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It saddens my heart that our kind is falling apart.

It disturbs me to hear about our Right, when we can barely even read or write.

We dress like Cholos, but in reality what we really are is pollos.

Que onda mi Gente? En serio estamos tan fuera de mente?

You should try on a suit for size. In fact, go out and buy some matching ties.

You’ll be surprised at the respect you feel. And that’s just a small step required to heal.

No more dressing like a gangster. Cause the rest of the world only sees a prankster.

Don’t you see how stupid you look? With the black and whatever drape on your head and the right side up or right side down hook?

Stop endorsing what isn’t you. Start expanding what is IN you…..

We have so much more to offer the world……..then just a tattoo to flex when around the girl.

No more affiliation, with any syndication, that it’s only existence is to kill of our nation.

No more painted tears in our eyes, showing off another of our own who dies.

Only by accepting what we’ve become will we overcome the grief of some.

There are still those of us who want to succeed, but without the help of the rest, we will always just be considered part of the same bad seed.

Message From The Past

I strike with out fear,
I am an eagle warrior and for Aztlan I raise my spear.
I fight through fog and rain and when I'm injured I feel no pain.
My enemies are weak and they shall face defeat, they will beg for their lives and our empire will rise.
It is the year of the sun and much will be done. I will fight many battles and conquer new lands, for my life is all part of some divine plan.
I do not fear death nor anyone else
I am Azteca from the land of Aztlan
step to me once and your life is done.
I write these words to the future people of this land, to let them know that we are not weak, we are strong and those who dare face us will not be around for long.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848,in The Villa of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Treaty was a resolution after so much bloodshed and in the end the U.S. courts interpreted the document to favor the United States of America. There were many tensions between the United States and Mexico that led to war, mainly on the issues of land and expansion. Mexico knew that they had to protect their territory from American settlers who where illegally taking up the land and violating Mexican laws but after the annexation of Texas and with Mexico's presidential instability, Mexico was venerable. United States President James K. Polk wanted territorial expansion to the west and he encouraged expansion. Both Mexico and the United States had different reasons to go to war but they both agreed on the treaty to stop the war. There was great controversy over the Treaty because the courts interpreted the document to their own convenience for territorial expansion for the United States. Because of such interpretations Mexicans living in the U.S. had problems over citizenship and property rights.



This shows the boundry between Mexico and The U.S. before the annexation of Texas.



Tensions and views that led to the Mexican War:

When the United States annexed Texas in 1845, the boundaries of the new state were not specified and were left for future interpretation and discussion with Mexico. Texas rebellion and independence from Mexico is an example of how The United states expansion towards the west was in full effect and at any cost. President Polk encouraged expansion and saw the coming war with Mexico as an opportunity for expansion. Meanwhile in Mexico there was presidential instability because almost every president since Mexico's 1821 War of Independence up until The Mexican War, had been overthrown. In 1845 President Jose Joaquin Herrera rejected American Overtures to negotiate the Texas dispute for fear he would provoke a rebellion by seeming to conciliatory. Polk used this rejection as a key incident to justify the declaration of war. Since the boundaries of Texas were unclear, a skirmish took place between the American and Mexican Troops on the north bank of the Rio Grande in 1846. Polk claimed that the United States was being invaded. Most of the conflicts and tensions were about the boundary of Texas which was unclear and both Mexico and the United states kept getting into each others way. Land Grand maps drawn by Stephen F. Austin in 1829, 1833, and 1836 show that the Nueces River and not the Rio Grande, was the boundary between Texas and Mexico. The idea of the Rio Grande as a boundary dates back to the Louisiana Purchase that supposedly defines Texas as extending to the Rio Grande. So each Country had a different understanding of where the boundary was. Texas wanted the Rio Grande as the boundary and Mexico proposed to give up it's claim of territory between the Sabine and Nueces river, so Texas got to greedy because they wanted more territory beyond the Nueces river, which happened to be The Rio Grande. Mexico was defending their rights to their lands and the United states was mainly thinking towards the expansion of their territory. Polk knew that a war would greatly benefit the United States expansion and the Treaty was a legal loop hole for the United States to obtain more land from Mexico.


