Latino Rebels

Last month, UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center held a two-hour panel to discuss how a leaf blower ban in Los Angeles was defeated by a group of activists and workers. The panel features professor Álvaro Huerta, community activist Adrián Álvarez, and lawyers Scott L. Cummings and Victor Narro.

Since an online White House We the People petition calling for the ouster of Puerto Rican govenor Alejandro García Padilla reached the necessary 100,000 signatures in a span of 30 days earlier this year, the White House last week had to draft a formal response. Here is what the White House said (as we suspected):

Last year, we spent a lot of time countering slippery claims and misreporting by several nationally recognized writers (specifically Jamelle Bouie and Nate Cohn) who were pushing a mainstream media narrative that more and more U.S. Latinos were becoming “White” in this country. The pieces we published from several contributors were quick to refute how […]

This speech by Georgetown graduate Citlalli Alvarez happened on May 15 during the school’s 2015 Senior Convocation. Alavarez’s words will forever give us hope, no matter what the haters say. Watch.

Earlier this month, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Linda Sánchez (D-CA) wrote the following letter to President Obama, calling for the “immediate release” of Oscar López Rivera. This is the full letter Latino Rebels received today. Congressional Hispanic Caucus Oscar López Rivera Letter to President Obama by Latino Rebels

This happened right before you all shut down for the Memorial Day weekend. It comes from Indiana local media. Here are two reports. 13 WTHR Indianapolis Hey, C.J. Spence: we have a video for you:

We’re back! Here’s the latest Rebel Report, the one where R.J. tells us all to just legalize it. Seriously, just do it.

Editor’s Note: This morning, Latino Rebels received the following bilingual email from Cristina, a mother from Central America who was detained at the Berks County, PA detention facility with her 12-year-old son for 14 months. Of note is that even though Cristina is no longer detained at Berks, she is still being monitored at home […]

Today a group of immigration lawyers —all individual members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)— published an open letter to AILA’S executive director, formally asking that a keynote speaker invitation to the White House’s Director of Public Policy be rescinded. The letter, which appears below, says that AILA should not have Cecilia Muñoz as […]

In the spirit of sharing yet another story out of Puerto Rico few mainland Americans would even care to follow, a new ad from a group called the Puerto Rico Healthcare Crisis Coalition is now running in the Washington, D.C., media market: The coalition, which according to its website is “a group of concerned patient […]

This just in from local Florida media. We have no words, except to say this: You go, Jessica Morales, for speaking out and letting the world know that this is 2015, and this just needs to stop. Just watch. The whole issue started via social media (what a surprise): Rather tasteless and racist that Naples […]

In case you aren’t following the latest from the Democratic senate primary race, this past weekend during the state party’s convention in Anaheim, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, one of the candidates running for Barbara Boxer’s seat, made one really ridiculous gesture at a restaurant when talking about a story regarding her outreach to the state’s Indian […]

To all of our Latino brothers and Latina sisters who can’t speak Spanish, this one’s for you. With the recent news from Pew that U.S. Latinos are speaking more English, maybe this video will strike a chord with people.

UPDATE, May 20: Since we wrote the following piece on May 14, two outlets have covered the protests and what has happened since: PRI and HuffPost. Both outlets have linked to our original piece. We waited a few hours to write this post just to give the U.S. mainstream media a chance to actually cover […]

Editor’ Note: A few of us here at Latino Rebels have read Jonathan Marcantoni’s book, so we decided to write a review. Jonathan is also one of our newest contributors, so we welcome him to the group, and while you’re at it, go get his book and read it! In his 1989 essay “Stalking the […]

Before we share the following interview that’s been floating around the Internet for the past few days, we are wondering if Mark Halperin would ever ask a African American candidate a series of questions like the ones he asked Cruz. Let’s be real here for a second: Ted Cruz is of Cuban descent. You might […]

This one comes from HuffPost Politics. The following video clip shows Frank Luntz closing up a May 9 focus group at the South Carolina Freedom Summit. The last person Luntz approaches is the mother-in-law of David Bossie, who heads up Citizens United, the group that organized the Freedom Summit. Bossie’s mother-in-law has some advice for […]

The following video just “went there.” Let the debate begin, New York City!

In case you missed it, here’s Episode 21 of REBEL REPORT.

Admit it: this hits way too close to home. Way too close to home. Watch.

Earlier this morning, National Association of Hispanic Journalists President Mekhalo Medina posted the following update on NAHJ’s Facebook page: Update: During Cinco De Mayo 2015, Access Hollywood, an entertainment talk show, celebrated the holiday with its hosts wearing sombreros and mustaches. One of the hosts, Billy Bush, used an “accent” as he introduced a mariachi […]