CPUSA maps work among Mexican Americans
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Author: Special to the World
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 06/03/04 11:41
TUCSON, Ariz. – Communist Party leaders and activists met here to
discuss plans to bring out the broadest possible Mexican American and
Latino vote to defeat the ultra right in the November elections and to
strengthen the CPUSA's work among this section of the population. The
participants at the meeting, held in the Salt of the Earth Labor
College on May 15-16, came chiefly from the Southwest and the West
Coast.
Lorenzo Torrez, chair of the Party's Mexican American Equality
Commission, reviewed the Commission's work in the recent period. He
proposed the organizing of a left-center Latino coalition to mobilize
the progressive sentiments of U.S. Latinos.
Rosalío Muñoz, CPUSA organizer in Southern California, reported on
Latinos and the elections. He noted that the presidential race will be
decided in key "battleground states." A number of these, such as
Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, are states where Mexican Americans
are concentrated, he said.
Muñoz proposed that the CPUSA put out literature in both Spanish and
English explaining what is at stake for Latinos in the upcoming
elections.
José A. Cruz, editor of Nuestro Mundo, the Spanish-language section of
the People's Weekly World, discussed ways of improving the paper's
coverage of critical issues in the Mexican American and Latino
communities.
On Saturday evening, meeting participants were joined by local
activists from the Latino, labor, peace and justice movements to
celebrate Torrez' birthday and his decades of activities in
progressive politics.
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