The creating and signing of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo:

The treaty was created to stop the costly war and to gain more Territory for the United States, but the treaty was the last stage of negotiations for peace. During the first stage, the United States stood to gain a great deal and Mexico had little to gain by starting peace negotiations. On August 22, 1847 The U.S. army was on the outskirts of Mexico City and a more formal and open stage of negotiations was established between General Scott and General Santa Anna, an armistice. There were many negotiations and no one agreed on any of the demands of each side. Pressure was added by General Scott a day after the armistice ended, as he marched into Mexico city and fought the bloodiest battle of the war at Molina del Rey. On September 13 they captured Chapultepec and entered the city. Santa Anna fled with his army and resigned as President, the city surrendered on November 4. This just proved the instability of the presidency and the Mexican government and some of the pressures that persuaded Mexico into accepting to sign the treaty. The final stages of the compromise, were from the end of the armistice, on September 7, 1847, to February 2, 1848, when the final draft of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. After many financial and political pressures the commissioners met with Nicholas P. Trist in the Villa of Guadalupe Hidalgo and signed the treaty. The treaty gave the United States more land and an opportunity of expansion. Mexico only was guaranteed $15 million dollars and that their Citizens on the new American territory to their land and Citizenship. The treaty basically guaranteed the peaceful evacuation of American troops and the conflicts between both side to be resolved within the stipulations in the treaty. when the U.S. Senate received the treaty it did not accept articles 9 and made some changes to the article but the Senate completely took out article 10 and the article did not appear in the final treaty. The Protocol of Queretaro was not even mentioned in the final treaty. The treaty mainly benefited the United States of America because They ended up paying less money for more the valuble lands which were abundant in natural resources which helped them accerlate their induatrial growth in the twentieth century. But if Mexico had just given the territory of the Rio Grande to the U.S. then War would have been avoided or just delayed because sooner or later the U.S. would want to take away more of Mexico's land. The war was unavoidable because of Americas greed for territorial expansion and Mexico's desire to reclaim Texas and to not loose any territory. The Mexican war and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo are very important becuase they were pivitol in creating new bounderies and problems as well as setting in motion forces that influenced the histories of both contries.

Citizenship and Property Rights: U.S Interpretations (Violations) of the Treaty.

Articles eight and nine of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo grant American Citizenship and property rights to those Mexican citizens who do not elect to remain Mexican citizens. These articles affected about 100,000 thousand Mexicans including Hispanicized and nomadic Indians. The treaties provisions regarding citizenship and property were complicated by Legislative and Judicial (Supreme Court) interpretations. Only a few people chose to remain Mexican citizens when compared to the many that became U.S. citizens. After the treaty had been ratified and put in effect, the state constitutional convention agreed that the Mexicans remaing were not American citizens but requiere some further action by Congress to make them United States citizens. When the gold rush started there was a conflict between the yankees and the Californios, with land. Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Larrainzar, protested the treatment Mexican miners in California and their violation property and civil rights invoking the protection of the treaty. The Mexican Government failed to show specific evidence that native citizens where deprived of property and civil rights in violation of the treaty. There were many cases that tried to prove that there was a violation of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo reguarding citizenship and property rights. In the People vs. de la Guerra, the status of Mexican citizens is now defined. basically the United States Supreme court granted citizenship to Mexican Nationals and thus ended the struggle of many Californianos who were trying to keep their citizenship and property. The United States Supreme court interpreted the treaty to the convenience of the United States and violate the rights of many Mexicans and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The California state constitutional convention did not like the idea of giving Indian's full citizenship. In violation of the treaty the California Indian tribes wee deprived of all the protection that were specified in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Indian population in the state declined by more than 100,000 in just two decades because the y became victims of murder, slavery, land theft, and starvation. The white men kicked the people out from their tribal lands and the people were exterminated, genocide is the appropriate word to describe what happened to the California Indians in that time. The United States has been made up of many foreigners fleeing persecution, poverty, and social conditions, but many of the first so called Americans forgot through out history how it felt to be persecuted, or to suffer poverty, discrimination, or any of such relate events, that they too became the inflictors of pain and made others the victims of their crimes and greedy dreams.

