DAMIAN GARCIA (Oct. 24, 1949 - April 22, 1980) A Member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, One of the Three Revolutionaries Who Raised the Red Flag over the Alamo, Was Brutally Murdered by Police Agents in an East LA Housing Project, April 22, 1980

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Small poster (8 1/2" x 14"), photomechanically reproduced on white paper. Two-sided, with the text in English on one side and Spanish on the other. Creased horizontally, with some mild toning; else very good. This piece was intended to raise awareness of an April 24, 1980 march and memorial meeting in Oakland, California, organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party in honor of Damian Garcia, who was murdered two days earlier while distributing party literature at the Pico Gardens housing project in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Garcia, a U.C. Santa Barbara graduate who served as executive director of La Casa de la Raza during the mid-1970s, was a prominent RCP member who led one of the group's most notable actions: raising the red flag over the Alamo in San Antonio on March 20, 1980. Throwing down the Texas flag, Garcia declared, "We've come to set the record straight about the Alamo. This is a symbol of the theft of Mexican land, a symbol about the murder of Mexicans and Indians, and a symbol of oppression of Chicanos and Mexicanos throughout the whole Southwest." He also called on people, together with the proletariat worldwide, to come out in struggle on May 1: International Workers Day. Following Garcia's death, the RCP claimed that his murder was a result of this action, and alleged Los Angeles Police Department involvement. The party also refused to cooperate in the investigation and organized demonstrations against both the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles, including a May Day march in Los Angeles that was forcibly dispersed by riot clad police officers. As the RCP's first and only martyr, Garcia remains an important propaganda symbol for the organization and frequently appears in the RCP newspaper, The Revolutionary Worker.…

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DAMIAN GARCIA (Oct. 24, 1949 - April 22, 1980) A Member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, One of the Three Revolutionaries Who Raised the Red Flag over the Alamo, Was Brutally Murdered by Police Agents in an East LA Housing Project, April 22, 1980
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