WGXC-90.7 FM
COVID, Race, and Democracy: Ricardo Romero, Rosemari Mealy, Alvin Ja
Aug 31, 2021: 7pm - 8pm
As we mark the 51st anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium on August 29th, Pacifica producer Ken Yale speaks with Ricardo Romero, one of the founders of the Chicano-Mexicano movement in the 1960s and 70s. He co-founded the Crusade For Justice and the Movimiento de Liberacin-Mexicano (MLN-M), directed the Crusades liberation school, Escuela Tlatelolco, helped organize the Tierra Amarilla Youth Brigades, and was incarcerated for resisting a grand jury investigating the Puerto Rican independence movement. He has been an activist for over 50 years, is still a member of the MLN-M, and is a leading anti-imperialist voice for Chicano-Mexicano liberation and global solidarity.
Segment 2: The Black Liberation Movement in the Fight Against Imperialism
Veteran activist and writer, Rosemari Mealy, shares her thoughts with producer Esther Iverem about the impact and lessons of the Black Liberation Movement in fighting successfully against US imperialism. Rosemari Mealy was an active member of the Black Panther Party and the National Alliance of Third World Women. She is now an adjunct professor at the City University of New York, and author of several books including, Fidel and Malcolm X: Memories of a Meeting. Rosemari was also a regular host at WBAI, Pacifica Radio, in New York City. Esther Iverem is the host of On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nations Capital, which originates from WPFW, Pacifica Radio, in Washington, DC.
Segment 3: Asian-American Resistance to Imperialism
Many Asian-American immigrants and descendants of Japanese, Filipino, Chinese and other nationalities have resisted their oppression in the U.S., built solidarity with liberation movements of internally colonized people, and refused to fight in imperial wars. Pacifica producer Polina Vasiliev spoke with Alvin Ja, a veteran anti-imperialist activist, about the history of Asian-American resistance to US imperialism. Alvin began his activism in the 1960s when he worked in the Chinatown community and joined the Asian-American Political Alliance and the Third World Liberation Front in San Francisco and Berkeley, California.

