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Members of the Xipetotec Danza Azteca de Los Angeles del Common Lorenzo Arvizu carry out in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Members of the Xipetotec Danza Azteca de Los Angeles del Common Lorenzo Arvizu carry out in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Hilda Solis, Los Angeles District Government, speaks in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
KQBH Radio DJ and MC Eric “Chico” Manqueros speaks in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Memorial Service on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Ismael Perez performs the track “Yo Soy Chicano” in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Memorial Service on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
A member of the Xipetotec Danza Azteca de Los Angeles del Common Lorenzo Arvizu performs in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Cuahtli Madrigal from Santa Ana, left, speaks to a member of Through Care Well being in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Memorial Service on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
A member of the Xipetotec Danza Azteca de Los Angeles del Common Lorenzo Arvizu will carry out in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Modesto resident Lucena Torres and Brown Berets member watches in the course of the annual Chicano moratorium commemoration ceremony at Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
A memorial wreath in honor of Lyn Ward, Angel Gilbert Diaz, Rubén Salazar and Gustav Montag, who died in the course of the Chicano moratorium, is pictured in the course of the annual memorial ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr., contributing photographer)
Members pose for a portrait in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, contributing photographer)
Aztec jewellery hangs on the chest of Santa Ana resident Cuahtli Madrigal in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, contributing photographer)
Jose Luis Valenzuela of Monterey Park appears on in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Hilda Solis, Los Angeles District Government, speaks in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Fabien Chavez of Baldwin Park prepares a meal order from Tinga in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Memorial Service on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Hilda Solis, Los Angeles district govt, middle left, poses with certificates recipients in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Memorial Service on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, contributing photographer)
Hilda Solis, Los Angeles District Government, speaks in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
A member of the Xipetotec Danza Azteca de Los Angeles del Common Lorenzo Arvizu will carry out in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Xipetotec Danza Azteca de Los Angeles del Common Lorenzo Arvizus dancer Isabel Carillo (proper) prepares incense in the course of the annual commemoration of the Chicano Moratorium on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Bellflower resident Frank Sifuentes, left, appears on in the course of the annual Chicano moratorium commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
From left, San Diego residents and members of the Brown Berets Cheran Matewaay, Julio Cardenas and Josie Ramirez sit in a sales space in the course of the annual commemoration of the Chicano Moratorium on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr ., contributing photographer)
Gloria Arellanes speaks in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Memorial Service on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
A standard Mexican sugar cranium print hangs on a sales space in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, contributing photographer)
A number of mini-flags adorn the hood of a basic Chevrolet in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, contributing photographer)
Bell Gardens resident Monique Montoya reads a doc in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Edward Younger of San Gabriel cooks mulitas in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Memorial Service on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
Attendees and distributors are pictured in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Memorial Service on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
The entrance hood decoration of a basic Chevrolet is pictured in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium commemoration ceremony on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
A graphic license plate is pictured in the course of the annual Chicano Moratorium Memorial Service on the Belvedere Park Amphitheater in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 29, 2021. (Picture by Raul Romero Jr, Contributing Photographer)
The fiftieth Chicano Moratorium Committee celebrated the 51st anniversary of the “Chicano Moratorium”, an anti-Vietnam Struggle demonstration of 1970, on Sunday, August twenty ninth in Belvedere Park in East Los Angeles.
The occasion on Sunday, “51. 12 months within the wrestle for peace and justice for all ”, included audio system, data stands for training and well being, dance and music performances, meals, raffles and distributors.
The occasion attendees took a second to mirror on the “Chicano Moratorium” march on August 29, 1970, which was initially a peaceable protest towards the warfare in Vietnam and conscription.
This occasion drew greater than 20,000 folks marching on Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles. It has been mentioned that it was “the most important social justice protest in Chicano” towards the warfare.
Nevertheless, the occasion grew to become deadly after an altercation in a liquor retailer that killed 4 folks – Angel Gilbert Diaz, Gustav Montag, Lyn Ward and the Los Angeles Instances journalist and KMEX information director (Ch. 34) Rubén Salazar – and lots of individuals left injured or incarcerated.
Data on the fiftieth Chicano Moratorium Committee, bit.ly/3mDCMSh; bit.ly/3kuVVTV
