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The Beatles Internet Radio In San Francisco, California 2009 BEATLES 24/7 QVO RADIO. COM Are entering to the Worldwide Community of Beatles - Peace / Love Listen Here BEATLES RADIO LOW RIDER RADIO FIRME MAGAZINE VATO TALK ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Chicano’s Perspective on the Summer of Love, 1967 By Frank S. Lechuga When I was in Monterey, California last year, attending my second daughter’s wedding reception I had the opportunity to look back to when I drove my lowered ‘59 Chevy Impala from L.A. to San Pancho up the Pacific Coast Highway, through Big Sur, giving rides to hitchhiking hippies. It was my first trip up the coast to San Francisco. I had just completed my freshman year at what was then San Fernando Valley State College and already had some activist experience under my belt, picketing for la Huelga and fighting for the founding of the Chicano Studies Department. It was the summer of 1968 and my destination was Haight-Ashbury and San Francisco. I did not know it then that the Summer of Love had already come and gone, and that the Haight-Ashbury scene was dead. I did not know that I was being swept up by an unprecedented wave of cultural and social change -- the counterculture. Some would call it a renaissance. Conservative America believed it was a revolution -- perpetrated by subversives and hippie wackos. The culture wars had started. Not quite a year later, in the spring of 1969, I took a trip to Denver, Colorado with some homeboys from San Fernando, California. We went to attend the First National Chicano Liberation Youth Conference, an event of historical importance for Chicanos and Latinos Latinos and America before the Summer of Love Why did so many young Americans gravitate to the vision of the Summer of Love represented? What was it about the America they grew up with that compelled them to flee the sanctity of home values and to plunge into the craziness and moral frontier of the counterculture? What drove them to embrace one of the central visions of the counterculture – world peace and humanity without racism? Clearly, many Americans had tired of waging war in Vietnam, a war on the other side of the world, waged against a non-white people fighting for self-determination. The Civil Rights Act, which prohibited discrimination in voting, public accommodations, and employment -- was not passed by Congress until July of 1964. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 became law in August of that year. This legislation provided federal protection for federal, state and local elections. Both Acts were legislated after a long and grueling Civil Rights struggle, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and supported by many Americans, including our own great civil rights and labor leader, Cesar Chavez. What was America like for Chicanos before the Summer of Love, 1967? Latino political power as we know it today in California did not exist. Edward Roybal, the first Latino elected to Congress from California since 1879, had just been elected to Congress in ’62. For years, J. Edgar Hoover’s goons in suits followed him around like a suspected criminal. There wasn’t even one Latino on the L.A. city council. Segregation was alive and thriving. The concept of diversity in America as we know it today did not exist at that time. For most people of color the social system in place was an American form of apartheid reinforced by brutal, racist cops, the gerrymandering of voting districts and governmental/business practices like redlining. Almost a year after the enactment of Voting Rights Act, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Some us who would later became activists, artists, leaders and foot soldiers in El Movimiento were still in high school and middle even elementary school around that time. Some were still in gangs or just cruising or partying in the neighborhood. It was a time of prelude and gestation. In fact, it was at the beginning of the Summer of Love in June of ’67 that Reis Lopez Tijerina led the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse Raid, in the land grant struggle for the return of lands stolen in New Mexico after Mexican War of 1846-1848. That political act of rebellion, labeled criminal by the Establishment, helped inspire Chicano leaders to become more militant in their civil rights activism and to frame their politics in the context of the greater historical issue of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Tijerina may have awed and galvanized Chicanos with his fiery rhetoric and armed tactics but we had other leaders, leaders who were taking on broader, national issues. They were leaders who in their own right were also warriors, but whose philosophies and methods were more in the tradition of nonviolence. Right alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta was Denver-based Chicano civil rights leader, Rudolfo “Corky” Gonzales who criticized the Viet Nam war with eloquence in 1966, two years before Dr. King spoke up against the war. Two years after the Summer of Love, Corky’s organization, the Crusade for Justice hosted the national Chicano youth conference. It was an event of historical importance for Latinos. Activist Latino youth, including Brown Berets and Young Lords, from all over the country attended. In 1976, Benjamin F. Hernandez published the inaugural issue of (El Papel de la Gente) Q-VO Magazine and Firme Magazine were published in Riverside, California. Subsequent issues during its publishing history were distributed and sold successfully throughout the country. For many youth it was a heady initiation into real militant activism. I