The cover of the September 2000 – February 2001 issue of ¡La Verdad!, the newspaper of Unión del Barrio.

Unión del Barrio is an organization that learns from the experiences of past liberation-fighters, internalizing these lessons and applying them to the conditions in which we find ourselves struggling today. This is the legacy left to us by those who before us have sacrificed struggling for the liberation of la raza. Their lives continue to serve us as an inspiration and a source of knowledge for the work we do today. This is why Unión del Barrio recognizes the importance of Bert Corona to our people’s struggle for justice, peace, and self·determination.

The work of Bert Corona tremendously influenced our organization. Bert Corona was a founding member of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee; the Mexican American Political Association; La Hermandad Mexicana; Centro de Acción Social Autonoma (CASA), and other movimiento organizations. He dedicated his life to improving the lives of Mexicanas, Mexicanos and oppressed people throughout the world.

CASA became one of the first organizations to have the political vision to recognize that raza living in the United States form part of “…un pueblo, sin fronteras”. The conceptualization that Mexicanos and Mexicanas on both sides of the Mexico/U.S. border “…compose one class of working people… ” was strongly supported by compañero Bert Corona. Moreover, Bert Corona correctly upheld the fundamental role of the class struggle and socialism as requirements for true liberation. These political principles have become the important ideological pillars of Unión del Barrio organizational platform and ideology.