Ruben Salazar

The U.S. Post Office has issued a new stamp commemorating Ruben Salazar, the prominent Chicano journalist who was killed--many say murdered--during the Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War in 1970.

If you want to find out more about the Chicano Moratorium, you can read this powerful analysis of the repression of the Chicano community by the LAPD in 1968-1971 and the corresponding increase in Chicano militancy. Poet activist Luis Rodriguez writes in his blog that it's nice there is a new stamp honouring a Chicano hero, but it's also hypocritical coming at a time when there is such an upswing in anti-Latino racism, attacks, and rhetoric in the United States--in some cases officially sanctioned by local governments.

I'm not a stamp collector, but if any of you Americans out there want to help me start with this one, I'd be very thankful.

UPDATE: By the way, here is a link to Ruben Salazar's writings on-line.