Reies Tijerina : leader of the Alianza

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I'm in the studio with various lapels theory now who is head of the organization called. Federal Alliance of free city states. Now that is more commonly known I believe as the north of New Mexico. Six county land grant movement which you have headed right. I would like to begin where we began when you came into my office. Last night yesterday evening early we had the news of Martin Luther King's assassination this morning just as you walked into my office some kind of a disturbance. Involving police cars and both black and white. Obviously high school student was taking place. Under the Windows API of his office. And I said God help us all.
And I like your reply. I said that God could not help us any longer. He has run out of patience and we have mocked him too many times. We have we got him fed up and I think. That we are running out of time. And the patience of God is also running out. I don't think that we have living left in any alternative and he chose to help us. He has been trying to help us for hundreds and thousands of years. And we have been mocking him and mocking his true justice his true democracy. By destroying men combine and establishing our own kind of democracy. So that's why I feel that there is no way. This is a typical day a typical act the assassination cold blooded murder of. The symbol of peace. And the representation of the rights of the
poor through a meek and wise man Dr. King. The government I feel is responsible by encouraging. By the way not development work for the poor. Ways for the oppressed. Only with the same means for the bankers for the powerful for the rights. And that is why I feel that the federal government of the United States its poaching its own people to destruction to be end of this empire. You were dealing I believe with Dr. Martin Luther King about the proposed March on Washington. Which was to take place in the twenty sixth of this month. Could you tell us something about what those plans were in August 9th August 26 to 28 1950 67. I approached Martin Luther King. In the airport of
cheap cargo when they had these new politics convention. And I suggested to him the correlation between the brown people. The bland the black people also the Indians and poor whites. He said he was. It was high time. And that was all I din heard from him until. This year. I think it was February where he invited me to come to Atlanta Georgia March the 14. I arrive in mine Atlanta Georgia and some 25 leaders of other organizations of the. Brown people also white people Indian people and black people. He was there that a coalition was formed. He was there that Dr. King talked to us. He was there that Dr. King reminded
in point out to be people in that patch partials hotel in Atlanta Georgia that I had suggested to him the idea and that he had embrace it and it was high time. A steering committee was formed out of the various races and groups to steer and direct. The coronation plans on the Washington March. That is coming in April. The twenty second and that will escalate up to June probably June the 15th. The committee will begin and will meet in Washington on the 22nd when we probably start writing and I want a sext. Yes the extern comedian about 100 leaders will be said various offices of the. Government departments and Congress. And then after that 3000 people will arrive too. Stay in the capital.
And then after that people will start arriving and according to the plans by the powers from all over the United States. And this was to go on and build and build. Escalate. Yes yes yes. This is one of the greatest plans Hyla. The perfection and the I don't know how to put it in these second language of mine but it was the greatest of the plains and Martin Luther King had come out with. It was something fantastic beautiful. And it will be have no doubts on Les. The comedian changed the whole plan. But I understand that I have a I have a contact I was called from Atlanta Georgia just last night. And up to now they're going ahead with the march. And Reverend Abernathy I believe is taking Dr. King's place. Yes. Yes. Right. Have you had a chance to speak.
