Transcript The Revolt of the Cockroach People

The Revolt of the Cockroach
People
Chapters 6-11
By:
Peter Pham
Rex Baquiran
Joni Nguyen
Meaning of “Cockroach”
- The Chicanos
- The undesired (particularly
minorities) presence
- Unwanted attention
Time Period: 1969
What do you think this picture means or resembles?
-Part of the Hippie era
-Time of Vietnam War
-Violence was not wanted,
wanted peace to be
promoted
-Many protests/strikings for
peace
-Drugs were found more
often than candy
Oscar Zeta Acosta
A very well known and famous
Chicanos Lawyer. He fought for
his peoples’ rights, and at the
same time, got high.
Also known as an attorney,
politician, minor novelist, and a
Chicano movement activist.
Acosta took late night classes at
San Francisco Law School and
passed his California Bar exam
in 1966, then became an
antipoverty attorney.
It wasn’t until 1968, when he
moved to East Los Angeles to
join the Chicano movement. He
served as an activist attorney,
defending other Chicano groups
and activists.
Oscar Zeta Acosta
disappeared in 1974 on the
way to Mexico.
"The body was never found, but we surmise
that probably, knowing the people he was
involved with, he ended up mouthing off,
getting into a fight, and getting killed.”
-Marco Acosta
Last person to hear from him
was his son, who told him he
was boarding a boat full with
snow.
-Known very well back at the time
-Possible high reputation in doing his job
-Also could have been “infamous”
-Often in bar brawls
-250 lbs. + LSD-25
-Not much of a street fighter
-LSD-25 is known for its psychological effects
-Includes altered thinking processing and
synaesthesia, altered sense of time and
spiritual experiences.
LSD-25
-Used as an entheogen or a recreational
drug.
Entheogen:
-Psychoactive substance used in
religious, shamanic, or spiritual context.
-Supplements for healings,
transcendence, and revelation which
includes meditation, arts projects,
psychedelic therapy.
-Recreational Drug is the use of a drug,
usually psychoactive, with the intention
of creating or enhancing recreation
experience.
Chapter 6
-Buffalo does drugs with Gilbert, Black Eagle, Mangos, and Lady Feathers
-Gets 10 grand from McCarthy
-puts off trial for another year (had restraining order)
-Doctor Francisco Bravo (owner of Pan America Bank) meets with Mayor Yorty,
to tells them to stop trying
-6 Chicano Law Students wanted scholar ships for Loyola (cardinal shuts them
down)
Mangos
Miss Feathers
Gilbert
Black Eagle
Chapter 7
-Buffalo tries to convince people to make the church more democratic,
however the groups within the community of East L.A. disagrees
-Smokes with three other women named Veronica Rosalie and Madeline
-Settles into a new apartment with the three women and then forces them
to call their grandmother.
-“…I am tired of being a legal spokesman, a leader who’s always exempt
from danger.”
Chapter 8
-Robert gets questioned by the police and Buffalo tries to defend him
Why?
-Robert dies but no one knew how (possibly murder or suicide)
-Buffalo tells the doctors to cut him open (including the face and head) for an
autopsy
-Nothing was found, so his face was sewn back
-Buffalo apologizes that he couldn’t do anything about it and says goodbye to
Robert
Chapter 9
-Brown goes to court for Robert Fernandez
-Goes against the Mayer
-Judge is Pitluck
-The trial is major because it’s biased against Chicanos
-Judge doesn’t allow Brown to object due to “invalid”
testimonies of witness
-Brown’s only hope was
Fernandez’s cell mate, Mickey de
Silva
-However, Mickey doesn’t talk,
therefore causing Brown to lose
Chapter 10
-Brown, Gilbert, and Pelan are about to lose
the trial, so Brown decides to do something
rash… “a movida”
-They end up making molotovs and napalm a
safeway since farmworkers decided to picket
them
-They end up getting away safely and have a
party at the house with Rosalie, Madelire, and
Veronica.
-Each man gets a woman, but the girls are way
too young.
-Brown then changes his name to Zeta and
decides to run for sheriff to promote justice
Chapter 11
“If it had been another prisoner,
particularly if it had been a Chicano or
some other cockroach, you can bet your
bouts the sheriff would not have covered
the way he did.”
“‘Cockroach’ you say Mr. Brown?”
“Yeah, the cockroach people… You know,
the little beasts that everyone steps on.”