My cousins, proud MECHA members from back in the day, are shaking their heads. This is like young women who don’t like the word feminist.
Leaders of MEChA, a Mexican American student group, declined to comment to the @AP on their decision to drop references to “Chicano” and “Aztlan” from group’s name. They said group will issue statement on Sat, nearly a week after vote #mecha #naccs2019https://apnews.com/95617a47dde44c0c964b07672f23e9e1 …
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Both of my sisters had leadership roles in MEChA at their campuses and neither one likes the name change.
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The poet Alurista, one of the early supporters/founders of MEChA, wrote The Plan Espiritual de Aztlan in the late ‘60s, which firmly links that student movement to indigenous culture.pic.twitter.com/MO7XUh7k5n
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