No not yet. However I am invited personally by Reverend Abernathy to speak in his church in the very near future a week or two and I will be speaking to him. And you are expecting then that from all over the country the minority people will come to Washington over a period of time. Yes yes. The Mexican American Spanish American are uniting and recruiting people just like the Indians and the people for this great march. Well this was called by Martin Luther King campaign for the poor the March for the poor people. I seem to recall that when he announced this march that he said something about the fact that this would be the last massive attempt to
convince the government and the American people by nonviolent means and that if he if this was not successful that he would not try again. Right. Yes he's also had to change his last speech. Closed door speech. It was plain he said these margin would not represent their civil rights but human rights for the first time the black people would ask for land would demand for land not just jobs education and their housing but land just like the people in New Mexico are demanding land. Well perhaps we could talk now about what you are doing in northern New Mexico. How it started. You yourself were
born in Texas I believe. Yes in fall seated next to September 21st 1926 in a field in a cotton field. Yes ma'am and you were your mother's fifth child I was a mother people. Charlie as he was around between 4:00 and 5:00 in the afternoon when my mother my father was speaking cotton and the pains are right and it was there that I was born in the cotton sector have food. See I have a good memory. I heard you say the words before. And you grew up where I grew up around the San Antonio area up to 14. Then I left for the field in Ohio Indiana and Michigan at the age of 17 I started a large geological seminary for three years I graduated and then I I was a minister for the following 10 years in Arizona while we
were a minister what kind of a non-denominational Protestant minister. But your family were the cultural workers and fields that you grew up. That was my trade Yes fieldwork. When did you go to New Mexico. I decided to. I had been there before but I had refused to join the land claimants. People that have been fighting in there with the federal government claiming certain rights under a treaty whether Libya was signed between United States and Mexico for worse the second 1848. However picking cotton in the fields of Arizona the neighbors burned my house and 16 other houses of my fellow brothers. Who had who together had decided to build a little village called The Valley of Peace. In the period of two week three years they burned our house our church our store our school 17
homes after the neighbour's Anglo American civilize Anglo Americans. Why. Because we refused to send our children to their school because they thought we were communists. And tell them the FBI agent was called to investigate. He refused flatly. Florence Lawrence why did the sheriff of the Penal County was invited or rather asked many times to come and investigate the burnings. He refused flatly and he was there and then that we decided to move into New Mexico and that burning destruction of our property changed part of my life and the course of my life. From Bible religious teaching to international law and LAN which is what is involved in the whole struggle now the
current struggle which is going on as I understand it concerns six counties in northern New Mexico. Well really it concerns the whole state. Sometime anciently five counties because it's where we make up the 90 percent of the population. And because we are face to face with federal government and because the Department of Agriculture is there avoids Holy Mother Land that the president of United States. Compass skated out right from the villages. However the lame grants three hundred fifty are scattered throughout the whole state of New Mexico. But that fight is is concentrated for the moment is this the right area. Right. But the members of the organization are scattered throughout the state and also Texas and California. But the toll down is what we would call him. And the real trouble is in the northern part.
Yes well how did it start. I believe I recall something about the fact that at some stage you decided to take over a village. Well leave it to understand these and to inform the public which has been deprived of the truth through the CB as CBS and I mean UPI and that's OCD place who have been there. Starting the truth I would like to state that the people of New Mexico like the Hopi nation have never surrendered to the compass cation of the land have never surrender to the federal government and to their ideas. Who who are against and which are against the three hundred year old system and way of livelihood in New Mexico. There is a group there was and there is call whitecaps in the northern part of New Mexico. As a government build
fences around these common land they belong to the villages. During the day the people cuts a fence during the night on and on for the last hundred years. The Government have had conspire in a powder and ways to destroy the lives the culture the language the property of these people. He has not succeeded because he has not succeeded in pushing the people out of the northern part of New Mexico. So it was in 1957 that I decided when my property were burnt that I decided to investigate the claims the cries of the people. I discover that even though there were many many people there were not united. Every poor blow was for himself just like the Indian Point was my first step after discovering that they held a true plane. And they did treaty deed to stipulates the protection of such land and that they did have that title and the villagers had title to slam. I decided to organize and
unite the people of the various land grants which are called pueblos. It is these pueblos who hold the land who owns the land that the individuals not the heirs the heirs hold certain rights through the village through Republic consul or city council is more popular call. And in 1963 after due and through investigation. I decided to organize the Allianz affair album affairs for alliance of land grants which which whose papers and documents were confiscated by the federal government. Nineteen sixty seven and then we decided to dissolve the organization and convert it into a political organization which is now called Federal lines of free city states. The fight has been going on for the last hundred twenty years it is not true that we started the fight in many local papers he has been proven and
written in the front page that this early problem already troubling that started by with the had enough it was there but the people. Had not succeeded in bringing their claim their cry across the nation. See the nation was ignorant of these organized conspire SCI and criminal compass creation of the federal government against people. It was there and it has been there all the time. But the public. Has been kept in ignorance of the fact. Only the local bankers politicians and rich man ranchers know the effect but they. And collusion with the news media keep it quiet until now they could no longer do it because the Alianza broke through the silence barrier. It was when we were to hold a meeting a nationwide meeting in co-op in New Mexico.
