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Dissection Of Academia Semillas Del Pueblo
*Updated & bumped 10/23/06 Please scroll down for updates.
I now attempt to dissect Academia Semillas del Pueblo
In the wake of the controversy surrounding the school,
Academia Semillas del Pueblo’s original website had been taken down.
With the assistance of web archiving, I have taken screen shots of various web pages of the former site.
History
Our mission is to provide urban children of immigrant native families an excellent education founded upon their own language, cultural values, and global realities through a k-8 California public charter school to fulfill our commitment to justice, freedom and dignity in education.
Ancestral Mexican schooling ethos embodied social ideals and appreciations intended to develop the child as a complete person. The indigenous heart of our vision is a repossession of an identity denied from our children in standard schools.
I wonder whose history will be taught. Ours or theirs??
Academia Semillas del Pueblo – Southern CA
This school’s mission is to provide urban children from immigrant Native families in k-8th grades an education based on their own language and cultural values to fulfill a commitment to justice, freedom & dignity in education. They strive to provide holistic learning opportunities to overcome barriers faced by immigrant families. The school has become a center of community regeneration, hosting ceremonies and festivities for students and adults forced to leave their homelands.
What??? Forced to leave thier homelands? Says who? For God’s sake, put down the peyote. [sarc]
It is one thing for schools such as this one to exist in an American city.
And another altogether for it to be funded in part by public monies.
If it were to exist at all it SHOULD ONLY be privately funded!
Although one of the private contributors is National Council of La Raza
“La Raza” translated as “the race.” The Latino race, to be more exact.
MeCHA is the group that believes the US southwest is actually Mexican territory.
So what does this all mean? Well Dear Americans it may mean that they
are now establishing their own schools where they will proceed to instill their
cultural/racist(?) philosophies to the children that attend.
Academia Semillas del Pueblo may as well be in Mexico. There isn’t any difference. Future upstanding American citizens?
Or grooming future revolutionaries for their separatist(?) movement?
Worse yet, the school is a featured on Mexica Uprising.net
An American public charter affiliated with mexica? uprising?
Whose site header states: “In Support Of World Wide Indigenous Revolution“
Know Your Enemy @ mexica uprising Which refers to America as; Amerikkka
That alone is enough to really piss me off!! I don’t know about you all.
*Update
Mexican Not Latino, Not Hispanic T-Shirt @ mexica uprising.net
“We are not foreigners to this land. White people are the foreigners of our land”
Gee I wonder if Academia Semillas del Pueblo has any plans on incorporating this tee as their official school uniform. [sarc]
BTW No American flag to be found. Hmm… But there is a cuban flag and a mexican flag! *&%$@# WRONG move!
Photos curtesy of VDARE.com
Quickly what is this image all about? It just oozes with Americana doesn’t it?
Academia Semillas del Pueblo
“If Brown (vs. Board of Education) was just about letting Black people into a White school, well we don’t care about that anymore. We don’t necessarily want to go to White schools. What we want to do is teach ourselves, teach our children the way we have of teaching. We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain…We don’t need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier.”
- Marcos Aguilar (Principal, Academia Semillas del Pueblo)
The Chicano students and MEChA members who had been leading the campaign for departmental status responded by occupying and laying waste to the Faculty Center on May 11, 1993, causing between $35,000 and $50,000 in damage.
Two UCLA students, Marcos Aguilar and Balvina Collazo, and one high school student, Norma Montanez, adopted Azteco-babble names; respectively, Huitzilixtlitiu, Chitlichicoshayotl, and Ixtlapapayotl.
Academia Semillas del Pueblo’s Press Release 06.01.06
Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School (Academia) is focused on organizing an excellent education and producing the highest levels of academic achievement. A culturally relevant education makes academic excellence possible for all students. Academia continues to be focused on a rigorous academic program and positive community engagement in our school. Our students reflect the community we serve and the population of students at all neighboring public schools. Academia does not discriminate against any student on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity or disability. While most of Academia’s students are Latino, Academia also enrolls African-American, Asian-American, White and Native American students.
The REAL TRUTH [From the archived site]
Welcome
Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School is a kindergarten through eighth grade public school dedicated to providing urban children of
immigrant native families an excellent education founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities.Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School will cultivate the gifts and talents of all its students through multiple language education, differentiated curriculum and instruction, and culturally enriched visual and performing arts.
Which is it? A public school open to all children regardless of thier heritage/race?
Or a school dedicated to children of immigrant native families??
