Advocacy
Unión del Barrio
Pan-Mexicano political organization with a Logan Heights Comite Local Francisco Villa; organizes the Annual Grito de Independencia at Chicano Park; runs the Somos Raza Youth Project; operates the Comite de Derechos Humanos Digna Ochoa on community rights; and maintains the Chicano Mexicano Prison Project founded in Logan Heights in 1993.
- Location
- San Diego, CA
- Founded
- 1981
- Website
- https://uniondelbarrio.org/
Unión del Barrio organizes in Logan Heights through its Comité Local Francisco Villa and has anchored political education and community rights work in Barrio Logan since the early 1980s. The organization appears in the Barrio Logan essay for its Chicano Park stewardship and youth organizing.
Cited in
- Barrio Logan and Chicano Parksan-diego