Clear out the is the Spanish word for coyote. So it was there we publish it in news media radio present TV for a month. But there is a man that is being used by the senator of New Mexico Senator Montoya who once to make a name for himself and there and then the news media provoked and teases man by calling that meeting a showdown day meeting between the people and the government. So make him the state police believe that there was going to be chewed out. The district attorney Alfonso Sanchez decided to put all his resources and call the chief of police Joe Black and call all the state militia state police blocked all the roads and start arresting everybody on the grounds of unlawful assembly. Naturally people were were too strong too brave to swallow such a stupid accusation and grounds for arrest.
They were enraged they were angry and in this a state of anger. The following day after the mass arrest they decided to arrest themself. Arrest the distributor. They were furnished with a warrant of arrest of which are documents signed by the mayor of San Joaquin. The deputies in the volunteers who went to the next town to arrest I found substantial It was a plain citizens arrest. He was turned out into a chewed out because of the state police and that they there were a hearing was being held for the leaders. They were being tried. And of course the following was published throughout the nation in the world that there was a revolution going on to get somebody on guard the governor Governor David Cargo whose wife is a member of the South. I
was ing in them each again with Governor Romney George Romney immediately with call and took the spiritual jet to fly back to New Mexico. Me in the mean time Mr. Francis. Leave the lieutenant governor summon the National Guard and state police 150 Mounted Police and the and they brought in three battle tanks and helicopters airplanes and so on and the whole state was turning to a state of confusion in the air and in the air forcing in Albuquerque an Air Force and the Air Force all the personnel were pulled out of the out of the air. Airbase into the city of Albuquerque because they have been threatened to telephone that they were going to be bombed. Even the state penitentiary was triplicated there their guards and the whole state
was in a state of confusion. This all started because a conference meeting was going to be him. Yes in coyote New Mexico right. Yes they they blocked they sabotage our meeting and naturally the people well educated. They refused to loud stupid man temper and pull around with our rights our constitutional rights. So in New Mexico the people have been educated through the radio. We have a daily radio program daily. We have been teaching our people the rights that have been frozen sabotaged by the federal government. Their rights are and that were practiced by these people 300 years that have been bar out of school. See the Spanish language traditions and culture and certain. Perpetual right that we hold have been frozen completely and we're not all of these rights I want to get this clear.
The original treaty of Guadalupe didn't reserve to your people these poor lands and certain rights. Yes yes or yes. And these rights have gradually been removed and frozen frozen the government has never legally dissolved any rights or any point of what where and what was included in those rights. The right to your own schools allowed to languish in the larger culture cultural rights which includes the language property rights which includes the more. The mode of or the way of leaving the lease concerning the property we held no property individually but a little home and a little garden we could not hold over 150 square yards for ourselves. It was a pebbly village that helped all the land
in trust for all the villagers. So naturally the government comes and respects the Indian pueblos. But the Spanish pueblos he froze them confiscates the land takes it converted converted into public land or U.S. forest land under the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Interior. So naturally there was an out right path. We therefore accuse the federal government did this take place gradually or was done sort of already early gradual to start with the public has not been told that the after the treaty was signed. Our government took full responsibility as our government to protect our lives and our property our properties. Patents or original patents and title were in what I had a highly skilled I was a royal who kept the original patents of the pueblos and property rights. Well in a mere eighteen fifty eight ten years after the signing of the treaty
those documents were burned mysteriously in whether one had a holy skull before United States took the currency. According to his obligation to ask Mexico for a copy of those titles. Then in the year 1870. We all made a pile governor of the territory of Mexico. With the help of the territory attorney general who was became leader and the King of New Mexico for 50 years the criminal should person who who who master minded the whole plan took we all pile and power of the cop and kicked out of the archives of Santa Fe and the document where they had been kept there for 300 years. They were kicked out in the street according to Twitchell historian Twitchell and Bancroft and according to newspaper.
