------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 20, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
LATINOS MARCH AGAINST WAR By Julia La Riva Los Angeles In the heart of East Los Angeles, hundreds of Latinos and supporters from all over Southern California took to the streets on March 9 to voice their opposition to a war in Iraq. They demanded an end to the military's recruitment of children in their high schools, colleges, universities and community. This predominately Latino/ Chicano community has a proud history of opposing the Vietnam War. In the Chicano Moratorium, tens of thousands had marched on Aug. 29, 1970, down the very same Whittier Boulevard where today veterans of that movement joined newly political, militant, anti-war youth. Middle school children, veterans and senior citizens called for money for education, healthcare and jobs, not to kill innocent people and destroy other countries. "Recruit our children for college and universities, not your dirty war," they shouted, and "Chale, no, we won't go!" The march ended at Salazar Park, named after Los Angeles Times reporter Ruben Salazar, one of three people killed over 30 years ago when the Los Angeles Police Department and the L.A. County Sheriff's Department attacked the Moratorium march. Salazar was senselessly murdered when sheriffs launched tear gas projectiles into a restaurant where he was sitting, fatally wounding him. He had been a target of the police for writing critically about Chicanos being denied their rights and had been asked to tone down his articles. Members of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee say 80 percent of the Latino/Chicano community opposes Bush's racist policies. - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe wwnews- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support the voice of resistance http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php) ------------------ This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
