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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During February of 2017, Trumpistas Sent Our Communities A Clear Message Of What They Have In Mind For Us
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, […]
Trumpism 2016: The Unmasking Of An Empire In Crisis
Don’t Let Yourself Be Overcome With Fear, Nor Should You Lament The Trumpista Crisis Of Imperialism! Compañeras y compañeros, don’t run and hide from this absurd turn of events. To begin, don’t forget that Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) was never our champion, and the oval office is not the center of our political power. Instead, think […]
1994-2016: 22 Years of Operation Gatekeeper
In 1994, William Jefferson Clinton activated a new border enforcement policy, Operation Gatekeeper, that was designed to push people without papers away from large cities, to instead cross the border in the more dangerous and remote mountains and deserts of California and Arizona. Since 1994, Operation Gatekeeper and similar policies in New Mexico and Texas, […]
A Speaking Tour Against Repression, Disappearances, & Impunity In Mexico!
Mexico is experiencing one of its worst crises in its history; politically, economically, socially, and culturally. The Mexican state, led by political parties at the service of international finance capital, are selling and distributing the wealth of the nation to foreign banks and foreign interests. This has resulted in the looting of Mexico’s national wealth, […]
Trumpism Is An Imminent Threat! ¡La Amenaza Trumpista Es Real!
We must be organized raza! In a speech Donald Trump delivered on August 31, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona, he increased the intensity of his anti-Mexican rhetoric to a level we have not seen within a presidential campaign, in at least a lifetime. Win or lose, his candidacy “a soltado los demonios,” and “trumpism” has become […]
Unión del Barrio Celebrates 35 Years Of Raza Liberation Struggle
On August 27, 2016, Unión del Barrio celebrated our 35th year of continuous struggle for raza liberation. From 1981 to this day in 2016, tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of hours, invested into meetings, rallies, marchas, PE sessions, conferences, congresos, etc. – all stitched together to form a unified banner of struggle. We […]
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 […]
A DECADE OF STRUGGLE: UNION DEL BARRIO REACHES ITS 10TH YEAR OF STRUGGLE IN LOS ANGELES
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, […]
Hindsight 2008: “What Does The Election Of Barack Obama To The Presidency Of The Empire Mean For La Raza?”
Real Change Will Only Come From Those Who Struggle For Dignity, Justice & Self-Determination Editor’s Note: A version of this essay was originally published the day after the U.S. presidential elections on November 5, 2008. Responding to multiple requests, we decided to repost an updated version edited for readability and enriched with links from numerous outside […]
¡Fuera Trump! UdB Report On The May 27th Action In San Diego
San Diego’s Chicano Park was the gathering point for at least 800 people who participated in a politically militant and well organized action to unwelcome the anti-Arab, anti-Black, anti-Mexican, anti-Woman, power-hungry, neo-fascist oligarch Donald Trump. The event took place on Friday May 27, 2016, and represented dozens of organizations, cultural groups, MEChAs, local businesses, artists, […]
“21 millas por 21 Años de Resistencia” – 21 YEARS OF OPERATION GATEKEEPER – 21 YEARS OF RESISTANCE
–Click to download Registration Packet– Unión del Barrio, a community based political organization, that for over 30 years has organized Raza workers to struggle for our self-determination and liberation from US imposed borders, is organizing “21 millas por 21 años de Resistencia” – a bike ride from the Larsen Field in San Ysidro to Chicano Park. […]
LINK: San Quintín – Rocha
rocha@jornada.com.mx La Jornada – Lunes 18 de mayo de 2015
Baltimore 2015: Vemos La Rabia Afroamericana Pero Necesitamos “Poder Negro”
Traducido del inglés por Sara Plaza y S. Seguí – Rebelión ¿Apoyamos las protestas contra el terrorismo policial? Totalmente. ¿Denunciaremos a la gente por montar bronca? De ninguna manera. Mientras tanto, oportunistas comentaristas mediáticos, deshonestos políticos bipartidistas y representantes progres de docenas de organismos de servicio social acuden a toda prisa a Baltimore para denunciar los […]
LINK: Open Letter From Maria Puga – Help Us Stop Border Brutality…
On May 28, 2010, my husband and father of my 5 children was brutally beaten and tortured at the San Diego border by federal agents. Days later Anastasio Hernandez Rojas died. The San Diego coroner’s office described Anastasio’s death as a homicide and found that he had “several loose teeth; bruising to his chest, stomach, […]
LIGA: ¡Que Viva La Lucha De Los Jornaleros Del Valle De San Quintín!
LIGA: La Jornada Baja California – Cierran bodegas de Driscoll’s en EU, en solidaridad con jornaleros de San Quintín http://jornadabc.mx/tijuana/04-04-2015/cierran-bodegas-de-driscolls-en-eu-en-solidaridad-con-jornaleros-de-san-quintin “En la manifestación participaron integrantes del Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB), del Proyecto Organizativo de la Comunidad Indígena/Mixteco (MICOP), y de Unión del Barrio, entre otras agrupaciones.” Nota: Queremos reconocer que los compas del Colectivo Todo […]
2015 Marcha de Zapata: ¿Qué Sigue?
El deber es de organizar a nuestro pueblo para defender los derechos humanos y democráticos y oponernos a toda clase de opresión y terror colonial. Como sector juvenil de la Raza nos organizamos bajo el concepto de la auto-determinación. Varias organizaciones en San Diego se han unido para denunciar la guerra continua en contra de […]
2015 SAN DIEGO ZAPATA MARCH: WHAT’S NEXT?
WE MUST ORGANIZE OUR PEOPLE TO DEFEND OUR DEMOCRATIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS FROM ALL FORMS OF COLONIAL OPPRESSION AND TERROR As working class raza youth, organized under the banner of self-determination, organizations in San Diego have united to stand up and denounce the ongoing war against poor people in our city, throughout the United States […]
SAN DIEGO MARCHA DE ZAPATA 2015
10:00 am. Saturday, April 11, 2015. Chicano Park SD. 10:00 am. Sabado, 11 de abril de 2015. El Parque Chicano SD.
En contra de la represión a trabajadores en San Quintín, Baja California, se pronuncia el Frente Indígena México y Estados Unidos
17 de marzo de 2015 A la Alianza de Organizaciones Nacional, Estatal y Municipal por la Justicia Social, en San Quintín, B.C. México: A los medios de comunicación libres y autónomos: A la prensa internacional: A la población en general: ASUNTO: Pronunciamiento del Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB) en relación al conflicto denunciado por […]