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Circa 2014 Cheri Honkala was part of [[Speakers for a New America]], the speakers bureau for [[League of Revolutionaries for a New America]]. | Circa 2014 Cheri Honkala was part of [[Speakers for a New America]], the speakers bureau for [[League of Revolutionaries for a New America]]. | ||
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The [[40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee of the Chicano Moratoriums]] was formed in the summer 2009 by the Chair of the [[National Chicano Moratorium Committee]] of August 29, 1970 along with two independent Chicano Movement historians whom although not of the baby boomer generation, have become inspired by the Movimiento. | The [[40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee of the Chicano Moratoriums]] was formed in the summer 2009 by the Chair of the [[National Chicano Moratorium Committee]] of August 29, 1970 along with two independent Chicano Movement historians whom although not of the baby boomer generation, have become inspired by the Movimiento. | ||
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Template:TOCnestleft Luis Rodriguez
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 2008 Luis Rodrigues of Tia Churcha's Cafe Cultural, San Fernando, CA signed a statement circulated by the Partisan Defense Committee calling for the release of convicted “cop-killer” Mumia Abu-Jamal.[1]
Speakers for a New America
Circa 2014 Cheri Honkala was part of Speakers for a New America, the speakers bureau for League of Revolutionaries for a New America.
Chicano movement
The 40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee of the Chicano Moratoriums was formed in the summer 2009 by the Chair of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee of August 29, 1970 along with two independent Chicano Movement historians whom although not of the baby boomer generation, have become inspired by the Movimiento. The organization posted a list of significant “Chicano movement” activists on its website which included Luis Rodriguez.[2]
Vietnam conference
Vietnam - The Power of Protest - Telling the Truth - Learning the Lessons was held Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, in Washington, D.C.
The conference "has a star-studded program of progressive leaders of the past half century": Dolores Huerta, Danny Glover, Daniel Ellsberg, Phil Donahue, former Congresspersons Patricia Schroeder, Ron Dellums and current Reps. Barbara Lee and John Conyers, singer Holly Near, and more.
In addition to Dolores Huerta, three other Mexican-American/Chicanos are in the program: Luis J. Rodriguez, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, who marched in the National Chicano Moratorium against the war as a teenager on August 29, 1970; Dr. Jorge Mariscal, Vietnam veteran, professor and writer about the Chicano movement and the Vietnam War; and Rosalio Munoz, who chaired the National Chicano Moratorium. The latter three helped form a new group, the Chicana Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, to support the conference and to "educate our communities on the truth and lessons of the war".[3]
Kopkind Colony
The Kopkind Colony Program Advisory Committee, as of 2015;[4] The Kopkind Colony Honorary Board, as of 2015;[5] Angela Ards, Fred Azcarate, Jennifer Berkshire, Pamela Bridgewater, Francis Calpotura, Margaret Cerullo, Tim Costello, Kim Diehl, Heidi Dorow, Scott Douglas, Theo Emery, Laura Flanders, Ku‘umeaaloha Gomes, Joe Grabarz, Jennifer Gordon, Pronita Gupta, Muna Hamzeh, Amber Hollibaugh, Mary Howell, Janine Jackson, Si Kahn, Robin D. G. Kelley, KipuKai Kuali‘i, Brad Lander, Eric Mann, Nikki Morse, Scot Nakagawa, Debbie Nathan, Amy Newell, Rev. James Orange, Robert Pollin, Verandah Porche, Luis Rodriguez, Deb Schwartz, Barbara Smith, Makani Themba-Nixon, Jerry Tucker
League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Luis Rodriguez, author of "Gang Days in L.A.," his memoir of coming of age in East Los Angeles that won a Carl Sandburg Literary Award and a Chicago Sun-Times Book Award. The El Paso, Texas-born author, whose works include the memoir "Always Running: La Vida Loca" and poetry books "Poems Across the Pavement" and "The Concrete River," is the founder of Youth Struggling for Survival and is a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America and Rock a Mole, which produces hip-hop, jazz and rap artists, and urban youth arts festivals in Los Angeles.[6]