Unión del Barrio

CONSCIOUSNES & UNITY
All out on May Day- International Worker’s Day

Unión del Barrio makes this call to all organized sectors of our community to unite this May 1st, International Worker’s Day, to demand respect for the rights of all working class people and build the global workers struggle for justice, dignity, and self-determination.

We recognize that the current economic crisis has its root in the rotten capitalist system which is attempting to pay for its own failures on the backs of working people everywhere. As working people we must not continue to pay for this economic crisis, because we did not create it; on the contrary we produce and generate the wealth for those that exploit our labor, criminalize our ability to work and our ability to collectively bargain to improve our working conditions.

On this Sunday, May 1st it is time to join workers and hold actions, discussions, marches, protests, rallies, in your community, town, or city.

Join Unión del Barrio in the following actions in Southern California!

San Diego

For more information, 619-923-3685 | info_sd@uniondelbarrio.org

Los Angeles

Oxnard
Colectivo Todo Poder Al Pueblo

¡Vivan los Trabajadores!  ¡Viva el Pueblo Organizado!

¡Unidos Venceremos!

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CONCIENCIA Y UNIDAD
Todas y Todos a Movilizar para el 1o de Mayo
Día Internacional de los y las Trabajadoras/es

Unión del Barrio hace este llamado a todos los sectores organizados de nuestra comunidad a unirse a las actividades del 1o de Mayo, Día Internacional de los y las trabajadores y trabajadoras, para exigir respeto por los derechos de toda/o trabajador/a aquí (dentro del imperio yanqui) y através del mundo en esta lucha por la justicia, la dignidad y la auto-determinación.

Reconocemos que la actual crisis económica surge de la base del sistema capitalista que actualmente impone  la carga de su crisis- porque ellos la crearon- sobre los hombros de la clase trabajador. Mientras las y los trabajadoras/es han sido la clase que produce riqueza y ganancia con nuestro trabajo, las grandes empresas y sus gobiernos crean políticas y leyes que explota nuestra mano de obra, la criminalizan y nos niegan nuestro derecho a negociar contratos de manera colectiva para mejorar nuestras condiciones de trabajo.

Este 1o de mayo es necesario a que todo quien cree en la justicia social a unirse con las distintas actividades, sean protestas, marchas, diálogos, mítines, en sus comunidades, pueblos o ciudades.

Les invitamos a todas y todos en la área del Sur de California a que se unan a las siguientes actividades.

San Diego, CA


Mas informes, 619-923-3685 | info_sd@uniondelbarrio.org

Los Angeles, CA

Oxnard, CA
Colectivo Todo Poder Al Pueblo

¡Vivan los Trabajadores!  ¡Viva el Pueblo Organizado!

¡Unidos Venceremos!

US LABOR TOUR 2011

Workers Struggle Beyond Borders: Uniting the Peoples of Nuestra América

With a growing economic crisis, the U.S. empire is waging an even larger scale offensive on the world’s working poor to keep capitalism afloat, while eliminating many essential services making it more expensive and practically unaffordable to obtain healthcare, increasing cuts to education, and foreclosing on homes at an unprecedented rate. This offensive has even made it a crime to work in the U.S. if you’re an “undocumented” worker; while state legislatures, such as Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana, are currently seeking to eliminate or weaken collective bargaining rights.

As a response to this offensive, workers from throughout the continent have decided to propose a collaborative project towards integration and solidarity beyond national borders, in search of workers’ unity that will ensure their class interest. This tour seeks to introduce the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) to workers in the United States, with the objective of seeking dialogue and presenting common areas of interest, this tour will invite workers and their organizations to the Encuentro Sindical de Nuestra América (ESNA) which will take place this year in Nicaragua. Similarly, this tour will inform worker’s how countries that today form part of the Bolivarian Alliance of Nuestra América (ALBA) have made investments in healthcare, education, food security, sports, cultural programs, while the United States cuts programs in these areas, while increasing its military spending. This tour invites workers in the US to become familiar with this continental process which seeks to build coordinated actions in our common defense of as a working class, throughout the continent and the world.

