PART ONE of THREE Our Report On The 2019 MEChA National Conference Originally, the 2019 National MEChA Conference was to be held at Boise State University in Idaho, though in August of 2018 the BSU chapter announced that they could no longer host the conference. Understanding the historical importance of MEChA’s 50th anniversary, in September […]
Originally Published In 2009: 40 YEARS OF STRUGGLE: EL PLAN DE SANTA BARBARA, MEChA & CHICANO STUDIES
Exactly 10 years ago Unión del Barrio published this article in the March-May 2009 edition of our newspaper ¡LA VERDAD!. Though we are currently developing an organizational statement to address the March 31, 2019 name change of MEChA, we felt there was clear value in re-publishing this article from 2009 to help inform our communities about […]
Sin La Mujer No Hay Revolución: “We will fight until every imposed border, wall, cage, and cell is dismantled…”
One cannot turn on the television or read online news without hearing about Venezuela. Mainstream feminist organizations and media outlets are standing with the Trump administration in calling out the economic situation in Venezuela by blaming democratically-elected President Maduro as the cause of the economic crisis, and supporting the installation of US puppet Juan Guaidó. When […]
Los Angeles 2019: When LA Educators Go On Strike, They Teach Us What It Takes To Bring About Change
Unión del Barrio stands in solidarity with Los Angeles teachers! Los Angeles teachers are showing District Superintendent Austin Beutner that when it comes down to defending public education, they are not afraid to go on strike. During the past 20 months the LA teacher’s union (UTLA) has been in negotiations with the LA Unified, struggling […]
Everything Points to the Intensification of Political Struggle in 2019
To the general membership of Unión del Barrio, to our supporters and friends: The Comité Central of Unión del Barrio wishes each of our members, supporters and friends an excellent 2019. Whether your goals are political, family related, or personal, we hope that they all materialize for you during this coming year, 2019. 2018 ends […]
Shut The Whole Damn Thing Down!
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 […]
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 […]
¡Abolir la Migra Asesina; Abolir los muros de apartheid!
25 de mayo de 2018 Unión del Barrio condena enérgicamente el asesinato extrajudicial de Claudia Patricia Gómez González, joven maya de 20 años procedente de Guatemala, a manos de una agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza en Rio Bravo, Tejas. Unión del Barrio reconoce que este asesinato extrajudicial constituye parte de la política de terror y […]
Abolish the Racist Border Patrol; Abolish the Apartheid Border Wall!
May 25, 2018 Unión del Barrio condemns the extrajudicial killing of Claudia Patricia Gómez González, a 20- year-old Mayan woman from Guatemala at the hands of a Border Patrol agent in Rio Bravo, Texas. Unión del Barrio recognizes this extrajudicial murder as constituting a policy of terror and violence by the colonial laws of the […]
El triunfo de Nicolás Maduro Moros es el triunfo de todos los pueblos de Nuestra América
Al Pueblo Venezolano Al Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela Al Presidente Nicolás Maduro Moros Desde el interior de las entrañas del imperialismo, el pueblo mexicano-latinoamericano que lucha por su autodeterminación, damos nuestras más sinceras felicitaciones por la victoria de Nicolás Maduro Moros, el pasado 20 de mayo. La victoria de Nicolás Maduro constituye la continuidad […]
History & Analysis: MAY 1ST 2018 IS ABOUT WORKING CLASS STRUGGLE
Links to UdB-Sponsored May Day 2018 Activities in Southern California: – Los Angeles – – San Diego – – North County San Diego – May 1st, also known as May Day, or Primero de Mayo, is celebrated across the globe as International Workers Day. Precisely because this day commemorates the struggles of working people, this is […]
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 […]
DONATE TO ORGANIZATIONS IN MEXICO
https://www.youcaring.com/mexicorecoveryeffort-955816 Unión del Barrio is making a public call to our friends, allies and supporters to please make a donation to support recovery efforts in Mexico. We will send 100% of the funds to trustworthy grassroots organizations in Mexico that are already mobilized in the areas impacted by the devastating earthquakes that hit Oaxaca on September […]
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 […]