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participanteLucha, the militant Latino activist group responsible for all those newsprint gravestones on College Walk yesterday, is now in newsprint: el participante, their fashionably uncapitalized, eight-page newsletter, began distribution on Sunday. "In addition to being a way for Lucha to communicate with the activist community, we hope it can turn into a place for discussion, criticism, and analysis of the left at Columbia," explained editor Rudi Batzell in an e-mail.

The first edition, available as a pdf here, contains reports on a recent march on Washington and Jena 6 rally at Bronx Community College, as well as the hunger strike demands and selections from a speech given by Malcolm X a week before his death.

Now all we need is the return of the Citadel...

- LBD

See also: ., Lucha

November 13, 2007 @ 2:22 PM | Comments 21 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | | Share on Facebook

Posted by haha: #1 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 3:09 PM
maybe they will read it themselves.... but thats about it lololoollololl
Posted by Wait...: #2 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 3:21 PM
... Why bother with a newsletter when they can just spam my e-mail like they normally do?
Posted by threadjack: #3 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 3:29 PM
COLUMBIA BASKETBALL ON ESPN TONIGHT AT 9PM vs The Ohio State University.

/threadjack
Posted by you can email: #4 (in reply to #2) · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 3:37 PM
them and get off if its that big of a deal.
Posted by two preguntas: #5 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 4:23 PM
1) These people are literate???

2) Who gave these people access to a printer?
Posted by nevermind: #6 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 4:27 PM
reading the pdf more than adequately answered my first question.
Posted by that shit is hot! : #7 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 4:50 PM
you're a bunch of haters!
Posted by latina: #8 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 5:23 PM
racist blood-sucking worthless bastards would be a more accurate description
Posted by thats: #9 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 6:02 PM
a terrible email address.

just saying.
Posted by conservative: #10 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 6:29 PM
Somebody really does need to bring back the Citadel.
Posted by agree: #11 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 6:47 PM
its pretty sad the republicans bring all those speakers but can't put out a little publication semi regularly

and oh yeah. go columbia. beat the buckeyes!
Posted by I disagree: #12 (in reply to #11) · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 7:32 PM
While I'd go see their speakers, I'd never read their publication.
Posted by lolexploitation: #13 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 7:58 PM
I think I'll pay my Mexican/Central American lawnmowers a few dollars less now, just to spite these idiots' demands.
Posted by haha: #14 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 8:14 PM
They won't mind... they're too busy getting threesomes from your mama and your girl to notice.
Posted by suckitlucha: #15 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 8:27 PM
Lucha is a pathetic organization. Waah waah, we are oppressed, waaaah. We must struggle against the oppressive administration of an incredibly diverse and liberal university.
Posted by skeptical: #16 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 8:35 PM
You wouldnt know what it feels like to be oppressed.
Posted by you wouldn't: #17 · reply · track
November 13, 2007 at 11:44 PM
know what it's like to not have a breeze in your head every time the wind blows, so who's the real loser here? Oh that's right, everyone in Columbia, for being associated with Lucha.
Posted by Like, seriously?: #18 · reply · track
November 14, 2007 at 3:09 AM
Is this a joke?
Posted by disgusted: #19 · reply · track
November 14, 2007 at 12:27 PM
the comments on this are reason ENOUGH for a group like LUCHA to be on this campus.

"1) These people are literate???

2) Who gave these people access to a printer?"

OR

"maybe they will read it themselves.... but thats about it lololoollololl"

OR

"I think I'll pay my Mexican/Central American lawnmowers a few dollars less now, just to spite these idiots' demands."

FOR ONE, HOW RIDICULOUS ARE YOU? DO YOU SIT IN FRONT OF YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN, PATTING YOURSELF ON THE BACK AT HOW WITTY YOU THINK YOU ARE. YOU ARE NOT WITTY OR CLEVER OR FUNNY. WHO IS 'THESE PEOPLE.' ARE THEY LITERATE? WHY, YES, SOME ONE DID TEACH THE LATINOS TO WRITE... ARE YOU SURPRISED? AS FOR THE COMMENT ON THE LAWNMOWERS, YOU ARE JUST RIDICULOUS. CLEARLY THERE IS A NEED FOR A GROUP LIKE LUCHA WHEN THIS IS COMING FROM SUPPOSEDLY EDUCATED PEOPLE AT WHAT PEOPLE OFTEN SAY IS A LIBERAL UNIVERSITY.

Posted by these people: #20 (in reply to #19) · reply · track
November 14, 2007 at 12:40 PM
refers to Lucha, not Latinos. I wouldn't generalize across a diverse of group of people like the Latino community any more than I would make a claim about an entire race of people. Lucha, on the other hand, is just a narrow-minded enough segment of the general population that I feel perfectly right in lumping them all together under the umbrella of unabashed idiocy.

P.S. Maybe you missed the memo from 1990, but TYPING IN CAPS DOESN'T MAKE ME READ LOUDER.
Posted by Behold: #21 (in reply to #19) · reply · track
November 14, 2007 at 4:10 PM
You have written in CAPS. The increased size of the letters has buttressed your argument and I am now one of your sheep.
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