What does FU stand for?

Fuerza Unida (Spanish: Thread of Justice; San Antonio, TX)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Dozens of them--from the American Indian Movement to San Antonio-based workers' rights advocates Fuerza Unida to the Muncie, Indiana volunteer group MLK Dream TEAM--participated in a five-stop bus tour dubbed the "People's Freedom Caravan" from Albuquerque to Atlanta in the week leading up to USSF.

Another world is possible: learning from the grassroots at the U.S. ...

Kara Zugman's case study of Fuerza Unida uses new social movement theory to give insight into a new form of political expression that straddles the traditional redistributive goals of labor unions and newer meaning or identity-based organizational forms, in this case one created by women of Mexican or Mexican-American descent.

Overview: race, security, and social movements

The CSWA, AIWA, and Fuerza Unida can also be likened to the radical Asian and Latino movements of the 1960s and '70s.

Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory

In the next section, I will apply these perspectives to the Fuerza Unida to highlight the complex subjectivity of Third World workers and to show that language is a critical site of political struggle between dominant and subordinated groups.

Political consciousness and new social movement theory: the case of ...