The more trouble Trump gets into, the more intense his attacks are against our raza communities. All this mess about “border wall funding” and the “government shut down” is only to distract from the very serious legal trouble that Donald Trump and his accomplices find themselves in. The same thing was done with the refugee […]
Organizational Updates
AMLO is the New President of México
AMLO is the new president of México. He won the presidential chair with more than 53% of the votes, surpassing the multiple candidates of the right-wing political elite as a whole, by more than 14 points. It must also be considered that with just five years of existence, the MORENA party won at least 20,229,314 […]
Unión del Barrio Calls On Border Communities To Protect The Physical Integrity Of Our Central American Sisters And Brothers
Unión del Barrio strongly condemns the recent violent acts directed against Central American migrants and refugees by a small group of people in the area of Playas de Tijuana. The violence and threats of violence carried out by a small group of reactionaries represent nothing less than the most foul expression of xenophobia which highlights […]
Unión del Barrio Backed Slate Wins Two School Board Seats in Pico Rivera
In what can only be understood as major victory for independent community-based politics in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, two candidates backed by Unión del Barrio, Jose Lara and Leanna Ibarra, won the El Rancho Unified School Board election on Tuesday night. Securing the two top positions among a field of six candidates, Lara and Ibarra together won over eleven thousand votes in Pico Rivera, and will serve the educational community of Pico Rivera for the next four years.
Unión del Barrio Condemns the Increased Deployment of US Troops to the Politically Imposed Southern Border with Mexico
¡Somos Un Pueblo, Sin Fronteras! We don’t recognize the Imperialist imposed U.S. Border By deploying its military to the southern border to support the anti-Mexican police force known as the US Border Patrol and its criminal counterpart Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Trump administration has exposed the true nature of US imperialist crisis. But […]
PABLO ACEVES ¡PRESENTE – AHORA Y SIEMPRE!
San Diego, September 29, 2018 To the General Membership of Unión del Barrio, To the Mexican People, To our Allies, To all Friends of the Liberation Struggle for Nuestra América, It is with great pain and a heavy heart that Unión del Barrio informs the Raza Liberation Movement and its supporters that we have lost […]
Huelga de Hambre/Hunger Strike in Prisons in the US and Canada
En las Calles y la Torcida the Resistance to Colonial Violence and Slavery takes another Huge Historic Step Since August 21st and continuing to September 9th, across the US and Canada, prisoners have been on a general hunger strike. They are fighting for an end to slave labor from corporations and private prisons that drive […]
Unión del Barrio Condemns the Imperialist U.S. Attack Against the People of Syria
Unión del Barrio condemns the imperialist U.S.-led attack unleashed against the Syrian people, and we denounce what is the most recent grotesque display of naked euro-anglo colonial violence against the Arab people. We recognize the right of the Syrian people to self-determine their political future, and we expose imperialist machinations to violently remake Syria in […]
Unión del Barrio Stands in Solidarity with the Palestinian People for their Right to Return
On this Day of Return for the Palestinian people, the settler state of Israel repeated its genocidal policy of extermination, leaving at least 16 dead and over 1,200 injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Unión del Barrio is a Mexican and Latin American organization based in California, and we have struggled for over 35 […]
TOUCH ONE, TOUCH ALL: Community Level Self-Defense Beyond DACA!
Unión del Barrio on the elimination of DACA: The most aggressive base of trumpista fascism is anti-immigrant in general and anti-Mexican in particular. The white nationalists that hold power in this country see our people as a threat; not a political threat, but because they know they must contain our demographic growth. This is what […]
Today We Were United In The Defense Of Chicano Park & Our Community
Today, September 3, 2017, a broadly unified raza-led front of elders, high school and college students, barrio youth, political radicals, muralists, artists, cultural workers, academics, activists, native people of the Kumeyaay nation, labor organizers, religious people, etc. unconditionally joined forces with at least 500 local community people to defend Barrio Logan’s historic Chicano Park. Click […]
Part IV: The Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle
Unión del Barrio Analysis On Trumpista Fascism & The Struggle For Raza Liberation The purpose of this four part analysis is to offer a summary of what Unión del Barrio has learned about liberation struggle within the political borders of the United States. We feel it is essential to critically analyze our struggle over time in order […]
Part III: The Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle
Unión del Barrio Analysis On Trumpista Fascism & The Struggle For Raza Liberation The purpose of this four part analysis is to offer a summary of what Unión del Barrio has learned about liberation struggle within the political borders of the United States. We feel it is essential to critically analyze our struggle over time in order […]
Serving In The U.S. Military Will Not Liberate LGBTQ Raza
On July 26, 2017 Donald Trump sent out a tweet declaring a ban of all transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. Of course we recognize that this is a transphobic declaration, though we cannot ignore that the U.S. military has brought death to innumerable people, including many Queer and Trans people across the […]
Part II: The Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle
Unión del Barrio Analysis On Trumpista Fascism & The Struggle For Raza Liberation The purpose of this four part analysis is to offer a summary of what Unión del Barrio has learned about liberation struggle within the political borders of the United States. We feel it is essential to critically analyze our struggle over time in order […]
The Never-Ending Ballad of Esequiel Hernández Jr.
The tiny border town of Redford Texas is located about four hours southeast from El Paso. On May 20, 1997 an 18-year old U.S. citizen of Mexicano heritage named Esequiel Hernández Jr. was shot dead by a group of Marines who had been deployed to intervene in the drug trafficking that was reportedly taking place […]
The Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle: Part I
Unión del Barrio Analysis On Trumpista Fascism & The Struggle For Raza Liberation The purpose of this four part analysis is to offer a summary of what Unión del Barrio has learned about liberation struggle within the political borders of the United States. We feel it is essential to critically analyze our struggle over time in order […]
The Shameless Dishonesty of US Narco-Imperialism: A Timeline Of Neoliberal Death-Mongering
Deception, war, criminality, and terrorism have been used as instruments of empire for hundreds of years. US imperialism has not been an exception, fomenting political chaos and death across the globe, especially in the decades following World War II. Yet, the shamelessly ahistorical nature of trumpista fascism makes it too easy to forget the origins […]
Trump’s “Renegotiation” of NAFTA Means Bleeding The Mexican People More Than Ever
Since it was imposed in 1994, NAFTA destroyed the Mexican countryside and made the Mexican economy completely dependent on the US economy. This destruction provoked a massive migration of Mexicans to the United States. Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Bill Clinton knew perfectly well that NAFTA would provoke more migration, that was why 1994 was […]
US Airstrike on Syria Represents an Escalation of the War Against the Syrian People
At the onset of the so-called “Syrian Civil War” in 2012, Unión del Barrio condemned the drive of the US government to force a “regime change” in Syria that was intended to support the position of US imperialism in the devastating invasion and occupation of Iraq. We knew then that the political-economic objectives of the […]