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In a City of Immigrant Farmworkers, a New Youth Movement
Draws Inspiration from the Zapatistas and the Radical
Organizing of the 60s

By Gloria Muñoz Ramírez
La Jornada
October 24, 2006

They take up the legacy of Chicano agrarian leader César Chávez, of Malcolm X,
of Martin Luther King, of the Zapatistas and, of course, of sixties movements
like the Black Panthers and the Brown Berets. From this last group they retake
its name, its berets and its fighting spirit.

The new Brown Berets are a group of autonomous youths, most of them students,
dressed head to toe "in the color of the earth." They are based in Watsonville,
California, an agricultural region inhabited and, above all, worked by tens of
thousands of people of Mexican, African American and Filipino origin.

Ramiro Medrano relates: "We began to organize in 1994. There was a lot of social
mobilization in the United States in that year, because social assistance was
being taken away from undocumented people with Proposition 187. That was also
the year of the Zapatista uprising and we as Mexicans in the United States, as
Chicanos, well, it made a big impact on us. The Chicano has an identity problem.
We feel Mexican, but we are not recognized as such in Mexico, and neither are we
gringos. After 1994, we were proud to say, together with the Zapatistas, we are
Mexicans, indigenous people, and we are proud of it."

In Watsonville, 80 percent of the population is Mexican or of Mexican origin.
The majority are field workers, indigenous people who confront racism daily
through organization and strength of character. They are the workforce of the
U.S. city that has the greatest exports of strawberries, lettuce, broccoli and
raspberries, as well as other products harvested by the exodus on this side of
the Rio Grande.

.In 1994, the gang violence here left a young girl and her brother dead of
gunshot wounds. This caused us to say ya basta "enough already! " to the
violence generated by racism in the schools and in the fields. Young people with
no options search for an identity, a sense of belonging, and that is how the
gangs are formed. We didn.t want that in our neighborhoods anymore," Ramiro
continues.

And that is how the Brown Berets began. First with a great march for peace and
unity that went through all the battle-torn neighborhoods. Later, once organized
as a group, they had more long-term goals: get the youths out of the gangs; have
representation in the schools and on their administration to avoid racism in the
selection of students; organize against immigration raids and their agents.
actions in the barrio; hold workshops and events to strengthen identity through
education, and many more, including the organization of a "Justice Network" in
order to communicate by telephone the actions of la migra. Through this network
they organize rapid concentrations of people to stop attacks by immigration
agents, which they record and distribute. "It.s about not just standing by.

Published in Spanish in Gloria Muños Ríos. column "Los de abajo" ("The
Underdogs") of October 21.
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/10/21/009o1pol.php


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Posted : 25/10/2006 8:47 am
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The Mexification of California.

Mexicans need Brown Berets to enforce some semblance of civility among themselves because, with Mexicans and many non-whites, civility can only be imposed from without, since their genetics cannot impose it from within.


 
Posted : 25/10/2006 9:02 am
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In 1994, the gang violence here left a young girl and her brother dead of
gunshot wounds. This caused us to say ya basta "enough already! " to the
violence generated by racism in the schools and in the fields.

I'm wondering here, is he trying to blame WHITEY for gang violence? What, did we not pay off the blacks enough to leave them alone? Did we not appease them enough so that they wouldn't go to the streets and commit crimes for the daily bread? How does one attribute gang violence to RACISM when White gangs are nearly non-existant?

Also, notice how the writer heaps praise onto these third world militants! Imagine the reaction to a positive sounding piece on a militant WHITE group! There would be cries of racism from all sides! We're talking about a group here whose members have been calling for Whitey's EXTERMINATION for quite some time now! My god, the hypocrisy!

Notice the web address, as well. This is a piece presumably done in Mexico. But yet, we're led to believe that these "migrant workers" are just coming here for a better life, with little to no support from home. I smell some BS with the official story in the face of this piece praising the efforts of the colonizers!


 
Posted : 25/10/2006 4:01 pm
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I'm wondering here, is he trying to blame WHITEY for gang violence? What, did we not pay off the blacks enough to leave them alone? Did we not appease them enough so that they wouldn't go to the streets and commit crimes for the daily bread? How does one attribute gang violence to RACISM when White gangs are nearly non-existant?

Also, notice how the writer heaps praise onto these third world militants! Imagine the reaction to a positive sounding piece on a militant WHITE group! There would be cries of racism from all sides! We're talking about a group here whose members have been calling for Whitey's EXTERMINATION for quite some time now! My god, the hypocrisy!

Notice the web address, as well. This is a piece presumably done in Mexico. But yet, we're led to believe that these "migrant workers" are just coming here for a better life, with little to no support from home. I smell some BS with the official story in the face of this piece praising the efforts of the colonizers!

It's not really hypocrisy, sbrocker8. It's war. Unanswered, unjoined, one-directioned war -- against us.


 
Posted : 25/10/2006 4:06 pm
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Posted : 25/10/2006 4:33 pm
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The Brown Berets are a Communist-led group. As the Latrinos infiltrate America, they bring their gang mentality with them but this is further channeled by the Communist organizers. They are certainly not a part of America since they organize AGAINST American interests by trying to prevent any enforcement from La Migra (Immigration Dept. and the Border Patrol). That they glorify César Chávez, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, the revolutionary Zapatistas, the Black Panthers" and their "fighting spirit", is not good news to me. Watsonville is only 60 miles south of where I live.

The more I see of Mexicans, the more I hate these shit heads. Now this! Commie bastards forming platoons and battle units!!!!!! Mexico for Mexicans but get them the hell out of my country!!!!!


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Posted : 26/10/2006 6:46 am
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In 1989 the center of AN EARTHQUAKE hit Watsonville,which smashed parts of San Francisco too.Most of the countries raspberries come from Watson ville.I went to Watsonville after several days of excavating dead bodies from the collapsed double over head highway in SF,I believe it was called the 880.
Most of the farm workers were back picking raspberries again;even though their homes had collapsed and the electric wasn't running well yet.They were all white people back then.I can only recall seeing a few Spic's at the time.


 
Posted : 26/10/2006 7:13 am
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In 1989 the center of AN EARTHQUAKE hit Watsonville,which smashed parts of San Francisco too.Most of the countries raspberries come from Watson ville.I went to Watsonville after several days of excavating dead bodies from the collapsed double over head highway in SF,I believe it was called the 880.
Most of the farm workers were back picking raspberries again]

Strawberries, not raspberries. Watsonville is a strawberry center. FYI


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Posted : 26/10/2006 7:04 pm
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When the economy collapses, the mud masses will flood into the ranks of the jew-led bolsheviks.

Yep , you hit the target . They ( zog ) will keep the economy up , all the while filling america with brown sludge , then collapse the economy when brown numbers are large enough to sustain judeo-communism . Good insight , Rounder:)


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Posted : 27/10/2006 11:35 am
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