Academia Semillas del Pueblo’s official press release = propaganda
Sounds to me like someone is spinning a web of lies!!
Should a public charter school have a curriculum that caters to
a specific heritage????
Umm… NO!.. NO!.. And I can not stress this enough… HELL NO!.
Besides why would an American child of let’s say African-American, White or
Asian-American descent, wish to attend a school that MAINLY provides an education
founded upon their [children of immigrant native families] own language, cultural values and global realities???
What would be the point I ask??
The Aztec “official” name of the school is XINAXCALMECATL.????
Now that in itself is enough to warm the cockles of American hearts far and wide!
God bless them and all they do to educate thier children in this The United States of America!
Or is this in fact Mexico? You know I can hardly tell the difference….any longer.
The distinction is becoming extremely blurred….
It is an AMERICAN PUBLIC school so what is the deal??
“Ancestral Mexican schooling ethos embodied social ideas…??
Indigenousheart of our vision….??”
OMG Attention: All parents, you had best
enroll your child at Academia Semillas del Pueblo A.S.A.P.,
before the classes are full. No child should be left behind!
This is a most amazing opportunity! Allow your child this culturally enriching, educational environment!
What are you waiting for?
Ancestral Mexican schooling ethos embodied social ideas???
Indigenous heart of their vision???
Does this belong in an AMERICAN PUBLIC school?
“…..public school dedicated to providing urban children of immigrant native families an excellent education.. “
OK Once again Are they open to children of all race’s and ethnicity?
Or is their focus ONLY on children of immigrant native families?
I realize that the community where the school is located is made up of 90+%(?)
(Do not have the official stats. on this. But I am right in the neighborhood.)
of mostly Spanish speaking, immigrant folks.
BUT…do NOT lead the public to believe that you welcome one and all! When in fact you do NOT!
In order to acquire public (ie: taxpayer money) funds.
Nahuatl, the most spoken native language in East L.A.??? Assimilating nicely aren’t we?
And WTH is the teaching of Mandarin Chinese all about??? All American children should have the opportunity to become proficient in Mandarin.
After all, an education is not complete without being educated in a communist language.
On June 2 ‘06, Glendale Nissan/Infinity sent a cease and desist letter to Academia,
demanding that they remove their name from the school’s website immediately.
They must of not been comfortable with all of the publicity swirling around Academia Semillas del Pueblo.
And wished to sever all ties. Hmm.. Don’t blame them.
But rest assured the remaining supporters most likely have no intention of pulling the plug.
“Tai Chi and Aztec Dance prepare our children to face conflict with harmony.” ???
So…. what are they being prepared for??
The ability to dance thier way in, and then fight their way out?
Tai Chi (maybe). Aztec Dance? NOT if that is the only dance being taught!
Kalpulli? A quick lesson in the meaning of “Kalpulli.
The history of the Kalpulli (community) is hundreds of thousands of years old.
Tlakaelel refounded the Mother Kalpulli of Mexico in 1947.
The Council of Anwach felt it was time to insure that the oral history and
culture passed on to future generations.
They felt it was essential to take these teachings out of the shadows.
Out of the shadows, and smack dab right into the middle
of an AMERICAN PUBLIC school!
That is all well and good. A touching sentiment behind this native vision.
BUT…. again this is how an AMERICAN PUBLIC charter school is governed!
The story behind Tlakaelel you wonder. Dear Readers another quick lesson.
In 1947, Tlakaelel was commissioned by the Council of Anahuak with a spiritual mission
and was given the name and spiritual title of “Tlakaelel” which means
“Counselor to the Council”. In each generation there is only one man who carries this name.
Tlakaelel is the first indigenous leader in the history of Mexico to have achieved with
the aid of his Kalpulli, or spiritual group, official governmental recognition of the Native Religious Tradition. This has taken more than 500 years to accomplish.
Ummm.. how does this all fit in, or should I say belong in an AMERICAN PUBLIC school??
Added to the mix is the fact that, Academia Semillas del Pueblo’s Academic Performance Index
score of 577 (out of a possible 1,000) ranks it among the lowest performing schools in the state.
The students of Academia Semillas del Pueblo are being ill-prepared to compete in today’s society!
And last but not least, LAUSD’s investigation results:
“We looked specifically for any indications of any overt discriminatory practices on campus, such as statements on bulletin boards that expressed racial animus, were kids learning English, was math being taught consistent with California standards, and my understanding is they left satisfied that nothing of great concern was going on,” said Kevin Reed, general counsel for the district.”
