What the Chicano Movement can teach us about organizing Latinos today | The Marc Steiner Show

With Donald Trump continuing to demonize immigrants, especially immigrants from Latin America, and with Republicans calling for “Mass Deportation Now,” Latinos in the US find themselves in the crosshairs of a national debate over immigration, border policy, racism, and economic justice. What can the Chicano Movement of the 20th Century teach us about how to combat attacks on Latinos and other marginalized groups today? Last week, to mark the 54th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium, The Marc Steiner Show hosted a retrospective panel on the role of the Chicano Movement in building an anti-imperialist front in the US. For a follow-up discussion on how the lessons of the past can be applied to the future of Latino organizing, longtime Chicano liberation and environmental justice activist Bill Gallegos returns to the show, along with Maricela Guzman of the Mexican Solidarity Project and Eddie Bonilla, professor of history at Boston College.
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[@777sweet]

I don’t understand how are they fighting in a country that’s not theirs but won’t go to their own to “ fight” for their rights , living conditions in their own land. All those “ hardest” workers can’t go back and build their roads build homes but they come here looking down on Americans…. Let something happen to America 🇺🇸 now and you’ll see all of them leave to go back while “ American citizens “ don’t have no where to really go.

[@TheBLACKboard65]

Preach!! I've been saying that for decades.

[@wayneblack4085]

Because they are cowards

[@joeyyy771]

It’s a shame this woman is slowly replacing the word Chicano with LatinX. Ridiculous. Stop it !

[@RonnieRowe-il7eq]

TRUMP 2024❤

[@marcussord5290]

If you’re an American citizen you’re protected under the constitution. As much as anyone, but admittedly possibly less if you find yourself in a minority. That said, legal Americans have protections- but as Mexican-Americans or Chicano-Americans you’re excluding yourself in a very unique way. If you don’t see yourself as an American maybe you’re fighting the wrong fight.

[@foodhoarder9434]

I love how this channel vascilates between labor advocacy and overt racism and sees no issue with this 😂 Man, I hope this thing goes full contact.

[@caseyhughes965]

It's going to

[@joeyyy771]

Lost me at LatinX when lady started talking sorry I won’t listen to the rest of this podcast . Lost me at LatinX . We Chicanos / Mexicanos will never accept that word .

[@rigger49er]

I’m Mexican also and I hate that word. I don’t know any other “Latino” (I hate that word also) that likes the word Latin X

[@mE-zx7pt]

This channel has been going downhill since Chris Hedges left.

[@RonnieRowe-il7eq]

HORRIBLE REPORTING! VERY VERY BAD 👎 EMBARRASSING 👎

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