Mexico is experiencing one of its worst crises in its history; politically, economically, socially, and culturally. The Mexican state, led by political parties at the service of international finance capital, are selling and distributing the wealth of the nation to foreign banks and foreign interests. This has resulted in the looting of Mexico’s national wealth, […]
In 1970, the Chilean people set out on an unprecedented path towards socialism in Nuestra America, the electoral process. In an act of electoral support for the construction of a workers state and the general platform expressed by the Unidad Popular, and its candidate Salvador Allende Gossens, the Chilean people voted for socialism. The Nixon […]
Our backyard has historically been neglected. People can call BASTA! NIMBY as much as they want but our backyard is full. Start storing stuff in yours… B.A.STA! is a grassroots, barrio based, loose knit formation of residents, artists, activists, small business owners and allies creating a movement. The sole purpose of this movement is to prevent […]
To the people of Brazil, To the Central de Trabajadores de Brazil (CTB), Unión del Barrio repudiates the coup in Brazil, consummated in the Brazilian Senate by a hand full of legislators working in the service of trans-national capitalism. This coup has bought about the ouster of the democratically elected President, Dilma Rousseff. Unión del Barrio […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
2016 marks our 35th year as an organization dedicated to the liberation of our peoples. Unión del Barrio was founded on August 29, 1981, and has since been one of the most consistent, active, and longest surviving independent organizations in the history of our people’s struggle for self-determination. For over three and a half decades, […]
****SAVE THE DATE****SPREAD THE WORD***** Unión del Barrio Chicano Mexicano Prison Project (CMPP) Presents: A Barrio Forum to honor Hugo Yogi Bear Pineal, to commemorate the Cease of Hostilities, and to denounce the Prison Industrial Complex. Speakers will include: Martha Esquivel – California Families for the Abolition of Solitary Confinement. Flaco Rising – Former Prisoner, Student, Activist, […]
San Diego “Noches De Conciencia” On Friday May 27th, presidential candidate Donald J. Trump held a fascist rally at the San Diego Convention Center. People from all over San Diego joined multiple protests to reject his politics. A well organized march called by Unión del Barrio rejecting Trump’s colonialism (racism) and hateful campaign descended from […]
Unión del Barrio is a barrio based revolutionary organization, born from the Chicano Power movement of the 1960’s & 70’s. We were founded on the guiding principles of Raza Self-Determination and National Liberation. Our ultimate struggle is to recover the lands stolen from the Mexicano-indigenous people in 1846 by the illegal US settler invasion, war […]
There is a group of young organizers in LA that work with Escuelita Aztlan, a youth project of Unión Del Barrio. Escuelita Aztlan (EAZ) is Unión del Barrio’s independent freedom school that fuses cultural learning, political activism, and community organizing. EAZ recruits straight from the barrios of Los Angeles to bring together the most spirited […]
Unión del Barrio (UdB) was formed in 1981 by a half-dozen activists as a San Diego barrio-based organization, and has over time transformed itself into a Raza Internationalist formation with Bases of community work in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Davis California, as well as members in other locations. Over time UdB participated in many actions, conferences, […]
¡ALTO A LA REPRESIÓN Y CRIMINALIZACION DE LA PROTESTA SOCIAL!
¡Libertad para el Profesor Rubén Núñez Ginés! ¡Libertad para el Profesor Francisco Villalobos! ¡Alto a la criminalización de la protesta social! 14 de junio de 2016 A la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación Al movimiento Sindical Mexicano A las y los Mexicanos en Resistencia contra el Mal Gobierno Unión del Barrio, organización política de Mexicanos/Latinoamericanos […]
Real Change Will Only Come From Those Who Struggle For Dignity, Justice & Self-Determination Editor’s Note: A version of this essay was originally published the day after the U.S. presidential elections on November 5, 2008. Responding to multiple requests, we decided to repost an updated version edited for readability and enriched with links from numerous outside […]
San Diego’s Chicano Park was the gathering point for at least 800 people who participated in a politically militant and well organized action to unwelcome the anti-Arab, anti-Black, anti-Mexican, anti-Woman, power-hungry, neo-fascist oligarch Donald Trump. The event took place on Friday May 27, 2016, and represented dozens of organizations, cultural groups, MEChAs, local businesses, artists, […]
At approximately 4:30 pm on May 26, 2016 we received word that a threat was being circulated by a known racist group from north of San Diego. Within an hour of receiving that initial information we were able to independently confirm the validity of the threat from multiple additional sources. At that point the decision […]
“PA PENDEJO NO SE ESTUDIA!” A Historical Chicano Perspective Many persons have asked me what my political opinion is of presumptive Republican (the white) Party Presidential candidate Donald Trump. My response is the old Mexican saying, “Pa’ pendejo no se estudia’!” For Trump’s Republican voters & supporters, Winston Churchill’s quote; “The best argument against democracy […]
Since the founding of Unión del Barrio in 1981, educators have played a central role in the evolution of the organization. Evidence of this is how compañero Ernesto Bustillos, the principal founder of Unión del Barrio, worked as a teacher for the majority of his life, and was among the original founders of the Association […]