Join us in welcoming the following international guests:

- Gilda Chacon Bravo, World Federation of Trade Unions- Americas Region- Cuba
- Humberto Montes de Oca, Interior Secretary of the Mexican Electrical Workers (SME)- México
- Jorge Cázares Torres, Section VIII of the National Steering Committee of Education Workers (CNTE)- México

Dates & Cities:
March 16 & 17- Washington D.C. | March 18- Cleveland, Ohio | March 19- Toledo, Ohio | March 20- Detroit, Michigan | March 21- Chicago, Illinois | March 22- San Francisco | March 24 & 25- San Diego, California | March 26 & 27- Los Angeles, California |March 28, 29, 30 & 31- New York, New York | TBD-Madison, Wisconsin

Organized by:

US-Cuba Labor Exchange, laborexchange@aol.com

International Action Center, iacenter@iacenter.org

Unión del Barrio, info@uniondelbarrio.org

Endorsed by:

World Federation of Trade Unions

For more information or to endorse, please contact us at any of the e-mails listed.

Download flier, click here

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GIRA SINDICAL POR EE.UU. 2011

La Lucha Obrera No Tiene Fronteras: Uniendo los pueblos de Nuestra América

Ante una creciente crisis económica el imperio de EEUU ha profundizado una ofensiva de mayor escala contra los pobres y desposeídos del mundo con el fin de mantener a flote el sistema capitalista. Al mismo tiempo, el imperio está eliminando servicios básicos que fueron conquistados por la clase trabajadora en años anteriores, haciendo mas costoso y en ciertos casos imposible obtener acceso al cuidado de salud,  recortando el presupuesta a la educación publica y permitiendo el desalojo de familias de sus viviendas por los grandes bancos. La ofensiva desatada contra los y las trabajadores por la clase capitalista ha convertido al derecho al trabajo en un crimen como es el caso para millones de trabajadores mexicanos y latinoamericanos en EEUU. Parte de esta ofensiva intenta disminuir el poder de los trabajadores y sus organizaciones en poder negociar contratos de manera colectiva como se ha demostrado en las legislaturas de Wisconsin, Indiana y Ohio.

Para enfrentar esta creciente crisis económica, los y las trabajadores de todo el continente han decidido buscar solución al proponer la colaboración, la integración y la solidaridad para encontrar la unidad necesaria que asegure sus intereses como clase. Esta gira propone presentar el trabajo de la Federación Sindical Mundial (FSM) y el esfuerzo para unir los y las trabajadores latinoamericanos y sus organizaciones en un espacio de trabajo común conocido como el Encuentro Sindical de Nuestra América (ESNA), que se celebrará próximamente en Nicaragua. Esta gira, invita a los y las trabajadores de los Estados Unidos, a conocer de este proceso. De igual forma, esta gira propone conocer cómo los países que hoy forman la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) están enfrentando la crisis invirtiendo en programas sociales (educación, salud, la seguridad alimenticia, el deporte, cultura, etc.), mientras que el gobierno de EEUU solo invierte en guerra y reduce el presupuesto para programas de salud, educación, vivienda, etc. Conozca como puedes participar en la construcción de la acción en defensa de intereses común para los y las trabajadores del continente y el mundo.

Únase a este esfuerzo para dar la bienvenida a representantes internacionales que incluyen:

- Gilda Chacon Bravo, Federación Sindical Mundial-Región América (FSM)-Cuba
- Humberto Montes de Oca, Secretario Interior del Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME)- México
- Jorge Cázares Torres, Sección VIII del la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE)- México

Fechas y Ciudades:
16 y 17 de marzo- Washington D.C. | 18 de marzo- Cleveland, Ohio | 19 de marzo- Toledo, Ohio | 20 de marzo- Detroit, Michigan | 21 de marzo- Chicago, Illinois | 22 de marzo-San Francisco | 24 y 25 de marzo- San Diego, California | 26 de marzo y 27 de marzo- Los Angeles, California | 28, 29, 30 y 31 de marzo- New York, New York | Por Confirmar-Madison, Wisconsin

Organizado por:
US-Cuba Labor Exchange, laborexchange@aol.com

International Action Center, iac-cai@iacenter.org

Unión del Barrio, info@uniondelbarrio.org

Patrocinado por:
Federación Sindical Mundial- Región América

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From Uhuru News

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The African community in St. Petersburg, Florida is under siege after a cop in St. Petersburg, Florida was shot and killed on Wednesday, February 21.

Two cops, David Crawford and Donald Ziglar, reportedly came to 2nd Avenue South and 8th Street South at 10:30pm after allegedly getting a call that someone in the area had a brick.

According to the police, a few minutes later, shots rang out and Crawford was hit multiple times from close range. It’s not clear what the other cop did during the incident, but he was not injured.

The police don’t seem to have any idea who the person was who did it. There have been two different descriptions put out. First, they said they were looking for a young African with a white t-shirt and no shoes, but now they are saying they’re looking for an African with a black hoodie.

