La Voz de Aztlan, September 17 1990

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La Voz de Aztlan, September 17 1990

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La Voz de Aztlan, September 17 1990

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Volume XXI, Number IV

California State University, Fresno

Monday September 17, 1990

CSUF Students Join Rally In East Los Angeles
by Matthew Polanco

Staff Writer

Moratorium's Anniversary

On Aug. 25, an estimated 7,000
Chicanos/Mexicanos came together
from virtually all of Aztldn to commemorate the twentieth anniversity
ofthe 1970 Chicano Moratorium that
was held in East Los Angeles.
The Chicano Moratorium, which was
a product of the Chicano Movement
of the 1960's, was in part an anti-war
protest. However, it also exposed the
social and economic injustices of the
American government.
The fact that the Chicano population represented 4% of the total
U.S. population, and at the same
time represented 20% of the total
U.S. casualities in Vietnam was a
leading contributor to the 1970
moratorium.
Originally slated to be a peaceful protest, the march turned violent
was instigated by the Los Angeles
Police and Sheriff Departments.
At the Silver Dollar, a bar on
Whittier Boulevard several policemen stormed the Silver Do1Tar with:
gunfire and teargas. Inside, Ruben
Salazar, a well-known journalist L-----------------:----------------y:;c::-=::-:-ic-:;=;:=:;~:::::=r----'
from Los Angeles was struck in the
repeated, fortunately the Morato- folklorico danzantes, who led the
head by a tear gas cannister and
rium rally-march began and ended protesters on a four mile march that
At the park, there were many
killed. This provoked a confrontapeacefully.
retraced the march of 1970. The booths ranging from food and politition between the Raza and the police
-It began at Belvedere Park with march finished at Ruben Salazar cal interests. There were speakers
resulting in many arrests and injuspeeches from several Raza activist Park named for the slain journalist
ries.
organi_zations, and followed by the whose death incited violence twenty
Twenty years later it was feared
See March page 4
San Francisco based comedy troop years ago.
that the violence of 1970 might be
Culture Clash.
Then a march was led by several

First Chicano Art Exhibit For CSUF
Valley Artists Featured
by Jill Soltero
Staff Writer
CSUF's Phoebe Conley Art Gallery will run an
art exhibition of 17 Chicano artists living and
working in the Central Valley, from Sept. 30 to
Oct. 29.
The exhibit, "Colores del Valle", will feature
paintings, sculptures, masks and prints.
Featured artists include: Mario H. Acevedo,
Jose Montoya, Malaquias Montoya, Elena Rios,
Joe Mariscal and Miguel Guerrero.
"This is a first for us. It will bring recognition
for Chicano art and for the valley, said Chicano
and Latin American Studies chairperson Dr.
Bill Flores.
"We cannot forget our roots; Chicano artists
emerged from the Chicano Movement."
Flores and Madera artist Vincent Mendez decided in May to bring the Colores exhibit to
CSUF this semester.
The participating artists stress that Chicano
art is alive and is derived from the Chicano experience.
"Chicano art is just as viable to the Chicano
people as it ever was in the, past," said Sacramento artist Ricardo Favela.

"I describe myself as a muralist, printmaker
art educator and community activist. I look for
my ideas in the barrio, in the cantinas, in places
where most artists dare not enter because of
fear or non-interest," said Sacramento muralist
and silkscreen artist, Esteban Villa.
An artists' reception will be held Sept. 30 at
the Conley Art Gallery from 2-5 p.m. The reception will feature music by Arturo Adame, appearances by exhibition artists, local artists,
and representatives from Arte Americas and
Centro Bellas Artes.
Chicano and Latin American Studies (CLS)
will also offer a one-unit, credit/no credit 180T
course that will feature a guided tour of the art
exhibit, a hands-on workshop on Chicano art
taught by Mendez, and lectures by well-known
Chicano artists and scholars.
Lecturers include Villa; San Francisco muralist and art instructor, Juana Alicia; UC Santa
Cruz art professor, Eduardo Carrillo; and awardwinning silkscreen artist and UC Davis .professor, Malaquias Montoya.
For more information or to register for the
course contact the CLS department at (209)
278-2848 or register in person at the CLS office
in Social Sciences 211.