The message of , delivered on August 13, 1521, has been passed down through the oral tradition in the family of Tlakaelel for 17 generations

For the guardians of all time... For the men of the future. Our sun has gone. Our sun has gone and left us in darkness. We know that it will rise again. Once again it will come to the illuminate us. It will be with us in the man-sion of death. We will reunite valiantly. We must shield and hide away all those things in our hearts we know are the treasures. We will destroy out temples, our places of meditation, our houses of song and dance, our ballcourts, our schools for our children, our universities. We will close the doors and leave the streets deserted. We will stay hidden until our sun comes out. Our homes will become our temples; they will become our meditation places, our houses of song and dance, our cermonial ballcourts, schools, and universities. We will wait until our new sun comes. Parents are obligated to teach the culture, the man with his sons, the women with her daughters. And they will tell the children of their children of their children what our beloved culture has done. They will pass on the lamp of our destiny and traditions which our ancestors, with love, have given to us. Do not forget to tell your children, that they may tell their children of their children of their children, with proper respect.



Tell them how it was...

How it will be....

How we will rise again..

How to gain strength and how

Our culture will fulfill its great destiny on our beloved mother earth.

~Anahuac~

Throughout its history Mexico has had many revolutions. The most famous perhaps is the Mexican Revolution from 1910-1920. The people of Mexico were getting tired of the dictator rule of President Porfino Diaz. People of all classes were fighting in the revolution. The middle and upper classes were dissatisfied with the President’s ways. The lower and working class people had many factors such as poor working conditions, inflation, inferior housing, low wages, and deficient social services. Within the classes everyone was fighting; men, women, and children all contributed to the fight for freedom from Diaz (Baxman 2). This revolution proved to be the rise and fall of many leaders.
In the beginning of his reign, Diaz was almost ideal and had great intentions for Mexico. He created a more stable government and got rid of crime. The quality of life was improved. The government was made stronger by dispatching governors to the various areas of Mexico. The army was also made stronger by professionializing it. The police force readily enforced Diaz’s laws. Diaz also relied on a group of aristocrats as advisors. As Mexico grew, structurally and economically, foreign films invested in the area. The money from the films helped Diaz to build highways, railroads, telegraph lines, oil fields, and rejuvenate the mining industry. New industries were also created and in fifty years Mexico had transformed itself from a third world country to the ideal model of a developing country (Summary 3-4).
Although these things helped to build up Mexico, they also were the factors in the destruction of Diaz. The people in power became wealthy but the rest of the population remained impoverished. Both the rich and the poor no longer wanted the dependence on foreign investments. More importantly though was the new generation of Mexicans were full of ambition to be in politics. The Diaz regime had such control over the government though that no one was able to break into the system. This made the ambitious generation want to break in even more (Summary 4).
An interview given by Diaz in 1908 was read by Francisco I. Madero and he was inspired to gather supporters to defeat Diaz in the 1910 election. In the interview Diaz said that he thought Mexico could handle free elections by 1910 (Summary 4). Madero was a strong believer in democracy and realized that Diaz had a monopoly with the government. Madero thought that Diaz should step down from office (Consul General 1-2). By the time 1910 came around Madero had inspired many citizens and had quite a group of followers. His chances for election were very good and Diaz got scared. Right before the elections in 1910, Diaz falsely accused Madero and had him thrown in jail. Diaz is once again elected as president. Madero was soon released and, learning of Diaz’s reelection, he fled to Texas (Summary 4). While there he stated that the elections were illegitimate and that he was the President Pro-Temp until new elections could be held (Consul General 2). He also wrote a document, which called for a revolt on November 20, 1910 which marks the start of the Mexican Revolution (Summary 5).
There were three very strong revolutionary groups throughout the revolution that contributed to the rise and fall of the leaders. These were lead by Emiliano Zapata, Francisco "Pancho" Villa, and Pascual Orozco. Zapata was from the south and his troops covered that area while Villa and Orozco were from the north covering those areas (Summary 5).
