La Causa: Los Angeles Chicano National Brown Beret Newspaper, covering Chicanos in Vietnam War, Radicalism, Raza Unida Party

[Chicano] [Newspaper] La Causa, Vol. 1 No. 5. Feb. 28, 1970. Los Angeles: National Brown Beret Organization. 12 pages. Measures 11.25" x 17". La Causa was a Los Angeles-based publication supported by the National Brown Beret Organization that covered Mexican-American and Chicano news for the Los Angeles community. The newspaper ran from 1969 until the late 1970s and discussed the Vietnam War, Radicalism, the status of residents in Mexico, and other Chicano news from Los Angeles. This issue includes discussion of the Chicano Moratorium against the war in Vietnam, the Raza Unida Party and a "Revolutionary Defense" of the Catholic Church's opposition to borth control, which begins "In the USA with its ideology of Death, is heard the shrillest cry for birth control."' Cover story focuses on the Chicano perspective of the Vietnam War, stating: "We Chicanos have come to a realization that the Vietnam War is the ultimate weapon of genocide of non-white peoples by a sick decadent puto western culture." Article titles in this issue include: "Gestapo Perros Terrorize Chicano Familia," Repression en Mexico," Raza Unida Party is formed in Southwest Texas," and "Chicano Moratorium." Also included throughout are letters about the death of Richard Hernandez, who was killed at the Third street Sheriffs sub station, the trial of the Biltmore 6, who were accused of trying to burn down the Biltmore hotel, and on the conference of the Congress of Mexican-American Unity, or CAMU, with the sub-caption "After every struggle thier [sic] is a long line of dead opportunists." Photographs and original artwork are also featured throughout. Brown Beret Organization material is scarce. Folded, as it was delivered, Overall, in very good condition and scarce.