CHICANO POETS
STAY ACTIVE

By Virginia Madrid
Last semester two different
sets offriends, Mark Anthony Alvidrez
and Victor Canales joined Dan Chacon
and Andres Montoya to form the Chicano Writers & Artists Association
(CWAA).
The group began its activities
by holding informal poetry
readings in different areas of campus.
This semester CWAA held its first
reading on the fifth floor of the Peters
Building which was a success according to its members and audience.
One ofCWAA's goals this semester is to put tog~ther a literary journal
composed of poems, short stories, essays, art and other related works submitted by any student. Along with the
journal the group is also planning on
putting together a book that will include poetry and hopefully some fiction
and non-fiction work: The money made
from the sales of the books will be used
for publication of future projects.
Besides the journal and small
books the group also wants to put together a couple of one act plays."It ~11
be one of the few ways of letting us

Experience ...
flocked to the book and memorabilia
stands to buy ourselves a little
memory of our own history. To buy
a brown beret or a poster, or teeshirt with the Moratorium's emblem
on it to take home for our brother or
sister, so that they to could be part
of over four hundred years of
Chicano history.
Like our brothers and
sisters twenty years ago, we were
there to demand the rights that as
Chicanos didn't have then and still
don't have today. We were there to
tell the United States government
that we did not want to see happen,
in 1990, what happened in the early
1970's. We did not again want to
see a disproportionate number of
dead Chicanos, or any for that
matter. Because as we have seen
on television most of the young men
and women deployed to the Persian
Gulf that were being interviewed
were brown or black, not very many
whites. Again we didn't want to see
the blood of the lower middle class
covering a foreign land, killing
people that we (Chicanos) have no
diagreement with, to make the rich
American capitalists richer.
We were also there to unite
once again the great civilizations of

Guerrero still


singing
Pedro Garcia
Staff Writer
"We may not have the legal right to
be here, but we have the moral right to
be here," quoted Lalo Guerrero an
active songwriter and singer.
Born in 1916, Lalo Guerrero has
been singing and writing his songs for
over fifty years. His biggest influece
and inspiration has always been his
mother. His mother, whom he says
sang and played beautiful songs,
tought him how to play the guitar.
Lalo Guerrero's music has been a big
part of his life since a very young age.
At the age ofl 7 he wrote his first song
which became commercially popular.
This song, called "La Cancion Mexi-

this continent, from the cold white
plains of Alaska to the humid
jungles of South America. To band
together as indigenous brothers and
sisters, whether Chicano, Mexicano,
Guatemalan, El Salvadoran or
Native American and fight our
oppressor until we can once again
roam our great land in freedom as
we once did.
It was a great opportunity
for Chicanos like myself to be a part
of the Chicano Movement that
escaped us twenty years ago. To see
each other as brothers and not
rivals in the barrios ofAztlan. To
stop doing the U.S. government's
dirty work, and keep each other
alive and direct our fight against
this oppressive government instead
of towards each other.
It was also an opportunity
to walk side by side with some of
the vatos and rucas that were there
twenty years ago. To see the
sadness in their hearts because
things haven't changed much in
twenty years; they have actually
gotten worse. RAZA, IT IS TIME
FOR REVOLUTION!

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cana" was soon recorded and performed by Lucha Reyes ,a well known
mexican artist, in 1940. After writing
over 300 songs, "La Cancion Mexicana", is still his dearest and most
chierished composition.
According to Guerrero, campesinos have always been very dear to
him. In 1952, when first startted his
orchestra, campesino workers were
the ones helped him gain popularity.
Because of their great admiration for
him, where they were is where he had
his greatest success. They not only
I
bought his records but they would
also go see him perform during his
visits to the north.
"It got to where I knew when the
melon and vetebel were in," said
Guerrero, I followed the crops just
like they did. I came out to where they
were because they needed entertainment and relaxation."
"Our people were always working

in the states following the crops. In
places far from t~e border like Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, where
they worked on the railroads, It was a
treat for them to have mexican music
come out there. They didn't have any
mexican music so thousands would
come out there to dance and listen to
the music. They were so appreciative
and so wonderful, that I used to love to
go out there and play. It was not the
economical intrest in my music, but
the fact that it brought so much happiness to my people."
Originally, Guerrero's songs were
serious. The song "La Cancion Mexicana" for instance talks about the
beauty and the soul ofMexican music.
He then wrote love ballads like "Nunca
Jamas", "Floresita" and "Mujeriego",
for many years. He continued to write
more songs until he discovered he had
an act for writing comical music.
According to Guerrero, he started to
write humerous music in spanish
when he suddenly came out with a
mexican flavored, english song called
"Tacos for Two" which became a great
hit. He found that with this type of
music he had the ability to communicate with both the mexican and ameri-.
can community. He then wrote other
songs like, "I Left My Car In San
Francisco", "Cordova", "No Way Jose
and "There's No Tortillas". ·
"What it does, "said Guerrero," is
that I can reach the Anglo audience
and entertain them, yet please my
people. Some songs are protest songs
against immigration, discrimination
and other things.I present the case in
english with a humerous touch without offending anyone. The anglos can
recieve the message and think about
it and say, "You know he has a point".
The message gets through and it
doesnt get them upset."
Guerrero, who does many benefits
and fundraisers for good causes says,
"It is important to promote better re-

lations with different ethnic groups.
One of my main concerns is a more undrestanding bridge between us. We
live togetber,work together and basically we are all Americans from different ethnic groups."