Of that date. Where in the editorial we compile is call a pig head for kicking the Spanish archives. Out into the streets and. I like to stay that during these years. There was no judicial protection for the Langrune title for the pueblo for our property. There was no protection for from 1848 to 1891. There was no judicial or tribunal hearings for the advocation of these titles. It was in the year 1891 when Frank Springer a friend of Tamar back happen in a member of the Santa Fe ring asked Congress to establish a political court to adjudicate the titles. It was from 1891 to nineteen four that the tiles were adjudicated by a tribunal of five judges who were all. Who are all the barons of
the Civil War and veterans of the confederacy of the South who hated the Spanish Americans and the Mexicans. And naturally there was no documents when this court was established. It was a conspiracy a criminal conspiracy by the by the federal government against my people. And now now wait a minute where what did the court this this court what decisions did they reach what decisions could we expected after they destroyed all the documents. But they did go yeah. They record events as as confiscating these lamb. No they went on record as this approval in thirty three and a half million acres of the 35 million acres that we would claim in New Mexico. Therefore they just approved one and a half million acres.
They left one and a half million acres in the control of equals right. And now that we have the document we're discovering 1060 can ascenders a friend of the Santa Fe ring comes to New Mexico to sell the documents for us. Fifty thousand dollars richer for Santa Fe County confiscated document arrest the person and the whole matter goes into court for seven long years. It was this year less during December of 1967 that the US District Court of St. Louis Missouri decided in favor of Mr. Kan ascenders the defender the attorney for kind of send early Keefe was promised from the turret. As you can see how the CA trance have been have been guarding very well. Their shame their organized crime with the fell of help of the federal government. And as you can see then in 1862 maybe 20s 1862
the Homestead Act came about. And if you read the Homestead Act it reads and I quote normal homes that shall be issue within boundaries of land grants. For your information. Thousands of homes that were given to people within the boundaries of land grants that are now this was during the 60s in the 70s before the courts were Jews. I mean the language were adjudicated by the court of private planes which was later in 1881 to 94 who either the government violated its own act of Congress to probe the people into confusion hatred and fight among themselves because some naturally wanted their piece of 160 acres all to themselves with a title or other heirs or members of the religion. They wanted their own way. To let the pueblo administrate become one communal lens so natural there were the there were two
factions two sides they start fighting incomes the federal government and adjudicates and takes over the land. So let you live the government thought that he had it made C. But here as as the police of our days. Peaches the black and the brown. That crime does not pay for what our federal government. The greatest giant ever built by taxpayers is is discovering that crime does not pay. Even his own crime against the Spanish American people is not paying. Now he's he's all for prize easy he's he's a he don't know what to do and now he has he discovered the time and his own crimes are catching up with our federal government. Now you are now in the process of fighting this situation through legal channels as well as many channels right and yes what. What legal steps are being taken now. Is it an effort to reconstruct this whole history
of the situation that you've been telling us about and there by go into federal courts to have these laws and these confiscations that you accuse the government of undone. What is it that you expect to achieve through the court. Well when one step is the courts because of our enemies which are slandering and saying that we want to use force and violence even though that's what they use themselves in that's what they're doing they're using prob the whole world. But but then when it comes to war they want to behave like angles as the name Anglo means from the Latin angles. Now they want to go to court we are going to court and certainly to a certain extent. And I was on 30 questions. However we are preparing a document for the United Nations. And bringing the United Nations if we succeed in getting Mexico or Spain to present our petition to the United Nations to investigate