An interesting outcome…..
I feel that Academia Semillas del Pueblo is not the only entity that bears investigating….
[Deep sigh]
Traditions and culture of ones heritage is important. I understand that.
And there are many, many schools in the United States that cater to similar mindsets.
Such as parochial schools.
BUT… they are considered to be PRIVATE NOT PUBLIC.
I pity the children who attend this school. And I pity the taxpayers of California
whose hard earned money helps to fund this school.
As both are getting the short end of the stick!
The LAUSD needs a few lessons of their own, me thinks….
Taken from the “new and improved” site:
DATA SHEET FOR ACADEMIA SEMILLAS DEL PUEBLO 07.11.06
INFORMATION REGARDING ACADEMIA SEMILLAS DEL PUEBLO
Academia is a kindergarten through eighth grade public charter school dedicated to providing urban children of immigrant families an excellent education founded upon native and maternal languages, cultural values, and global realities. Our school’s name in the Nahuatl native language means, “the house of higher learning for the seeds of our people.” Academia has served the greater East Los Angeles community since 2002.
(Read More. . . pdf)
TCLA: How does learning different languages impact your students?
MA:By learning Nahuatl, they will be able to understand their relationship with nature (because language is based on our human relationship with nature) and be able to understand themselves as part of something larger, not as an isolated individual. They will be able to understand our own ancestral culture and our customs and traditions that are so imbued in the language.
The importance of Nahutal is also academic because Nahuatl is based on a Math system, which we are also practicing. We teach our children how to operate a base 20 mathematical system and how to understand the relationship between the founders and their bodies, what the effects of astronomical forces and natural forces on the human body and the human psyche, our way of thinking and our way of expressing ourselves.
And so the language is much more than just being able to communicate. When we teach Nahuatl, the children are gaining a sense of identity that is so deep, it goes beyond whether or not they can learn a certain number of vocabulary words in Nahuatl. It’s really about them understanding themselves as human beings. Everything we do here is about relationships.
TCLA: Finally, what do you see as the legacy of the Brown decision?
MA: If Brown was just about letting Black people into a White school, well we don’t care about that anymore. We don’t necessarily want to go to White schools. What we want to do is teach ourselves, teach our children the way we have of teaching. We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier.
Do these images look like they belong on an American School? Aztec God’s? Can I then startup a charter school with God and Jesus painted on the outside? Mother Mary and all the Saints? Fat chance of that happening. I think I’ll place a call to the a.c.l.u. How far do you all think I’ll get?
You make the call…
PSK12.com – California – Elementary Schools – Academia Semillas del Pueblo
Reconquista In The Schools—At Taxpayer Expense
Public tax dollars fund racist school
K-8 institution backed by groups seeking to retake Southwest U.S.
VIOLENCE AT THE RECONQUISTA SCHOOL
TODAY’S TOPIC: Response to Marcos Aguilar
*It seems that WordPress burped this evening. Which explains the multiple trackbacks.
My apologies.
*Originally published by myself:
Jun 16 2006, 10:19 AM
Jun 9 2006, 09:27 AM
May 31 2006, 11:44 PM
*Update
Yep! What many of us have been saying all along!
Monday, October 16, 2006
Judicial Watch Investigates Academia Semillas Del Pueblo
@ A Lady’s Ruminations
Written by Christi at CommonSenseAmerica:
Judicial Watch’s report includes excerpts of new documents obtained by Judicial Watch through the California Public Records Act that highlight the school’s radical agenda. According to the report’s introduction: “Academia Semillas del Pueblo is not much more than a training ground for the Mexican reconquista movement, which seeks to conquer the American Southwest – by force or by ballot box – and return it to Mexico.”
Judicial Watch Exposes Mexican Separatist School
Click Here to read JW Special Report “Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Seeds of the People Academy): Training the Next Generation of Mexican Revolutionaries with American Tax Dollars.”
Plus….
Tancredo Calls on Schwarzenegger, Villaraigosa to Denounce School
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) called on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to denounce a controversial charter school funded with taxpayers’ dollars. The principal of the school said recently that students “don’t necessarily want to go to White schools,” and that civil rights “is all within the box of white culture and white supremacy.”
The full letter is reprinted below:
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger and Mayor Villaraigosa:
I have been troubled by recent news reports about a charter school in the Los Angeles area known as Xinaxcalmecatl (from the Aztec’s Nahuatl language, which is taught at the school) also known as The Academia Semillas del Pueblo. The school is evidently a charter school – one whose curriculum and principal have become the focus of extreme controversy and justified criticism in recent months.