CAMP Gets
Grant
by Anabel Alvarez
Staff Writer
Director of University
Migrant Services Raul Diaz, was
recently awarded a government
grant for the College Migrant
Assistance Program (CAMP). Although this may appear to be a new
program, CAMP has actually been
on the Fresno State campus since
1981.
CAMP was designed to
recruit and retain students who are
migrant or seasonal farm workers
and provide accademic support,
financial assistance, and other
supportive services.
"Some of the services that
are beneficial to students include
tutoring, academic adviceing , career
planning ,leadership development,
vision and dental insurance, and
financial aide," Diaz said.
· "The assistance available to
the students is based on the
need,There are two requirements
that must be met to be accepted in
CAMP. First you must be an entering freshman not a transfer student.
Secondly, your parents, guardians,
or the student must have been
employed in farm work for seventy
five days or more in the last two
years and dependent on this income," Diaz added.
Since its inseption CAMP

See"Camp", page 4

CALENDARIO
Septiembre
Martes 18 A Chicano
Youth Confrence(C.Y.C.)
meeting will be held today
at 5:00p.m. in the Joyal
Administration Building,
room 203.

Migrant Student
Alliance(M.S.A.) will be holding an election meeting in the
U.S.U., room 308.
An H.C.O.P. meeting
will be held today at the
Upstairs Cafeteria, room 202,
from 5:30-7:00p.m.
Miercoles 19 Chicanos in
Chicano Writers and
Law will be holding a meet- Artists Association( CWAA)
ing, with guest speaker
will have a general Meeting
Edward Valdez, in the
at the pit, at 2:00 p.m. CWAA
University Student
will also hold a poetry readUnion(U.S.U.) at 6:00p.m. ing in the Peter's Building
Check glass case for room Auditorium at 8:00p.m.
number.
There will be general Sabado 22 C.H.E.S.S. will
Movimiento Estudiantil
hold an inservice: Diabetes
Chicano de Aztlan
and Hypertension, at the
(M.E.Ch.A.) meeting in the Agriculture Science Building,
U.S.U., room 312, at
room 102.
4:00p.m.

CAMP programs in California with
the other being located at CSU,
Sacramento. CSUF is also the only
had survived through grants
university in the CSU system that
awarded by the..Washington D.C.
has a seperate unit for migrant and
office of Migrant Education. However, the CAMP program ran out of farmworker students.
federal funding. The vice president
· This year CAMP will be
and dean of student affairs then de- serving sixty students. Raul said,
cided to continue the activities and "That if your are interested to apply
services offered in CAMP under
for assistance call the CAMP office
University Migrant Services CUMS). at (278-4 768) . This year the UMS/
CAMP has endured and one CAMP staff includes Raul Diaz as
of the unique things about it is the
director, Bonnie Pickett and Raul
fact that it is only oI)e of six such
Moreno both counselors, and Rose
projects in the nation. There are two Marie Ramirez as office manager.

Miercoles 26 CWAA will
hold a general meeting at the
pit at
2:00p.m.

Jueves 27 Chicano Latino
Association of Student
Educators(CLASE)
will hold a general meeting at
the U.S.U. at 4:00p.m. Check Jueves 11-Sabado 13
CSU, Fresno will host the
glass case for room number.
5th Annual Interuniversity Symposium United
Octubre
States-Mexico at the CSU,
Miercoles 3 There will be
Fresno Valley Buisiness
general M.E.Ch.A meeting
today. Check the M.E.Ch.A. Center.
booth for time and place.
CWAA will hold a
general meeting today at the
pit, at 2:00p.m.

Continued from page 1...

Camp...

"Metropolis Virgin"

March ...
the Brown Barrets, city council representatives, educators, and
concerned Raza service organizations, and the group Los Alecranes
Muhados performed.
The messages at the rally
were clear; get educated,get
active in your barrio and in governmental processes, stop gang
violence, and advance the idea of
Chicano Empowerment.