the treaty which is a farce which is not a tweet is it is it is it's a proposal. Naturally all the title the United States holds for the Southwest. Is a treaty. And we can prove that it is not a treaty then US has no title for the South West not only for the problems but for the whole Southwest. Again. This image of the treaty whereby Nicholas Petris is invalid as Congress state inducting 129 of the State Department because James Paul the president of the United States that revoked the credentials of Nick Nicholas Petris therefore therefore making him a simple citizen and his signature on the treaty invalid. Now that crime that that conspired and fraud has been covered from the public that is why they don't teach the treaty the history of treating the schools because the public will find
out and then the government will be in trouble. We are also. Use in other channels such as occupying the land we have never abandon our lands. The government cannot claim adverse pulsation by prescription because of a bend on the lens. No sir never we have never abandoned the land we are living within the bounds of law of the land grants all these pueblos boundaries and there we are not the only ones that are asking and demanding the. The Indians of the power of power in power in New Mexico. The Hopi Nation the patches the number horses are all asking in the Mannings saw the seamen only Indians. So this is not something rare. This is not a case of only the Mexican-Americans but
but all the people that occupied the land prior to the coming of the. The bet whites. However we have many good whites that have bought land in good faith. We consider them to be our neighbors our friends our brothers. And they are even helping us to regain or. Recuperate our or our rights. How many people are involved in this now in that part of it. Well people that are affected directly about five million people throughout the sawzall wastes. However some of them do not know or do not know but by the talent they're coming to know now wakening very fast especially since last June 5th 1967 when the historical event happened when the whole nation was
aware of what was going on in New Mexico. And in New Mexico itself. How many years one million inhabitants out of that 1 million have been as we feel that there's half a million Spanish Americans. Also we are also fighting and teaching our people the difference between Mexican American Spanish American and she kind of Spawn or Latino know all those names we feel that we are not Spaniards nor Indians. As a history will state improve that we are a new breed that for the last 300 years have been multiplying there at a very fast rate. In fact according to scientific a statistics the Latin American people is the best disc growing people in the whole higher world. And I am referring to the new breed the new breed according to law and records. He's spun off just
like China which is called Indochina because it is made out of India and China. These people are in your response. But we saw four of the nicknames of our neighbors. Because we are at the at the young stage just like when the Hebrews were in Egypt for 400 years they were called dogs and many nicknames. The anger was had many nicknames. Two thousand years ago. Anglo is one of the nicknames that uses or gave them when they found them in the caves of Britannia. He called them. He called them and police because they had blue eyes and. Blond hair. It was a nickname means angels and uncles. So really the Anglos chose that nickname the best. It's too bad that they are behaving and want the whole world to treat them as singles when in effect it was nothing but a joke nickname. However we
too are now suffering. From the invasion of many nicknames. What name. Now as I understand it last is the combined Indian and Spanish blood lab rats. As you can see translate into English means the race yet race which could be any race. Yes and used in the in the sense that I have heard it used in this movement. The people you're talking about are people of mixed Indian and Spanish blood right heritage right. Is that correct correct. And what name do you prefer. We know that it's I think the question is has to be subjected to records to law to cultural proves any name we can prove and trace it back to being a
nickname and something out of excess peroration just a quantity like quite a young child goes into a school that has no friends everybody picks on him. These young blood this new breed is just like going to school surrounded by older races such as the angle the Talon the Frankie even the painter. However I like to make a difference between piano and Spanish. He will never say they were in New Mexico. This America we say is panel is PanAmericana is by no means. Sprinkle with something from Spain. Whether it's rainy or oil by normal means pure blooded tenured we're not calling ourselves when we seize PanAmericana a Spaniard Americans for we are not. We're saying East panel which means. A race of people there is sprinkled with Spanish blood. However.
