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MECHA.ORG WEBSITE PULLED SINCE SPOTLIGHT TURNED ON THEM
Self ^ | 9/3/2003 | Self

http://www.berkeleymecha.org/documents/epeda.html

MECHA Links page

Here's a nice one from Houston, Texas

http://mecha.uchicago.edu/

FReeRepublic

Check out Al Franken's letter to Michelle Malkin...

They really pulled all mecha stuff from everywhere, so we can't find out their true objectives.

http://www.azteca.net/aztec/mecha/index.shtml

(Aztlan on the Issue)

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=17&prgDate=2-Sep-2003

http://free.freespeech.org/mecha/philosophy.html

If you would like a link to your M.E.Ch.A. organization or event here, please e-mail me a note with your web page URL. If you need free help in making a web page or you want to buy space for a M.E.Ch.A. Web page, please e-mail also. Low cost web space for M.E.Ch.A organizations is availabe at http://www.azteca.net/

MEChA News
• The Smearing of Bustamante, The Far Right and Anti-Mexican Racism
• Fair and Unbalanced Racism Against MEChA
• MEChA Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz
• MEChA Draws Ire of Anti-Immigrants
• Univ Texas, El Paso MEChA Office Vandalized
• Great Injustice Towards MEChA in New Mexico
• Teachers Suffer Consequences for Challenging Traditional History
• Addresses of who to write to in New Mexico

  Other News

• MEChA protest at University of Arizona creating necessary tension
• Apology to MEChA at University of Arizona
• Yale's MEChA protest Columbus Day Celebrations
• Yale's MEChA party Sprayed with water
• What is M.E.Ch.A.?

Conferences


• MEChA Statewide Conference at San Diego State University
• East Coast Chicana/o Student Forum
  

  University MEChA Web Pages
  
  California

• MEChA Cal State Los Angeles
• MEChA San Jose State University
• MEChA College of the Canyons
• MEChA University of California at San Diego
• MEChA California State University, Sacramento
• MEChA California State University, Fullerton
• Los Angeles County MEChA Central
• MEChA Central de San Diego
• MEChA San Diego State University
• MEChA San Francisco State University
• MEChA California State University, Northridge
• MEChA Stanford University
• MEChA University of California at Berkeley
• MEChA University of California at Santa Cruz
• MEChA Mills College
• MEChA California State University, San Marcos
• MEChA California State University at Monterey Bay
• MEChA California State University at Dominguez Hills
• MEChA University of California at Los Angeles
• MEChA University of Southern California
• MEChA Cal Poly Pomona
• Cypress College M.E.Ch.A.
• Glendale Community College MEChA
• MEChA California State of San Marcos
• MEChA de Sonoma State Unversity
• MEChA Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
• MEChA Chapman University
• MEChA Ohlone Community College, Fremont
• MEChA Pasadena City College
• Mt. SAC's M.E.C.H.A
• Santa Rosa Junior College
• Chabot College
• West Hills College MEChA
• MEChA de Rio Hondo College - California
• MEChA de Cerritos College
• MEChA de Santa Rosa Junior College
• MEChA de Bakersfield College
• MEChA de San Diego City College
• MEChA at Cesar Chavez High School
• Mecha de El Camino College
  

Texas

• MEChA University of Texas, El Paso
• MEChA University of Texas, Austin
• Univ. of Houston Movimiento Estandiantil Xicana/o de Aztlan
• MEChA University of Texas, Pan American
• MEXA San Antonio College
• MEChA de Tejaztlan
  
  Colorado
  
• MEChA University of Colorado at Denver
  
• MEChA University of Colorado at Boulder
  
• MEChA University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo
  
  Arizona
  
• MEChA University of Arizona
• MEChA Arizona State University
  
• MEChA PIma Community College
  
  Illinois
  
• Mexican Students de Aztlan University of Illinois at Chicago (MEChA Equivalent)
  
• MEChA alt The University of Chicago
  
  Oregon
  
• MEChA Western Oregon University
  
• MEChA University of Oregon
  
• MEChA Oregon State University
  
  Michigan
• MEChA University of Detroit
• MEChA University of Michigan
  
  Massachusetts
• LUChA (MEChA Equivalent) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  Connecticut
• MEChA Yale University
  
  New Mexico
• MEChA University of New Mexico
• MEChA New Mexico State University
  
  New York
• MEChA Cornell University
  
  Washington
• MEChA Washington State University
• MEChA Seattle University
• MEChA University of Washington
  
  Nevada
• MEChA University of Nevada Las Vegas
  
  District of Columbia
  MEChA Georgetown University
  
  Pennsylvania
  
• MEChA University of Pennsylvania
• MEChA Pennsylvania State University
  
  Rhode Island
  
• MEChA Brown University

  MEChA Email Only
  

• MEChA University of Nevada at Las Vegas
  4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154
  E-Mail: chicano@cs.unlv.edu
  
  High School MEChA Web Pages
  
• Biggs High School MEChA
• MEChA at Pomona High School in California
• Ventura High School in California
• Dos Palos High School in California
• Pasco High School in Oregon
• Golden Valley High School in California
• Shafter High School in California
• MEChA at King City High School in California
• MEChA at Robertson High School in Las Vegas
• MEChA at Lincoln High School
• MECHA at Birmingham High School
• MEChA Sequoia High School in California
• MEChA Red Bluff High School in California
• MEChA Forest Grove High School
  
  Mecha Friends from Mexico
  
• Asociacion de Estudiantes Mexicanos, University of Texas, El Paso
• MEChA La Hermandad de O eMe Te at Washington State University

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[Bon mots]

Professor Predicts 'Hispanic Homeland'

By The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico.