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by Ezequiel "Lee Orona
The Colores del Valle exhibit is made possible by
the CLS department, the Phoebe Conley art gallery

Miercoles 10 There will
be general M.E.Ch.A.
meeting today. Check the
M.E.Ch.A. booth for time
and place.
CWAA will hold a
general meeting today at
the pit, at 2:00p.m.

and the CSUF Freshman Mentoring ProgTam.
The Chicano art lecture series is co-sponsored by CLS
and the CSUF Division of Extended Education.
/

grow and express ourselves,"said
Canales.
"CWAA wants to promote and
encourage Chicano literature," added
Chacon.
"Chicano literature is out
there , and CWAA is the alarm clock
telling the literary elite to wake up.
We're here and we're ligitamate,
Montoya said."
CWAA will serve the Chicano
students as an outlet and support
group for writers and artists that have
been stunted by the present conservative literary community. "If there
are any writers and artists out there
that would like to join us feel free. We
can get crazy," said Pedro Garcia a
member of the group.
Ac cording to Chacon a
sizeable portion of Chicano literature
is regarded as political poetry in regards to the political and socio-economic status of most Chicanos. The
group wants to express with their
literature the history of oppression
the Chicanos and Mexicanos h ave
endured. As Chacon said, "It's som_ething inherently political."
Unlike last year the group
will have an active advisor this year.
Juan Felipe Herrera, an instructor in
the Chicano and Latin American
Studies Department , will play an important role serving the group not
only as an advisor but as critic and
contact to some of the Chicano publishers that he has met over the years.
. The group holds its meeting
every Wednesdays at 2:00p.m. in th
pit.Usually poetry readings are ever
other Tuesday, but this week th
reading will be held on Wednesda
the 19th in the Peters Building Aud:
torium at 8:00p.m. CWAA envite
everyone to join them and woul
welcome anyone that would like t
read their work.

EDITORIAL-----,

A Chicano's Experience
We got up early that day, on
Aug. 25th 1990. Up at four a.m. to
get ready for the long drive to what
could possibly be considered as the
heart of~ldn, East Los Angeles,
California. Driving on freeway 99,
we drove by many little towns, little
towns like Delano and MacFarland
where the modern Movimiento
began in 1965 by a brown man
known as Cesar Chavez, one of our
great Chicano champions.
While traveling south towards L.A we saw the sun appear
and the moon disappear. We saw
farm workers appear from the rows
of crops and vines. Little did they
know that we were going to L.A to
fight for our rights and their's.
We got to L.A at about nine
a.m. and an overcast and gloomy
sky loomed overhead, it seemed that
it might rain and put a damper on
the whole event, but it didn't. The
sun finally broke through the thick
wall of dark clouds. As the sun
broke through the people of Aztldn
started to ascend on Belvedere

Park. We were greeted by the loud
and lively Tex-Mex sound dear to
·the Chicano.
Some of us full of Brown
pride ready to explode with the
stored up energy of twenty years
ago, or five or nine or fifteen years
that they have lived. To come
together and share with each other
hardships and experiences that we
have lived through. Brown people
from all over our great land were
meeting as strangers and walking
away as brothers, walking away to
meet and make friends with the rest
of their Brown family.
There we were, my brother
his girlfriend and two other friend;
along with myself, lost in a sea of
brown faces trying to organize ourselves to get ready to march like our
brothers and sisters did twenty
years ago. After a long while, we
got organized and began our four
mile march down the streets of East
Los Angeles to congregate at
_Salazar Park, a park named after
the young journalist, Ruben
Salazar, who was killed at the

Silver Dollar by a policeman.
With clenched brown fists
waving in the air and picket signs
that read, "Deport Bush, not Raza"
and "Boycott grapes" and "Raza si,
placas no" raised overhead and
people chanting "Che-Che-Che
Guevarra, George Bush a la Chingada," the enthusiasm of the Fresno
contingent began to spill over unto
the group in front of us and also on
the people following us.
Lined with police and other
people, we walked the streets
amongst brothers and amongst
his panics trying to buy their humility. Tired, with burnt red faces
from the heat of the sun and with
raspy voices, we wandered towards
the water trucks to get a small cup
of water or Gatorade to share with
each other, to revive ourselves so
that we could keep on going so that
I could prove to myself that I was
not one of those hispanics, but a
truly proud Chicano there to commemorate the efforts brought forth
then in 1970 and to revive the
ChicanoMovimiento.

Editor-Eloy Garcia
Copy Editor- Celeste
Saldivar
Calendario EditorErlinda Cobarruvias
StaffWriters-Anabel Alvarez
PCeprq Garch\, Virgi_nia Madrid
nstma Medma, Matthew
Polanco, Jill Soltero, Joe M.
Torres
Photographer- Eusevio
Arids

After the long march we
reached Salazar Park and began to
drop on the dirt and rough grassy
area of the park's baseball diamond.
Where in a half circle we sat around
the stage in preparation for the
speakers _that would further enlarge
my already huge pride of being
Brown. It was great to listen to
such speakers as Dolores Huerta
and Dr. Rodolfo Acuna, and Ernie
Peters Longwalker. As I heard
them speak my tired and hungry
spirit began to come alive once
again.
After the speakers were
done pumping us up, our little .
group ascended on some of the food
and beverage stands so that we
could eat something before we
would begin our long journey home.
Besides the food stands we also
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Volume XXI, Number IV