The founder and principal, Marcos Aguilar espouses a radical separatist agenda. Although Aguilar has attempted to downplay reports of the nature of his institution, his comments speak for themselves. Recently, Aguilar was quoted as saying, “…We don’t necessarily want to go to White schools. What we want to do is teach ourselves, teach our children the way we have of teaching…[civil rights] is all within the box of white culture and white supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger…ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier.”
The school website, striking a similarly separatist tone, describes itself as being “dedicated to providing urban children of immigrant native families an excellent education founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities.” It goes on to read, “We draw from traditional indigenous Mexican forms of social organization known as the Kalpulli, founded upon the principles of serving collective interests, assembling an informed polity, and honestly administering and executing collective decisions.”
Perhaps it is no surprise then, that the well known radical student organization MEChA, which has a stated goal of returning the American Southwest to Mexico, endorses Xinaxcalmecatl.
Reports indicate that students at Xinaxcalmecatl are falling behind academically. This is certainly not surprising since a scant 8% of its teachers are fully credentialed and they are “teaching” math on the Aztec’s base-20 math system. It earned the lowest possible score on the statewide Academic Performance Index (API) – meriting a 1 on a scale of 10 (I am not sure how that translates to the base-20 math system). It also ranked lowest out of all the charter schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) with a base score of 577 out of a maximum 1000. There are reports that the LAUSD is reviewing Xinaxcalmecatl’s charter operations, and that the District’s Program Evaluation and Research Branch spent at least two weeks at the school observing classroom discussion and collecting data regarding student performance and school culture.
This bizarre ideology being taught to impressionable students at Xinaxcalmecatl does nothing to enhance the assimilation process. In fact, it is designed to do just the opposite.
Governor Schwarzenegger, you can encourage that the charter under which Xinaxcalmecatl operates is revoked or suspended until its offensive curriculum and principal are replaced. Mayor Villaraigosa, as the leader of Los Angeles you can encourage the L.A. County School Board to exercise oversight of this rogue public school. There is another and equally important step that both of you can take. You can use your bully pulpits to condemn racist separatism and the use of tax dollars to perpetuate it.
Thank you in advance for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely Tom Tancredo Member of Congress
I wish I had found this earlier in the game, but better late than never. I have contacted Congressman Tancredo regarding this letter. Since I am unable to find any information regarding a reply from either Schwarzenegger or villaraigosa.
*If and when the Congressman responds I will share any pertinent info.
Comments:
Comment posted by Wanda Martin
at 10/24/2006 3:24:37 AM
I’m not commenting on this article but need to ask a question!
I have been following sites such as americanpatrol, numbers, fairus, and
reading Tancredo’s articles since 2002.
What I can’t find “anywhere” are articles where illegals are self deporting by the thousands. Shouldn’t airlines be doing a booming business with people returning to Mexico. One would think that “moving companies” would be springing up all over the place to help you move back to Mexico, and Mexico should be saying something “somewhere” if thousands were coming home.
I do read about ICE making arrests and deporting but I want to see it. I want to know people really are leaving.
Sorry if I put this in the wrong place.
Comment posted by Viz
at 10/17/2006 6:05:52 AM
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Should You Stay, Or Should You Go Now?
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
- Douglas MacArthur
Who in the HELL do they think they are? Talk about Delusional!
[Well I assume they mean (our) not (are) LMAO]
Ok Here is how it is. If you are illegal and-or reconquista/mecHa/aztlan minded. Then I say as an LEGAL AMERICAN citizen “Get the Hell out!” BECAUSE there is only room for true Americans here! Amnesty? Kiss my ass! I nor any other US citizen would EVER receive any form of amnesty if we broke the law. Sooo ….
Fly With The Eagle
(Is viewable in browser window)
Hard hitting? Perhaps. Straight to the point? Probably.
Controversial? Possibly.
Is it mean spirited? Xenophobic? Racist?
Not in my opinion.
Should this video have been released? Well they are American’s….
Now I give you this…is it racist? Yes. Anti-American? Yes.
And this. Los Angeles capital of aztlan??? !!!!! Image links to source, la voz de aztlan. You’ll locate it on the sidebar on the left.
And lastly this.
EL PLAN DE AZTLÁN
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán
In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal “gringo” invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlán from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny.
I as a white American consider “gringo” to be a racist term.
