” CHICANO ” 1971 CHICANO COMMUNITY & MORATORIUM MOVEMENT / ANTI-VIETNAM WAR PROTESTS XD72224

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website “Chicano” is a film by J. Gary Mitchell from 1971, presented and distributed by BFA. It portrays the Chicano community facing poverty and discrimination in the United States and the Chicano Moratorium Movement from 1969-1971. The opposition movement organized anti-Vietnam war demonstrations with the key slogan: “Our struggle is not in Vietnam but in the movement for social justice at home”. “Chicano” title banner (00:14). Groups of Chicanos marching in protest holding banners and flags (00:31). Community college board member William J. Orozco criticizes press coverage of the Chicano anti-Vietnam War movement (01:27). Large groups of Chicanos activists are gathered in a park (01:59). Task force member Frank Alderete and student Danny Quinones comment on Chicano culture (02:28). Footage from protests (02:51). Frank Alderete and William J. Orozco comment further on Chicano and the movement (03:25). More scenes from the protests (03:52). Students Danny Quinones and Albert E. Madrid, Jr. express their view on the violence in Vietnam (04:28). Orozco speaks (04:53). Alderete speaks (05:07). Scenes of the protests (05:24). Orozco speaks on the identifying factors of Chicano communities comparing the internal and external definitions (05:40). Alderete speaks on the violence of the community and the demonstrations (06:26). Scenes from the protests show heavy police presence (06:46). Footage from Chicano neighborhoods along railroads (06:57). The streets of east Los Angeles with Chicano-owned shops and restaurants (08:23). The residential neighborhoods of east Los Angeles, depicting poverty with dirt roads and shed-like house (09:57). Kids playing on a playground (10:52). Chicanos working as farmers on fields along railroads (11:12). An airplane flies over a field spraying the crops with pesticide (11:34). A man walks through a field and around a Chicano neighborhood (12:12). Quonset huts (12:42). A stable in a field, home to a Chicano family with 11 children (12:47). Three of the young children walk through muddy trails to their preschool (13:29). A poverty program pre-school for financially challenged Chicano families (13:53). An empty school yard and different empty classrooms as the narrator explains the Anglo-based educational system created challenges for the Chicano community (15:13). Chicano school children (17:00). A primarily Anglo-American college starting programs to introduce more inclusivity and equality for Chicanos (19:29). Summarizing footage of the depiction of poverty in the Chicano communities and neighborhoods (21:46). Frank Alderete speaks about the philosophy of the Chicano culture (22:05). The film is produced with the cooperation of Antonio Del Buono, Ann Garcelon, Nacho Gonzales, Anna Marie Martel, Alicia D. Ramirez, Dolores M. Ramirez, Armondo Rodriguez, Saul Sancedo, Rudy Vargas, Ruben Gilbert Varela, Cecilia Weymouth, and Lupe Zamarrina. The film’s consultants are Patricia Cabrera and Frank Alderete with Norman Gollin as the graphic consultant and editing by Don Kenney. The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War. Led by activists from local colleges and members of the Brown Berets, a group with roots in the high school student movement that staged walkouts in 1968, the coalition peaked with a August 29, 1970 march in East Los Angeles that drew 30,000 demonstrators. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit