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Hearkening back to the ancestral homeland of the Nahua peoples, this college-based youth group seeks to re-inspire in all Chicano students and people the need to liberate themselves from oppression by reconnection with ancient racial roots. Chicanismo is offered by the group as a preferable alternative to Mexican-American identity, in order to reject forced ethnic assimilation and to assert more confidence and political sway in this country and across campuses. El Movimiento partners with AIDS, Gender, and Raza initiatives and planes—like the Plan de Santa Barbara created by about 100 students and Chican@s at UCSB in 1969 on the heels of the Aztlán plan outlined by the Crusade for Justice’s first organized National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference, that shaped the group’s foundings.