Charles Truxillo suggests the “Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, is “an inevitability.”

He envisions it encompassing all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, plus the northern tier of Mexican states: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.

Along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border “there is a growing fusion, a reviving of connections,” Truxillo said. “Southwest Chicanos and Norteño Mexicanos are becoming one people again.”

Truxillo, 47, has said the new country should be brought into being “by any means necessary,” but recently said it was unlikely to be formed by civil war. Instead, its creation will be accomplished by the electoral pressure of the future majority Hispanic population in the region, he said.

Other UNM professors were skeptical

Felipe Gonzáles, director of UNM's Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, said there's a “certain homeland undercurrent” among New Mexico Hispanics who believe land was stolen and promises broken. But, he said, a new nation would need much more widespread support.

“Educated elites are going to have to pick up on this idea and run with it and use it as a point of confrontation if it is to succeed,” Gonzáles said.

Truxillo contends states have the right to secede under the Articles of Confederation of 1777, in which states retained “sovereignty, freedom and independence.” He contends the Articles were not superseded in that regard by the U.S. Constitution and that although the Civil War settled the question militarily, it was never resolved by courts.

History Professor Daniel Feller disagreed

“The Constitution does supersede the Articles of Confederation,” Feller said. “It takes no notice of the articles and is not presented as bearing any relation to them. The Constitution does not declare, recognize or in any way acknowledge the right to secede.”

And, he noted, the full title was “Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.”

The U.S. Supreme Court said in 1869 the union was indestructible, political science Professor Joseph Stewart said.

He also said he was “somewhat skeptical in the sense of minority politics” about a possible Republic of the North. He said Americans of Mexican descent have moved all over the United States and that “I don't see that Hispanic population becoming more distinct but in fact becoming less distinct.”

Juan José Peña, Hispanic activist and vice chairman of the Hispanic Roundtable, said there's not enough political consciousness among Mexican Americans to form a separate nation.

“Right now, there's no movement capable of undertaking it,” he said.

Truxillo, who teaches at UNM's Chicano Studies Program on a yearly contract, believes it's his job to help develop a “cadre of intellectuals” to think about how it can become a reality.

Native-born American Hispanics feel like strangers in their own land, he said

“We remain subordinated,” he said. “We have a negative image of our own culture, created by the media. Self-loathing is a terrible form of oppression. The long history of oppression and subordination has to end.”

Truxillo said Hispanics who have achieved positions of power or otherwise are “enjoying the benefits of assimilation” are most likely to oppose a new nation.

“There will be the negative reaction, the tortured response of someone who thinks, 'Give me a break. I just want to go to Wal-Mart.' But the idea will seep into their consciousness, and cause an internal crisis, a pain of conscience, an internal dialogue as they ask themselves: 'Who am I in this system?”'

© 2000 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

[EternalVigilance]

California Dreamin’
(With apologies to the Mamas and the Papas)


All the money’s gone and we’re recalling Gray
He’ll be out of a job before the winter, hey!
Then you might have a chance if you live in LA
California dreamin’ ‘bout that glorious day


Stopped into a church I passed along the way
Well I got down on my knees and I began to pray
That California would come in from the cold
And choose the conservative way
California dreamin’ ‘bout that glorious day


All the money’s gone and we’re recalling Gray
He’ll be out of a job before the winter, hey!
If I had my way it would be today
California dreamin’ ‘bout that glorious day
California dreamin’ ‘bout that glorious day
California dreamin’ ‘bout that glorious day


EV

[Lizavetta]

From the Cerritos College chapter....:

We, as Mechistas, see the process of Chicanismo as evolutionary. We recognize that no one is born politically Chicana or Chicano. Chicanismo results from a decision based on political consciousness for our Raza, to dedicate oneself to building a Chicana/Chicano Nation. Chicanismo is a concept that integrates self-awareness with cultural identity, a necessary step in developing political consciousness. Therefore, the term Chicano is grounded in a philosophy, not a nationality. Chicanismo does not exclude anyone, rather it includes those who acknowledge and work towards the betterment of La Raza. Chicanismo involves a personal decision to reject assimilation and work towards the preservation of our cultural heritage

[Lizavetta]

From the Cerritos College chapter....:

We, as Mechistas, see the process of Chicanismo as evolutionary. We recognize that no one is born politically Chicana or Chicano. Chicanismo results from a decision based on political consciousness for our Raza, to dedicate oneself to building a Chicana/Chicano Nation. Chicanismo is a concept that integrates self-awareness with cultural identity, a necessary step in developing political consciousness. Therefore, the term Chicano is grounded in a philosophy, not a nationality. Chicanismo does not exclude anyone, rather it includes those who acknowledge and work towards the betterment of La Raza. Chicanismo involves a personal decision to reject assimilation and work towards the preservation of our cultural heritage