The Chicano Moratorium’s 50-Year Legacy

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🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Aug. 29 marks 50 years since the National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War took place in the streets of East Los Angeles. Targeting the war's disproportionate Chicano mortality rate, the protest was the largest gathering of Mexican American demonstrators up to that point, with more than 20,000 people taking part. But conflict between sheriff's deputies and protesters turned the day violent, culminating in hundreds of arrests and three deaths, including that of pioneer Latino journalist Ruben Salazar. We’ll talk about a new project from the Los Angeles Times exploring the Moratorium's legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.5	Coming up on forum, hundreds of marchers gathered in East L.A. this past Saturday
1:04.7	to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Chicano moratorium, when tens of thousands came to protest the disproportionate death toll of Mexican Americans in the Vietnam War.
1:15.6	It would be the largest gathering of Mexican American demonstrators up to that point and a key moment for the Chicano movement in its heyday.
1:23.5	But what would begin as a joyous march and rally would turn violent and deadly.
1:28.5	We examine the protests' legacy.
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1:48.0	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Los Angeles journalist Ruben Salazar died 50 years ago Saturday when a sheriff's deputy
1:54.0	struck him in the head with a tear gas canister. He died instantly, according to the people
1:59.0	who were there that day, August 29, 1970.
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