Juan "Freddie Freak" TrujilloMain MenuJuan "Freddie Freak" TrujilloAn overview of the life and work of Juan "Freddie Freak" Trujillo and his work in relation with the Chicano movement. Much of his work was focused on the Coors Strike, UMAS, and Cucaracha.BiographyUMASDuring the 60s and 70s an activist with a very unique name was starting to make headway in Colorado. How he got involved in activism is a rather interesting story...Coors BoycottThe Beer and the BoycottLa Cucaracha NewspaperIn 1976 a new kind of newspaper was started to deliver the new that Latinos felt was being left out. Read below to out about the journey of the newspaperExternal Links/ResourcesNathan Fletcher, Joseph Alvarado, Craig Hayson, Ryan Archuleta9a1077ac3261f7a0d579042e2dc0f5c87eb415a3
Life Before College
1media/serape5.jpgmedia/EFFT-S-4087.jpg2018-03-08T20:26:23-08:00Nathan Fletcher, Joseph Alvarado, Craig Hayson, Ryan Archuleta9a1077ac3261f7a0d579042e2dc0f5c87eb415a32893413image_header2018-04-30T17:14:23-07:00Joseph Alvaradode939c6497aba92770e1a48e76ef045b69e9df38UMASDuring the 60s and 70s an activist with a very unique name was starting to make headway in Colorado. How he got involved in activism is a rather interesting story...Although Juan Trujillo was in a good position helping his family prosperduring the 1950’s, as a young adult more serious problems began to occur. Freddie would start his family with a wife and three children but shortly after he developed a habit of abusing alcohol. Knowingly showing signs of mental fatigue and instability, Juan admitted himself into the Fort Logan Mental Health Center in 1965 in Colorado. After 18 weeks of intensive treatment Trujillo was released. With the help of the health center’s placement program, Juan was reintroduced to society with training. There he learned how to print and the various skills needed for it such as color separation. Pruitt Press & Publishing which was located in Boulder, Colorado offered him a job after his training, and the excitement of a growing melting pot in Boulder enticed him to go experience it. By association with the printer’s union, Juan Trujillo will begin to experience the racism towards the Latino population which encourages him to leave and pursue the Hippie scene in California. Juan Trujillo began adopting the hippie culture from areas he had visited such as his trip to California in 1969, this is where he changes his style of dress into the more well known jean overalls filled with buttons of various protests.
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