Latino Rebels

Earlier today, our friends at Puerto Rico Indie posted a recent interview with Angela Davis. The Puerto Rico Indie story is in Spanish, but the interview Ezequiel Rodríguez had with Davis is in English. Here is the YouTube version of the 9-minute interview.

There is no question that the Mexican government of Enrique Peña Nieto uses automated Twitter profiles (also known as “Peñabots”) to try and block out what the country’s Twitter users are actually saying, especially when it comes to the Iguala tragedy, which marked its three-month anniversary with more demonstrations on December 26. Such is the […]

With speculation that there is some type of progress in the case of Oscar López Rivera, the following press release was shared with Latino Rebels earlier this week. Birth of a Patriot, Star of a Nation La Respuesta magazine and National Boricua Human Rights Network call for a social media campaign on January 6, 2015 […]

[View the story “Thousands Protest in Peru Against Country’s Youth Employment Law” on Storify]

On December 13, we received the following email from a student a Cal State Long Beach: The university promotes itself as a “liberal” institution that promotes diversity speaks or teaches about “white privilege” but deeply embedded in its institutional culture and in other pockets of the campus culture is a white supremacist, individualistic and hateful […]

Over the weekend, several Spanish-language outlets reported that the FBI assisted Mexican officials in the investigation of the #Ayotzinapa case in Iguala. According to reports, Sergio Alcocer, Mexico’s Undersecretary for North America, said that FBI agents traveled to Mexico just days after the disappearances occurred to provide forensics assistance. Alcocer said that the FBI’s help […]

On December 22, 1997, 45 Tzotzil Indians were massacred in the village of Acteal, Mexico. Of the 45 who died, 21 were women and 16 were children. With the focus on Ayotzinapa continuing in Mexico along with the news that Mexican authorities were complicit in the recent Iguala mass kidnappings, the 17th anniversary of the […]

You have to be f-ing kidding us. Is it that hard to get ONE comedy writer who knows what they’re talking about? Exhibit A: this is what bad stereotypical comedy is all about, especially when you have just a few days to write a sketch. Welcome to mediocrity, SNL. Your Cuba skit sucked. Enough said.

Between November 20 and 22, scholars, activists, students, film directors and community organizers met in Otavalo, Ecuador for the first “International Encounter on Good Life [Sumak Kawsay], Plurinational State, and Interculturality in Latin America.” The event was covered by several media outlets, including Ecuador’s TVN, APAK and Taiwan’s Mata!. The conference explored the way in which […]

Yesterday, Democracy Now! explored the case of Assata Shakur in the context of the recent developments between the United States and Cuba.

Last week, the law firm of Amoachi & Johnson produced a legal document chronicling alleged abuses to individuals behind held in immigration detention centers. Today, an affidavit from a 17-year-old mother of a 9-month-old child shared more details about what can only be described as torture conditions: As the law firm’s blog post states: “We […]

This is the full video of the changes to Cuba policy President Obama shared earlier today from The White House. The White House also released a transcript (below) right about an hour after the president spoke. The White House also issued a fact sheet, as well as a statement from Secretary of State John Kerry. […]

In case you didn’t know, NPR just proclaimed “The Body Electric,” written by Alynda Lee Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff, as the 2014 Political Folk Song of the Year. Segarra is a Puerto Rican songwriter from the Bronx. She is now based in New Orleans, along with the rest of the band. This […]

In case you missed it today, HuffPost Live discussed Iguala and the report implicating Mexican federal police.

In response to a lawsuit calling for an end to President Obama’s executive action on immigration relief, Texas Governor-elect (and current state Attorney General) Greg Abbott is now receiving e-letters from immigrant families on a Tumblr page called “Dear Greg Abbott:” "Dear Greg Abbott": Immigrant families are sending e-letters asking him to end Obama lawsuit. […]

This week’s Rebel Report is out. You want to win the battle for Christmas? Recruit Latinos. ¡Feliz Navidad, familia! Post by Flama.

Besides an October report by NPR’s Latino USA, very little national media attention has focused on the March death of Alejandro “Alex” Nieto. While the names of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice have been part of the national news cycle, it is safe to say that very few Americans know about Nieto, who […]

One of our community members alerted us this morning to a story out of northwest Indiana. According to local Chicago media, 36-year-old Alexius Tapia was shot to death early Friday morning after confronting three teens who were breaking into cars in Tapia’s neighborhood. The following CBS Chicago report has more: Within hours of Tapia’s death, […]

Twitter has begun to start promoting its 2014 Moments, and to be honest with you, we thought the social media network would have at least highlighted either this year’s Venezuela protests or the current Mexico ones in their “News and Politics” section. Yet, bizarrely, the only Latin American moment from that section was Carnaval. Yes, […]

Yesterday we received the following document from the Law Offices of Amoachi & Johnson, PLLC: Obama’s torture of children at the border from amjolaw Amoachi & Johnson’s blog explains: The following document is a legal request made to an immigration judge to terminate the deportation of our unaccompanied child client. Under United States law, we […]

This week the parents of the disappeared Ayotzinapa students met with Mexican senators to express their demands for actions regarding their children’s case. Among these were: For the remaining 42 students to be presented alive. For the State to give an exemplary punishment to those involved in the crime. For the living victims of the […]