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 […]
Analysis
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
During February of 2017, Trumpistas Sent Our Communities A Clear Message Of What They Have In Mind For Us
The real question is, what are we going to do about it? Among the generalized political division and increasing hatred that Trump has fomented during his first weeks as president, it takes a little work to discern what is now clearly a pattern of white nationalist aggression that has been unleashed against our communities. Indeed, […]
Trumpism 2016: The Unmasking Of An Empire In Crisis
Don’t Let Yourself Be Overcome With Fear, Nor Should You Lament The Trumpista Crisis Of Imperialism! Compañeras y compañeros, don’t run and hide from this absurd turn of events. To begin, don’t forget that Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) was never our champion, and the oval office is not the center of our political power. Instead, think […]
1994-2016: 22 Years of Operation Gatekeeper
In 1994, William Jefferson Clinton activated a new border enforcement policy, Operation Gatekeeper, that was designed to push people without papers away from large cities, to instead cross the border in the more dangerous and remote mountains and deserts of California and Arizona. Since 1994, Operation Gatekeeper and similar policies in New Mexico and Texas, […]
Police Terror & the Murder of Alfred Okwera Olango in El Cajon, California
Unión del Barrio stands shoulder to shoulder with our African sisters and brothers, and together we denounce the brutal police terror that has been unleashed against Black communities across the United States. This wave of police killings, of which the murder of Alfred Okwera Olango is only the most recent, can only be challenged through the […]
Trumpism Is An Imminent Threat! ¡La Amenaza Trumpista Es Real!
We must be organized raza! In a speech Donald Trump delivered on August 31, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona, he increased the intensity of his anti-Mexican rhetoric to a level we have not seen within a presidential campaign, in at least a lifetime. Win or lose, his candidacy “a soltado los demonios,” and “trumpism” has become […]
Unión del Barrio Celebrates 35 Years Of Raza Liberation Struggle
On August 27, 2016, Unión del Barrio celebrated our 35th year of continuous struggle for raza liberation. From 1981 to this day in 2016, tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of hours, invested into meetings, rallies, marchas, PE sessions, conferences, congresos, etc. – all stitched together to form a unified banner of struggle. We […]
August 29, 1970: Why the Chicano Moratorium Is Still Relevant Today
August 29, 1970: A Day Every Chicana & Chicano Must Remember August 29th marks the anniversary of the largest raza-led mobilization against the U.S. imperialist war in Vietnam, and against the conditions of oppression and exploitation of our historically indigenous people by this colonial settler society on our own land. The August 29, 1970 Chicano Moratorium […]