California State University, Fresno

Monday September 17, 1990

CSUF Students Join Rally In East Los Angeles
by Matthew Polanco

Staff Writer

Moratorium's Anniversary

On Aug. 25, an estimated 7,000
Chicanos/Mexicanos came together
from virtually all of Aztldn to commemorate the twentieth anniversity
ofthe 1970 Chicano Moratorium that
was held in East Los Angeles.
The Chicano Moratorium, which was
a product of the Chicano Movement
of the 1960's, was in part an anti-war
protest. However, it also exposed the
social and economic injustices of the
American government.
The fact that the Chicano population represented 4% of the total
U.S. population, and at the same
time represented 20% of the total
U.S. casualities in Vietnam was a
leading contributor to the 1970
moratorium.
Originally slated to be a peaceful protest, the march turned violent
was instigated by the Los Angeles
Police and Sheriff Departments.
At the Silver Dollar, a bar on
Whittier Boulevard several policemen stormed the Silver Do1Tar with:
gunfire and teargas. Inside, Ruben
Salazar, a well-known journalist L-----------------:----------------y:;c::-=::-:-ic-:;=;:=:;~:::::=r----'
from Los Angeles was struck in the
repeated, fortunately the Morato- folklorico danzantes, who led the
head by a tear gas cannister and
rium rally-march began and ended protesters on a four mile march that
At the park, there were many
killed. This provoked a confrontapeacefully.
retraced the march of 1970. The booths ranging from food and politition between the Raza and the police
-It began at Belvedere Park with march finished at Ruben Salazar cal interests. There were speakers
resulting in many arrests and injuspeeches from several Raza activist Park named for the slain journalist
ries.
organi_zations, and followed by the whose death incited violence twenty
Twenty years later it was feared
See March page 4
San Francisco based comedy troop years ago.
that the violence of 1970 might be
Culture Clash.
Then a march was led by several

First Chicano Art Exhibit For CSUF
Valley Artists Featured
by Jill Soltero
Staff Writer
CSUF's Phoebe Conley Art Gallery will run an
art exhibition of 17 Chicano artists living and
working in the Central Valley, from Sept. 30 to
Oct. 29.
The exhibit, "Colores del Valle", will feature
paintings, sculptures, masks and prints.
Featured artists include: Mario H. Acevedo,
Jose Montoya, Malaquias Montoya, Elena Rios,
Joe Mariscal and Miguel Guerrero.
"This is a first for us. It will bring recognition
for Chicano art and for the valley, said Chicano
and Latin American Studies chairperson Dr.
Bill Flores.
"We cannot forget our roots; Chicano artists
emerged from the Chicano Movement."
Flores and Madera artist Vincent Mendez decided in May to bring the Colores exhibit to
CSUF this semester.
The participating artists stress that Chicano
art is alive and is derived from the Chicano experience.
"Chicano art is just as viable to the Chicano
people as it ever was in the, past," said Sacramento artist Ricardo Favela.

"I describe myself as a muralist, printmaker
art educator and community activist. I look for
my ideas in the barrio, in the cantinas, in places
where most artists dare not enter because of
fear or non-interest," said Sacramento muralist
and silkscreen artist, Esteban Villa.
An artists' reception will be held Sept. 30 at
the Conley Art Gallery from 2-5 p.m. The reception will feature music by Arturo Adame, appearances by exhibition artists, local artists,
and representatives from Arte Americas and
Centro Bellas Artes.
Chicano and Latin American Studies (CLS)
will also offer a one-unit, credit/no credit 180T
course that will feature a guided tour of the art
exhibit, a hands-on workshop on Chicano art
taught by Mendez, and lectures by well-known
Chicano artists and scholars.
Lecturers include Villa; San Francisco muralist and art instructor, Juana Alicia; UC Santa
Cruz art professor, Eduardo Carrillo; and awardwinning silkscreen artist and UC Davis .professor, Malaquias Montoya.
For more information or to register for the
course contact the CLS department at (209)
278-2848 or register in person at the CLS office
in Social Sciences 211.

CHICANO POETS
STAY ACTIVE

By Virginia Madrid
Last semester two different
sets offriends, Mark Anthony Alvidrez
and Victor Canales joined Dan Chacon
and Andres Montoya to form the Chicano Writers & Artists Association
(CWAA).
The group began its activities
by holding informal poetry
readings in different areas of campus.
This semester CWAA held its first
reading on the fifth floor of the Peters
Building which was a success according to its members and audience.
One ofCWAA's goals this semester is to put tog~ther a literary journal
composed of poems, short stories, essays, art and other related works submitted by any student. Along with the
journal the group is also planning on
putting together a book that will include poetry and hopefully some fiction
and non-fiction work: The money made
from the sales of the books will be used
for publication of future projects.
Besides the journal and small
books the group also wants to put together a couple of one act plays."It ~11
be one of the few ways of letting us

