Raza Media within the Belly of the Beast: Counter-Insurgency in the Barrio
On December 15, 2005, the United States House of Representatives passed the Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Immigration Control Act (H.R. 4437) by a vote of 239 to 182. This act, sparked a wave of community-led protests across the United States, from Los Angeles to Chicago, New York to Dallas, millions of protesters took to the streets to demand justice and to put a halt to the clear racist attack against migrants and immigrants. These mega and localized marches, which began to spill onto the streets in March and through May of 2006, drew the largest mass demonstrations ever in the history of the United States, to the point that analysts immediately called this struggle, the “new civil rights movement.” An important factor in educating our communities on the true intentions of state-repression will be to continue to work on creating, maintaining, and expanding an independent movimiento that can provide an alternative to the Republocrats (Republican/Democrat) Party and that can identify and challenge the counter-insurgent, low intensity warfare against La Raza. An integral part to this effort, will be to establish an independent Raza Press and Media Association that will be able to provide our communities with information and analysis that will never be found within the mainstream, corporate, capitalist media.