We are free and sovereign to determine those tasks which are justly called for by our house, our land, the sweat of our brows, and by our hearts. Aztlán belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent
European? No! American!
Brotherhood unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come and who struggles against the foreigner “gabacho” who exploits our riches and destroys our culture. With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlán.
Would ya’ just shut the hell up and read some history. That is beside your made up history.
LONG BEFORE the white man set foot on American soil, the American Indians, or rather the Native Americans, had been living in America. When the Europeans came here, there were probably about 10 million Indians populating America north of present-day Mexico. And they had been living in America for quite some time. It is believed that the first Native Americans during the last ice-age, approximately 20,000 – 30,000 years ago through a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska. The oldest documented Indian cultures in North America are Sandia (15000 BC), Clovis (12000 BC) and Folsom (8000 BC) arrived
Although it is believed that the Indians originated in Asia, few if any of them came from India. The name “Indian” was first applied to them by Christopher Columbus, who believed mistakenly that the mainland and islands of America were part of the Indies, in Asia.
PLUS: Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty
For La Raza to do. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Program
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán sets the theme that the Chicanos (La Raza de Bronze) must use their nationalism as the key or common denominator for mass mobilization and organization. Once we are committed to the idea and philosophy of El Plan de Aztlán, we can only conclude that social, economic, cultural, and political independence is the only road to total liberation from oppression, exploitation, and racism. Our struggle then must be for the control of our barrios, campos, pueblos, lands, our economy, our culture, and our political life. El Plan commits all levels of Chicano society – the barrio, the campo, the ranchero, the writer, the teacher, the worker, the professional – to La Causa.
Nationalism
Nationalism as the key to organization transcends all religious, political, class, and economic factions or boundaries. Nationalism is the common denominator that all members of La Raza can agree upon.
Organizational Goals
1. UNITY in the thinking of our people concerning the barrios, the pueblo, the campo, the land, the poor, the middle class, the professional-all committed to the liberation of La Raza.
2. ECONOMY: economic control of our lives and our communities can only come about by driving the exploiter out of our communities, our pueblos, and our lands and by controlling and developing our own talents, sweat, and resources. Cultural background and values which ignore materialism and embrace humanism will contribute to the act of cooperative buying and the distribution of resources and production to sustain an economic base for healthy growth and development Lands rightfully ours will be fought for and defended. Chicano defense units.
*See above
Land and realty ownership will be acquired by the community for the people’s welfare. Economic ties of responsibility must be secured by nationalism and the
3. EDUCATION must be relative to our people, i.e., history, culture, bilingual education, contributions, etc. Community control of our schools, our teachers, our administrators, our counselors, and our programs.
Dreamer, nothin’ but a dreamer.
4. INSTITUTIONS shall serve our people by providing the service necessary for a full life and their welfare on the basis of restitution, not handouts or beggar’s crumbs. Restitution for past economic slavery, political exploitation, ethnic and cultural psychological destruction and denial of civil and human rights. Institutions in our community which do not serve the people have no place in the community. The institutions belong to the people.
Again not applicable.
5. SELF-DEFENSE of the community must rely on the combined strength of the people. The front line defense will come from the barrios, the campos, the pueblos, and the ranchitos. Their involvement as protectors of their people will be given respect and dignity. They in turn offer their responsibility and their lives for their people. Those who place themselves in the front ranks for their people do so out of love and carnalismo. Those institutions which are fattened by our brothers to provide employment and political pork barrels for the gringo will do so only as acts of liberation and for La Causa. For the very young there will no longer be acts of juvenile delinquency, but revolutionary acts.
Revolutionary acts? Is that a threat?
6. CULTURAL values of our people strengthen our identity and the moral backbone of the movement. Our culture unites and educates the family of La Raza towards liberation with one heart and one mind. We must insure that our writers, poets, musicians, and artists produce literature and art that is appealing to our people and relates to our revolutionary culture. Our cultural values of life, family, and home will serve as a powerful weapon to defeat the gringo dollar value system and encourage the process of love and brotherhood.
7. POLITICAL LIBERATION can only come through indepen-dent action on our part, since the two-party system is the same animal with two heads that feed from the same trough. Where we are a majority, we will control; where we are a minority, we will represent a pressure group; nationally, we will represent one party: La Familia de La Raza!
We speak English in America!
Action
1. Awareness and distribution of El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán. Presented at every meeting, demonstration, confrontation, courthouse, institution, administration, church, school, tree, building, car, and every place of human existence.