Experience ...
flocked to the book and memorabilia
stands to buy ourselves a little
memory of our own history. To buy
a brown beret or a poster, or teeshirt with the Moratorium's emblem
on it to take home for our brother or
sister, so that they to could be part
of over four hundred years of
Chicano history.
Like our brothers and
sisters twenty years ago, we were
there to demand the rights that as
Chicanos didn't have then and still
don't have today. We were there to
tell the United States government
that we did not want to see happen,
in 1990, what happened in the early
1970's. We did not again want to
see a disproportionate number of
dead Chicanos, or any for that
matter. Because as we have seen
on television most of the young men
and women deployed to the Persian
Gulf that were being interviewed
were brown or black, not very many
whites. Again we didn't want to see
the blood of the lower middle class
covering a foreign land, killing
people that we (Chicanos) have no
diagreement with, to make the rich
American capitalists richer.
We were also there to unite
once again the great civilizations of

Guerrero still


singing
Pedro Garcia
Staff Writer
"We may not have the legal right to
be here, but we have the moral right to
be here," quoted Lalo Guerrero an
active songwriter and singer.
Born in 1916, Lalo Guerrero has
been singing and writing his songs for
over fifty years. His biggest influece
and inspiration has always been his
mother. His mother, whom he says
sang and played beautiful songs,
tought him how to play the guitar.
Lalo Guerrero's music has been a big
part of his life since a very young age.
At the age ofl 7 he wrote his first song
which became commercially popular.
This song, called "La Cancion Mexi-

this continent, from the cold white
plains of Alaska to the humid
jungles of South America. To band
together as indigenous brothers and
sisters, whether Chicano, Mexicano,
Guatemalan, El Salvadoran or
Native American and fight our
oppressor until we can once again
roam our great land in freedom as
we once did.
It was a great opportunity
for Chicanos like myself to be a part
of the Chicano Movement that
escaped us twenty years ago. To see
each other as brothers and not
rivals in the barrios ofAztlan. To
stop doing the U.S. government's
dirty work, and keep each other
alive and direct our fight against
this oppressive government instead
of towards each other.
It was also an opportunity
to walk side by side with some of
the vatos and rucas that were there
twenty years ago. To see the
sadness in their hearts because
things haven't changed much in
twenty years; they have actually
gotten worse. RAZA, IT IS TIME
FOR REVOLUTION!

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tn1tfo;ri.ty students intefested in pur•· - that ·we have
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careers in the health profession :ability to attract funds, but it•~s
wj.tfrtutorial and finan~ial support~ become difficult/' he said.
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cana" was soon recorded and performed by Lucha Reyes ,a well known
mexican artist, in 1940. After writing
over 300 songs, "La Cancion Mexicana", is still his dearest and most
chierished composition.
According to Guerrero, campesinos have always been very dear to
him. In 1952, when first startted his
orchestra, campesino workers were
the ones helped him gain popularity.
Because of their great admiration for
him, where they were is where he had
his greatest success. They not only
I
bought his records but they would
also go see him perform during his
visits to the north.
"It got to where I knew when the
melon and vetebel were in," said
Guerrero, I followed the crops just
like they did. I came out to where they
were because they needed entertainment and relaxation."
"Our people were always working

in the states following the crops. In
places far from t~e border like Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, where
they worked on the railroads, It was a
treat for them to have mexican music
come out there. They didn't have any
mexican music so thousands would
come out there to dance and listen to
the music. They were so appreciative
and so wonderful, that I used to love to
go out there and play. It was not the
economical intrest in my music, but
the fact that it brought so much happiness to my people."
Originally, Guerrero's songs were
serious. The song "La Cancion Mexicana" for instance talks about the
beauty and the soul ofMexican music.
He then wrote love ballads like "Nunca
Jamas", "Floresita" and "Mujeriego",
for many years. He continued to write
more songs until he discovered he had
an act for writing comical music.
According to Guerrero, he started to
write humerous music in spanish
when he suddenly came out with a
mexican flavored, english song called
"Tacos for Two" which became a great
hit. He found that with this type of
music he had the ability to communicate with both the mexican and ameri-.
can community. He then wrote other
songs like, "I Left My Car In San
Francisco", "Cordova", "No Way Jose
and "There's No Tortillas". ·
"What it does, "said Guerrero," is
that I can reach the Anglo audience
and entertain them, yet please my
people. Some songs are protest songs
against immigration, discrimination
and other things.I present the case in
english with a humerous touch without offending anyone. The anglos can
recieve the message and think about
it and say, "You know he has a point".
The message gets through and it
doesnt get them upset."
Guerrero, who does many benefits
and fundraisers for good causes says,
"It is important to promote better re-

lations with different ethnic groups.
One of my main concerns is a more undrestanding bridge between us. We
live togetber,work together and basically we are all Americans from different ethnic groups."

