A Must See: 'Walk Out'

I recently saw the movie 'Walkout,' which tells the true story of Chicano/a students from five East L.A. high school who organized three days of school Walk Out to protest for improved educational standards. It is a great movie that describes how community organizing should take place.

Based on a true story, student activist and Mexican-American Paula Crisostomo, tired of being treated unequally, decides to take action and stage a walkout at five East Los Angeles high schools in 1968, to protest educational conditions and complain of anti-Mexican educational bias along with some 10,000 students. Paula Crisostomo is not Mexican- American--she is Filipina-American. Written by Norma Schaffer