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Fifty years after the Chicano moratorium on August 29, 1970 – a march for peace and a demonstration against the Vietnam War that violent amid the police backlash and left 3 other people dead, adding journalist Ruben Salazar – a series of marches, forums, projections and more this week about reading this crucial moment and showing how what is at stake remains applicable in the existing protest climate.
What: A virtual screening of Phillip Rodriguez’s documentary “Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle” with opening comments from Mayor Eric Garcetti and actor and producer Edward James Olmos, followed by a live discussion and a question-and-answer consultation with U.S. representative Rodriguez. Joaquín Castro, Univision host “Edicion Digital California”, Yarel Ramos, local network co-founder Mijente Neidi Dominguez, and educator Myriam Gurba and LA Times editor Daniel Hernandez.
When: five p.m. 7 p.m. Saturday
Info: Register on chicanorebellionreconsemed.splashthat.com or on the Annenberg usC occasions page.
Free
What: A virtual network forum on the national Chicano moratorium opposed to the Vietnam War, which took place 50 years ago on August 29. Presented by Steve Padilla, editor-in-chief of Column One, with Times hounds Daniel Hernandez and Carolina A. Miranda, and former Times reporter Robert Lopez, who has written about theories about Salazar’s death.
When: 7 p.m. Thursday
Where: Live stream on the L.A. Times website, Facebook page, YouTube channel and Twitter feed.
Free
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What: A virtual preview of the play “August 29,” first written and produced in 1990 through members of the Latino Theatre Company, then as the Latino Theatre Lab. The work will produce a full production in 2021.
When: 7 p.m. Friday. A at the construction site will take up position at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Where: Links available in thelatc.org.
Free.
What: Walk of the Brown Berets, speech, reception and functionality of the work of the Urban Theater “El Dólar de Plata” in an outdoor theater on the site of the Bar and Café Silver Dollar, where he murdered journalist Rubén Salazar.
When: p.m. 6 p.m. Saturday
Where: Meeting between 3 p.m. and p.m. at 95 Whittier Blvd., Los Angeles, Silver Dollar site, now Sounds of Music. (Some participants will meet between 1pm and 3pm at Belvedere Park and walk to the Silver Dollar site). After the speeches and presentations, the march departs from Whittier Boulevard to Belvedere Park and the open-air theater at the East Los Angeles Library. 837 E. 3rd St. Los Angeles. The reception will follow.
Info: brownberet.us/upcoming-events or facebook.com/brownberetnational
What: A march and socially distant car caravan hosted by the 50th Chicano Moratorium committee along Whittier Boulevard to the site of the Silver Dollar Bar & Cafe for an outdoor performance of Teatro Urbano’s play “The Silver Dollar” and a program at Ruben F. Salazar Park.
When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
Where: The 50th Chicano Moratorium caravan meets at 10 a.m. and departs at 11 a.m. from Gregg Road and Whittier Boulevard; The group’s march takes place at 10 a.m. at Atlantic Park, 570 S Atlantic Blvd., Los Angeles. The caravan and hike will be avoided at 4945 Whittier Blvd. (now Sounds of Music) for the “The Silver Dollar” feature at Ruben F. Salazar Park, 3864 Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles.
Info: Facebook Chicano-moratorium-com or Chicano Moratorium.
What: The organizing committee of the 50th Chicana Moratoria organizes a series of webinars with activists, artists and others taking part in debates, brief screenings and presentations. In charge of Lupe Carrasco Cordona, Carlos Montes, Benjamín Prado and Sol Maer.
When: five p.m. 6:30 p.m. until Sunday, all day Saturday
Info: chicano-moratorium.com, The occasions Facebook page of the 50th Chicana Moratorium or broadcast from the Facebook page of Co-Chair Lupe Carrasco Cardona or the Coalition Ethnic Studies Now Facebook page, with beyond visual seminars in the video segment of the aforementioned Facebook pages.
Free
“Remember the life and death of Rubén Salazar”, a 40-minute virtual roundtable followed by a 40-minute question and answer consultation organized by Ass. National. Hispanic journalists will be moderated through Associated Press journalist Russell Contreras with photojournalist Monica Almeida; Esmeralda Bermudez, L.A. Times journalist; Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez, professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin; Dawn Garcia, director of the John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Stanford University; and filmmaker Phillip Rodriguez, director of “Rubén Salazar: The Middle Man,” and more.
When: 10 a.m. Saturday
Info: Sign up for the webinar at nahj.org/events.
On August 24, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, in partnership with UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, presented a visual variety of short films, examining moments of activism in East Los Angeles to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Chicano moratorium. The excerpts come with an episode of the 1968 Telenovelos Angels, basically in English-Los Angeles language, “Song of the Angels Raza”, “The Chicano Moratorium: A Question of Freedom” from 1971 through Thomas Myrdahl and excerpts from interviews. with Ruben Salos angeleszar on the TV shows “Nap Over” and “Tempo”. Artist Harry Gamboa Jr. and Times editor Carolina A. Miranda sign up for a discussion after screening with moderator Chon Noriega, director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center and “Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema.” “Display link on UCLA Film online page – TV archive and on Vimeo.