In 1911 Orozco and Villa began taking control of cities in the northern areas while Zapata took control of Cuautla and cut off the road to Mexico City. Orozco and Villa captured Ciudad Juarez and these events combined convinced Diaz to resign and forced him to flee to Europe. Even though he fled, Diaz left a large army under the command of General Victoriano Huerta and a provisional president. Soon after he left Zapata rode into Mexico City where he met up with Madero. Madero was then declared president (Summary 5).
Madero’s presidency was short lived though. Madero’s agenda was to please everyone which meant that no action was taking place. He turned Zapata against him by trying to please him and the inaction convinced Villa and Orozco to also abandon him. Huerta at this time met with an U.S. Ambassador to come up with a plan. The U.S. felt that Madero was too closely related to the revolutionaries and did not support him. Huerta and the ambassador along with the help of Diaz’s nephew, Felix Diaz, came up with a plan to overthrow Madero and install Huerta as president. Huerta revolted against Madero and Madero, vice-president Suarez, and General Angeles were arrested. On February 22, 1913 Madero and Suarez were killed for allegedly trying to escape (Summary 5-6).
Huerta was now the president and revolutionary violence exploded. Huerta was hated by almost everyone and three revolutionary forces rise in the north. These are led by Villa, Alvaro Obregon, and Venustantio Carranza. In the south Zapata was still fighting. Throughout 1913 and 1914 Huerta suffered one defeat after another and in the summer of 1914 all four revolutionary forces came together in Mexico City to defeat Huerta. Huerta, realizing that he was beat, fled from the city. In August of 1914 Carranza declared himself president (Summary 6).
Soon after Carranza declared himself president Villa began fighting against him. Villa built up his forces and started moving south to push Carranza out of Mexico. Carranza fought back but Zapata shocked them all by taking Mexico City. The fighting went on until Villa, Zapata, and Obregon and met to come up with a solution. They decided to put Eulalio Guitierrez as president and Zapata agreed to move out of Mexico City. This worked for a while but the different revolutionary forces soon made alliances. Villa and Zapata stayed loyal to each other and to Guitierrez as president. Obregon and Carranza came together and worked to get Carranza back into the presidency. In 1915 Villa’s and Obregon’s forces came together in a battle where Obregon was victorious. Because of Villa’s forces being badly wounded, Carranza was able to reclaim the presidency (Summary 6-7).
Right after Carranza took the presidency, Villa’s forces fought Carranza for a period of time. Villa, Zapata, and Obregon once again met to come up with a solution. Again they named Guitierrez as president and he was backed by Villa and Zapata. Once again though Obregon united with Carranza and in late 1915 Zapata and Villa suffered incredible losses at the hands of Obregon and Carranza (Summary 7).
Carranza’s power began to rise and Zapata badly needed extra troops to fight back. In April of 1919 one of Carranza’s generals said he was defecting from Carranza and wished to speak to Zapata to join him in the fight. Zapata went to meet with the general and only after he got there did he realize that it was a trap. Zapata was shot and killed shortly after he arrived at the meeting (Summary 7- cool .
The news of Zapata’s death traveled quickly and Carranza became a hated man. He lost all his supporters including Obregon. Realizing that he was doomed Carranza tried to flee the country but was killed just outside of Mexico City. Adolfo de la Huerta was put in as president until elections could be held. At elections Obregon won and most of the revolutionary violence ceased (Summary cool .
During this time there were some people who did not want to fight and they did not want any part of the revolution so they fled to the United States. Some of the factors that made people leave were economic disaster, chaos, danger, and social disorganization. Almost 900,000 Mexican immigrants came to the United States between 1910 and 1920. Besides escaping the violence of the revolution, Mexican people came to the U.S because they saw it as an opportunity for work. At first the U.S. was not sure if they wanted all these people migrating into the states. They soon decided to take a closer look. They went down into Mexico and saw what all the violence had done. They felt that they could not refuse Mexican immigrants wanting to have a better lifestyle (Baxman 2-3).
Everyone in Mexico was affected by The Mexican Revolution. Whether they were fighting for their freedom or wanted to escape the chaos, they were affected by the rise and fall of power. It also affected some people in the United States as Mexican immigrants came into the U.S. People fought for their freedom and after many years of fighting were able to achieve that.