recall participating in a demonstration against racism and the Vietnam War during the Chicano Youth Conference. The march went through downtown Denver and the city civic center. My homeboys spotted a flagpole flying the American flag. Without any deliberation, they ran past the Crusade for Justice security, and before anybody could do anything, they were tearing down the flag. The media was there and took pictures that were published in newspapers and aired nationwide. The taking down of that flag was an act of raw, youthful anger and defiance, the stuff of counterculture – but it was Chicano and so it was colored as treasonous disrespect for the national emblem. In the spring following the Summer of Love, a year before the Denver youth conference, the Brown Berets and East L.A. high school students surged onto the streets in the protests known as the East L.A. Walkouts. These were youth-driven, near spontaneous mass demonstrations against inadequate education. The walkouts reverberated throughout California and the Southwest. Brown Beret chapters sprung up all over the Southwest and Southern California. There was the 57^thBrown Beret Chapter in the City of Riverside and the 47^th in Barrio Casa Blanca that organized to challenge racist retailers and educational bureaucrats. In the towns of Fontana, Colton, Corona, Mira Loma, chapters of organized, uniformed, youthful Chicanos stood up in the late 60s and early 70s for community empowerment and against racism and police brutality – and against the internecine bloodletting of gang warfare and organized drug dealing in the barrios. The seeds had been planted for what was to follow at the First National Chicano Liberation Youth Conference in 1969. There, a national committee was formed to protest the Vietnam War and the disproportionately high death rate of Latino soldiers in the war’s frontlines and the racism these soldiers had to come home to. These young Latinos, the nation’s real foot soldiers – had become cannon fodder for what President Eisenhower had warned Americans against -- the military industrial complex Led by leaders like Rosalio Munoz, student activist and Carlos Montez, a Brown Beret founder -- a series of protests against the war and for peace culminated in 1970 on August 29 in the East L.A. Chicano Moratorium. Unfortunately, probably disrupted by agents provocateurs (perhaps by overzealous militants manipulated by agents --the truth may never be known) the protest did not end peacefully. What we do know is that during the riot that followed the break-up of the protest, the life of L.A. Times reporter and columnist and TV KMEX station director, Ruben Salazar was snuffed out by a tear gas projectile fired into the Silver Dollar Café, where he was taking a break. Chicano Studies professor, Raul Ruiz and Joe Razo of La Raza magazine were outside the bar photographing Los Angeles County Sheriffs shooting tear gas through the building’s storefront windows at the very moment Salazar was killed. August 29, 2010 will be the forty-year anniversary of this historical event. In the months that followed and throughout the early 70s, Chicanos continued to protest for community empowerment and against the war and institutional racism. Everywhere, even if they were not members of the Brown Berets, Mexican Americans and Latinos, men and women, including this writer, wore the brown beret. Chicanos were on the march and it was no longer just the youth. El Movimiento was picking up speed, not too far behind the larger swell of the American counterculture. While Chicano and Latino connections to a counterculture event like the Summer of Love and the counterculture in general may not seem evident at first, they are there, if you look for them. Take Chris Montez, a Chicano rocker of the early sixties who followed in Ritche Valens’ footsteps, and who was a trailblazer for other young Chicano musicians and performers. Chris Montez is not always identified with the British Rock n’ Roll Invasion and the counterculture icons that led it, the Beatles -- but he was there. His early 60s hit, Let’s Dance was huge in England. In one of his tours in England, the early Beatles were his opening act. By the time of the Summer of Love in ’67, Chris Montez had left behind a legacy for other young Chicano rock and R&B artists. Thus, the tradition of the The Eastside Sound was planted and creative musical talent blossomed and branched out. Chicano rock and R&B groups were all over the charts. By 1967, one of these groups, Cannibal and the Headhunters was already touring with the Beatles The Summer of Love was the landmark event of an American renaissance in cultural invention, social consciousness and social justice. What happened in America in the sixties and seventies inspired movements for social justice all over the world. El Movimiento was our own Chicano renaissance -- our own political, cultural and spiritual reawakening -- and the rebirth of our historical consciousness. In 1976, Benjamin F. Hernandez published the inaugural issue of (El Papel de la Gente) Q-VO Magazine and Firme Magazine were published in Riverside, California. Subsequent issues during its publishing history were distributed and sold successfully throughout the country. Cruising on Lowrider Magazine’s (originally a grass-roots Chicano endeavor) basic format of social exposure, fine rucas and cool ramflas, Q-VO Magazine and Firme provided publicity to new Latino/a entertainers, and documented the recent and current Chicano Movement. This served to create amongst its largely male, Mexican American readership -- an interest in Chicano history and sociopolitical issues. It extended the renaissance into the Latino working class and