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50 years after the Chicano Blowouts, still waiting for justice and the need to reject more police in our schools
Fifty years ago, on March 1st, 1968, several hundred Mexican American and Chicana/o students at Wilson High School initiated an impromptu walkout protest in response to the cancelation of a school play by their principal. Their action sparked into motion a yearlong set of discussions, strategizing, and organizing among eastside Chicana/o students, activists and teachers...
By Manuel Criollo | March 6, 2018