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VICTORY! May
12, 2005, La Opinion reports success of BAA campaign ... Villaraigosa:
“I am not in agreement with most of [MEChA's] precepts. ... Of course I
renounce [MEChA's] philosophy.” Antonio
Villaraigosa: Racista MEChista
On May 8, 2005, the Bruin Alumni Association announced an educational media campaign about Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa. Villaraigosa, while an undergraduate at UCLA, helped lead the violent seperatist Chicano student organization Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), and personally headed a successful campaign to depose the director of the Chicano Studies Center for refusing Villar's demands to involve in Center operations such 'community groups' as the radical Marxist 'National Campaign to Free Los Tres.' Villaraigosa has never renounced the racism of MEChA nor his radical past, and proudly spoke at the MEChA National Conference on the UCLA campus in 1998. ... (more)  |
