When: September 7, 2024 | 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Where: Veterans Memorial Complex, 4117 Overland Ave. Culver City 90230

CULVER CITY, September 1, 2024 – The Chicano Moratorium is returning to the Westside this Saturday, September 7th. It will be held in unceded Tongva land at Culver City’s Veterans Memorial Park. The theme of the event is “Building Our Future” and will follow the historic traditions of the Chicano Moratorium in demanding an end to war and institutional racism.

The original Chicano Moratorium was first organized on August 29, 1970 during which Chicanx youth from across the Los Angeles region all ventured to the barrio of East LA to stand against the Vietnam war, the draft, imperialism, racism, and the erasure of Chicanx histories and culture. The Westside Chicano Moratorium will commemorate the 54th anniversary of the original Moratorium, during a time when students, the Chicanx community, alongside other oppressed communities, are still in the throes of the struggle for justice and liberation. To reflect the history as well as the current moment, the planning committee has put together a list of six demands from the Westside Chicano Moratorium. The demands are as follows:

We demand that Culver City Council and LA City Council must join Santa Monica in passing a resolution calling for an immediate end to the violence and escalating war,

We demand that Culver City create new & preserve existing affordable housing,

We demand an end to the displacement of housed and unhoused residents in Culver City,

We demand an end the Culver City Police Department’s legacy of terrorizing our working-class communities and our cities must stop expanding the surveillance state,

We demand that Culver City protect public & accessible education for our communities, allowing no more charters and no more collocations, and

We demand that Culver City protect & further the implementation of Liberated Ethnic Studies.

The Westside Chicano Moratorium is being organized and endorsed by a broad coalition of organizations including Westside for Palestine, Ground Game LA, Community Solidarity Project, Centro CSO, Los Ronderos de Los Redes, Justice 4 Palestine – LA, POWER LA, the 50th Chicano Moratorium Committee, the LA Chapter of the MORENA Party, and more. Several of these local organizations will be seen tabling in the park and will have representatives that will speak throughout the event. The park event will include speakers, music, live art, dancers and more.

EVENT SCHEDULE
11:00 AM Crowd gathers
11:30 AM Opening rally begins
12:15 AM March begins
1:00 PM March returns
1:30 PM Park event kickoff
5:00 PM Park event ends

Visuals will include customized banners with specific messaging, matching t-shirts, flags and signs, notable speakers, community art and more.