Unión del Barrio

OVER 10,000 RAZA MARCH AGAINST OPPRESSION AND RACISM

On January 16, 2010 over 10, 000 people marched through the streets of downtown Phoenix, Arizona. The massive march represents our community taking a stand to protest the blatant racism of fascist settler Joe Arpaio.

It was inspiring to see all the Raza marching through a town like Phoenix, where the gringo rednecks shove their racism down everyone’s throat. To see that many progressive Raza, especially youth, standing up to these attacks was uplifting. To hear the chants and the energy in the marcha was something that shows that our gente cannot be stopped even in the worst conditions.

In the future will see more repression and more fascist tactics as this decaying capitalist system struggles to keep itself afloat.  We also know, however, that there is the potential for struggle with multiple fronts of struggle and the potential for a mass movement that certainly will rise to that challenge.

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GENTRIFICATION IS NOTHING BUT A  FORM OF GENOCIDE AND DESTRUCTION OF OUR CULTURE!

The practice of forcing people off their lands and homes is nothing new.  This is exactly what happen after the United States military invasion of the northern half of Mexico in 1846. Literally every home, ranch, and the traditional lands of the Mexican/Indian peoples was stolen and illegally occupied by White/European settlers.  Within 30 years after the invasion (by 1880), through the worst type of violence, murder, destruction of whole villages, hangings, and brutal beatings, the European/Anglos (who today call themselves “Americans”), stole and occupied almost every inch of our lands.

Like so many other things, the causes and results of this genocide, exploitation, and destruction of the Mexican/Indian people have been downed played and kept secret by the media, schools, museums, libraries, and other “settler intellectual institutions”. They have been able to turn illegal European/White settlers into “Americans”, and the “real Americans” (the Mexicans and the Indians) into “illegal aliens”.  They effectively keep the great majority of the people within the borders of the United States, especially Mexicans and other oppressed people, ignorant of the truth and with no idea of the history of genocide, racism, and forced relocation, that has been waged upon our communities.  It is something that continues today in the form of “gentrification”: a process that literally destroys working class and poor communities and rebuilds them for the benefit of middle class and rich European/White people.

Gentrification is a “process where ‘working class’ neighborhoods are ‘renovated or redeveloped’ for the benefit of rich corporations. Longtime residents are forced out of the community and only wealthy people are able to afford the ‘new homes, apartments, or condominiums’ that are being built. This is what is happening to Barrio Logan.

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NEXT MEETING: Wed. FEBRUARY 3, 2010 |  1880 LOGAN AVE. SAN DIEGO CA. 92113

¡La Verdad! issue 49 June 2009- January 2010

In This Issue | En esta Edición:

- Towards An Anti-Imperialist Strategy  pdf | word
- Black is Back Coalition
- Popular Front of Struggle for Higher Education  pdf | word
- CMPP Statement on Violence Between Raza & African Prisoners
- Alternative Media: History & Perspectives  pdf | word
- Summary: 6th Annual US/Cuba/ Venezuela/Mexico Labor Conference
- Hacia una estrategia Anti-Imperialista pdf | word
- Economía Política de la Migración y el Terrorismo de Estado  pdf | word
– A 15 Años del Operativo Guardian  pdf | word