QUETZAL on the "COUNCILMAN LAST SEEN PIMPING THE BARRIO AS JOSE HUIZAR"

Can we all just learn to get along in this world ??

We were alerted to this , and will post it here.

Chicano Music Group Boycotts Israel Consulate Concert

By Will

Quetzal

, an East Los Angeles-based group, turned down an invitation to perform at a May 17 concert ("Fiesta Shalom" - seriously) designed to improve Latino-Jewish relations because it was sponsored by the Israeli consulate. The band issued the following statement.

To Whom It May Concern:

Quetzal will not be performing at the Fiesta Shalom on May 17th. When first presented with this performance, it was presented as “an opportunity to improve Jewish and Chicano relations”, which we are certainly in accordance with. When we received the contract, we noticed it was sponsored by the Israeli Consulate. For Quetzal to perform for the Israeli Consulate would mean that we ignore the following:

• Decades of zionist occupation of Palestinian lands and the historically ironic holocaustic genocide of the Palestinian people

• The Israeli/US relationship that has permitted the creation of “permanent” war against people throughout the world.

• Decades of Chican@ solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle for Self-determination.

• Decades of solidarity with the non-zionist, non-imperialist peace-loving Jewish community.

• Over 500 years of genocide, enslavement, and abandonment of all people of color as well as poor whites including all the victims of the Jewish holocaust.

Quetzal is but a small part of a massive community of artists that is committed to using art as a tool to redefine and reconstruct our neighborhoods. We hope that elected officials (barrio pimps) such as Jose Huizar begin to see the light of accountability.

Some thoughts, many of us in CD 14 love the music of Quetzal, but the rhetoric espoused above, can be found on the ethnophobic pages of "La Voz de Aztlan".

But most may agree about the Jose Huizar comment.

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