According to a witness who drove up to the scene, the shot cop was laying against his car with gun still in hand. The witness, Michael Ponce de Leone said when other police arrived they got very emotional. “Everybody was screaming,” he said. “All the cops were like, ‘No, not again!’”

Cops have locked down the African community and are engaged in what can only be described as collective punishment. More than 200 cops from half a dozen agencies are sweeping the African community, searching and storming people’s homes like Marines do in Afghanistan. Africans are being stopped in their cars with guns pointed to their heads and having their trunks searched, similar to what has been done at U.S. military checkpoints in Iraq.

Even city buses are being stopped and searched. People in the African community are being told they need to stay in their houses. Helicopters swarm above the community while at least one tank rides through the streets.

It is obvious that this activity is not an attempt to find the shooter, because they don’t know what he looks like, and even if they did, a tank would hardly be necessary to apprehend him. This is an attempt to punish the whole community. It is clearly a message being sent to the community that it will be punished until someone hands over the person involved in the incident. The FBI has even put up a $50,000 bounty to further entice someone to turn the person over…

…The oppressive occupation of the African community must be opposed!

Call in to the St. Petersburg Police Department and the St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office and demand that the occupation end! Demand an end to the roadblocks, random searches, pointing of assault rifles in people’s faces and other violations of democratic rights of the African community end!

St. Petersburg Police Department: (727) 893-7780

Mayor Bill Foster’s Office: (727) 893-7201 / fax (727) 892-5365

End the Occupation!

Africans Have a Right to Resist!

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OUR BARRIOS ARE NOT FOR SALE!
Congreso de Barrios builds unity to fight back displacement of working class Raza communities by rich corporations

January 30, 2011

On January 29th, 2011, the Save Our Barrios Coalition (SOBC) held an historic “Congreso de Barrios” where raza from throughout Southern California all the way to El Paso Texas, discussed ways to fight back and resist the growing destruction (Gentrification) of poor and working communities for the benefit/monetary gain of rich corporations and developers.

Community-based organizations came together and joined in collective learning and shared ways that communities have struggled to save their homes and cultural/historical heritage from the parasitic “developers” who seek to ethnically cleans certain urban areas for profit.

The Congreso was divided into three tables of discussion:
• THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GENTRIFICATION
• WAYS THAT GENTRIFICATION AFFECTS THE COMMUNITY
• FIGHT BACK: REDEVELOPMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LA RAZA

Once a full report out is produced, Unión del Barrio will share the outcomes of this important meeting.

For more information on the Save our Barrio Coalition or to get involved please visit, http://saveourbarrios.wordpress.com or e-mail Save our Barrio Coalition at saveourbarrios@yahoo.com

Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North America Labor Conference – VII

Uniting America’s Working Class and Increasing its Influence!

Del 3 al 5 de diciembre de 2010 en Tijuana, México se realizó la  Conferencia Laboral Cuba/Venezuela/América del Norte/América Latina/ y el Caribe en su séptima versión. Mas de 100 personas, representantes de varios sindicatos y organizaciones sociales y politicas se reunieron para dialogar de los retos y oportunidades para el movimiento sindical en el contexto de la crisis económica mundial.

From December 3rd to the 5th over 100 representatives of various labor, social and political organizations came together in Tijuana Mexico in the VII Cuba/Venezuela/NorthAmerica/Latinamerica and the Caribbean Labor Conference. The discussions were centered around the feats and opportunities that exists for the labor movement in the context of a world economic crisis.

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The US-Cuba Labor Exchange, along with fraternal organizations hosted the 7th Annual Cuba/Venezuela/México/North America Labor Conference in Tijuana México.

This Labor conference brought together workers and their organizations from throughout the hemisphere to share experiences, and the movement towards Continental Unity. The conference compared the legacy of the failed capitalist neo-liberal “free trade” model and the emergence of a socialist alternative. We heard from Union leaders from:  Nicaragua, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador, Cuba, and the United States.

Among the topics included the social and labor movements in Nuestra America (Latin America):

• U.S.-Cuban & Latin American International Relations

• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) vs. Bolivarian Alliance of the People’s of Nuesta América (ALBA)

• Economic Crisis, Capitalist Readjustment and the Move towards 21^st Century Socialism

• Economic Integration and Solidarity

• Latin-American Migration and its Causes

• The Struggle to Free the Cuban Five from U.S. prisons – Demand Family visits now!

SPONSORS (partial):

U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange
Federacion Sindical Mundial
International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
International Action Center ( IAC)
Unión del Barrio

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