Interviews: La Cartita News

LEZAMA: I think that has been done in college campuses in California, and elsewhere. It is a good way to circumvent the media, but then the move administrators make is to begin charging for use of these spaces. They essentially price out minority organizations. (For example, UC Davis now charges students to use their own buildings.)

CHOMSKY: I know, and I've been following it. It is true, and I've spoken at universities in California. There is plenty of activism. Actually, it has changed a lot in the past four or five years. Just to illustrate, at UCLA back in 1985, I was invited to give philosophy lectures. I said 'sure', but the next day I got a call from campus police asking if they could have uniformed police accompany everywhere I went. I said 'no'. The next day I saw police following me everywhere I went. They are not hard to detect in a philosophy seminar. I could not walk across from the faculty club to other parts of campus. The reason is that they had just picked up a lot of death threats. They don't want someone killed on campus. I gave the talk at Royce Hall, the big campus hall, but it was airport security. One entrance. Everybody's bag had to be checked. The next day there was a huge attack on the Daily Bruin. First of all, it was a huge attack on me, but also on the professor who invited me. In fact, there was an effort to take away the tenure of the professor who invited me. It was beaten back, but they tried. Well, that was back in 1985. I was back in UCLA maybe a year ago. There was a huge mob, very supportive, hard to get a critical word of what I was saying. That is a huge change. It changed because of student activism. It's the kind of thing you asked about, you know, 'what should people do?'.

Complete Interview With Juan Alderete from The Mars Volta. July 4, 2012 Here.

Alderete: Chicano. Mexican. My mom is Guadalajara and my dad is Chihuahua, then they moved to Los Angeles, where my [family] was born, but I remember thinking 'to me its just a border line' because they are still Mexican. So, I would always call myself Mexican. People would always give me shit for it because my Spanish sucked, and I didn't grow up in Mexico, so they go 'you cant call yourself Mexican'. I just kept thinking 'well, I want to be!' [because] to me it was just a border. And, I remember the first time I went to real Mexico and thinking 'I feel more at home with these people than the people I came up with'.

We actually had a tour manager who would give me shit about it. He was like 'dude, you are Chicano, you are not Mexican. Go hang out'. After you hang out, then you see the mentality differences and the cultural differences. mentality and the cultural differences and you're like "yeah, you are probably right", but it that doesn't mean my culture is completely different from a Mexican culture, but it is definitely from an American culture. And, you know, all my family members are married to Americans basically. Except for my little brother, he's married to a Chicana and their kids are fluent. And, my wife is half-Japanese so I came in to my own thing so I was like 'fuck it' if that's what you call it, then I'm Chicano.

Frente la embajada de Alemania, se conduce entrevista con el Padre Goyo durante su visita a Nueva York. En estas fechas se conducían manifestaciones por la exportación de armas (14/02/2015)