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Juan González: "Latinx Freedom" Conference Will Be Landmark Gathering in NYC April 9-10
Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez discusses the Latinx Freedom Movement Conference, taking place this week at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. The conference will be a landmark gathering of 1960s movement veterans, scholars, cultural leaders and more.Gonzalez, who co-founded the Young Lords, a revolutionary group that fought for Puerto Rican rights in the 1960s and '70s, says the CUNY conference will kick off a series of events in cities across the United States, presenting sort of an alternative view of the 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence" that aims to bring to a new generation this story of how the Latinx freedom movement developed."
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