2. September 16, on the birthdate of Mexican Independence, a national walk-out by all Chicanos of all colleges and schools to be sustained until the complete revision of the educational system: its policy makers, administration, its curriculum, and its personnel to meet the needs of our community.
Yada Yada Yada
3. Self-Defense against the occupying forces of the oppressors at every school, every available man, woman, and child.
Imaginations running rampant.
4. Community nationalization and organization of all Chicanos: El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán.
5. Economic program to drive the exploiter out of our community and a welding together of our people’s combined resources to control their own production through cooperative effort.
Say what? No you didn’t! What insane ramblings.
6. Creation of an independent local, regional, and national political party.
A nation autonomous and free – culturally, socially, economically, and politically- will make its own decisions on the usage of our lands, the taxation of our goods, the utilization of our bodies for war, the determination of justice (reward and punishment), and the profit of our sweat.
Excuse me you all already have a nation. I suggest you go back there and fight for changes. BECAUSE the last thing the US needs is to turn into a third world country like mexico.
El Plan de Aztlán is the plan of liberation!
OMG! They are not asking for much are they?
Now will their plans ever succeed?
If not, it won’t be for the lack of trying.
Should America allow it? Hell no!!
Informative and quick reads all…
Backgrounder: Nation of Aztlan Introduction @ Anti-Defamation League
Next: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism
Next: Current Leadership
Next: Recent Activity and Background
Next: Common Ground With Extremists
Next: The Nation of Aztlan: In Their Own Words
Related blogging etc.
WELCOME TO RECONQUISTA & RECONQUISTA 101 @ Michelle Malkin
Debbie @ Right Truth blogs Room for one language — English
She links to several others too!
From the University of New Mexico chicano hispano mexicano studies
Estudiantes Contemporáneos del Norte
Dedicated to the Chicanos del Norte in the hope of recovering their lost sovereignty and assuming their place among the independent nations of the world.
MULTICULTURALISM, IMMIGRATION AND AZTLAN*
By Maria Hsia Chang
Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada Reno
*Originally published by myself May 22 2006, 07:21 PM.
*An archived import.
Comment posted by Viz
at 10/17/2006 5:56:25 AM
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Alliance Of Ulterior Motives
*An archived article dated Aug 12 2006, 09:16 PM, I have imported from my oldest (first) blog*
All hail!
The afl-cio (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations)
has merged with ndlon ( National Day Laborer Organizing Network)
Unions had opposed illegal workers, did they not?
One thing for sure is that (unions) themselves do NOT like so called “scab” workers.
Whom are at least LEGAL Americans.
Now they are conspiring with NDLON ( National Day Laborer Organizing Network).
Who truth be told are a supporter of ILLEGAL workers.
Why the about face?
AFL-CIO adopts amnesty proposal
AFL-CIO spokeswoman Kathy Roeder said the federation was motivated by a desire to recruit members.
“Organizing is our number one priority,” she said. “So we’re always looking for opportunities for people to join unions who don’t have them. That’s our number one reason for working with immigrants.” <– Insert illegal alien
Scandalous!! Selling out LEGAL American workers that pay union
dues to ensure a (supposed) secure work environment!
In order to fill their ranks!
They are ILLEGAL!
This wont in any way encourage ILLEGAL immigration
now will it??? [sarc]
Is this an alliance…born of ulterior motives?
Um… yeah!
AFL-CIO Aligns With Day-Laborer Advocates
The alliance comes one year after four major unions split from the AFL-CIO, taking a third of its membership, and as the labor movement struggles with decline. Union membership waned from about 35 percent of the 1950s workforce to about 13 percent last year.
Oh my, a third of it’s membership? Struggles with decline? What a coincidence…
Washington Post article goes on to say…
Gustavo Torres, executive director of CASA of Maryland, said he expects to work with local AFL-CIO organizers.
CASA of Maryland…hmmm..isn’t that the same leftist org. that?
Thought so!
National Day Laborer Organizing Network -NDLON
DECLARATION FROM THE DAY LABORER COMMUNITY REGARDING LEGALIZATION
We day laborers declare ourselves in favor of a legalization process that leads to citizenship and to active civic participation. We demand unconditional legalization for everyone. Read more…
To bad, so sad. Aint happenin’!
Blanket amnesty is an most ignorant concept!
Nefarious violent criminals will be included??
“We demand unconditional legalization for everyone.”
They are not, and I repeat are NOT all
upstanding future citizens!!
Take the MS-13 gang a.k.a. Mara Salvatrucha for example.