According to law to Title 1 book 6 of the laws of the Indias which rule this continent for 300 years and which was a law that legalized marriage between the Indians and the Spaniards according to the law we are indeed always Panos. That covers the Indian part and the panic part. We consider ourselves. And that is to prove it. When the treaty was signed only three powers of pure blooded Spaniards left New Mexico for they knew about the Black legend that the Anglo had written for three hundred years against Spain and they knew that they going to be persecuted and punished so they left the country. However 100000 new breed spinal stayed in New Mexico. Why because they didn't know anything about the conflict between England and Spain.
As we know it now. So they stayed there and to their surprise they were betrayed and their and their land was taken or their cultural rights or language was deprived. And now we see we have discover that the Anglo wants OSS to believe and the world in himself to believe that we are spenders so that he can feel better when he he he inflicts humiliate and deprive us of our rights as we can see he doesn't hate the Indian because the Indians have nothing against the Anglo hell the Indian is not a threat. We are here we have the blot documents the legal rights Continental rights divine rights every right in the book up and down. So there is a great difference between our life our history and the. History of the Indians and the history of the
Spain or Spaniards. There was quite an admixture of black blood at one point in the development of the of the middle American. I believe also that is being absorbed at the very fast. Rate. However the Inca the kingdom of the Incas the Aztecs patches they have seen the NS the tribe of Mexico that was a tribe in itself just like they has tried all absorbed and was a sprinkle with the Spanish blood. And this is what John F. Kennedy was talking about when he was flying over the Amazon River before he died and with a telegram from the Far Far East on his hands demanding more gold and threaten the United States this is South Vietnam. He said look what we get in all the gold and money in Iraq that we're giving them.
This is the way we are being paid by the South Southeast Asia people. That is why he had I believe that it's here in this continent where we will live or die. It's here or United States will fall or stand and then he mentioned the Amazon River being as twice as the Mississippi in the Volga put together. And the fact that by the year 2000 there would be 600 million Panny speaking people big giant who have been overlooked by the Anglo neighbor. That's why the Southwest these brown people in New Mexico is in a key position. We will be playing a very important role in the future relations of the Anglo and the east panic or Latin American countries. And I think that it's time for the our government to
realize and attend the cry. The plane complains the demands of the people of the Southwest the brown people because the time will come when the friendship of us first Latin America will be decided on the southwest behavior. We who speak the English and Spanish language we feel that way. We are no longer thinking in terms or from thouse West the standpoint of you bro but from a global universal standpoint of you. And we see our future role as one of the most important for the survival of the white structure of white power. WHITE PEOPLE THAT is why we're trying to persuade the Anglo to be friend to give up his crimes he seens his realistic ambitions and come down to worst to leave with all of us.
And that's why you want to work also with the black people right. Yes I think the black people are here to stay in their cries a holy cry. No matter if they are divided into hundreds of organizations they time will come when only the color will count and the black people will be will decide their destiny and their friends and their their course on maze of color as much as we hate. I am against that that that philosophy. However times in advance and the nature of organized power throughout the world are pushing off to that state where the differences of religion barriers religious barriers are falling down. And all their barriers are going up in its
place. Barriers of color however we can speak about combining colors. We can speak about chemists and harmonize bring harmony between colors and this is a good time to start to select and invite from all the various scholars and peoples just like Martin Dr. King was doing in his last moment bringing all the colors together to fight together. He wanted to include the white people on the Washington Mall right. Yes ma'am. And we had a very good representation of the white people. And. Everyone wants to talk so no later. These days about whether or not violence is justified in this
terrible historical moment you have been dealing with leaders in all these communities. What is your own feeling Mr. theory now as to the various strands of thought on this subject. Well I'm afraid to tell you the truth of the future the future is dark cloudy and the people are angry. All the people except those that feel guilty. And our government has developed into a machine a power equal to an angry bull with whom you can no longer reason. With a beast you cannot reason. And that
is why I am afraid of the future. We can see the behavior in a state in Vietnam where we have no business. Yet we demand from the North Vietnamese eco behavior in relation to a states as if we had this same right to be in Vietnam as they have. And that is what will make it difficult. Our lease is these controversial ours was born in blood. These country was born by destroying 60 million bottles who were the food of the Indian and peaceful people. People were put in reservations.