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Cholo Terms

Loco - Spanish for crazy. It means that the person is serious, brave, and will take care of business

Mexican Mafia - A Latino prison gang. Started sometime around 1957. Possibly in Duel Vocational Institute (DVI), a correctional facility in Tracy, California, the central valley. DVI was operated concurrently by the adult system (CDC) and the youth system (CYA). The Mexican Mafia was the forerunner to the Sureños.

Norte - North. References northern California. Latinos from northern California are destinguished from Latinos in southern California.

Norteño - Northerner. A Latino from northern California. Cholos in California are divided between north and south. Those from northern California are Norteños, those from southern California are Sureños.

Nuestra Familia - A Latino prison gang. Started sometime in the early to mid 60s. Possibly in San Quentin or Folsom, the only true prisons in California at those times. Both were maximum security prisons. The Nuestra Familia was the forerunner to the Nortenos.

Orale - Right on! For sure.

Paisa - Short for paisano, fellow countryman. Someone from your home land.

Pinta - Prison. The big house.

Placas - The police.

Pleito - Fight. Scuffle.

Rata - Rat. A snitch. An informant.

Scrapa - Scrap. A derogatory term used to reference sureños (cholos from southern California).

Sur - South. References southern California. Latinos from southern California are destinguished from Latinos in northern California.

Sureño - Southerner. A Latino from southern California. Cholos in California are divided between north and south. Those from sothern California are Sureños, those from northern california are Norteños.

Taca - Tac. Tattoo.



Trece - Thirteen. Represents the "M," the 13th letter of the alphabet, which in turn represents the Mexican Mafia, the forerunners to the Sureños.

Trucha - Watchout. To keep a lookout.

Vato - Dude. A guy.

Leva - Someone who has been thrown out of a clique. An outcast. An informer.

Jura - Slang for police. Also used for authority figures.

Hyna - Slang for girl



From the Mexican Mafia to the Nuestra Familia
The Mexican Mafia was the first of the major Latino prison gangs to be formed. Prior to the mid fifties, there were no major organized Latino gangs in the prison system. Latinos in prison were to a large extent disorganized, and as such they often fell prey to other organized prison gangs.

At this time Latinos in prison were outnumbered by the other two major ethnic groups, whites and blacks. At this time, the prison inmates were cliqued together primarily by race. Whites cliqued together, Blacks cliqued together, and Latinos cliqued together.

It was around 1957 that the Latinos in Duel Vocational Institute1 organized themselves together and formed what became known as the Mexican Mafia. This newly organized gang spread quickly throughout the system. It gained in numbers and power very quickly. It became a truly feared and respected gang. The white and black gangs could no longer prey on the Latino population. The now organized Latino population was a force to be compromised with.

As the Eme, grew in numbers and power, it fell victim to internal turmoil. It's members began to break into factions. One faction was made up of Latinos who were originally from the big cities of southern California, primarily Los Angeles. The second major faction was made up of Latinos from the central valley of California. The central valley of California has long been an agricultural region. It's here in the valley that most migrant farm workers work the fields. As a result, Latinos who were from the central valley became known as farmeros.

The feuding between the sureños, and the farmeros reached the point where the farmeros in San Quentin cliqued together and formed what became known as the Nuestra Familia. Like the Mexican Mafia, the Nuestra Familia grew very fast in numbers and power. The Ene became a force to be compromised with. Even the Eme, as powerfull as it was, couldn't hold back the Ene. From it's initial formation in the mid sixties, a war ensued with the Eme that lasted until the mid seventies. The Ene claimed it's victory and became a major player in prison life.

Mexicano VS. Mexicanos

A problem that is keeping our people apart...We should be fighting for our people not against them..When will we learn raza?? When the ******** are we going to learn!?

To all the homeboys on the street,
I'm still torcido and can't be beat.

I know I'm taking it just fine,
Because I haven't lost my mind.

I started to play their game,
While my mind was on a different lane.

I've been acting like I'm crazy and down,
But deep inside I know I'm acting like a clown.

I'll probably spend my life in one of these holes,
Maybe some day I'll get life without parole.

