Guerrilleros de la Pluma: Journal of the Raza Press and Media Association

Call for Articles For the Upcoming Issue:

The Raza Press and Media Association is the only national group of progressive journalists actively working towards effectively informing on issues of justice, equality, discrimination, independence and liberation relating to Mexicano-Latinos (Raza). We meet on a regular basis, have an organizational structure, principles of unity, objectives, and consistently publish the journal, Guerrilleros de La Pluma.

In response to the continuing and growing assaults on the right to information and freedom of expression, especially as it relates to Raza and other nationalities within the current borders of the United States, the Raza Press and Media Association (formerly known as the Chicano Press Association) is making a call to Raza students, community activists, and academicians, and those active in the field of journalism to submit articles relating to Raza inour struggle for justice, self-determination and independence.

The articles must address the historical or current political, economic or social impacts being experienced by the Raza community.

Selected articles will be published in the Guerrilleros de la Pluma. Issues of Guerrilleros de La Pluma are distributed widely in hard copy as well as electronically. Copies are circulated at political actions, colleges, libraries, and conferences; they are mailed to Raza prisoners and a subscribers list; the journal is also posted online (Internet).

Criteria For Articles:

(1) Articles must be between 3 and 5 pages (no longer please), typed and doubled space (Fonts 10 or 12 points). If you submit a research type working paper, when quoting, or referring to data, use footnotes or endnotes and a bibliography for documentation purposes. Writing styles that could be use are the following; Chicago, APA, and MLA.
(2) articles must be submitted by …… December 1. 2007
(3) sent your articles via e-mail (info@razapressassociation.org) or on a floppy disk (i.e. MS Words, etc.) to the following address:

Raza Press and Media Association
Attn.: Guerrilleros de la Pluma
P.O. Box 20411
Oxnard, Califas 93034-0411

Support the RPA! Join the struggle to keep alive progressive and liberation Raza thought and ideology! Support the struggle for Raza justice, self-determination and independence!

Hasta La Victoria
Raza Press and Media Association

The Rebirth of the Revolution – April 28-29, 2006

Change through Activism, Liberation & Education (ChALE), the Raza Press Association (RPA) and the Community Caucus of the National Association of Chicano/Chicana Studies present:

The Rebirth of the Revolution: Bringing it back to our Community
A conference focusing on the direction of today’s Chicana/Chicano communities.

This encuentro will take place beginning on April 28th with an evening Bar-B-Q-Vo-le and the conference taking place on April 29th, 2006 at the Barelas Community Center in Albuquerque, NM. The goal of the conference is to unite Raza from throughout the nation to hold an intergenerational, community-based dialogue about the current status and future of our Raza. We look forward to discussing options for solutions to the burning issues facing nuestro pueblo, and together continue the struggle for our liberation.

The current conditions facing our Raza throughout the world demand efforts on all fronts to destroy all forms of oppression. By uniting and conducting an intergenerational community based dialogue we can continue working towards developing relevant strategies to address our current issues, as well as those that will present themselves in the future. The major themes we intend to address at this encuentro are:

Activism / Organizing
Education
Spirituality, Alternative Health

¡Que Viva La Revolución!
¡Juntos Venceremos!

ChALE, RPA and the Community Caucus of the National Association of Chicano/Chicana Studies

Welcome To The Raza Press Association (RPA)

The primary objective of the RPA is to advance the struggle for Raza self-determination by promoting and unifying the progressive Raza press/media.

Essential to this process is confronting stereo-types espoused by the U.S. bourgeois media. The RPA holds the position that Raza are colonized, indigenous people and that the so-called “Southwest U.S.” is in fact Aztlan, part of the Mexicano nation, stolen in the U.S. expansionlist/imperialist war of 1846-1848.

Furthermore the RPA will commit itself to combating all manifestations of oppression and exploitation. Central to putting into effect our objectives the RPA membership will actively get involved in the day-to-day struggles being waged by our movement and by our people. As part of this movement activism, the RPA will commit itself to organizing study sessions, forums, give presentations and disseminate information/liberature/publications to our communites to help raise the political consiousness of nuestro pueblo.