Police and Prisons

On Friday, April 23 Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law SB 1070, vicious, white nationalist legislation designed to attack the Indigenous Mexican workers from whom Arizona and the rest of Occupied Mexico was stolen by white colonizers over the past 500 years.

Unión del Barrio, a 28 year-old organization that struggles for the self-determination of the Mexicana/o working class communities, will commemorate International Workers Day on this May 1st.

Unión del Barrio, una organización con 28 años en la lucha por la auto-determinación de las comunidades de la clase obrera, observa y conmemora el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores este 1º de mayo.

On Monday April 26, 2010, community organizations from throughout San Diego will come together for a vigil in solidarity with the people of Arizona, and unite their voices with those who reject the recently signed Arizona state law SB 1070. This vigil is being convened at the Federal Building in Downtown San Diego with a call by the Raza Rights Coalition and its member collectives in order to reject the approval of a law that has been clearly designed to criminalize and punish the working people of Arizona.

El día lunes, 26 de abril de 2010 en un acto de solidaridad con el pueblo de Arizona y en denuncia a la nueva ley estatal SB 1070, organizaciones comunitarias en San Diego llevarán a cabo una vigilia en el edificio federal localizado en el centro de San Diego. La Coalición Pro Derechos de la Raza, sus colectivos y la comunidad en general unen su voz para repudiar la aprobación de una ley que claramente ha sido diseñada para castigar y criminalizar al pueblo trabajador de Arizona.

In 1986 Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton said, “You might not have the Black Panther Party, but you have the Uhuru House;...

On March 11, 2010, Malcolm Shaw was shot down in his house by Patrick Cici when the Bartlett police broke down the doors at 1346 Standridge. Shaw’s neighbors reported seeing the hooded or masked white police approaching Shaw’s residence and breaking into the house and hearing a shot minutes after.

This article was originally published on UhuruNews.com in January 2009 and is being reprinted to remind our readers to remember the struggle being led...

See videos covering the Lovelle Mixon vigil.