CAMP Gets
Grant
by Anabel Alvarez
Staff Writer
Director of University
Migrant Services Raul Diaz, was
recently awarded a government
grant for the College Migrant
Assistance Program (CAMP). Although this may appear to be a new
program, CAMP has actually been
on the Fresno State campus since
1981.
CAMP was designed to
recruit and retain students who are
migrant or seasonal farm workers
and provide accademic support,
financial assistance, and other
supportive services.
"Some of the services that
are beneficial to students include
tutoring, academic adviceing , career
planning ,leadership development,
vision and dental insurance, and
financial aide," Diaz said.
· "The assistance available to
the students is based on the
need,There are two requirements
that must be met to be accepted in
CAMP. First you must be an entering freshman not a transfer student.
Secondly, your parents, guardians,
or the student must have been
employed in farm work for seventy
five days or more in the last two
years and dependent on this income," Diaz added.
Since its inseption CAMP

See"Camp", page 4

CALENDARIO
Septiembre
Martes 18 A Chicano
Youth Confrence(C.Y.C.)
meeting will be held today
at 5:00p.m. in the Joyal
Administration Building,
room 203.

Migrant Student
Alliance(M.S.A.) will be holding an election meeting in the
U.S.U., room 308.
An H.C.O.P. meeting
will be held today at the
Upstairs Cafeteria, room 202,
from 5:30-7:00p.m.
Miercoles 19 Chicanos in
Chicano Writers and
Law will be holding a meet- Artists Association( CWAA)
ing, with guest speaker
will have a general Meeting
Edward Valdez, in the
at the pit, at 2:00 p.m. CWAA
University Student
will also hold a poetry readUnion(U.S.U.) at 6:00p.m. ing in the Peter's Building
Check glass case for room Auditorium at 8:00p.m.
number.
There will be general Sabado 22 C.H.E.S.S. will
Movimiento Estudiantil
hold an inservice: Diabetes
Chicano de Aztlan
and Hypertension, at the
(M.E.Ch.A.) meeting in the Agriculture Science Building,
U.S.U., room 312, at
room 102.
4:00p.m.

CAMP programs in California with
the other being located at CSU,
Sacramento. CSUF is also the only
had survived through grants
university in the CSU system that
awarded by the..Washington D.C.
has a seperate unit for migrant and
office of Migrant Education. However, the CAMP program ran out of farmworker students.
federal funding. The vice president
· This year CAMP will be
and dean of student affairs then de- serving sixty students. Raul said,
cided to continue the activities and "That if your are interested to apply
services offered in CAMP under
for assistance call the CAMP office
University Migrant Services CUMS). at (278-4 768) . This year the UMS/
CAMP has endured and one CAMP staff includes Raul Diaz as
of the unique things about it is the
director, Bonnie Pickett and Raul
fact that it is only oI)e of six such
Moreno both counselors, and Rose
projects in the nation. There are two Marie Ramirez as office manager.

Miercoles 26 CWAA will
hold a general meeting at the
pit at
2:00p.m.

Jueves 27 Chicano Latino
Association of Student
Educators(CLASE)
will hold a general meeting at
the U.S.U. at 4:00p.m. Check Jueves 11-Sabado 13
CSU, Fresno will host the
glass case for room number.
5th Annual Interuniversity Symposium United
Octubre
States-Mexico at the CSU,
Miercoles 3 There will be
Fresno Valley Buisiness
general M.E.Ch.A meeting
today. Check the M.E.Ch.A. Center.
booth for time and place.
CWAA will hold a
general meeting today at the
pit, at 2:00p.m.

Continued from page 1...

Camp...

"Metropolis Virgin"

March ...
the Brown Barrets, city council representatives, educators, and
concerned Raza service organizations, and the group Los Alecranes
Muhados performed.
The messages at the rally
were clear; get educated,get
active in your barrio and in governmental processes, stop gang
violence, and advance the idea of
Chicano Empowerment.

