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  • 4 - UNIDOS, the Student Movement, Conspiracy Theories, and Militarized School Board Meetings

  • Nolan L. Cabrera, University of Arizona, Robert S. Chang, University of California, Irvine
  • Book:
    Banned
    Published online:
    19 December 2024
    Print publication:
    02 January 2025, pp 46-61

  • Summary

    UNIDOS was the center of the youth movement in support of MAS, and their takeover of the TUSD school board meeting (4/26/11) made national headlines. The students engaged in civil disobedience because the state found TUSD out of compliance and the school board was going to take the first steps toward eliminating the program without substantive public input. This chapter details those events from a firsthand account, the massive militarization of subsequent school board meetings (e.g., 150 armed officers, many in riot gear, at a meeting of 500 people), and the subsequent conspiracy theories that rose to prominence (e.g., that former Ethnic Studies professor Ward Churchill orchestrated the whole thing).