MXGM Self-Defence Manual

Each generation must, out of relative obscurity,
discover its mission-fulfill it or betray it.
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Indigenous and Asian youth to use their time, energy, creativity
and imagination to discover their true self-worth and earn the
respect of the entire world while struggling toward even broader
goals that were not measured by one's material possessions.
And over time each segment cheered on, supported, worked in
solidarity with and/or discovered its own common interests
and closely linked missons connected to broader people's goals.
Introduction
Within two generations the youth of this country have
come full circle. Starting in 1955, youth were driven by two
major motivations: one, the acquiring of enough education
or apprenticeships, the use of their unskilled labor or street
smarts to land "good" jobs or establish hustles, and to make
as much money and obtain as many material trappings as
possible. The second was to use the education, apprenticeships,
unskilled labor, street smart jobs, hustles and the
material trappings provided by them to win a measure of
respect and dignity from their peers and society in general.
Simultaneously, they were learning to respect themselves as
individuals, and not simply be eating, sleeping, laboring
and sexual animals.
The First Wave: circa 1955-1980
The Civil Rights Movement in the South successfully motivated
Black, Puerto Rican, Euro-Amerikan, Chicano-Mexicano,
Thus, Black youth elevated the Civil Rights Movement to the
Black Power and Black Liberation Movements. Puerto Rican
yourth energized their elders' ongoing struggle to win independence
for their home island. Euro-Amerikan youth
attacked the lies, hypocrisy and oppression that their parents
were training them to uphold in the schools, society and
overseas. Native Amerikan youth were returning to their
supressed ancestral ways and fighting to regain control over
some of their land. Asian youth were struggling to overcome
a system and culture that had always used and abused them.
Indeed all of them came to see clearly that neither education,
jobs, money, hustles or material trappings could, by themselves,
win them the victories they needed, or the new type of dignity
and respect they deserved.
Moreover, from 1955 until circa 1975, these youth joined, formulated,
led and supported struggles worldwide against racial
oppression and bigotry, colonialism, oppression of women and
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Liberation or Gangsterism