Some gente in activist circles have questioned Unión del Barrio’s February 2, 2025, position on the recent wave of youth-centered “spontaneous” protests. The most consistent criticisms are that “We have to stand with the youth” and “UdB shouldn’t try to police the movement.” Because we tend to agree with these points, some observations require more […]
An Urgent Message To Our Communities In recent days, we have seen a major surge of anger and community action, both on the streets of every U.S. city and on social media. Unión del Barrio applauds the courage of our gente in standing up to resist the current attacks against our community. During these critical […]
This morning, December 16, 2024, at 7:45 am PSD, we received the news that a federal judge in Tampa, Florida, issued a favorable ruling in the case of the Uhuru 3: No fines, No jail time, 3 years of supervised probation, and community service. This is a resounding victory for the Uhuru 3! After the […]
On November 30, 2024, a Federal District Judge dismissed (“with prejudice”) the frivolous and reactionary lawsuit filed against Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona, Theresa Montano, Cecily Myart Cruz, the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, and United Teachers Los Angeles – UTLA (the teacher’s union). Unión del Barrio acknowledges this legal dismissal as a small victory in […]
“¿Qué más podemos decir sobre las elecciones de 2024 que no hayamos dicho otras veces? Una cosa es clara: un sistema político podrido sólo puede producir resultados políticos también podridos. Hasta este momento, la basura fascista de Trump ha derrotado rotundamente a la basura liberal de Harris… La lucha política central… [es] superar este sistema bipartidista podrido para defender y sobrevivir esta crisis generalizada de un imperio en descomposición… debemos distanciarnos de cualquier facción que forme parte de este imperio en decadencia… [y] enfocar, priorizar y volver a la lucha comunitaria para convertirla en el corazón y el alma de cada acción política…”
What more can we say about the 2024 elections that we have not already said many times before? One thing is clear: a “garbage” political system can only produce “garbage” political results. In this particular moment, Trump’s fascist garbage has soundly defeated Harris’ liberal garbage. How could Trump (and his Project 2025) have commanded such […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]