Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan
"Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada."
"Everything for the race. Everything outside the race, nothing."
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Arizona
Republic -- Phoenix -- November 15, 2003 Mechistas perturbed after professor calls a spade a spade ...The group, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, objected to an e-mail sent Oct. 13 by math instructor Walter Kehowski, in which he took issue with a recent Dia de la Raza [Day of The Race] celebration. Kehowski said students promoted racism by praising separatism [and the MEChA buffoons have the nerve to claim that Kehowski's comment was 'racist'. Go figure.]  |
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Santa Maria
Times LTE -- Michael S. Rivera -- October 24, 2003 MEChA plan is misguided ...Cronin is misguided in her defense of MEChA and Cruz Bustamante. What is it about La Raza, the race, or "For the Race everything. Outside the race, nothing," and the term Aztlan, the separate Chicano state this group advocates, that Consuelo cannot understand? -- Apologists for MEChA would like you to believe this movement is just nice people concerned about education. |
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Patrisia
Gonzales and Roberto Rodriguez -- October 23, 2003 Chicano crackpots laud MEChA, decry American Patrol ...During the recall, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante was excoriated by both politicians and the media because he refused to denounce MEChA, an organization he was part of in the 1970s. MEChA has always been despised by the extreme right wing, but for the past decade it has been specifically targeted by Voice of Citizens Together/American Patrol. That they would label MEChA as racist or separatist, yet find themselves listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, should have ended this discussion. But it didn't. |
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The Orion
-- Cal State Chico -- October 22, 2003 Chico's "white culture" shocks minority groups ...Latina student Angelica Cisneros said she felt like she was in a new place when she stepped onto Chico State campus five years ago. -- Cisneros said she was kind of floating around campus until she decided to get involved with student organizations on campus like Movimiento Estudiantal Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA [aka 'The Tan Klan']... |
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The Stanford
Daily -- October 16, 2003 MEChA upset at KKK comparison by The Review An article and editorial in yesterday's Stanford Review that accused the campus chapter of MEChA of supporting racism has garnered a strong, negative response from Stanford's Chicano / Latino community. -- In an editorial titled "MEChA: Social Justice Group or KKK?" The Review called MEChA "a racist organization that advocates revolution and segregation," dubbing it "the modern-day Ku Klux Klan of Chicanos." |
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Orange County
Register -- Santa Ana, California -- October 15, 2003 Series of decisions alienated Bustamante's base ...Other damaging moves [by Señor Bustamante] included: Dodging questions about his membership in MEChA, a Chicano group whose charter espouses the view that part of the United States should be returned to México. -- Embracing issues that affect poor Latinos and undocumented immigrants but failing to address issues that appeal to middle-class Latinos..... |
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Cornell
Daily Sun -- October 10, 2003 Mechistas, other students decry Columbus Day Students, faculty and staff gathered at noon yesterday on Ho Plaza in a rally against the celebration of Columbus Day this Monday. -- Native American Students at Cornell was the main organizer of the rally. The group had the support of other organizations on campus: the American Indian Program, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), the Akwe:kon program house and the Latino Living Center. |
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Associated
Press -- October 8, 2003 Defeated Señor Busta-MEChA: 'I'm not going anywhere' ..."I'd like to congratulate Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger," Bustamante told supporters. "I may not be moving across the hall to the governor's office, but I'm not going anywhere." -- Bustamante was hit hard early on with criticism for his involvement with the controversial Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, or MEChA.... |
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The Dartmouth
-- Hanover, New Hampshire -- October 6, 2003 Local MEChA chapter defends Bustamante While conservative commentators recently pressured California gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante to distance himself from the Chicano advocacy group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA, the head of the organization's Dartmouth chapter supported Bustamante's stance and defended the aims and purpose of the group. |
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Los Angeles
Times (Free Registration) -- October 3, 2003 Señor Busta-MEChA flat refuses to renounce slogan ...As he has consistently throughout the campaign, he refused to denounce the [MEChA] motto: "For the race, everything; for those outside the race, nothing." -- "You know," Bustamante said when debate moderator Paul Moyer demanded an answer, "now it's getting to the point where it's a little offensive the way the question is being asked." -- Asked a third time, he said: "I think I've answered the question. I think it's important that you look at my work and who I am." |
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October
2, 2003 Bustamante - MEChA update During a gubernatorial debate aired today at 5 pm PDT on KNBC-TV, L.A. and Telemundo, Cruz Bustamante was asked by KNBC's Paul Moyer to denounce a MEChA slogan ("Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada" which basically translates to,"Everything for the race. Everything outside the race, nothing"). Bustamante would not do so. The question was initially posed by Frank Mottek of KFI radio, who also nailed MEChA-boy Villaraigosa in 2001. |
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Arizona
Republic -- October 2, 2003 Arizona's Pimentel chimes in on Señor Busta-MEChA ...They've had their eyes fixed on [Bustamante's] membership in what they, with more than just a tad of nativist paranoia, view as a radical, racist separatist organization, MEChA. Far from being an instrument for the Mexican reconquest of the Southwest, MEChA is really just about developing student leaders who then become community leaders. |
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Los Angeles
Sentinel -- September 28, 2003 Bustamante Faces Black Critics ...Another issue following [Cruz] Bustamante is his association with the group MEChA. MEChA favors annexing the southwestern United States, including Texas and California, to Mexico. -- With more than several hundred chapters nationwide, MEChA goes against everything that Bustamante says he stands for. It's an exclusive organization teaching its members hatred against all other ethnic groups. |