1

by Ezequiel "Lee Orona
The Colores del Valle exhibit is made possible by
the CLS department, the Phoebe Conley art gallery

Miercoles 10 There will
be general M.E.Ch.A.
meeting today. Check the
M.E.Ch.A. booth for time
and place.
CWAA will hold a
general meeting today at
the pit, at 2:00p.m.

and the CSUF Freshman Mentoring ProgTam.
The Chicano art lecture series is co-sponsored by CLS
and the CSUF Division of Extended Education.
/

grow and express ourselves,"said
Canales.
"CWAA wants to promote and
encourage Chicano literature," added
Chacon.
"Chicano literature is out
there , and CWAA is the alarm clock
telling the literary elite to wake up.
We're here and we're ligitamate,
Montoya said."
CWAA will serve the Chicano
students as an outlet and support
group for writers and artists that have
been stunted by the present conservative literary community. "If there
are any writers and artists out there
that would like to join us feel free. We
can get crazy," said Pedro Garcia a
member of the group.
Ac cording to Chacon a
sizeable portion of Chicano literature
is regarded as political poetry in regards to the political and socio-economic status of most Chicanos. The
group wants to express with their
literature the history of oppression
the Chicanos and Mexicanos h ave
endured. As Chacon said, "It's som_ething inherently political."
Unlike last year the group
will have an active advisor this year.
Juan Felipe Herrera, an instructor in
the Chicano and Latin American
Studies Department , will play an important role serving the group not
only as an advisor but as critic and
contact to some of the Chicano publishers that he has met over the years.
. The group holds its meeting
every Wednesdays at 2:00p.m. in th
pit.Usually poetry readings are ever
other Tuesday, but this week th
reading will be held on Wednesda
the 19th in the Peters Building Aud:
torium at 8:00p.m. CWAA envite
everyone to join them and woul
welcome anyone that would like t
read their work.

EDITORIAL-----,

A Chicano's Experience
We got up early that day, on
Aug. 25th 1990. Up at four a.m. to
get ready for the long drive to what
could possibly be considered as the
heart of~ldn, East Los Angeles,
California. Driving on freeway 99,
we drove by many little towns, little
towns like Delano and MacFarland
where the modern Movimiento
began in 1965 by a brown man
known as Cesar Chavez, one of our
great Chicano champions.
While traveling south towards L.A we saw the sun appear
and the moon disappear. We saw
farm workers appear from the rows
of crops and vines. Little did they
know that we were going to L.A to
fight for our rights and their's.
We got to L.A at about nine
a.m. and an overcast and gloomy
sky loomed overhead, it seemed that
it might rain and put a damper on
the whole event, but it didn't. The
sun finally broke through the thick
wall of dark clouds. As the sun
broke through the people of Aztldn
started to ascend on Belvedere

Park. We were greeted by the loud
and lively Tex-Mex sound dear to
·the Chicano.
Some of us full of Brown
pride ready to explode with the
stored up energy of twenty years
ago, or five or nine or fifteen years
that they have lived. To come
together and share with each other
hardships and experiences that we
have lived through. Brown people
from all over our great land were
meeting as strangers and walking
away as brothers, walking away to
meet and make friends with the rest
of their Brown family.
There we were, my brother
his girlfriend and two other friend;
along with myself, lost in a sea of
brown faces trying to organize ourselves to get ready to march like our
brothers and sisters did twenty
years ago. After a long while, we
got organized and began our four
mile march down the streets of East
Los Angeles to congregate at
_Salazar Park, a park named after
the young journalist, Ruben
Salazar, who was killed at the

Silver Dollar by a policeman.
With clenched brown fists
waving in the air and picket signs
that read, "Deport Bush, not Raza"
and "Boycott grapes" and "Raza si,
placas no" raised overhead and
people chanting "Che-Che-Che
Guevarra, George Bush a la Chingada," the enthusiasm of the Fresno
contingent began to spill over unto
the group in front of us and also on
the people following us.
Lined with police and other
people, we walked the streets
amongst brothers and amongst
his panics trying to buy their humility. Tired, with burnt red faces
from the heat of the sun and with
raspy voices, we wandered towards
the water trucks to get a small cup
of water or Gatorade to share with
each other, to revive ourselves so
that we could keep on going so that
I could prove to myself that I was
not one of those hispanics, but a
truly proud Chicano there to commemorate the efforts brought forth
then in 1970 and to revive the
ChicanoMovimiento.

Editor-Eloy Garcia
Copy Editor- Celeste
Saldivar
Calendario EditorErlinda Cobarruvias
StaffWriters-Anabel Alvarez
PCeprq Garch\, Virgi_nia Madrid
nstma Medma, Matthew
Polanco, Jill Soltero, Joe M.
Torres
Photographer- Eusevio
Arids

After the long march we
reached Salazar Park and began to
drop on the dirt and rough grassy
area of the park's baseball diamond.
Where in a half circle we sat around
the stage in preparation for the
speakers _that would further enlarge
my already huge pride of being
Brown. It was great to listen to
such speakers as Dolores Huerta
and Dr. Rodolfo Acuna, and Ernie
Peters Longwalker. As I heard
them speak my tired and hungry
spirit began to come alive once
again.
After the speakers were
done pumping us up, our little .
group ascended on some of the food
and beverage stands so that we
could eat something before we
would begin our long journey home.
Besides the food stands we also

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