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El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán
In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud
historical heritage but also of the brutal "gringo" invasion of our
territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern
land of Aztlán from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land
of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the
sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our
responsibility, and our inevitable destiny.
We are free and sovereign to determine those tasks, which are justly
called for by our house, our land, the sweat of our brows, and by our
hearts. Aztlán belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the
fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. We do
not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent.
Brotherhood unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people
whose time has come and who struggles against the foreigner "gabacho"
who exploits our riches and destroys our culture. With our heart in our
hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our
mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before
the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the
bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we
are Aztlán.
For La Raza to do. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Program
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán sets the theme that the Chicanos (La Raza
de Bronze) must use their nationalism as the key or common denominator
for mass mobilization and organization. Once we are committed to the
idea and philosophy of El Plan de Aztlán, we can only conclude that
social, economic, cultural, and political independence is the only road
to total liberation from oppression, exploitation, and racism. Our
struggle then must be for the control of our barrios, campos, pueblos,
lands, our economy, our culture, and our political life. El Plan
commits all levels of Chicano society - the barrio, the campo, the
ranchero, the writer, the teacher, the worker, the professional - to La
Causa.
Nationalism
Nationalism as the key to organization transcends all religious,
political, class, and economic factions or boundaries. Nationalism is
the common denominator that all members of La Raza can agree upon.
Organizational Goals
1. UNITY in the thinking of our people concerning the barrios, the
pueblo, the campo, the land, the poor, the middle class, the
professional-all committed to the liberation of La Raza.
2. ECONOMY: Economic control of our lives and our communities can only
come about by driving the exploiter out of our communities, our
pueblos, and our lands and by controlling and developing our own
talents, sweat, and resources. Cultural background and values which
ignore materialism and embrace humanism will contribute to the act of
cooperative buying and the distribution of resources and production to
sustain an economic base for healthy growth and development Lands
rightfully ours will be fought for and defended. Land and realty
ownership will be acquired by the community for the people's welfare.
Economic ties of responsibility must be secured by nationalism and the
Chicano defense units.
3. EDUCATION must be relative to our people, i.e., history, culture,
bilingual education, contributions, etc. Community control of our
schools, our teachers, our administrators, our counselors, and our
programs.
4. INSTITUTIONS shall serve our people by providing the service
necessary for a full life and their welfare on the basis of
restitution, not handouts or beggar's crumbs. Restitution for past
economic slavery, political exploitation, ethnic and cultural
psychological destruction and denial of civil and human rights.
Institutions in our community which do not serve the people have no
place in the community. The institutions belong to the people.
5. SELF-DEFENSE of the community must rely on the combined strength of
the people. The front line defense will come from the barrios, the
campos, the pueblos, and the ranchitos. Their involvement as protectors
of their people will be given respect and dignity. They in turn offer
their responsibility and their lives for their people. Those who place
themselves in the front ranks for their people do so out of love and
carnalismo. Those institutions which are fattened by our brothers to
provide employment and political pork barrels for the gringo will do so
only as acts of liberation and for La Causa. For the very young, there
will no longer be acts of juvenile delinquency, but revolutionary acts.
6. CULTURAL values of our people strengthen our identity and the moral
backbone of the movement. Our culture unites and educates the family of
La Raza towards liberation with one heart and one mind. We must insure
that our writers, poets, musicians, and artists produce literature and
art that is appealing to our people and relates to our revolutionary
culture. Our cultural values of life, family, and home will serve as a
powerful weapon to defeat the gringo dollar value system and encourage
the process of love and brotherhood.
7. POLITICAL LIBERATION can only come through independent action on our
part, since the two-party system is the same animal with two heads that
feed from the same trough. Where we are a majority, we will control;
where we are a minority, we will represent a pressure group;
nationally, we will represent one party: La Familia de La Raza!
Action
1. Awareness and distribution of El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán.
Presented at every meeting, demonstration, confrontation, courthouse,
institution, administration, church, school, tree, building, car, and
every place of human existence.
2. September 16, on the birthdate of Mexican Independence, a national
walk-out by all Chicanos of all colleges and schools to be sustained
until the complete revision of the educational system: its policy
makers, administration, its curriculum, and its personnel to meet the
needs of our community.
3. Self-Defense against the occupying forces of the oppressors at every
school, every available man, woman, and child.
4. Community nationalization and organization of all Chicanos: El Plan
Espiritual de Aztlán.
5. Economic program to drive the exploiter out of our community and a
welding together of our people's combined resources to control their
own production through cooperative effort.
6. Creation of an independent local, regional, and national political
party.
A nation autonomous and free-culturally, socially, economically, and
politically- will make its own decisions on the usage of our lands, the
taxation of our goods, the utilization of our bodies for war, the
determination of justice (reward and punishment), and the profit of our
sweat.
El Plan de Aztlán is the plan of liberation!
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This is a declaration of war!
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