Posted on 05/12/2005 2:58:33 PM PDT by andrewljones
Villaraigosa Renounces MEChA Past After Bruin Alumni Association Campaign
May 12, 2005; Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa yesterday renounced the militant Chicano college organization MEChA he once led at UCLA, following a campaign by the Bruin Alumni Association to publicize his radical ties. As reported in today’s La Opinion by reporter Jazmin Ortega, Villaraigosa stated “I am not in agreement with most of [MEChA’s] precepts. … Of course I renounce its philosophy.” The comment was in response to a reporter’s question at a press conference and stemmed from four days of sustained demands by the Bruin Alumni Association that Villaraigosa renounce his MEChA ties. President Andrew Jones stated: “Villaraigosa’s renouncement of MEChA is a victory for our Antonio Villaraigosa Educational Campaign, and a victory for UCLA alums who oppose MEChA’s history of violence and seditionist rhetoric.” Villaraigosa’s turnabout Wednesday followed a dismissive response to the same questions at a Monday press conference; and Villaraigosa’s speech at a MEChA National Conference held on the UCLA campus in 1998.
The Antonio Villaraigosa Educational Campaign publicized two issues:
- Archival investigation of UCLA campus newspaper The Daily Bruin revealed that Villaraigosa (then known simply as Tony Villar) engineered the removal of the director of the Chicano Studies Center for his refusal to include “community involvement,” specifically from the Communist Chicano group “National Committee to Free Los Tres.” The NCFLT, as the full story on www.bruinalumni.com shows, was a Marxist-Leninist faction whose goals included the creation of a "revolutionary vanguard" dedicated to the "liberation of the Mexican people."
- MEChA itself holds similarly racist, separatist and treasonous views. Its founding document El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan states, “We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent,” declares that “For the very young there will no longer be acts of juvenile delinquency, but revolutionary acts,” and introduced the motto “Por la raza, todo. Fuera de la raza, nada (For those of the [Hispanic] race, everything. For those not of the [Hispanic] race, nothing).” The Bruin Alumni Association, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization founded in 2005, serves to educate UCLA alumni and the general public about campus matters, including the radical take-over of the faculty, administration, and student body, and seeks to reverse the ongoing destruction of UCLA’s good name.
* The La Opinion article “The delinquency, center of the last days of the campaign” is at http://www.laopinion.com/supp62/?rkey=00050511221605389466. Relevant quotes are in the last paragraph.
Hmmm... Why bother at this point? The election is in the bag.
Good work. This should be a new litmus test.
"Good work. This should be a new litmus test"
DITTO! bump
At least MECha took the lit stick of dynamite off their logo
later
I wish Riordan would take that (R) away from his name.
LA Times, May 12, 2005
Los Angeles developer Richard Meruelo also reported to the city Ethics Commission on Wednesday that he is spending $103,800 on a pro-Villaraigosa radio commercial featuring former Mayor Richard Riordan. Meruelo is the largest individual supporter of Villaraigosa's campaign, and has made nearly $190,000 in independent expenditures on Villaraigosa's behalf. His role has sparked controversy, as have some of his business deals, particularly the recent purchase of a 23-acre site near the Los Angeles River in Glassell Park. The L.A. Unified School District was negotiating to buy the land for a new high school when Meruelo bought it.
have you read their constitution? it actually calls for the downfall of other races. Outside the raza nothing or something like that. this is an extremely militant org. White people are hated by them... they think this piece of land belongs to Mexico and plan to retake it. I have seen members of this club at my local campus and they're just vicious! calling police pigs.. and that's just the start.
have you read their constitution? it actually calls for the downfall of other races. Outside the raza nothing or something like that. this is an extremely militant org. White people are hated by them... they think this piece of land belongs to Mexico and plan to retake it. I have seen members of this club at my local campus and they're just vicious! calling police pigs.. and that's just the start.
There are a bunch of Navajos and Apaches that would beg to differ with the recon-keesters!
Now why don't I think he's sincere?
So he NEVER thought it was important to renounce Mecha when he was on the L.A. City Council?
Or in the Assembly? ONLY now?!
I dunno - most Repubs in LA have been ho-hum re: this race without a dog in the fight.
When RINO Rhioden endorsed Tony V it urged me little. With V's repudiation of an organization that advocates for the violent overthrow of California government now I'll give him my only Demo vote I can remember
Hahn is toast - milquetoast at that - after the election we're pretty soon Little Jimmy'll be indicted for the City Attorney crapola
Think I should let Mr. De La Rocha know about this?
"...four days of sustained demands by the Bruin Alumni Association that Villaraigosa renounce his MEChA ties."
It took four days?
Maybe they'll replace it with a mushroom cloud.
If these MeChA idiots ever got their "Aztlan" they'd just
turn it into another s**thole like Mexico is now. Then
they'd be trying to move north across THAT border. They
should aim their efforts toward making Mexico a better
place instead of blaming the "gringos" for their sorry state.
Maybe he was misquoted. :-)
"I am not in agreement with most of [MEChA's] precepts except for Por La Raza Todo. Fuera de La Raza Nada . … Of course I renounce its philosophy."
Seems if this org ain't good enough for LA Mayor, it ain't good enough for VC.
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