I've caught a lot of time for acting like a fool,
But now I'm starting to act real cool.

People tell me my life has just begun,
But to me my life and soul are aleady gone.

I know I should listen to what they say,
Because they're right, the vida loca doesn't pay.

But I'm just a vato loco who doesn't care,
Because this justice is unfair.

I can't stop because I'm into it to deep,
But it hurts to hear my jefita weep.

She tells me that God loves me and He cares,
But I can't find Him anywhere.

I can't believe in someone I can't see or feel,
I need someone who is for real.

So I guess I'll leave God alone,
And let him take care of the poor.

While I just kick back behind my locked door....

Hernan Cortez

Cortez (a Hispanic) was the monstrous leader of the Spaniards.
He planned the destruction of our civilization, the genocide of our people, and the slavery of our people to interests and well-being of the people of Europe and their descendants amongst us.
Massacre in the Main Temple

During this time, the people asked Motecuhzoma how they should celebrate their god's fiesta. He said: "Dress him in all his finery, in all his sacred ornaments."


During this same time, The Sun commanded that Motecuhzoma and Itzcohuatzin, the military chief of Tlatelolco, be made prisoners. The Spaniards hanged a chief from Acolhuacan named Nezahualquentzin. They also murdered the king of Nauhtla, Cohualpopocatzin, by wounding him with arrows and then burning him alive.


For this reason, our warriors were on guard at the Eagle Gate. The sentries from Tenochtitlan stood at one side of the gate, and the sentries from Tlatelolco at the other. But messengers came to tell them to dress the figure of Huitzilopochtli. They left their posts and went to dress him in his sacred finery: his ornaments and his paper clothing.


When this had been done, the celebrants began to sing their songs. That is how they celebrated the first day of the fiesta. On the second day they began to sing again, but without warning they were all put to death. The dancers and singers were completely unarmed. They brought only their embroidered cloaks, their turquoises, their lip plugs, their necklaces, their clusters of heron feathers, their trinkets made of deer hooves. Those who played the drums, the old men, had brought their gourds of snuff and their timbrels.


The Spaniards attacked the musicians first, slashing at their hands and faces until they had killed all of them. The singers-and even the spectators- were also killed. This slaughter in the Sacred Patio went on for three hours. Then the Spaniards burst into the rooms of the temple to kill the others: those who were carrying water, or bringing fodder for the horses, or grinding meal, or sweeping, or standing watch over this work.

The king Motecuhzoma, who was accompanied by Itzcohuatzin and by those who had brought food for the Spaniards, protested: "Our lords, that is enough! What are you doing? These people are not carrying shields or macanas. Our lords, they are completely unarmed!"


The Sun had treacherously murdered our people on the twentieth day after the captain left for the coast. We allowed the Captain to return to the city in peace. But on the following day we attacked him with all our might, and that was the beginning of the war

The Spaniards came to steal from us.

They had already killed 10 million people in the Caribbean. They had stolen their land and wealth. They came and enslaved our people so that we would work the mines to give the gold and silver that they were too lazy to work or trade for. These are a historically very dishonest, unethical, opportunistic, and very parasitic people. If your think this last statement is an exaggeration read their own journals and history books (from our point of view) and you will see what monsters they have been.


They stole our land.

They claimed the right to our land. That thief's claim is what keeps our land from us today. When we can learn to assert our rights to our land, and when we have the courage to call the thief a "thief" and the racist murderers "racist murderers" (through education), only then will we be able to see the reality of our situation and the realistic solutions to all of our problems

They burned our cities.


This was so that we would have not even our own cities to be proud of. But the ruins are all over Mexico. Even sites of civilizations that had long been abandoned before the arrival of the Mexica into the valley of Mexico are to be seen from the Four Corners area into Central America.


They destroyed our libraries.

This was done so that we would have no history, no pride of accomplishment. But some of our libraries survived into the 20th century. Check our bibliography section to see some of the books that were written from those sources.


They killed our unarmed teachers, leaders, generals, priests, and best warriors on the feast of Huitzilopochtli.