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Irvice Review
- University of California at Irvine - Sept. 27, 2003 Dean of Students Shuts Down Affirmative Action Bake ...The problems began when Mexican-American College Republican members were challenged for their alliance with the College Republicans by members of the Hispanic student organization MEChA, which stands for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán. -- Eric Roig, the College Republicans' fundraising director, and Francis Barraza, the club's director of freshman outreach, were both harassed by students from MEChA. |
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Washington
Dispatch -- September 25, 2003 Leading Recall Journalist Muzzled Sacramento Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub is the proprietor of an excellent weblog covering the California recall called the California Insider. On Sunday the editorial board of the Bee smacked Weintraub because he drew the ire of the Legislature's (Democrat) Latino Caucus with one of his entries from September 1st referring to recall candidate Cruz Bustamante's ties to MEChA. |
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Jewish Task
Force -- New York -- September 24, 2003 Bustamante The Nazi Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, who is running as the left-wing Democrat candidate for Governor of California in the October 7th recall election, has continued to publicly defend his membership in a Mexican Nazi organization that preaches vicious hatred against whites, Jews and all nre was an "affirmative action" college student. |
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The New
American Magazine -- September 19, 2003 Racist Gubernatorial Candidate (MEChA-boy Cruz Bustamante) ...Were MEChA's goal to be realized, Aztlan would become the exclusive domain of what it calls "La Raza" - "the race," meaning those of Mexican descent. Miguel Perez of Cal State-Northridge's MEChA chapter has explained: "The ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan. Communism would be closest [to it]." Once Aztlan is established, continued Perez, ethnic cleansing would commence... [More on this Bustamante] |
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San Jose
Nercury News -- September 19, 2003 Even comics offering no relief ...The battle for the governor's office is currently featured in not just one but two national comic strips: "Doonesbury,'' where Garry Trudeau pokes fun at Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger for the seamier side of his résumé; and "Mallard Fillmore,'' where conservative cartoonist Bruce Tinsley slams Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante for once belonging to a Mexican-American student group that critics call racist. |
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Union del
Barrio / Infoshop News (Radicals) -- September 17, 2003 What came first - MEChA or Cruz Bustamante? ...This issue was brought to a head recently when the notoriously right-wing Fox news program "The O'Reilly Factor" viciously attacked MEChA and denounced Cruz Bustamante for his former participation in this student group. Immediately the anti-MEChA/anti-Bustamante attacks were intensified with massive coverage through other news programs, newspapers, and via the Internet. |
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Fresno Bee
-- September 15, 2003 Bustamante negatives on the grow Among the more interesting findings from the latest polls on the Oct. 7 recall election is Cruz Bustamante's "unfavorable" rating. --- Some local Democrats are divided on the question of why. -- Was it the flap over his one-time membership in MEChA, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan? |
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Visalia
(California) Times-Delta Editorial -- September 9, 2003 Scrambling to make MEChA look like a tea-and-crumpets club The criticism of Cruz Bustamante over his membership in MEChA, the Chicano student organization, is bad enough that it's a rather trivial attempt to discredit Bustamante over an irrelevant issue. -- More inexcusable is the denigration of MEChA and the students who are members. |
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Fresno Bee
-- Vida en el Valle -- September 8, 2003 Move underway to make MEChA look like a sewing circle ...If we are to believe the critics, MEChA members are plotting a takeover of the U.S. Southwest, territory that MEChA literature refers to as the Nation of Aztlán, and that nothing would please them more than to drive Anglos out. --- "It's bizarre to assume this is some kind of radical group seeking to overthrow part of the United States," Mike Madrid told the San Francisco Chronicle. [Gee, that's what the Mechistas themselves say.] [Also see this item] |
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Los Angeles
Times -- Azteca.net -- September 7, 2003 L.A. Times Reconquista del Olmo admits involvement in MEChA It shouldn't surprise anyone who reads this column that I was active in the again-controversial Latino student group MEChA during my college days. -- MEChA is an esoteric Spanish acronym that translates as Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan. That final word refers to an ancient legend that places an Aztec homeland somewhere in the north.... |
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Fresno Bee
-- September 6, 2003 Not all MEChA activities at Fresno State have been peaceful Politics swirling around Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante's appearance on recall ballots have leapt back three decades to the Fresno State campus and its Hispanic MEChA club in the turbulent 1970s. -- Bustamante critics say his MEChA membership while a student at Fresno State should disqualify him from the governorship. One Web site equates MEChA... with the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis. |
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Washington
Post -- September 5, 2003 The Ghost of Proposition 187 (Cruz and his ties to MEChA) ...Conservative, anti-immigration groups, particularly the Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based American Patrol, have sought to make [Cruz] Bustamante's membership an issue. The American Patrol Web site has chronicled the issue, and its president, Glenn Spencer, has been making the case to reporters that Bustamante should be rejected for associating with MEChA. |
Newsmax.com -- September 4, 2003
Reconquista Rep. Becerra defends racist MEChA slogan
A leading backer of California recall race candidate Cruz Bustamante is defending the Latino supremacist group MEChA and its slogan, "For the race, everything; for those outside the race, nothing." -- Rep. [Xavier] Becerra, D-Calif., complained Wednesday night that MEChA critics were engaging in McCarthyite tactics. --- During a heated exchange with Sean Hannity, Rep. Becerra revealed that he too had been a MEChA member...More on the evil MEChA
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