Organizer Rosalio Muñoz at Salazar Park Senior Center, 2864 Whittier Blvd. in Los Angeles CA on February 28, 2010. Community activists held a panel discussion to recognize the 40th anniversary of a march through the rain in Los Angeles to protest the Vietnam War Contact says the "March in the Rain'' was a turning point of the Chicano Movement. Photo by AURELIO JOSE BARRERA
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