TRANSLATED FROM:
http://orlando.elsentinel.com/vida/oes- ... 9605.story

San José (California), 29 abr -- The center Aztlán Chicomostoc criticized the marches announced for May 1 in several cities of California and in the rest of the country and asked the organizers for a "change of strategy".

It is necessary "that the leaders think about doing something more constructive", told Efe MarÃ*a Ortiz, member of this organization.

According to the activist, after the massive marches of previous years, an increase was seen in the "waves of repression against people without any defense from the leaders of the organizations".

Likewise, she emphasized that each those who leave each year to march are mostly the undocumented, and that by that status, they possess no political power to demand a change.

The residents and citizens are the ones that have political power "and the people are the ones that should be at the front of these marches", indicated Ortiz, for whom the motto of the march of this year We March Today, We Vote November 2 " is a contradiction".

"We should not turn our people into sacrificial lambs", said the Mexican Martin Lazo Cuevas, worker of the security service area.

When they are called to march, "they are not told about the risks that implies, they are only invited to participate", he maintained.

In the opinion of this immigrant of 42 years of age and that has never marched, the main problem is that the people that go and march "demand a right that they do not have".

Lazo Cuevas underlined that if a foreigner visits Mexico and he begins to do political propaganda, "without any questions he is arrested and sent back to his country immediately".

"What we have to do now is build institutions of educational, personal, and economic defense to help our people", finalized Ortiz.


Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc
520 South Second St
San Jose, California 95112
(40 885-9785


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