{"id":3059,"date":"2008-08-29T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T17:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2008-08-29T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T22:28:29","slug":"subversive-historian-082908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/08\/29\/subversive-historian-082908\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Historian &#8211; 08\/29\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_08_29_08\/2008_08_29_sh.mp3\"> today&#8217;s Subversive Historian <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drooker.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"\/home\/graphics\/Censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Drooker\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong> The Chicano Moratorium by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-eight years ago on this day in people\u2019s history, the largest anti-war demonstration staged by Chicanos in the United States occurred in East Los Angeles. On August 29th 1970, more than twenty thousand protesters marched against the Vietnam War\u2019s destructive effects on the Chicano community. As demonstrators converged on Laguna Park, hundreds of helmeted police advanced and attacked the peaceful crowd without warning. Numerous people were injured, over two hundred were arrested and three were killed, including journalist Ruben Salazar. After covering the moratorium, Salazar retired to the Silver Dollar Caf\u00e9 on Whittier Boulevard for drinks. Armed deputies in riot gear arrived outside the Caf\u00e9 and without warning, fired tear gas canisters into the establishment. One of them struck Ruben Salazar in the head and killed him. <\/p>\n<p>It looks as if for Chicanos the war front was here at home as well<\/p>\n<p><em> For Uprising, this is your truth professa&#8217; saying it&#8217;s no mystery why they conceal our history!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to today&#8217;s Subversive Historian The Chicano Moratorium by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman Thirty-eight years ago on this day in people\u2019s history, the largest anti-war demonstration staged by Chicanos in the United States occurred in East Los Angeles. On August 29th 1970, more than twenty thousand protesters marched against the Vietnam War\u2019s destructive effects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}