This demolished the false notion that Europeans were more civilized or that they were superior to us in any way. We need to rebuild that leadership that was lost. We need all of our people learning, teaching, leading and being examples to our youth.

www.mexica-movement.org

Since 1519 when the first Europeans invaded our Anahuac lands (Mexico, "Central America", and "the U.S. Southwest" wink , we have seen the destruction of our cities, the executions of our leaders, the genocide of 23 million of our people (95% of our population killed), the theft of our lands, the theft of our wealth, the theft of our labor, and, most importantly, the theft of our true Anahuac identity, history, and heritage.
Most of our people and the rest of the world do not know that before the Europeans invaded, we people of Anahuac had already built three cities larger than Europe's largest city. We had thousands of towns, developed sciences, philosophies, and the civilized arts –– all begun long before 1800 B.C.
Our beginnings as a civilized people began before Rome or Athens were even started. We had created and developed magnificence in art and architecture. We had made discoveries in science, mathematics, engineering, astronomy, and medicine.

We were the first people in the history of humanity to have mandatory education for males and females, of all classes. We had developed universities (in many ways superior to those of Europe) and libraries, the world's most accurate calendar, and one of the great theologies and bodies of literature of the world. We had created our own world of brilliant accomplishments and genius.

All of this greatness of our people came to a sudden end with the European invasions of our lands. All of this great past history has been kept silent to protect the guilty –– the Europeans and their European Settler descendants who destroyed it. We have been intentionally kept ignorant of all of our accomplishments and all of the European crimes for almost 500 years.

This destruction of our history of 4,000 years of civilization, along with the cultural castration and the racial rape of our population, has left our people hopelessly chained to the interests of Europeans. We find ourselves captive to an endless self-perpetuating cycle of problems that include an abundance of poverty, poor education, low self-esteem, crime, gangs, dropouts, lack of Indigenous representation, and an inferiority complex of the worst kind: the self-hate of an entire people.

This tragedy of the imposed ignorance of our people serves American society with an unproud, passive people who serve seemingly happily as maids, busboys, gardeners, farmworkers, fast-food service workers and other poverty-equivalent and slave-equivalent jobs. We suffer this poverty despite the fact that we are the wealthy true owners of all the land we walk upon (half of our land is now called U.S. land and the other half is controlled by descendants of Spaniards - Criollos. We are today called foreigners in our own land. We are forced to rent or buy our own land from the invaders who stole it from us, forced to work for them to survive –– forced to surrender up the wealth of our labor and our land.

In this ignorance we have no real control of our land or the wealth that is made from our land, and no control over the power that comes from our land and our wealth. When you have no control or no possibility of ever having control over the land, wealth, or power in your life: you are in fact a slave. It is perhaps a modern, kinder, gentler, form of slavery, one without physical chains. But it is slavery, never the less. And it is an addictive form of slavery which we have become too comfortable with, and are too unwilling to ever leave.

It is criminal to continue this de facto enforced ignorance of our people. We cannot continue to endure this programmed self-hate much longer. This enforced ignorance is an uncivilized act. It must end. This 500 year history of injustices and ignorance has to stop.

What "Hispanics"did to us!
( From the Mexica-Movement )

EUROPEANS BUTCHERED AND MUTILATED OUR BODIES WHEN WE REFUSED TO DO SLAVE LABOR

[MASS BURIALS WERE USED TO BURY OUR PEOPLE ALIVE

THEY FORCED THERE RELIGIONS ON OUR PEOPLE AND PREVENTED US FROM PRACTICING OUR WAY OF LIFE

EUROPEANS BURNED US ALIVE WHEN WE REFUSED TO COOPORATE WITH


From Mexican Central and Mexica-Movement

General Emiliano Zapata:
Of all the leaders in the Mexican Revolution, Emiliano Zapata was the most idealistic. He sought neither personal power nor wealth. His goal was to give "the lands, woods, and water that the landlords usurped" back to the peasants of his native state of Morelos. To the Indians of Morelos the land was more important than life itself. They spoke deeply of their patria chica (little fatherland), and the song they loved best ended with the refrain: "if they are going to kill me tomorrow, / why, let them kill me today."

