Juan Gonzlez: "Latinx Freedom" Conference Will Be Landmark Gathering in NYC April 9-10

[Uncle Joe]

Democracy Now! co-host Juan González discusses the Latinx Freedom Movement Conference, taking place this week at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. The conference will be a landmark gathering of 1960s movement veterans, scholars, cultural leaders and more.

González, who co-founded the Young Lords, a revolutionary group that fought for Puerto Rican rights in the 1960s and ’70s, says the CUNY conference will kick off a series of events in cities across the United States, presenting “sort of an alternative view of the 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence” that aims to “bring to a new generation this story of how the Latinx freedom movement developed.”

[JBTaurus83]

1. One small quibble here

I’m married to a Latino, and I’m around many people in the Latino community. This made up LatinX word is not popular with the community I’m around here in Philly and these are not right wing Dump supporting people.