The Power of the People prevailed and the people handed the Minutemen a humiliating defeat in their efforts to push their white nationalist ideology on a predominantly Mexican and Latino city. Approximately 400 people, including organizations, men, women and children gathered to defend the monument and to defend the rights of the Mexican Community in general and to protest the presence of the 30-40 Minutemen. The Minutemen came to Los Angeles to meet with Baldwin Park's City Council in regards to a statement on a monument in the Metrolink transit station. The statement on the monument reads, "It was better before they came" and "This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is, and will be again". Instead the Minutemen had to leave the city after the police said they could no longer guarantee their safety and were escorted out by the police.

Minutemen are supposed to be volunteers who are able to respond on a minute's notice, but it seems like when you are on the side of colonialism and injustice, it is difficult to gather anyone to join you, and the people will instead run to protest your pathetic ass in a minute's notice. Rumor has it that a Mexicano who was with the Minutemen ultimately gave in to the pressure and abandoned his comrades to join the side of the people, swearing he would never betray his people ever again.

We all have to ask, what the hell were these people thinking coming to the city with the largest population of Mexican people outside of Mexico City and attempting to impose their backward white nationalist ideology on their city?

Aside from outnumbering the Minutemen 10 to 1, this was a major victory because part of the Minutemen's objectives was to meet with the City Council of Baldwin Park to urge them to remove the slogan which states that this land has always been Indian and Mexican land. Instead, the City Council met with the Anti-Minutemen protestors to declare that the right of freedom of speech will be defended and upheld.

The struggle must continue to put the Minutemen back where they belong, in the pages of history.

Get ready to receive them when they come to San Diego!

¡La lucha sigue!

¡Que viva el pueblo unido y organizado!