We Will Continue To Organize Because We Only Answer To Our Communities Unión del Barrio received an email on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Attached to it was a PDF letter from the Chair of the U.S. Senate “Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism,” Josh Hawley. The letter was directed to compañero Ron Gochez, identified as a […]
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 one of only a few commemorations that spans across borders and touches all humanity. This is true because human labor continues to be […]
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 […]
In 1992, Unión del Barrio formed our Community Patrols as our answer to the colonial attacks against the Mexicano-Raza working class, specifically the deployment of various militarized police forces deployed against our communities. The Community Patrols are a means of building community-based power that will challenge police and migra attacks. These agencies are trained to […]
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 […]
Monday, October 7, 2024, marks one year since the attack against Israel. We are compelled to name the actions of Israel in Gaza and the West Bank that have led to the deaths of nearly 50,000 Palestinian people. The body count does not lie; we accuse the state of Israel of carrying out acts of […]
La noche del 26 de septiembre y la madrugada del 27 de 2014, una organización criminal con el apoyo de fuerzas municipales, estatales y federales entre las que destacó el ejército, secuestró y desapareció a 43 estudiantes y asesinó a 6 personas más en Iguala, Guerrero, México. El presidente en turno, Enrique Peña Nieto, quiso […]
NO EVIDENCE! NO PROOF! NO CASE! UHURU 3 VICTORY OVER U.S. GOVERNMENT ATTACK! On behalf of Unión del Barrio, we unite with our comrade, Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader of the African People’s Socialist Party. This is also our position with regard to comrades Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel of the African People’s Solidarity Committee. Uníón […]
Unión del Barrio saluda al Pueblo Nicaragüense y al Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional en ocasión de su 45 aniversario del triunfo de la Revolución Sandinista. Unión del Barrio, organización política de Mexicanos y Latinoamericanos que radican dentro de las fronteras políticas de EEUU y que lucha por su autodeterminación, expresa nuestro saludo revolucionario al […]
Links to UdB-Sponsored May Day 2024 Activities in Southern California: Los Angeles 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 one of only a few commemorations that spans across […]
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To the Mujeres of Unión del Barrio, To the Mujeres of Nuestra América, Today, we recognize an action that changed the course of history for women around the world. We mark International Working Women’s Day, and we pause to pay tribute to the 129 women who gave their lives by refusing to leave their workplace […]
A las Mujeres de Unión del Barrio, A las Mujeres de Nuestra América, Hoy reconocemos uno de los actos que cambió el rumbo de la historia para las mujeres del mundo. Al conmemorar el Día Internacional de la Mujeres Trabajadoras, hacemos una pausa para prestar tributo a las 129 mujeres que entregaron su vida al […]
Since our founding in 1981, Unión del Barrio has expressed our support for all oppressed peoples’ Right To Resist. Today, we express our solidarity with the bold resistance of Palestinians in their struggle against normalized Israeli state terror and settler colonization. As a Mexican and Latin American organization based in California, for over 40 years, […]
Unión del Barrio transmite un caluroso saludo y felicitación a la Federación Sindical Mundial con motivo de su 78 Aniversario y en el Día de Acción Internacional bajo los lemas ‘¡No al autoritarismo y al recorte de las libertades democráticas y sindicales’; ‘¡Trabajo con derechos! ¡No a las flexibilidades y a la explotación!”. Como organización […]
Compas of Unión del Barrio, Allied Organizations, and Supporters: Felicitaciones on this 42nd anniversary of the founding of Unión del Barrio. We recently closed the VII Congreso Nacional of our organization. Since our first Congreso in 1997, the Congreso Nacional represents the maximum authority and highest decision-making body of Unión del Barrio. This series of […]