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Fight for Justice: Francisco "Kiko" Martínez (CSU Pueblo exhibit panel)
A panel from a Colorado State University Pueblo library exhibit on Chicano-movement attorney Francisco "Kiko" Martínez. Titled "Fight for Justice," it reproduces a September 16, 1983 La Cucaracha article — "Martínez Cleared on Bomb Charges" — reporting U.S. District Judge Frank G. Theis's August 18, 1983 dismissal of the last 1973 bombing counts against him...
Francisco 'Kiko' Martinez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
In 1973, Chicano activist and lawyer Francisco "Kiko" Martinez was indicted in Colorado on trumped-up bombing charges and suspended from the bar. He was forced to leave the United States for fear of assassination by police directed to shoot him "on sight." When Martinez was eventually brought to trial in the 1980s, many of the charges against him were droppe...
National Rally to Support Francisco "Kiko" Martínez — defense materials (1981)
A nine-page compilation of materials supporting Chicano-movement attorney Francisco "Kiko" Martínez, assembled around the National Rally held in Pueblo, Colorado on January 24, 1981 — three days before the first of the federal trials charging him with mailing explosives in 1973. It gathers the rally flyers in English and Spanish, the Rally Committee's Januar...
Priscilla Falcon COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Priscilla Falcon is a Chicana activist and professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She is the widow of Chicano activist Ricardo Falcon, who was killed in a racially motivated altercation with a gas station attendant in Oro Grande, N.M. in 1972 en route to the La Raza Unida convention in El Paso. She is a lifelong activist for Ch...
Ricardo Romero COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Ricardo Romero is a Chicano activist for immigrants rights who, in 1981, refused to testify before a Grand Jury, along with other activists, to provide information on the activities of political activist organizations. He is a lifelong activist for Chican@-Mexican@ liberation.
The Political Repression of a Chicano Movement Activist: The Plight of Francisco E. "Kiko" Martínez
An academic conference paper by James Barrera (South Texas College) examining the decades-long political repression and federal prosecution of Chicano movement attorney and activist Francisco E. "Kiko" Martínez, presented in the NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings. Open-access via SJSU ScholarWorks / the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies A...