Central Los Angeles : Chicano Anti-War Anniversary March Is On
Plans to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium anti-war protest march in East Los Angeles are on again after county officials waived the $30,000 cost of having sheriff’s deputies patrol the event. Budget-conscious county officials, reluctant to write off the cost of patrolling the Aug. 26 march, changed their minds after negotiating with event organizers.
“It was a decision by the Sheriff’s [Department] in conjunction with other community leaders that it would be in the best interest of the community to allow the march to occur,” said Sheriff’s Lt. Tom Angel of the East Los Angeles station.
Organizers expect 3,000 marchers along the 3.7-mile route that ends at Salazar Park. The park was named after Los Angeles Times columnist Ruben Salazar, who was killed on the day of the 1970 march when a sheriff’s deputy fired a tear-gas projectile into a bar where Salazar was having a beer.
Organizers say this year’s march will focus on Proposition 187 and the attacks on affirmative action.
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