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it says what you're doing whatever it is relevant. Education and everything else will start changing everything. That's beautiful. Let's start doing what you want. Like in your families, in your own families. Look into your mother's eyes and your father's eyes and that's all the history you

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have to know and the wrinkles of your mother's face because those same wrinkles are going to come out in your face, in your hands. It's all our history right there in your house. Since the schools apparently cannot come up with any solutions. It is time we

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had to try number one La raza studies departments in Oakland public schools. A english as a second language. Be spanish for spanish speaking C history D culture, e literature, F intensive bilingual language programs at Westlake and Technical High Schools. Number two, all students have the right

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to organize in unions. A union should be able to invite speakers be bringing materials they feel is necessary. See, choose their own sponsors at the request of faculty members from our department And some of our students in our latin american studies departments and knowing that the

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students were going to boycott the schools today rather than have them on the street. The faculty invited some of these students to attend the college and to enter into the classes and to learn about latin american studies that the harassment of students by teachers, counselors, administrators

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be stopped. Those are the demands we are presenting to the board of Education today at five o'clock. And we want you all there in support of these demands. Even let us mhm. Yeah, mm hmm. The students say they haven't decided yet whether they'll continue their boycott

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of classes passed today. They'll make that decision after hearing from the Oakland Board of Education Velvet Davis for Eyewitness News, Merritt College Oakland.