plebe like no other Chicano political or ideological tract or newspaper. Throughout the late sixties and early seventies, African Americans, Native Americans, women, Pacific Islanders, minorities everywhere experienced the rebirth of interest in their history. The revision of American history with a diverse perspective began in the 60s. It was in this great spirit of righteous historical revisionism that in 1972, Dr. Rudy Acuna – wrote and published the seminal and controversial, historical work, Occupied America. (This writer is proud to say he served as a foot soldier in the fight to establish minority programs at Cal State Northridge and to bring Dr. Acuna to the campus to found the Chicano Studies Department.) The counterculture was exploding everywhere in the 60s and 70s, at all levels. It was happening on university campuses and in the minds of intellectuals and artists as well as workers and musicians. Many Chicano and Latino rockers and R&B artists were creating their own renaissance at the same time they were riding the wave of the larger counterculture. With the new consciousness, the East L.A. Group the V.I.Ps morphed into El Chicano and went on to become a national and international success. Los Lobos independently released their first album, their statement on behalf el Movimiento, taking a title borrowed from a United Farm Workers slogan, Si Se Puede. Tierra was another Chicano-inspired East L.A. R&B and rock group that went on to phenomenal, world-wide success. Outside the Eastside Sound orbit, Joan Baez was well into the forefront of her genre. Carlos Santana fused rock with R&B and Latin sounds, taking off into new musical territory. His brother, Jorge led the group Malo to enjoy great success. Other artists like Coco Montoya and Linda Ronstadt were in training for careers that would blossom in the later 70s. Latino Counterculture Icons and the Wave of Change There was another Carlos, a Latino counterpart to another counterculture icon, Timothy Leary. Carlos Castaneda challenged fundamental perceptions of reality with the Toltec path with heart he had learned from the Yaqui sorcerer, Don Juan. Then there is Jose Arguelles who participated in the founding of Earth Day in 1970. Initiating the Harmonic Convergence, he laid a foundation that helped to extend the New Age into the eighties and to the present and has continued since as career activist for peace and the planetary transformation of consciousness. While neither Castaneda nor Arguelles made ethnic self-identity a part of their message or their literary persona, they never apologized for or denied their heritage. Yet, it can be argued it is the stuff of heritage that is at the heart of their statements to the world. Certainly, by example, Castaneda in his time and now Arguelles bring that message to Chicanos and Latinos in the present. Our trailblazing musicians have been embodying that message as well. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we bring with us into the world a certain essence that our ancestors bestowed upon us through blood and cultural heritage. Too Late to Turn Back -- Mighty Currents and Tidal Waves I did not mention that when I went on my trip up to San Francisco that summer of ‘68, I had just finished a job as a dorm coordinator. I recall walking away with extra money and time after the program ended, happy I was out of that cramped and smelly dorm room. Within days, I was cruising up Pacific Coast Highway. I listened to the Beatles and the Headhunters and everybody else on the way up and I saw the beautiful California coastline for the first time. In my youthful naiveté, a nice way of saying, pendejismo, I thought the action in Haight-Ashbury and San Francisco I had heard about was an ongoing happening. The hitchhikers I picked up in Big Sur told me that everything had ended, but it was too late for me to turn back. I had driven too far. I remember one of them, a real hot hippie babe inviting me to join her and her friends up in Los Padres National Forest. They had their own summer of love happening up there in the coastal redwoods. I’m glad now that I didn’t accept her offer. I found out later that travelers were being waylaid at that camp. Oh, did I mention that all these years I did not know that the big happening I drove up to find that summer was . . . THEE Summer of Love? My fate was to find my way back into el Movimiento and to plunge into that mighty upsurge raging in the great tidal wave of the counterculture. We are Elders now. Some of us lived that great storm’s vibrant energy. We should pause and applaud ourselves. We survived. We got ourselves educated, got jobs and raised families. We can now join our fellows, young and old in recognition and commemoration of what happened back in those glorious days. Join us in San Francisco on September 2 at the Summer of Love, 2007. BACK TO: \| QVO Magazine \| FIRME Magazine \| QVO RADIO \| 408-243-6690 Our New Address QVO RADIO P.O. Box 71021 141 So. Taaffe St. Sunnyvale, Ca. 94086 As 2009 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED As written in this order is copyright protected property of BEN-HER MEDIA GROUP AND BENJAMIN FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ E-Mail direct at: qvomail@gmail.com Program Schedule for January / February 2009 Beatles / San Francisco to the world - Beatles Radio 24 / 7 Representing The World Wide Community of Beatle Radio Listeners PEACE AND LOVE Or Email Us Here 408-243-6690 QVO Magazine More Beatles...Less Talk Rocking Chicano Trailblazers and the Chicano Renaissance Chavez Ravine photos from Chavez Ravine: 1949: A Los Angeles Story Chanez Ravine-More.... 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