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Chicano Park Takeover
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A mural on an unspecified freeway support column features Chicanos planting, tilling, caring for the land. Bulldozer from takeover in center. At bottom, Teotihuacan on the shore of a lake or ocean, an Aztec runner holds an Olympic style torch and races across the Coronado Bay Bridge. "Chicano Park Takeover, 1978, commemorating April 22, 1970, the first "Earth Day" in the nation. to celebrate, love and respect "Mother Earth". Our USA nation is in a state of pollution, open space disappearing, our communities deteriorating, racial strife, the Vietnam war, and the worst police and immigration brutality. The terror is faced on the streets demonstrating for human rights, civil disobedience, marches, demonstrations expose Catholic religion exploitation and refusal to support the United Farm Workers, 1969, the takeover of the Ford Building, in Balboa Park, serves as the Centro Cultural De La Raza, after the idea of the culture center was initiated by the takeover of Camp Oliver, by the Católicos Por La Raza. Six chicanas were arrested. This act of disobedience also was to expose the vast land and property owned by the Catholic Church. The takeover of the Neighborhood House follows in 1970. The Neighborhood House, the core of the Chicano Free Hospital, today is now the Logan Heights Family Health Center. The takeover of land under the San Diego Coronado Bay Bridge is the ultimate act of our Chicano Revolutionary Movement. The takeover of land from the State. This act is depicted in the "Chicano Park Mural." Mexican nationalism influences the painting of the Mexican flag, an error that is corrected during the restoration by Guillermo Rosete, who originally painted the Mexican flag instead of the original act of raising the flag of Aztlan, the Mestizo head of the three face image, European, Native, the child Mestizo. This photo shows the Mexican flag. A period of 14 years, Mexicans acquire more influence in the Chicano Movement, advancing to today, as Chicano's continue "Frente Presente"." Salvador Torres
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