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 […]
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, […]
As representatives of sister organizations of various countries, continental organizations, and international delegates to the II Congress of the Nueva Central de Trabajadores de México, we declare full solidarity with the fight of the people of Mexico to defend their sovereign rights and reject the intention of Trump to construct and expand a wall long the international border. The president of […]
Los movimientos sociales y las organizaciones políticas de América Latina y el Caribe, reunidos los días 23 y 24 de enero del 2017 en la ciudad de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, suscribimos el presente documento de ferviente apoyo a la V Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y Gobierno de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y […]
We have struggled for over 35 years within the belly of the beast, and we’ve come across many allies who fight for justice along our side. Over time, there are some that truly stand out, with compa Tommy Flanagan being one of them. We honor Tommy Flanagan for standing in solidarity with the Mexicano people […]
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 […]