Latino Rebels

Last week, a tense video went viral, showing older dudes in Dropbox shirts telling younger kids in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood to get off a soccer field because the older dudes had a permit. Today in City Hall, those kids and their supporters held a “Playground Is Not For Sale” rally that drew about 150 […]

A few months ago, we reminded the Internet (specifically English-language media outlets) to #RespectTheÑ. The point is simple: a letter that might look weird to non-Spanish speakers, is actually pretty common to those who know Spanish. Yet, when you get the AP to tweet out the following, it leads to confusion and just plain editorial […]

For a second, we really thought that the Whiteness Project was just an extension of the SNL skit about white people that got attention last week, but after doing a little more digging, the project is actually serious. According to the site, the Whiteness Project “is a multiplatform investigation into how Americans who identify as […]

Who said that all Democrats are all in with Latino voters? Last night, we shared the reprehensible immigration ad by Democratic candidate for Senate Alison Lundergan Grimes that is being played in Kentucky. Today we share this ad by another Democrat: Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, who ran this ad a few weeks ago: This Democrat […]

The following official ad from the campaign of Democratic candidate for the Senate Alison Lundergan Grimes is quite simply as neo-nativist as the they come. When it comes to immigration, Grimes is running to the right of (wait for it) her Republican opponent, Mitch McConnell. Watch (h/t Buzzfeed). “I approve this message because I’ve never […]

Enough said.

UPDATE: The full 12-minute video has been uploaded to YouTube, but then it was taken down. UPDATE: Our publisher reported that Sánchez and his family met with Buckeye’s Police Chief on the afternoon of October 13. UPDATE: The Buckeye Police Department released the following statement on its Facebook page this afternoon, Monday October 13, 2014: […]

UPDATE, October 13, 2014: Some apologies were made. It was still awkward. By now, you may or may not have seen the following viral video from San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood showing a confrontation between a bunch of younger (and mostly brown) soccer players being told by a bunch of older guys (and mostly white) soccer […]

An Change.org petition by Armando Cruz Velasco of Hesperia, California, is calling to get rid of a “Fiesta de los muertos” Scare Zone at Knott’s Scary Farm (part of the famous Knott’s Berry Farm theme park). Cruz Velasco’s petition says: For the last few years, Knott’s Scary Farm has had a Day of the Dead […]

The following is an actual product. How do we know? It’s in flipping SkyMall. Then there is this: Is this a real product? Let’s read the description from the SkyMall page: This stand-out baby gift is the whole enchilada. So cute you could just eat them up! Soft to the touch and gentle against the skin, […]

For the last couple of weeks Holyoke, Massachusetts, has been at the center of a dispute over the place of Puerto Rican identity in its public art. The controversy started when Mimi Wielgosz objected to having David Flores’ mural, depicting a standard Puerto Rican license plate saying “Puerto Rico, Holyoke, Isla del Encanto” on her […]

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Today the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) released the following report, saying that it “illuminates the inhumane interior Immigration and Customs Enforcement practices that continue unabated while the President postpones action and it highlights the human cost of the delay. The key findings shed light on an agency driven by one calculated mission, to […]

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In case you missed it, Enrique Peña Nieto appeared on CNN yesterday Fareed Zakaria. The Mexican president shared his thoughts about the U.S. and immigration. Here is a clip:

So our friends at Pocho.com got a reply from the Berkeley landscaper whose “f*cking illegal immigrants” email to a Berkeley college student went viral. Here is what was sent to Pocho’s Lalo Alcaraz: hi mr. alcaraz, this gmail acct was accessed without our authorization after using a public computer and some logout problems. sorry for […]

In response to an email exchange between a local Berkeley landscaper and a student member of UCBerkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association (CASA) which contained rather disparaging and racist language regarding Latinos and immigrants, CASA posted the following statement last night on its Facebook page: Our intent, as the Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association, is to advance […]

Yesterday morning we shared the news of an email exchange between a student member of UCal Berkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association and Sachi Landscape who wrote the following in response to the student’s request for a tour: Reaction to the story went viral, with over 20,000 views in just hours and growing. Attempts to reach […]

Call this a study in two videos. Here is a portion of what President Obama said tonight at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. (The full video can be seen here.) This is the activist who interrupted him. Her name is Blanca Hernández. Here is the […]

Look, actual intelligent political analysis from CNN today about where the U.S. Latino electorate is at just weeks before the midterms. It’s a message that has been ongoing for a while now. If you haven’t read Ed O’Keefe’s piece in The Washington Post today, you should.

UPDATE: The owner claims her email was hacked. This week on Facebook, Vanessa Hernández Juárez, a member of UCal Berkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association, posted an email exchange she had with Sachi Landscape, a local Berkeley company. The email says it all: Post by Vanessa Hernandez Juarez. Are you joking? Go ask a Latino based […]