chicano student organ¬
ization in the history of the United
States. It is an incredible legacy that
you have inherited. You have social
responsibility to help and protect
thc young and the old, and to help
our future. It is in your hearts,
hands, and minds, that we will be
free people," Gomez concluded.
Following the keynote address,
the students attended workshops on
Educational Rights of Undocumented
Students; Immigration Reform;
M.E.Ch.A. Leadership Orientation
for High School Students; Problems
in Political Representation, Anti
Chicano Legislation; Barrio Issues;
The Draft: Convert and Overt Re¬
cruitment, Educational Crisis for
Chicanos; The Survival of Chicano
Studies, Central Ami
Synopsis of the Chican
Its Present Direction. All Resolu¬
tions called for plans of action in our
campuses and communities. After
the workshops, Raul Ruiz, a pro¬
fessor of Chicano Studies at Calif¬
ornia State University, Northridge,
or a participant in the 1st Chicano
Moratorium (1970), addressed, the
general assembly.
"One fo the most meaningful
developments in your education is
thc development of your conscious¬
ness. You should have a consciosness
of j
i nity.
:ultui
and
your family.
"Nothing at this school or any
other university will give you what
your master teachers—your parents-
have taught to you. As students and
professionals we should make our
experiences as meaningful as those
experiences of our own families," he
said.
In regards-to the Chicano Move¬
ment in thc late 1960's, Ruiz said,
"Students were the main integral
part of this movement, they were the
center, the core."
Ruiz singled out thc Viet Nam
war as the issue that has had the
most significant impact on the
Chicano Movement.
By relating the Viet Nam war to
today, he asked the students to
seriously take up the issue of Nicar¬
agua, with urgency.
"In Central America when you
hear about revolutionaries, we are
talking about fourteen and fifteen
year olds, named Maria and
Roberto. People who look the same
as ourselves. I think there is a so
called mandate to stand up and say,
what we [United States] are doing is
wrong and not to accept the U.S.
government's role in this affair. He
stressed that there cannot be change
unless each one of us participates in
the change.
"That lawyer who is not an activist,
is not a lawyer, and that teacher who
is not an activist is not a teacher.
Some have abondoned that role.
There is nothing el»e more important
in all your life, than your role as an
activist." The second day's general
assembly featured keynote speaker
Bill Flores, one ofthe organizers of
the Latino Agenda Coalition.
Flores worked directly with the
minority plank during the demo¬
cratic convention. He said the demo¬
cratic convention ignored Blacks and
Latinos, and before Ronald Reagan's
landslide victory, the Democratic
Party had already moved to the
right. In regards to Latino elected
officials in the Southwest, Flores
said politically Latinos are under-
represented. In California, Latinos
make up 28%of the population,and
only make up 7.8% of all elected
officials. In New Mexico, Latinos
make up 45% of thc population and
only make up 29% of all elected
officials. In Colorado, Latinos make
up 14% ofthe population and make
up only 7% of all elected officials.
And in Texas, Latinos make up 26%
ofthe population and only makeup
13.8% of all elected officials..
Flores a-lso said that President
Reagan received 70% of the white
vote and for the first time in history,
thc Democratic party did not even
attempt to go after thc South.
Flores said, "they do not want-
democracy in this country, they do
not allow us to vote on whether we
invade Grenada, or mine the harbors
of Nicaragua. And in comparing the
United States election to the Nicara¬
guan elections Flores said, "The
F.S.L.N. got 67% of the popular
vote in a country where 80% of the
popular electoral voted. How can it
be called a questionable victory?
They try to make us believe we live
in thc most democratic society in the
world, and we do not!**
Flores noted, that during tbe pre¬
vious elections, the Reverend Jeste
Jackson, received 90% of the black
vote. He said, "the Jackson campaign
brought together new people. If we're
going to have any type of democracy
we have got to get Blacks and
Latinos into office.*"
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