The more trouble Trump gets into, the more intense his attacks are against our raza communities. All this mess about “border wall funding” and the “government shut down” is only to distract from the very serious legal trouble that Donald Trump and his accomplices find themselves in. The same thing was done with the refugee […]
Anti-War
Unión del Barrio Condemns the Imperialist U.S. Attack Against the People of Syria
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 […]
Unión del Barrio Stands in Solidarity with the Palestinian People for their Right to Return
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 […]
First Hand Testimony From Herman Baca: “The Chicano Moratorium of August 29, 1970 Still Remembered – The Day Police Rioted!”
“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 […]
Part IV: The Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle
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 […]
Part III: The Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle
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 […]
Part II: The Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle
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 Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle: Part I
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 Shameless Dishonesty of US Narco-Imperialism: A Timeline Of Neoliberal Death-Mongering
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 […]
US Airstrike on Syria Represents an Escalation of the War Against the Syrian People
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 […]
August 29, 1970: Why the Chicano Moratorium Is Still Relevant Today
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 […]