The Last Brown Beret

Del Zamora (writer, director, and producer) joins moderator Ben Olguín (English, UCSB) in a post-screening discussion of The Last Brown Beret, an adaptation of a play by Alfredo Ramos that explores Chicanx activism and history in Los Angeles. Together, they discuss the impact of the civil rights movement that arose in the 1960s and the connections between the Brown Berets, the Black Panther Party, and the American Indian Movement, and its influence on the film. Zamora also details the development of the film, the challenges that Latinx filmmakers face, and storytelling choices in the film’s structure and characterization. Recorded on 05/09/2023. [9/2023] [Show ID: 39051]
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[@SamuelClemente7718]

Is still NEVER ENOUGH!!

[@joeguerra8435]

I was a Chicano college activist in the 80s. My activist experience was different from the Brown Berets of the late 60s early 70s. The closest I came to wearing a beret was my US Army standard issue black beret from the early 2000s. Ultimately I retired in 2008 with an Honorable Discharge and a decorated and distinguished military career.
The spirit of Chicanismo is just as much a part of my identity and ethos in 2024 as from my Chicano formative years of the 70s and 80s … make no mistake, at age 61, my experience with racism in 2024, is just as active and in line with the racism the Brown Berets battled against during the late 60s thru the mid 70s. The racists are just more adaptive, accommodating, and clever at how they couch their latent racist agenda of 2024. Principles and human rights still, and always will matter.
Life is not a popularity contest. “To thine own self be true” (Hamlet) Follow your conscience. Do the right thing always. Don’t let them take away your voice just so that you think you will fit in easier. That’s a price too high to pay. It’s not worth it.

[@xlxlupitaxlx]

🤎💎🤎

[@robertmartinez4174]

I once knew a guy who claimed to be a Brown Baret. he said that he and the other Brown Beret's would jump out of airplane's.

[@raulmendoza1685]

Brown pride
Por la causa of freedom and equality of all the people👊🏽

[@JustCallitpodcast]

is Brown Beret only for Mexico because Del references a-lot Mexico and not other countries further south.

[@a.true.raider924]

The definition of a Chicano is a (Mexican-American). It's a Movement to Help & reclaim the Southwest United States for the Descendants of those Mexicans who were cut off from Mexico

[@saucytony4609]

No its about being brown

[@saucytony4609]

@@RRRR-ed1lp 5th generation xikano from laTusa rAZa aka super xikano approved xikano is the way you live your life who has a none Anglo view of himself who isn’t hispanic who is indigenous to this land (southwest us) who fights for all his RAZA North south and centro america let me show you the way! baby brown!!😂💪🏽🇲🇽🇺🇸🪶🏜️🌵

[@petermonck5448]

Please , don't censor the video.

[@andresalvarez1732]

❤