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partnering with professionals that offered medical services "including drug addiction counseling, immunizations, physical exams, STI screenings and even small surgical procedures." The clinic struggled to fundraise because of its casual approach in its "provided counseling for unwanted pregnancies." Though it funds were not always steady, the clinic provided a space where young people in L.A. felt safe in receiving important services, even giving comfort to those who were worried of attaining health services because of their legal status in the United States. Coordinating El Barrio Free Clinic, Arellanes had helped better the name of the Brown Berets, who had been seen as an outrageous radical group, as many had viewed the
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counselor named John Bartan held a Human
Relations Club where white and Latino kids could work through their problems. Through this engagement and community-building, her identity as a Chicana began to grow. She identified many racist aspects of her high school, including discriminatory arrests made in school, teachers ignoring Chicano/a students when they raised their hands, and tracking Chicano/a students into vocational classes. Gloria became interested in the issues around race and discrimination because she knew what it was like to be discriminated against because of the color of her skin and her Mexican descent.
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within the community, it led to the departure of many female Brown Berets because of the gendered distribution of work that it came with. Arellanes faced conflict in her duty to maintain the family-friendly environment of the Clinic while the men of the organization used the Clinic as a location of socialization, where she would be forced to remove their mess frequently to preserve its orderly image for its patients.
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California Bay Area region. She traveled to the Bay Area to motivate
Northern Californian Chicanos to participate in the Moratorium and to community centers in East L.A. to hand out flyers. In her tasks of managing attendance, Arellanes connected thousands of out-of-state attendees with housing accommodations for the moratorium.
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Chicana women from the Brown Berets. The success of the clinic gladdened Arellanes, though she would resign from the clinic in 1972 in response to the "pressure from some board members" of the clinic. La Clínica Familiar del Barrio continues to service the East Los Angeles community as AltaMed.
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organizations with former female Brown Berets and
Adelitas de Aztlán. La Clínica Familiar del Barrio opened on Atlantic Boulevard on March 15, 1971. The clinic was coordinated by Arellanes and supplied free medical services to the community, as the Brown Berets' Barrio Free Clinic shut down after the
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In preparation for what came to be the largest march by the
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Mexican-American youth in Los Angeles as they rallied to focus on the social justice issues at home, rather than the war in Vietnam. Led by co-chairs, Ramsés Noriega and Rosalio Muñoz, the East L.A. demonstrations formed in protest of the war in Vietnam and injustices it
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In 1969, David
Sanchez brought the news about the Barrio Free Clinic which Arellanes was given the responsibility of coordinating. The Brown Berets created the East L.A. Free Clinic, later to be known as El Barrio Free Clinic, on Whittier Boulevard. Arellanes headed the clinic for the Brown Berets,
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from 1960 to 1964, which is where her political consciousness began to develop. Her high school had a large mix of white and
Chicano population. The Chicanos, although from different barrios, often stuck together and supported each other. Fights would break out in her high school constantly until a
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The march of August 29, 1970, in the chaos that ensued with the police intervention, resulted in arrests and deaths that drove
Arellanes away from participating in the moratorium. After having an experience as a target of a tear gas canister, Arellanes fled from the stage of the demonstration and
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during this time. In July 1969, Arellanes had become the official Clinic Director of the Barrio Free Clinic. El Barrio Free Clinic is what Arellanes called, "the most significant contribution of the East L.A. Brown Berets." While the clinic significantly aided the Brown Berets in their reputation
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for their float in the September 16 parade. She requested it without informing the clinic it would be used for Brown Berets because of the known sentiments against the Brown Berets. Arellanes was also in charge of fundraising for the Berets on a couple occasions. She organized a "Zoot Suit Party"
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While they got along for the most part, the women were expected to work the clinic and the men took little part in volunteering and participating in the daily functions of the clinic. The Beret women were not initially aware of their "second-class" membership within the organization because they
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Indigenous people of the Los Angeles Basin. Arellanes' focus has shifted to the civil rights activism of the Native American people. Her knowledge in coordinating the free clinics in East L.A. has aided her role as a community health advocate as well as a speaker on Tongva issues.
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but quit after one year. She went on to become involved in community work and got a full-time job with the Neighborhood Adult Participation Project, an anti-poverty program where she organized Black and Chicano communities and worked on voter registration.
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Arellanes organized marches during her time with the Brown Berets in partnership with the East L.A. Blowouts, in opposition to policy brutality against Chicanos, and for El Barrio Free Clinic. In 1969 she arranged for the Brown Berets to use a
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went back to the Brown Beret Office. This event marked the end of Arellanes' involvement with the Moratorium Committee and the Chicano Movement altogether.
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attitude" within the delegation of labor in the Brown Berets led Gloria Arellanes along with other female Brown Berets to leave the organization and create
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