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- Ultimatum -
- Understanding - To see things in a way that is clear and being able to explain it in your own words.
- Unidad Popular - Chile.
- Unión del Barrio (UdB) - UdB was founded in 1981 in San Diego, Califas. Its founders previously had a decade of involvement in the Chicano Movement -within organizations such as the Brown Berets, La Raza Unida Party, MAPA, the Chicano Pinto Union, MEChA, the United Farmworkers, the Chicano Federation, the Chicano Park Steering Committee, and the Committee on Chicano Rights. In 1993, the Union decided to move forward from a local organization based in the San Diego area, towards a national liberation organization. UdB has been one of the most active and principled organizations dedicated to winning the self-determination and liberation of la raza - on both sides of the political border. UdB presently has members throughout Aztlán. See <http://uniondelbarrio.org/>.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights - .
- Universal Suffrage - The right for all people to vote under a system of government.
- United Farm Workers (UFW) - Labor union founded by César Chávez to defend the rights of mostly Mexican and Filipino farm workers.
- United Nations (UN) - An international organization with headquarters in new York city, formed in 1945 to promote peace, security, and cooperation.
- United States - A republic in the North Western hemisphere comprising 48 continuous states, the district of Columbia, and Alaska in North American, and Hawaii in the Pacific N Pacific. 249,632,692; continuous United States, 3,022, 387 square miles. It was born from killing Indigenous people, enslaving Africans, and repressing Mexicans.
- United States and the Soviet Union - The two opposing "super-powers" of the Cold War.
- Upper Class - Also known as the "ruling class", "capitalist class" or "bourgeoisie", it is the dominant social class in capitalist society. The upper class is the most politically powerful class, has large capital (owns the means of production), and they do not work.
- Urban - Living in the city.
- Uruguay - .
- U.S. Expansion & U.S./Mexican War - The policies and path the USA followed during the mid 1800s developed to take away half of Mexico and declare it part of the United States.
- U.S. Marines - .
- Usurp - To take or make use of, without right to it or justification.
- Utopian - An idealist (wishful thinking) view of what socialism should be, and how to bring socialism about. This is not based on facts, realities, and concrete conditions.
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