As bad as Spain was Spain never did put the Indians in reservations. And it is rather difficult to say. They for example Dr. King there is a great example he took treaty the peaceful way and that's how our government and the friends of our government deal with peaceful leaders. I think I and I feel that the SSN as you know John F. Kennedy Malcolm X and Dr. King was committed by the same power the same group the same site the extreme right side. So it is rather difficult. However since we have no bullets no money even if we wanted to use violence we could not. So we would not think in terms of violence
but as legal and small as we might be. We see a lion crouching jumping up on top of a cricket cricket has no claws no jaws no way to destroy a lion what he might decide to jump into the ear of the of a lion and scratch he seemed site of the year. That is a play where the lion cannot hurt him for the lion scratches himself to dig out the cricket. He will bleed himself to death. When I'm trying to say that there is more than one way to skin a cat and I think God is in command and if we are the one who is bringing this empire to to its place. I think he will do it the right way. There's always a way to approach your line. There is always a weak spot on a lion. Want to be nice
even if you refuses to reason. There is a weak spot and and also there is strong spot on the weak on your press on the people. I think more and more of mankind is taking over the public the peoples of the world are fed up tired and discovering that we with our taxes tax us high taxes paying our taxes so faithfully our Building up the giants these machineries these criminals and before long we were right. Come to that moment when the people will start paying taxes and will this regard their property. After all you have to pay so many things for your house to keep it there. Insurance city regulations
taxes and repairs and the worries are so many and the government pushing more and more. So who knows if our all of a sudden the people tired thinking about getting their electricity turned to candles fed up or the gas acquitted Texas City people are strong if they discover their power and the way the government is pushing our people. Pretty song. We will have no other choice. Peaceful means the cricket in the hole in the ear of the lion was a very peaceful but yet The Lion cannot resist the king and he will fight to get the cricket out of his ears. And
so I feel that our government is facing trouble and that's all I can see he's facing trouble and the way the press are killing are killing the good leaders by sniper like the snipers sniping. They don't come in the open like Dr. King would march in the open the streets with these men these murder these killers height. And the people might just decide to do that themselves and start hiding. Imitating the enemy so it's beautiful the situation is dark and we ourselves are preparing ourselves to make friends with good people with honest people and we're trying to create the criminals the troublemakers and I'll
grab them and is no longer the power who who who we can rest and control our power our government is meddling in the business of every country in the world making trouble all over and then they ask. We ask ourselves why do they hate us. They're greedy because we have money and much money. It is not true. I think they hate us because we meddle in their business. Because you are after what you consider to be your rights. You are going to go ahead Of course I assume with whatever plans are made to continue with the Washington March and with the alliance between the black and brown people. Yes. Yes we're going to straight right ahead.
We're going to strengthen our power base our unity. We have no other choice. Thank you very much.
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- Reies Lopez Tijerina, a Chicano leader who heads a Mexican-American movement to reclaim hereditary land grants confiscated by the United States government, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson. The group Tijerina heads is called Federal Alliance of Free City-States, more commonly known as the North New Mexico six-county land grant movement. The program was recorded Friday morning, April 5th, the day following the shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Broadcast Date
- 1968-04-05
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- Interview
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- Chicanos -- Political activity; Hispanic Americans--Civil rights
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- 00:53:59
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Reies Tijerina : leader of the Alianza,” 1968-04-05, Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 22, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-28-8w3804xw00.
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