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<p>Cinco de Mayo.</p>
<p>The mother of all misunderstood, misquoted, misinterpreted and maligned of holidays.</p>
<p>It’s bad enough that American suds sellers hijacked the hell out of the “holiday,” now we’re even having to re-educate some of our own Chiacna/o/Latina/o masses thanks in part to our obscured Eurocentric form of education.</p>

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This country is comfortable with black tears and black fears but uncomfortable with the black rage fueled by Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody.

Guest Editorial:
By Kirsten West Savali
The Root

When Baltimore police officers left 25-year-old Freddie Gray with an almost severed spine and a crushed throat, they became the straws that broke black America’s back.

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<p>May 4th, 1862. The most successful French Army general of his generation sat in his headquarters in Mexico passing judgment on Mexican men who resisted his soldiers. The general did not know that the following day, 5 May 1862, el Cinco de Mayo, would be the worst day of his life.</p>
<p>Charles Ferdinand Latrille, Comte de Lorencez was an accomplished French General who had fought in Africa and earned major general’s rank in the Crimea fighting Russians. Now he led the invasion of Mexico for Napoleon III.</p>

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<strong>Committee on Chicano Rights</strong></p>
<p>Que Viva El Parque Chicano, que viva Aztlan, que viva Mexico, que viva La Raza.</p>
<p>Estimadas hermanas, hermanos, familiares, comunidad, y enemigos, muy buenas tardes. Si, digo enimigos porque uno no puede esta en una lucha de cambio, y no tener enemigos.</p>

Commentary:
By Luis Alvarado
President of Familias Unidas de California

One of the biggest injustices to California farmworkers can be found in California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), which violates some of the most basic of civil rights when it comes to labor laws. It prevents farmworkers from having a voice the contracts that govern their wages, benefits and other workplace conditions.