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 […]
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 […]
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.-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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today, September 3, 2017, a broadly unified raza-led front of elders, high school and college students, barrio youth, political radicals, muralists, artists, cultural workers, academics, activists, native people of the Kumeyaay nation, labor organizers, religious people, etc. unconditionally joined forces with at least 500 local community people to defend Barrio Logan’s historic Chicano Park. Click […]
“LEST WE FORGET!” Committee on Chicano Rights (Reprinted & Updated from UCSD Herman Baca Archives) I still vividly remember what happened to me personally and politically in Los Angeles, California on August 29, 1970. Thirty thousand Chicanos from throughout the U.S. marched in the streets to protest and call for an end to the war in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 tiny border town of Redford Texas is located about four hours southeast from El Paso. On May 20, 1997 an 18-year old U.S. citizen of Mexicano heritage named Esequiel Hernández Jr. was shot dead by a group of Marines who had been deployed to intervene in the drug trafficking that was reportedly taking place […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
At the onset of the so-called “Syrian Civil War” in 2012, Unión del Barrio condemned the drive of the US government to force a “regime change” in Syria that was intended to support the position of US imperialism in the devastating invasion and occupation of Iraq. We knew then that the political-economic objectives of the […]
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, […]