What do Chicano Art, Empowerment, and Aztlán mean to YOU?

If you're not an artist and you're not Chicana or Chicano, why should any of this mean anything to you?
The answer is: we all need an Aztlán.
Aztlán is not a static concept; it grows, it learns, it adapts.
"As a metaphorical palimpsest Aztlán will continue to change and be redifined by succeeding generations of Chicano scholars, perhaps never completely erasing its earlier definitions" (Watts p.320).  
Art is an outlet to express the frustrations of a peoples who feel like they have been forcefully silenced.  Chicano art has revealed frustrations about society, racism, economic injustice, education, sexism, among other subjects. Art brings people together, through shared feelings of frustation, love, and pride. 
Artists like Patssi Valdez and Harry Gamboa Jr. have written on the palimpsest that is Aztlán, to include themselves and people like them, whether the be women or the urban inhabitants of east Los Angeles.
Aztlán represents pride in one's own history and culture, but more importantly the realization that it is enough. 
Today, Aztlán brings to mind the American southwest, the mythical land that Chicanos claim their real home. still Perhaps one day though, Aztlán will include all the people's of the world and we will realize we're all fighting for the same things: justice, freedom, and humanity.