High school protests continue

Submitted by jarah on Fri, 03/31/2006 - 14:29.

Muted protests continued at high schools in Fresno today, Cesar Chavez Day. The Bullard High School Mecha club staged a protest during the school's lunch break. Approximately 40 - 50 students held signs and shouted slogans in protest of HR 4437.

According to the club's faculty advisor, Rick Clarke, about half have family members that could possibly be deported if the bill is passed in the Senate.

At Fresno High School, close to two dozen police vehicles were stationed around the campus.

Meanwhile, Bush has left Mexico with no agreement from Fox on immigration.

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Let's be honest

Submitted by Famous Guest on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 20:34.

"Viva La Raza" translates to "Long Live The Race." "Many MEChA operatives are College trained in "Ethnic Studies" to manipulate words and at taxpayer expense to boot.. They try to change the literal meaning of words because they need to be victims rather than honest brokers. They say it means "Long Live The People" but that would be "Viva La Gente." They want to make up words, convince us their words have special meaning and that we cannot use a literal translation. It's up to you to figure out their agenda and why they never say it in English, ever....

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Truth

Submitted by Famous Guest on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 11:18.

I wouldn't say literal translations lose their "coolness" it's a matter of cultural sayings which have meaning to the culture. Also Depending on your literacy in the language is how well you understand the language

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That's pretty much it.

Submitted by Alan on Tue, 04/04/2006 - 22:26.

Most literal translations tend to lose their coolness on the way over to English, don't they? You've pretty much got the gist right there, though. "Viva la raza" basically means "Long live the people" (in this case, the Mexican people) and it's sort of a cry of empowerment and solidarity that's vaguely related in aim and feeling to "Viva la revolution" or "God save the queen."

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Viva la raza?

Submitted by johne on Tue, 04/04/2006 - 15:57.

Can someone enlighten me or fill me in?

I've seen the use of "Viva la raza" throughout these protests. Using my limited knowledge of the spanish language...it seems to me that the literal translation is "up with the race" or "long live the race" or something along those lines.

The literal translation, honestly, sounds pretty uncool. Anyone able to explain to this white guy what the meaning is?

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Indymedia coverage of Fresno student walkouts

Submitted by Mike Rhodes on Sun, 04/02/2006 - 17:20.

See coverage of the Fresno student walkouts on Indymedia. For photos and articles go to: http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1812719.php

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