Unión del Barrio

Raza Si! Guerra No!
COMMEMORATION OF THE HISTORIC AUGUST 29TH NATIONAL CHICANO MORATORIUM MARCH

On Thursday, August 26, 2010, Unión del Barrio will be organizing a forum in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the historic “Chicano Moratorium Anti-War March of August 29th, 1970”.

40 years ago (August 29, 1970) close to 30,000 Raza and supporters, marched through the streets of East Los Angeles protesting the U.S. imperialist war in Viet Nam and the oppression of “Chicanos” (Mexicanos) here at home. Thousands of Los Angeles Sheriffs and other police brutally attacked the marchers; killing three, injuring dozens, and arresting hundreds. Raza defended themselves by throwing rocks and bottles, and burning police cars.

The commemorative forum will include speakers, a film screening, and photo/poster exhibition. It will have as its primary aim to tie the struggles of the past, to present issues and concerns of critical importance to our Raza.

Forum

Centro Cultural de La Raza (2004 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101)

Thursday, August 26th, from 6 to 8 PM

More details are forthcoming.

For more information see/contact Union del Barrio at: info_sd@uniondelbarrio.org

¡UNIDOS VENCEREMOS!

USSF 2010 People’s Movement Assembly on:
Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) & May 1st Int’l Worker’s Day and The Struggle for Immigration Reform in the United States

PANEL & DISCUSSION
Thursday June 24, 2010
1-5 PM
Room D2-11 Cobo Hall
Detroit, Michigan
US Social Forum

On ALBA:
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) is a cooperative trade agreement among nine Latin American and Caribbean nations. Formed as an alternative to the Free Trade Agreements (NAFTA/CAFTA/FTAA), neoliberal trade model, it provides workers and anti-imperialists with a real world alternative to the savage free trade agreements that have stunted Latin America’s economic, social, political and cultural development.

In contrast, the Bolivarian Alliance provides for the nationalization of natural and human resources for the development of the countries in areas of Education, Healthcare, Housing, Food Security programs and improvements in the area of Art, Culture, Science, Sports and  Technology for improvement in the quality of life for the majority of working people, historically marginalized by colonialism and imperialist globalization.

Join us to discuss how workers in the US can build and support alternatives to neo-liberal global capitalism.

On MAY 1st
Mexican & Latin American migration to the U.S. has increased since the implementation of economic free trade agreements throughout the hemisphere. Today workers from Mexico & Latin America, forced to find work outside their countries have become modern day slaves to capitalism, and have been victims of systematic human rights violations such as: death at the border, separation of families, criminalization of workers, all part of US immigration policy.

In recent years the Mexican/Latin American workers have been at the forefront of building a movement for Immigration Reform and have identified with the international working class holiday of May 1st to demand our rights.

Come and participate in a discussion on ways to unite our struggle with the continental/international working class struggle for full rights and dignity.

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12 de junio de 2010
San Diego, California

A la esposa, hijos y familiares de Anastasio Hernández Rojas
A los padres y hermanos de Sergio Adrián Hernández Huereca
Al pueblo de México
A Latinoamérica y el mundo

Unión del Barrio acompaña en el dolor a los familiares, amigos y compañeros de escuela y de trabajo de Anastasio Hernández y Sergio Adrián Hernández. Ambos brutalmente asesinados por agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza los días 28 de mayo y el 7 de junio respectivamente; Anastasio a golpes y Sergio Adrián a balazos.

Exigimos al gobierno de los Estados Unidos para que cese de una vez y para siempre la represión contra el pueblo trabajador mexicano/latinoamericano.

Estamos concientes de que estos actos son las consecuencias directas de todas las políticas genocidas fabricadas y elaboradas por los legisladores racistas que promueven la militarización de la frontera; que promueven las leyes como la SB1070, y quienes justifican la militarización de la frontera.

A nuestro pueblo, le pedimos a que se organice por la auto-defensa, por la dignidad, por la justicia, y por la auto-determinación.  El clima de racismo, el clima de hostilidad, el nivel de explotación no cesará hasta que nosotros mismos respondamos con el rechazo y resistencia requerida.

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Columna Entre Líneas: ¡YA BASTA!, por Christian Ramírez

CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE: STOP KILLING MEXICANS!

ON PROTEST HELD ON JUNE 22

INSIDE AND OUTSIDE PRISONS: Liberation Is A Struggle!

Inside and outside prisons, Raza are catching hell from white-settler vigilantes, the various police agencies, and the so-called criminal justice system!Through brutality, fascist-racist laws (such as in Arizona), irrelevant “colonial” education, and the locking up of our youth –we see how schools, police, courts, and prisons are  being utilized to destroy our capacity to unite and defend ourselves!

JOIN US AS WE STRUGGLE TO END THE MASS IMPRISONMENT OF MEXICANOS-RAZA  AND OTHER OPPRESSED NATIONS AND COMMUNITIES!

Saturday • June 19, 2010
San Diego, Califaztlán
11 AM to 4 PM
Centro Cultural de La Raza

Discussion Topics:

•Youth, Women, and Prisons • Violence Among Prisoners • Money For The Rich, Prisons For La Raza • End Prison Torture  • Education, Not Incarceration  •Justice & Liberation

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Fighting Against Gentrification and For The Survival of Our Barrios

By Ernesto Bustillos

Raza Press and Media Association (5/9/10) San Diego, CA Occupied México- On Sat May 8, 2010, the Save Our Barrio Coalition (SOBC) led a march of about 100 residents and community activists through the streets of Barrio Logan.  The objective of the march was to protest the “gentrification” that is taking place in Barrio Logan, one of the oldest Mexicano neighborhoods in San Diego, Califaztlán.

COMMUNITY DEMANDS REAL DEMOCRACY

The Save Our Barrios Coalition organized a march through Barrio Logan to inform the community about the need to unite and stop all ‘redevelopment plans’ until the voice of the community is clearly heard. The “plans” as they exist, have been created with little or no in put from the community. Therefore, the Save Our Barrios Coalition is calling for a moratorium on all redevelopment until a democratic process that guarantees that residents of Barrio Logan have a say in any redevelopment of their community.’

RICH CORPORATIONS MAKE MILLIIONS

The redevelopment plans as they exist, can be characterized as nothing less than ‘Gentrification’: a process where poor and working class communities are demolished, residents forced to move out, and the area is replaced with housing and businesses that cater to the middle and upper class. It is a process by which rich corporations and land speculators make millions in profits at the expense of the original residents and city taxpayers.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

As a means of raising consciousness and informing the community to the realities of gentrification, since its founding in Nov. of 2009, the SOBC has organized several open community meetings, leafleted throughout Barrio Logan, organized several literature tables at community events, and has had “delegation” of its members participate in pro-human rights marches.

EXPOSING RACIST-ETHNIC CLEANSING

To the SOBC, the gentrification that is taking place in Barrio Logan and other Mexican communities, which destroys and then rebuilds the neighborhoods for the benefit of rich white folks – is another form of racist-ethnic cleansing and yet other way for the corporate thieves to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor and the working class.

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