Latino Rebels

Late last night, the Penn State chapter of Sigma Lambda Beta, a predominantly Latino fraternity also known as Omicron Alpha, began to share the following tweets: Fellow Penn Staters, the brothers of the Omicron Alpha Chapter have a message to send out to the public. Please read the following messages — PennStateBetas (@PennStateBetas) December 10, […]

During a one-on-one interview this morning with MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart, President Obama offered his first public comments about #Ayotzinapa. As you can see, the President didn’t really Díaz-Balart’s direct question about US aid to Mexico, saying that the U.S. values Mexico as a friend and partner. He also said that corruption in Mexico “does affect […]

Typical of the U.S. media mainstream, we are in the throes of 24/7 media outrage coverage of yesterday’s CIA Torture Report. Suddenly, the U.S. media and Americans are now shocked to know that the CIA practiced torture techniques in a post 9/11 world. US media yesterday: wait! The CIA brutally & systematically tortured people? That’s […]

Late last night, we received the following email about a local story out of South Tucson, Arizona: We have been fighting a drug rehab from locating across the street from our school for 8 months now. They have money we are a small community of mostly Hispanics without any political clout. Please open link and […]

This is the full video of the immigration town hall meeting President Obama hosted in Nashville.

UPDATE, December 10: Still no comment from the Dodgers, but NBC Los Angeles ran a segment last night about it. Original Story from December 9 After this debacle, organizations like the Los Angeles Dodgers will likely need to rethink who is running the team’s social media account. Last night, several of our followers tweeted us […]

Wake up and rise up, Mexico. This song was uploaded yesterday on YouTube. It is a group of youth expressing indignation towards the recent events in Mexico.

Another Sunday night, another Rebel Report. Here is our first ever Racism Round-Up with host R.J. Aguiar. Post by Flama.

After broadcasting a stunning report on November 26 alleging that 31 high school students were kidnapped in the Mexican city of Cocula, FRANCE 24 issued the following December 4 retraction on its site: FRANCE 24 reported that 31 students were abducted in July by armed men in the Mexican city of Cocula. The facts of […]

Give it up to the folks at AJ+ for brilliantly summarizing in about 4 minutes what so many of us have been saying for years. Watch this video from November 24.

Yesterday a symbolic bill called the “Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014” authored by a rookie congressman from Florida named Yoho passed the House, 219-197. Yoho "exec amnesty" rebuke passes House. 3 Dem "yea" & 7 GOP "no", plus 3 GOP "present" — David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) December 4, 2014 While the bill […]

Irma Muñoz is the founder and executive director of Mujeres de la Tierra, an environmental equity organization. MDLT inspires and teaches women and their children to take ownership and leadership of their neighborhood issues. A lawyer turned social entrepreneur, Irma works with women in Los Angeles’ east side (and beyond) to find practical solutions to benefit […]

Yesterday Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) issued the following statement regarding his stance on Mexico and human rights. According to #USTired2 organizers, Leahy’s office released this statement after individuals associated with the December 3 actions visited his office. Here is what Leahy’s Twitter profile shared yesterday afternoon: RT SenLeahy comments: http://t.co/75ovFjlu6W @VTWorkersCenter: at Leahy #BTV off. […]

At yesterday’s U.S. State Department daily press briefing, this is what Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf took questions about Mexico and Ayotzinapa. This is a clip of what she said. (Full video of the entire briefing is here.) This is the transcript of that explanation (the full transcript is here): QUESTION: Yeah. I just had a […]

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The latest “Ñ Don’t Stop” episode revisits the latest in the Mike Brown case. Here is Part 5 of The Mike Brown Rebellion. In case you missed it, here is Part 4… Part 3… Part 2… and Part 1.

The following video includes survivors of the events that took place in Iguala on September 26 and 27. They are asking for people in the United States to attend one of the multiple #USTired2 actions happening tomorrow, December 3.

A 40-page bilingual media document providing Mexican diplomats with talking points to spin the #Ayotzinapa crisis offers a rather troubling glimpse into how Enrique Peña Nieto’s government is addressing the situation. Julio Hernández López, author of La Jornada San Luis’ Astillero column, published the following document earlier today, which also includes sample tweets with the hashtag […]

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Just when you think editorial cartoonists from U.S. newspapers would have taken a pause after the Indy Star debacle last weekend, we present this week’s latest Immigration Ignorance entry from Rick McKee of the Augusta Chronicle. A fan was reading the Sunday edition of the Press-Telegram (a Long Beach, California newspaper), when she snapped McKee’s […]

There were a lot of skeptics this past summer when Glenn Beck and The Blaze made an emotional plea to help the growing number of unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border? Yeah, it felt like a bit too much. No way Beck and The Blaze would ever stick to that narrative, right? Exactly. Because in […]