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Today In Labor History April 8, 1935: Oscar Zeta Acosta was born on this day. Acosta was a Chicano lawyer, writer and activist in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He wrote Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973). He was good friends with Hunter S. Thompson, who called him “My Samoan Attorney,” in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in Mexico in 1974. He is assumed dead.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #chicano #OscarZetaOcosta #HunterSThompson #mexico #literature #fiction #writer #books #author #writer #losangeles @bookstadon

Cover of the 1st edition of Revolt of the Cockroach People, yellow, with close-up of an insect face. By http://www.peterharringtonbooks.com/stock_39604.asp, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19336616
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Today in Labor History March 31, 1927: Birth of Cesar Chavez. In 1965, Chavez led farm workers in California on their first grape boycott. The nationwide protest lasted five years and ended with the first union contract for U.S. farm workers outside of Hawaii. In 1966, Chavez’s organization officially became the United Farm Workers. Chavez was inspired by the nonviolent civil disobedience of Gandhi. In addition to strikes, boycotts and pickets, he was famous for going on hunger strikes. Later he became infatuated with the religious cult, Synanon. He used Synanon’s “game” to punish union members and enforce conformity. Chavez also supported the brutal Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos. This alienated Filipino members of the union, as well as many of the religious organizations that had supported the UFW.

Chavez photographed in 1972. By Keyes, Cornelius M. (Cornelius Michael), 1944-, Photographer (NARA record: 8463989) - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16184557
#LaborHistory#workingclass#CesarChavez
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Today in Labor History March 18, 1918: U.S. authorities arrested Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón under the Espionage Act. They charged him with hindering the American war effort and imprisoned him at Leavenworth, where he died under highly suspicious circumstances. The authorities claimed he died of a "heart attack," but Chicano inmates rioted after his death and killed the prison guard who they believed executed him. Magon published the periodical “Regeneracion” with his brother Jesus, and with Licenciado Antonio Horcasitas. The Magonostas later led a revolution in Baja California during the Mexican Revolution. Many American members of the IWW participated. During the uprising, they conquered and held Tijuana for several days. Lowell Blaisdell writes about it in his now hard to find book, “The Desert Revolution,” (1962). Dos Passos references in his “USA Trilogy.”

#literary #historicalfiction #workingclass #LaborHistory #RicardoFloresMagon #magon #magonistas #mexico #mexican #Revolution #chicano #prison #Riot #books #author #writer @bookstadon

Brothers Ricardo (left) and Enrique Flores Magón (right) at the Los Angeles County Jail, 1917. By Unknown photographer – http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/80fall/revolutionimages.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=255396
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Today in Labor History March 14, 1954: Salt of the Earth premiered. The film depicted the 1951 strike of Mexican-American workers at the Empire Zinc mine, in New Mexico. The film was one of the first to portray a feminist political point of view, particularly through Actress Rosaura Revueltas’s role as Esperanza Quintero. When the Company uses the new Taft-Hartley Act (which also bans General Strikes) to impose an injunction preventing the men from picketing, their wives go walk the picket line in their places. LGBTQ and labor activist Will Geer also played in the film. Writer Michael Wilson, director Herbert Biberman and producer Paul Jarrico had all been blacklisted for their alleged communist ties. Only 13 of the 13,000 theaters in the U.S. showed the film.

Poster promoting the theatrical premiere of the 1954 American film Salt of the Earth at a (now demolished) theater on 86th Street in Manhattan. Mexican actress Rosaura Revueltas, who played the leading role, is shown. The poster had four "pages", as it was folded and two-sided; this is the "front" side. By Published by the film's distributor, Independent Productions Co. - Scan via listing at Etsy (archived Feb. 5, 2020). Retouched by uploader., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86636803
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Pachuco Boogie Nights

El Chante: Casa de Cultura, Saturday, September 27 at 05:00 PM MDT

El Chante: Casa de Cultura on Instagram: "¡Órale Burque! We're giving you a heads up so you have plenty of time to iron those creases. Save the date for our 5th Pachuco Boogie Night! September 27, 2025 5pm-9pm. Get ready to dress up & show out - Chicano style! Live music, slick DJs, and firme ranflas. Prizes for best dressed and best ranfla, plus a photo booth to capture the memories and all the estilo! Get your outfits ready and bring your friends and familia out for a night of fun and celebration of our culture and style. It's our 5th Pachuco Boogie, help us make it the best one yet ¡Hay te wacho Burque! Live music by Mozzy Dee Barrio Hi-Fi: DJ La Ruda, Three Deuce Luce, Rootz Rocka Artwork by: @peculiarmer_"

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Pachuco Boogie Nights
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Today in Labor History March 5 1968: The first Chicano student walkout in East Lost Angeles occurred on this date. The Walkouts, or Chicano Blowouts, occurred throughout 1968 in protest of unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. Chicanos were often in classes of 40 students. Teachers often treated them with contempt. Drop-out rates were high. At Garfield High School, 58% of Chicano students dropped out each year. Thousands of students participated in the Blowouts. On March 4, 1968, J. Edgar Hoover sent out a memo to law enforcement, nationwide, warning them to be extra vigilant against “nationalist” movements in “minority” communities. Harry Gamboa Jr., one of the organizers of the first walkout, was placed on the list of 100 Most Dangerous & Violent Subversives, by the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, along with Angela Davis & Eldridge Cleaver.

Founding co-editor of La Raza Ruth Robinson (right) with Margarita Sanchez at the Belmont High School walkout, being arrested, during the 1968 student protests for education reform in LA. By Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photograph Collection - Los Angeles Public Library, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96471334
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