Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riot! Riot!" It all started when two men-Joe Garcia, 26, a Mexican-American, and Dwayne Graves, 16, a Negro-bumped into each other outside a Watts liquor store. Between the Negro ghetto and the Mexican colony clustered in nearby East Los Angeles, there is a tradition of jealous rivalry, and tensions have been rising. Negroes, who resent the light-skinned Mexicans because they find it easier to get jobs, had stabbed several of their rivals in the previous riots. Mexicans, for their part, regard themselves as better-educated and racially superior to their Negro neighbors, whom they accuse...
Most of the film concerns rebellion led by the Marisa against one Mexican feudal-type baron named Rodriguez, whom the troupe discovers beating a serf. As the opening credits shows us, Brigitte grew up tossing bombs with her anarchist father; Moreau goes political for the first time when she falls in love with the Christ-figure revolutionary Flores (George Hamilton). In the closing moments of the film we get a fast sequence of castles exploding all over Mexico as the revolution prevails...
...Chicago, the Woodlawn Organization, a belligerent, Alinsky-forged army of Negro slum dwellers, employed rent strikes and picketing to win concessions ranging from tenement repairs to honest scales. In California, 30 Alinsky-founded community projects, mainly for Mexican-Americans, have increased their influence; last week an Alinsky disciple was leading a bitter strike of grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley for better wages. In Rochester, N.Y., Alinsky's predominantly Negro organization FIGHT (an apt acronym for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today) has severely harassed the already established poverty agency. In Syracuse, N.Y., Alinsky's apprentices trucked mobs...
Down the River. San Antonio was delighted-and prepared. When the 41-man press corps hit town after a five-hour flight, it was greeted by a rollicking four-piece Mexican band and an unlimited supply of margarita cocktails. "We'd like you to be happy this weekend and every weekend," boomed Chamber of Commerce President B. J. ("Red") McCombs. "We will do as many things for you as you will allow...
...Laredo has been lined with weird detours. After leaving Harvard, Leary tried to continue his experiments near Acapulco, Mexico, where he opened a sort of Hallucination Hilton in an old resort hotel. He offered to expand consciousnesses at the rate of $200 a month and $6 per expansion; the Mexican government expelled him after two months. He tried unsuccessfully to reopen in the Caribbean, finally established something called the Castalia Foundation on a 3,000-acre estate in Millbrook, N.Y., near Vassar and Bennett colleges. Along the way, he had become very much a religious mystic; the four-story foundation...