Additional link: ‘MS-13? is one of nation’s most dangerous gangs
AFL-CIO & NDLON Enter Watershed Agreement to Improve Conditions for Working Families
Illegal workers bolstered by union pride.
Just what this country needs. They probably already have plans
on resurrecting their beloved Che’ from the dead.
I don’t suppose that the afl-cio care that day laborers are illegal?
Naw, didn’t think so.
Filling their coffers are what they have in mind.
First and foremost.
Raising their numbers as well, oh that is the same as
filling thier coffers. How redundant of me.
The day workers [ie:illegal immigrants] will find that they are
once again pawns for others political agendas.
And that exploitation comes in many shapes and sizes.
The joke is on them. Sadly enough.
They will eventually learn that being part of a union is not
what it has cracked up to be. A rock and a hard place is where they’ll land.
Caught between employers and their respective unions.
During the past several years, AFL-CIO central labor councils and state federations have established relationships with the centers and have worked together on workplace and legislative efforts and, under the new partnership agreement, will work with NDLON on issues, including:
* Advancing workplace rights for day laborers and all workers in general—both immigrants and U.S. born.
* Workplace rights for illegal aliens? 83% that are serviced by day labor centers are in fact illegal!
* Pursuing the shared goals of comprehensive immigration reform that support workplace rights and that includes a legalization program with a clear path to citizenship and political equality.
* In other words amnesty. Not surprising considering the political agenda of unions.
* Combating anti-immigrant, anti-worker legislation such as H.R. 4437 that seeks to criminalize workers.
* Shameful! Shocking! The criminalization of criminals?
* Drafting and promoting alternative legislation to advance a positive approach to comprehensive immigration reform, and drafting model legislation that can be used at the state level to ensure protection of workers’ rights in any immigration reform efforts undertaken locally.
* How’s this for “comprehensive reform? Abide by the laws already in place.
* Supporting and defending day laborer worker centers in order to establish and maintain decent labor standards and working conditions for all workers.
* Day labor centers are nothing but havens for illegal aliens? Support? By taxpayer funds! Defend? What are they a fortress? A border? A sovereignty? Ha!
Defend from whom? Legal American citizens that have had enough?
* Developing educational programs to inform NDLON members, AFL-CIO members and the public at large about the challenges facing both day laborers and the unionized workforce on such issues as health and safety, wage and hour enforcement and other workplace protections of importance to both communities.
* Excuse me. The public at large, are none to pleased that they even exist.
* Strengthening local collaboration between unions and worker centers.
* A match made in hell!
* Collaborating on impact litigation and the advancement of civil rights
* Civil rights for non citizens??
Source: afl-cio now
ON THE CORNER: Day Labor in the United States (PDF – 859.8 KB)
Many worker centers were created through partnerships between community
organizations, local governments, faith-based organizations and law-enforcement
agencies. Other partners may include local businesses and labor unions. Typically,
community organizations, municipal governments or faith-based organizations assume
the responsibilities of lead partner, and each of the worker centers surveyed is operated
by one of these entities. Community organizations operate 43 day-labor worker centers
(68 percent), while city government agencies and church groups each operate 10 centers
(16 percent, respectively).
ON THE CORNER: Day Labor in the United States (PDF – 859.8 KB)
Overall, day laborers tend to be relatively recent immigrants. Almost one in five
(19 percent) migrated to the United States less than one year before they were interviewed at a day-labor hiring site, while 40 percent has resided in the United States
for one to five years (Figure 4). Less than one-third of day laborers (29 percent) has
resided in the United States for between six and 20 years, and 11 percent has resided in
the United States for more than two decades.
There will soon be no room at the inn, and the turnip will be bled dry.
From melting pot to pot luck……..
Mark my word, it is highly possible that the good “Ol U.S.A will
will transform into a third world country.
If immigration continues at such a alarming pace.
One of the fine members of NDLON: La Raza [The Race] Centro Legal.
La Raza The Race is what many consider as a racist term.
ABOUT DAY LABOR PROGRAM
History of The Day Labor Program
The program was founded in 1991 to preserve and expand the economic and human rights of all workers regardless of their position in the labor market or their immigration status.
Day laborers, local residents and community activists responded by organizing to preserve workers’ rights to stand on public sidewalks, to call attention to the illegal practices of unscrupulous employers…
* Blink… rub eyes…did I read that correctly?
Yep, I did…
They demand to be able to have their hands in America’s cookie jar.
