Unión del Barrio –an organization that for over 30 years has struggled for the self-determination and liberation of La Raza, and other oppressed poor and working class people– held a community forum on Thursday January 19, 2012, at the Memorial Senior Center. The Center is located in Memorial Park, found within a mostly Mexican and African American community in San Diego. The objective of the forum was to address the critical issues facing our community and the importance of the participation of women in these particular struggles.

TOWARDS A NATIONAL MOVEMENT
The forum was also part of Unión del Barrio’s ongoing work to build a liberation movement that can challenge the oppressive and violent system known as capitalism that controls most of the world today.

The forum, organized under the theme of “La Mujer: Al Frente de la Lucha por la Liberacion de la Raza”, brought together more than fifty participants, which included men and women, teachers, mothers, students, and community organizers. Also, the Save Our Barrio Committee (SOBC), Association of Raza Educators (ARE), Lindsay Community School, and the Chicano Mexicano Prison Project (CMPP) displayed information and art, and sold their group’s material (pamphlets, calendar, pins, etc.)

The program began with a welcome and review of the day’s agenda by Compañera Isabell Peña, a leading member of Unión del Barrio. Compañera Isabell explained to the audience the importance of participating in events like the forum, which provides a space for ideas to be exchanged and to have a dialogue with different sectors of our community. She stressed that forums help us develop the knowledge and creates the unity that will move our struggle forward. Compañera Isabell specifically referred to the forum as part of the work to build a mujer national liberation conference that will be organized by Unión del Barrio on March 10, 2012, in Los Angeles, California.

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Towards the Building of International Working Women’s Day Conference 2012

Breaking Through Colonization with Women’s Liberation: Women’s Conference

Saturday March 10, 2012 | 10am-1pm
Central Region High School #16
The Social Justice Schools
300 E. 53rd Street | Los Angeles, CA 90011

In commemoration of International Working Women’s Day, Unión del Barrio reaches out to progressive and revolutionary forces to join us to discuss the crucial importance of Women’s participation in Political Struggle and the pivotal role we play in advancing Raza Liberation Struggle for Socialism!

Keynote Speaker:
Adriana Jasso, member of Union del Barrio’s
Central Committee

Rompiendo la Colonización a través de la Liberación de la Mujer

Sábado 10 de marzo, 2012 | 10am-1pm
Central Region High School #16
The Social Justice Schools
300 E. 53rd Street | Los Angeles, CA 90011

¡En conmemoración del Día Internacional de la Mujer Trabajadora, Unión del Barrio hace un llamado a las fuerzas progresistas y revolucionarias para unirse a nosotros y hablar sobre la importancia de la participación femenina en la lucha política y tomar parte de un rol fundamental hacia el avance de la lucha por el socialismo y la liberación de la Raza!

Oradora Principal:
Adriana Jasso, miembro del Comité Central
de Unión del Barrio

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Under the theme, 30 Years of Organized Liberation Struggle, Unión del Barrio Celebrates three decades of accomplishments

On August 26th, Unión del Barrio, its membership, allies, supporters, and families, came together to celebrate three decades of Organized Liberation Struggle for Raza self-determination, the re-unification of México and the socialist integration of Nuestra América.

The celebration took place at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. The event began with a dinner,  a video presentation a message from the Central Committee,  messages of solidarity from fraternal organizations, the presentation of the “Orden del Caballero Aguila”,  emulations to extraordinary members and the presentation of the organizational flag to current leadership of Unión del Barrio.

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Bajo el lema, 30 Años de Lucha Organizada por Nuestra Liberación, Unión del Barrio celebró tres décadas de logros

El 26 de agosto, Unión del Barrio su militancia, aliados, simpatizantes, familias, llegaron a celebrar tres décadas de lucha organizada por la auto-determinación de la Raza, la reunificación de México y por la integración socialista de Nuestra América.

La celebración se llevó a cabo en el Centro Cultural de la Raza en San Diego. El evento inició con una cena, con una presentación de video, una intervención del Comité Central, mensajes de solidaridad de organizaciones fraternales,  la presentación del “Orden del Caballero Aguila”, emulaciones a militantes destacados de Unión del Barrio, y la presentación de la bandera a los dirigentes de Unión del Barrio.

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A RAZA PRESS AND MEDIA ASSOCIATION PERSPECTIVE

July 19, 2011

A major “media scandal” is rocking the global capitalist-imperialist world. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, one of the six corporations that control ninety-five percent of the world’s media, was exposed for illegally spying (telephone hacking) on hundreds of people and of corrupting/bribing politicians and police in England.

As a result, Murdoch has been forced to close its most profitable tabloid in England (News of the World), laying off hundreds of workers. Key executives of News Corporation and police agents have been arrested or forced to resign –the (Scottland Yard) police commissioner and his assistant have been forced to give up their posts.

The “sparked” that brought about the current capitalist crisis was an article published in a rival newspaper (The Guardian) which detailed how, in their drive to produce attention grabbing headlines and gossip, the Murdoch-owned tabloid engaged in the mass hacking of phone messages of a 13-year-old kidnap and murder victim, as well of those of families of 9/11 victims and British soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

In addition, “mysteriously” the News of The World reporter who blew the whistle on the phone hacking, Sean Hoare, was found dead on July 18th –only days after the scandal was made public to the masses.

The “exposé” has outraged thousands and forced the government –after years of knowing about the criminal activities of Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets–– to press charges against Murdoch’s employees and associates.

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