PART 2 - "Who We Are". This part of the Political Program of UdB is divided in 4 points, and helps explain who we are historically, politically, and ideologically as an organization. Below is a text version of the section and the menu to the right provides a 14 minute audio version that can be downloaded and listened to, as well as a video version. PART 2 has 4 pages corresponding to the four points of "Who We Are" as UdB:
Page 1 - I. From Alaska to Chile – We Are One People Without Borders.
Page 2 - II. This is “Nuestra América” - We Are Indigenous Nations.
Page 3 - III. Ours is a National Liberation Movement Rooted in Class Struggle - We are Raza Internationalists.
Page 4 - IV. Dialectical and Historical Materialism Form the Basis of Our Strategies and Tactics.
I. From Alaska to Chile – We Are One People Without Borders.
We see ourselves as descendents of indigenous people and heirs of an indigenous struggle against colonial domination. We hope to unite all oppressed people in Aztlán/México Ocupado, regardless of national origin and citizenship, to join the process of building a revolutionary, reunified, and socialist México, and ultimately advancing towards Simón Bolívar’s dream of a unified continent.
Historically, within the borders of the United States, we have suffered under colonial oppression, isolation, and dehumanizing conditions. As a consequence, the need to struggle against these harsh realities led to the emergence of different terms used to identify ourselves. Mexican American, Latin American, Latino, Hispano, Raza, and Chicano, are examples of these identifiers. Terms such as “La Raza” and “Chicana/Chicano” have progressive connotations that were widely used during the Chicano Power movement. Even today, these terms are used by many in a positive and political fashion. We recognize the historical and political significance of these names, and will ourselves use them when appropriate or necessary. Nevertheless, as a revolutionary organization struggling within the current borders of the United States, we believe that national identifiers such as “Mexicana/Mexicano”, “Salvadoreña/Salvadoreño”, “Chilena/Chileno”, and collectively “La Raza”, best cover the historical, geographic, and cultural range of our movement. We see our national identities as foundation of a unified continental identity covering all of Nuestra América.
We hold that the struggle of La Raza in Aztlán/México Ocupado is historically and geographically defined as an indigenous and Mexicano anti-colonial fight for land and socialism. However, we also recognize the colonial experiences of many of our gente in Aztlán/México Ocupado has impacted, over time, the social, political, and economic characteristics of La Raza. As an organization, we were born from of the Chicano Movement, but with a clear understanding that our fight did not begin in the 1960’s. Since 1492 when Colombus set foot on these lands, indigenous people have resisted foreign occupiers. We see this resistance as the beginning of our movement, and today we continue to struggle for the liberation of Nuestra América. As Raza internationalists, we welcome all people who accept this political program into Unión del Barrio, including those that are not of Mexican descent. Following the example of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, we see it as the revolutionary duty of all freedom loving people to fight on the side of La Raza within the current borders of the United States.
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