Emiliano Zapata hated the hacendados (big landlords) ever since he was a child. In 1910 he helped turn the landless peasants into a disciplined guerrilla army known as the Army in White. They wore the uniform attire of the Morelos farmer; white pants, white shirt and a sombrero. Shouting their slogan "Tierra y libertad" (land and liberty), the Zapatistas waged hit-and-run warfare on federal troops and seized the land from rich hacienda owners to give it to the peasants.

Zapata never saw his dream of Agrarian land reform. Lured into a trap by federal troops in 1919, a year before the Mexican Revolution ended, he was cold-bloodedly assassinated when he was only 39 years old.

The Modern-day Zapatistas:
On January 1, 1994, The EZLN (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional), led by the masked "Subcomandante Marcos," seized the town of San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico. Their name taken from the heroic Mexican General Emiliano Zapata, for them Zapata embodied the most uncompromising ideal of the peasant revolt, that of demanding radical agrarian reform. It's no accident that today's Zapatistas invoke his name, for the redistribution of power and the state's resources from the wealthy few to the many poor. The "Zapatistas" as they became known around the world, were forced out of the town by the Mexican army. The Zapatistas fled the city to the Lacandon Jungle. Although a ceasefire was agreed in 1995, the land the Zapatistas occupy is still heavily patrolled by government forces.

Message From The Past
I strike with out fear,
I am an eagle warrior and for Aztlan I raise my spear.
I fight through fog and rain and when i'm injured i feel no pain.
My enemies are weak and they shall face defeat,
They will beg for their lives and our empire will rise.
It is the year of the sun and much will be done.
I will fight many battles and conquer new lands,
For my life is all part of some divine plan.
I do not fear death nor anyone else.
I am Azteca from the land Aztlan
Step to me once and your life is done.
I write these words to the future people of this land,
to let them know that we are not weak,
we are strong and those who dare face us will
not be around for long.

Aqui estoy establecido,
en los Estados Unidos,
diez a�±os pasaron ya,
en que cruce de mojado,
papeles no he arreglado,
sigo siendo un ilegal,

Tengo mi esposa y mis hijos,
que me ls traje muy chicos,
y se han olvidado ya,
de mi MEXICO querido,
del que yo nunca me olvido,
y no puedo regresar,

De que me sirve el dinero,
si estoy como prisionero,
dentro desta gran nacion,
cuando me acuerdo hasta lloro,
aunque la jaula sea de oro,
no deja de ser prision,

" Y ESCUCHAME HIJO,
TE GUSTARIA QUE REGRESARAMOS A VIVIR A MEXICO,"
what's talkin about dad,
I don't wanna go back to MEXICO,
no way dad,

Mis hijos no hablan conmigo,
otro idioma han aprendido,
y olvidado el espa�±ol,
piensan como americanos,
niegan que son MEXICANO
auque tengan mi color,

De mi trabajo a mi casa,
no se lo que me pasa,
que aunque soy hombre de hogar,
casi no salgo a la calle,
pues tengo miedo que me hallen,
y me pueden deportar,

De que me sirve el dinero,
si estoy como prisionero,
dentro desta gran nacion,
cuando me acuerdo hasta lloro,
aunque la jaula sea de oro,
no deja de ser prision,

Que Paza

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You say you're really down for
your raza
what does that mean
throwing chingazos is what it seem
you say that you're brown and proud
however you actions and behavior
doesn't say it loud
legislation enacted tryint to keep us down
while your out there killing another brown
instead of gaining a decent education
you're out on the street trying to earn a
reputation
i understand you're life is tough
proving to your barrio that your rough
but look at the little vatos who look up
to you
would you like them to experiences what you went through?
homies and esas dying all around
attending their funerals to see them
buried 6-feet underground
all that just to gain a little bit of wealth
you should know by now that's bad for ya health
i'm sure you understand where your heading at this rate
Muerto or jail is a
gangster's fate
i'm not to clown or talk any s**t
I..Myself would like to give more
than a little bit back to mi communidad
while in school
showing this gringos that we ani't
no fool
here in high school i'm showing
mi raza
but like you i asking again
QUE PAZA?
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