But.. refuse to allow for anyone to put their hands in theirs.
They want to have access to all rights that an legal American citizen enjoys.
But don’t dare try to screw them over, in an illegal manner.
That just wouldn’t be fair!
What sort of twisted logic is that? ILLEGAL means ILLEGAL!
This is not to say that any employer should not treat their workers fairly.
Although if said workers weren’t working illegally then the risk of this happening is drastically lowered. Or not exist at all….
The Day Labor Research Institute
The average age of day laborers surveyed is 32.8 years old. 95% have never participated in any organization or political movement before. Several survey questions had significant results that may explain why these men have chosen to look for work in the streets. 85% of day laborers answer that they do not speak English (or that they speak “very little”). Only 13% own a vehicle, and 80% do not have tools (although many of these are skilled in plumbing, carpentry, bricklaying, etc.) 50% of respondents had either no formal education, or studied only as far as grade school (of those who attended grade school, many did not study beyond second grade). 40% reported having no income at all, and another 32% reported earning a monthly income of $600 or less.
Sigh…
If you come to the a party uninvited, you have NO right to complain to the
host on the lack of hospitality!
I do think of myself as an humane individual.
There are many, many contributing factors in this “immigration issue”
That I believe need to be considered. In order to fully comprehend,
what indeed is happening right before our very eyes.
Multiculturalism has brought down civilizations throughout history.
I worry that the forces behind pro illegal immigration have ulterior motives,
that are not in the best interest of freedom and the American way.
illegal alien supporters plan mass marches on LABOR DAY!
Sympathy? No.
Greed? Yes.
Concerned about the legal American union workers? Obviously not.
Have they considered the fact that they are here working illegally?
Can not speak for them.
More to the point ..Do they care? Well,… by all appearances….
Unions get behind illegal workers
Hello! They are illegal!! I-L-L-E-G-A-L
The new york slimes throws kisses to this unholy union.
New York Times Hails Partnership Between AFL-CIO, Day Laborers
by James Parks, Aug 11, 2006
This week, the AFL-CIO union movement launched a partnership agreement with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), our most recent initiative to further our commitment to build workers’ strength—a strength that can best be achieved when we all work together.
As a New York Times editorial, “Street-Corner Solidarity,” summed it up yesterday:
It may be hard to see just what immigrant day laborers, those wiry guys scrambling for (AMERICAN) landscaping jobs amid clouds of picketing Minutemen, have in common with union workers, the folks with American flags on their hard hats. But the two groups are a lot closer than you might have thought—temperamentally, philosophically and now officially.
AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff points out how these initiatives are connected:
What unifies all these efforts is a commitment to building worker power. We are all stronger because of the partnership with NEA and the partnership with the day laborers. We are all stronger when we raise the wages of farm workers in Florida and North Carolina and other southeastern states.
I was going to state something here. But what is the use? I’d only be repeating myself…
Future proletariat’s?
Why every socialist dream includes them…..
Perhaps I should bite my tongue.
Nah.. don’t care for the taste of my own blood.
This is a tough fight dear readers.
But we must stay strong and and speak out.
Our adversaries proponents of pro illegal immigration:
Big business – cheap labor
Politicians – votes
Unions – filling their ranks/money = funding their leftist agenda
Left wing whack jobs – furthering their cause; socialism
True American’s fighting back is our only hope!
Let your voices ring out!
God Bless America!
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Comments:
Comment posted by alliance of ulterior motives :: Newstack
at 12/7/2006 12:41:10 PM
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Comment posted by Debbie
at 10/14/2006 8:15:38 AM
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Comment posted by boopme
at 10/13/2006 10:11:56 PM
Yeah nice to see you too VH.! Actually been by before. You have soooo much to read,I kept running out of time to comment. Good luck here It’s cool and I’ll be back (in my best Arnold voice)
Love n happiness
Comment posted by velvethammer
at 10/13/2006 8:55:17 PM
Hiyas boop
So good to see you. And thanks so much.
Oh one more thing, wake the hell up America!
Before we become as boopme so succinctly put it, “The United Mistakes of America”
What are you waiting for??
Comment posted by boopme
at 10/13/2006 11:06:06 AM
Hello,nice blog you have here…
I’ve only a short comment. WAKE UP People !!!
You’d better get off your duffs and write your Representatives. If you all write they MUST act. If you wait for somebody else to do it,it won’t get done. Slowly we are giving it all away. We are soon to be known as (if I may coin a phrase here) The United Mistakes of America.
God bless you all …
