Walkout Page #7

Get these people off the street!

- Chicano!

- Power!

Excuse me.

Excuse me?

Aren't you Sal Castro, the teacher

who orchestrated today's walkout?

Y-yes, I am Sal Castro,

and uh... no, I-I didn't

orchestrate the uh... walkouts.

The uh... kids did it

in their own.

- Why do you think they did it?

- Well, the Mexican-American community

has long been referred to

as the uh... sleeping giant.

And uh... today he's getting

his wake up call.

- Chicano!

- Power!

- Viva la raza!

- Viva!

We want equal education

for all! Chicano!

- Chicano! Chicano!

- Honey.

Honey, come here.

What is she doing?

Listen up, everybody! I just

got off the phone with Julian Nava,

and the school board said they're

gonna consider our demands...

- next week.

- Whoo-hoo!

We won, yeah!

Hey, man-- hey, wait a minute.

We didn't win nothing.

A phone call from a coconut saying

he's gonna consider our demands?

Yeah, they're called

negotiations.

Yeah, I know how

they negotiate with Chicanos.

We give

and they take.

Well, let's wait and see

what they come back with.

Oh no!

Hey!

Wait a minute,

hold on, hold on,

- wait a minute, hold on.

- We back off now, we're old news.

All right, what if we meet

the board halfway?

Some schools walk out,

others stay in?

- A show of weakness.

- You already sent the message.

- Well, let's send it louder.

- Yeah.

Okay okay okay okay.

Let the schools decide.

- Yeah.

- Fine, all right.

- Wilson.

- Garfield,

- Lincoln.

- Roosevelt.

- Berets.

- Belmont.

All right.

Garfield?

We're undecided.

- Lincoln?

- Lincoln's gonna stay in.

- Roosevelt?

- We're walking.

- All right.

- Wilson?

Wilson stands down

with Lincoln.

- Belmont?

- Blowout.

Blowout!

All right!

Why were you

so quiet tonight?

I don't know.

Everyone else was talking,

I just, uh... didn't have

that much to say.

Look, I uh...

I'm uh...

I'm glad you're not

walking out tomorrow.

I, um...

I have to go.

Yeah?

I-- my dad's

probably, um...

waiting for me right now

so I-- I have to-- yeah.

- So I'll call you tomorrow?

- It's probably better if I call you.

All right.

Roosevelt and Belmont

are walking out tomorrow.

Give me enough men

to cover these two schools.

I want to put

a stop to this.

Yeah, we know all about

this Brown Beret group.

They're a potentially militant,

dangerous group.

Any kind of communist

affiliation, foreign agents?

My own daughter enters

the house like a thief.

Papi, I didn't want

to wake anybody.

So now you are concerned

about your family?

I saw you on TV.

My daughter, standing

on a car,

waving a sign.

- How do you think I felt?

- Proud?

- No.

- Did you read the sign?

- Does not matter.

- Did you read the sign?

You were waving it

in the face of a policeman.

- "Equal education for all."

- What is wrong with you?

What is wrong

with what you have?

I don't know, I just don't

want to be like you.

Get in.

I brought you some clothes,

and your books.

Your aunt has

a spare room.

I'm going to Vickie's.

He'll cool down

in a few days.

Fathers tend

to worry, you know?

Especially about

their daughters.

I'll handle Papi.

My father used to tell me,

"Never fall in love with a sailor."

Mom, I know how

you met Dad.

I got pregnant.

It's been 20 years,

we've had very few easy days.

Make sure you can live

with the decisions

that you make, mija.

Damn. We can't

even get close.

All right, get those signs

to the kids. Move it.

- Let's go.

- Quickly, quickly.

Let's go, people.

Let's go, man.

- Come on.

- If we have to push back, we will.

Wait for my command.

Line up now.

Come on.

Are we making

the right decision?

I really don't know.

Roll-call.

Mickey, I need you

to sit back down.

You need to sit back down

in your seat, Mickey!

Belmont, walkout.

Walkout, Garfield!

Walkout!

Blowout! Walk-- walkout! -

Garfield, walkout!

I need everybody to go

back to your seats.

Stay seated. I need you

to stay in your seats.

Please, Sylvia do--

Angela, don't do this.

Stop, I need you

to... stop.

Stop! I need you

to step back.

What?

Open your books

to page 49.

Walkout! Walkout!

Walkout! Walkout!

This is an unlawful assembly.

By the order

of the State of California,

- you must return to your schools!

- Get back inside!

You're making

a big mistake.

- We can't let these guys intimidate us.

- Keep them on the line.

Students are coming

from everywhere.

Susan, make sure these kids

keep moving, okay?

Don't let them stop, don't let

them stop. Keep 'em moving.

All right, all right,

all right! Back inside!

Back inside! Back in...

Walkout, Garfield!

Walkout!

Excuse me, students,

what is going on out here?

Walkout, Garfield!

- We have to.

- Yeah, do it.

Walkout! Walkout!

Carlos! The gate,

get it open!

- Armando, David, let's go!

- The gate!

You have two minutes!

Walkout!

Walkout!

No! Go back!

Go back!

Return to your classrooms

or you will be arrested!

Walkout! Walkout!

- Yeah!

- Stay off the street!

Go! Stay on the sidewalk!

Keep moving.

Stay off the street!

Keep moving,

keep moving.

It's locked!

- Please, no!

- It's locked!

- We can't go anywhere!

- Please open! It's locked!

One minute!

Better back up!

Clear them out!

Get off me! Get off!

Stop! Stop hitting them!

Get off the bleachers

or you will be arrested!

I repeat.

Get down from the bleachers

or you will be arrested!

Chrisistomo.

Chrisistomo.

- Paula?

- Here.

Student protests continued

for a second consecutive day

as two East L.A. schools

boycotted classes.

Unlike yesterday's

peaceful demonstrations,

where all five area schools

marched in solidarity,

today's smaller protest

was marred by student violence.

Fortunately, a heavy police

presence kept order

resulting in only

a handful of arrests.

Commentator Earl Brown

has some thoughts

about the events

of the last two days.

What is the Mexican-American

community saying to us

with these random displays

of juvenile rebellion?

Are they just children

acting out?

Or is there

a much more dangerous element

entering the story?

Chief of Police

Tom Reddin has specifically

alluded to outside agitators,

many with ties

to the Communist Party.

But let us ask ourselves,

has it simply become the vogue

for our younger generation

to attack the very institutions

which are the cornerstones

of our society?

For we, the people

of Los Angeles, know all too well

the results of these types of attacks

when radical youth take the law

into their own hands.

Chief Reddin

had these comments.

Work still remains. I think we've seen

the last of these so-called walkouts.

- Like hell, you have.

- The aftermath

- of the Watts riots illustrated...

- Can't believe what they did.

- that civil unrest must be countered

- Neither can I.

- by swift and precise police action.

- Turn it off.

So we got, um...

we got kids in jail...

and in the hospital.

And all the footage

that, uh...

the kids

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