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El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan:

In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical

heritage but also of the brutal "gringo" invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano,

Mexican, Latino, Indiginous inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of

Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and

consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of

our sangre is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny.

We are free and sovereign to determine those tasks which are justly called for by

our house, our land, the sweat of our brows, and by our hearts. Aztlan belongs to

those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the

foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze

continent Brotherhood unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people

whose time has come and who struggles against the foreigner "gabacho" who

exploits our riches and destroys our culture. With our heart in our hands and our

hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a

bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North

America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are

a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For La Raza to do. Fuera de La Raza

nada.

Program El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan sets the theme that the Chicanos (La Raza

de Bronze) must use their nationalism as the key or common denominator for

mass mobilization and organization. Once we are committed to the idea and

philosophy of El Plan de Aztlan, we can only conclude that social, economic,

cultural, and political independence is the only road to total liberation from

oppression, exploitation, and racism. Our struggle then must be for the control of

our barrios, campos, pueblos, lands, our economy, our culture, and our political

life. El Plan commits all levels of Chicano society - the barrio, the campo, the

ranchero, the writer, the teacher, the worker, the professional - to La Causa.

Nationalism

Nationalism as the key to organization transcends all religious, political, class,

and economic factions or boundaries. Nationalism is the common denominator

that all members of La Raza can agree upon.

Organizational Goals

1. UNITY in the thinking of our people concerning the barrios, the pueblo, the

campo, the land, the poor, the middle class, the professional-all committed to the

liberation of La Raza.

2. ECONOMY: economic control of our lives and our communities can only come

about by driving the exploiter out of our communities, our pueblos, and our lands

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and by controlling and developing our own talents, sweat, and resources.

Cultural background and values which ignore materialism and embrace

humanism will contribute to the act of cooperative buying and the distribution of

resources and production to sustain an economic base for healthy growth and

development Lands rightfully ours will be fought for and defended. Land and

realty ownership will be acquired by the community for the people's welfare.

Economic ties of responsibility must be secured by nationalism and the Chicano

defense units.

3. EDUCATION must be relative to our people, i.e., history, culture, bilingual

education, contributions, etc. Community control of our schools, our teachers, our

administrators, our counselors, and our programs.

4. INSTITUTIONS shall serve our people by providing the service necessary for

a full life and their welfare on the basis of restitution, not handouts or beggar's

crumbs. Restitution for past economic slavery, political exploitation, ethnic and

cultural psychological destruction and denial of civil and human rights. Institutions

in our community which do not serve the people have no place in the community.

The institutions belong to the people.

5. SELF-DEFENSE of the community must rely on the combined strength of the

people. The front line defense will come from the barrios, the campos, the

pueblos, and the ranchitos. Their involvement as protectors of their people will be

given respect and dignity. They in turn offer their responsibility and their lives for

their people. Those who place themselves in the front ranks for their people do

so out of love and carnalismo. Those institutions which are fattened by our

brothers to provide employment and political pork barrels for the gringo will do so

only as acts of liberation and for La Causa. For the very young there will no

longer be acts of juvenile delinquency, but revolutionary acts.

6. CULTURAL values of our people strengthen our identity and the moral

backbone of the movement. Our culture unites and educates the family of La

Raza towards liberation with one heart and one mind. We must insure that our

writers, poets, musicians, and artists produce literature and art that is appealing

to our people and relates to our revolutionary culture. Our cultural values of life,

family, and home will serve as a powerful weapon to defeat the gringo dollar

value system and encourage the process of love and brotherhood.

7. POLITICAL LIBERATION can only come through independent action on our

part, since the two-party system is the same animal with two heads that feed

from the same trough. Where we are a majority, we will control; where we are a

minority, we will represent a pressure group; nationally, we will represent one

party: La Familia de La Raza! Action

1. Awareness and distribution of El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan. Presented at every

meeting, demonstration, confrontation, courthouse, institution, administration,

church, school, tree, building, car, and every place of human existence.

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2. September 16, on the birth date of Mexican Independence, a national walk-out

by all Chicanos of all colleges and schools to be sustained until the complete

revision of the educational system: its policy makers, administration, its

curriculum, and its personnel to meet the needs of our community.

3. Self-Defense against the occupying forces of the oppressors at every school,

every available man, woman, and child.

4. Community nationalization and organization of all Chicanos: El Plan Espiritual

de Aztlan.

5. Economic program to drive the exploiter out of our community and a welding

together of our people's combined resources to control their own production

through cooperative effort.

6. Creation of an independent local, regional, and national political party. A nation

autonomous and free - culturally, socially, economically, and politically- will make

its own decisions on the usage of our lands, the taxation of our goods, the

utilization of our bodies for war, the determination of justice (reward and

punishment), and the profit of our sweat.

El Plan de Aztlan is the plan of liberation!