Article I. Purpose

A. The purpose of La Raza at P.S.U--M.E.Ch.A. is to study, educate, inform, and promote to students, faculty, staff, and community-at -large about the political, cultural, social, economic, and philosophic issues that pertain to the Chicano community with an emphasis on Indigenous/Native American heritage. As a disenfranchised group, Chicanos are lacking opportunities in education and self-awareness in a society that systematically marginalized those groups outside the mainstream status quo. Hence, La Raza at P.S.U., is primarily involved in raising the awareness level of Chicanos y Chicanas in the United States who have regionalized experience of their identity and culture. Thus we shall strive also to combine theory and practice in our activism and seek social and economic justice as a Xicano-Tiahui (Chicano Movement).

B. As indicated by our name, La Raza at P.S.U--M.E.Ch.A., we will affiliate ourselves to the ideology and movimiento of M.E.Ch.A. as a national organization, while maintaining our own individuality within rules and regulations of M.E.Ch.A. we will take the necessary steps, such as adopting the "Plan de Santa Barbara," to stay affiliated to M.E.Ch.A.

    El Plan de Santa Barbara

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