Latino Rebels

The following video is from 2013. His name is Rojo Córdova. His poem is called “DosMilMex.” From the documentary “Hecho en México.”

We have known immigrant rights activists Julio Salgado and Jesús Iñiguez for years, and this week, we got a YouTube email about their new “Osito” web series, so obviously we checked it out. FYI, the videos are raw but they are real, and to be honest with you, just seeing two very committed activists just […]

The following video clip from Media Matters captured today from Laura Ingraham’s show pretty much confirms that her ridiculous rant about a bilingual interview conducted by MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart backfired big time. Just listen to the first few minutes. According to Ingraham, she was only “teasing people who try to do simultaneous translation because it’s […]

The political climate continues to get partisan ugly in New Mexico, as Republican governor Susana Martinez faces a re-election bid this November. A few weeks ago, her Democratic opponent Gary King used a quote from Dolores Huerta to suggest that the nation’s only Latina governor lacks a “Latino heart.” Now a new local story pretty […]

The following video, which is really a serious video, is not a skit. It is a real campaign developed by one of Mitt Romney’s former ad guys. As you might imagine, such gold (the music, the examples, the oh-so-handsome people) has led to some very creative social media responses. #IAmARepublican is worth checking out this […]

The Conservative Tavern Facebook page has over 185,000 fans (the FB site was formed in August, 2014, by the way). It also has a website whose front page doesn’t even have content, just placeholder copy: This morning the page posted a piece with no attribution or links about the “dangers” of those “illegals” coming in […]

Today someone sent us a Mashable piece on a new bilingual campaign to raise self-esteem with young Latinos. The campaign, sponsored by American Family Insurance, shows a lot of really adorable young children posing to quotes from influential Latinos in the U.S. and Latin Americans (yes, even Carlos Slim, which was a head-scratcher). Nonetheless, as […]

Sofía Vergara. Advancing Latina stereotypes for humankind anywhere she goes.

Here is the video clip of what GOP congressional candidate for Virginia’s 10th district Barbara Comstock said this week at a debate: Fedex can track packages coming in here all the time; we can track people who are coming into the country. And we can do that right. There, friends, is this year’s Republican talking […]

If you are in New York City next Friday October 3, try to get to the free screening of Rodrigo Reyes’ “Purgatorio,” an award-winning documentary that re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to Dante’s purgatory. It is a documentary for anyone who follows the politicalization of the immigration debate. Did we mention […]

Listen, we got to give it up to what MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart has been doing on this show recently. Very few cable news network hosts are covering the immigration debate as well as he and his time are doing right now. (If you disagree, then you really aren’t watching the show.) In addition, Díaz-Balart’s bilingual […]

A coalition of grassroots immigration rights groups is calling on U.S. Latino voters to hold both Republican and Democratic candidates accountable on immigration during this year’s midterms, going as so far to register as independents and only support only those candidates who will promote “an immediate end to deportations and relief.” In a piece called […]

You know you have major problems when even the most sympathetic of outlets says you that your story is whack. That is exactly what Breitbart is telling the organizer of the silly “Shut Down All Ports of Entry” protest, which was suddenly cancelled in the early hours of September 20 because of a “bloodbath” threat […]

The following excerpt is from the official Vice President’s pool report for a Hispandering (sorry, Hispanic) Heritage Month event where Vice President Joe Biden spoke: [Biden] said comprehensive immigration reform was needed and that if Congress did not “get it done” before the end of the year, “the President’s going to do it, and he’s […]

UPDATE, September 23, 2014: PR51st has confirmed that it has commissioned the Voter / Consumer Research survey. In an email to our founder, the group said this, “PR51st commissioned the survey. We hope that it will help mainland candidates realize that Puerto Rico’s status is an issue of concern to their constituents, and that it […]

So the day after reporter Charlo Green (real name is Charlene Egbe) dropped the f-bomb on live Alaska TV because she was really the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club and decided to work to legalize marijuana in her state, another video from Egbe explains why she did it.

Give it up to Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) for sharing actual truth about this whole “Is ISIS on the Mexican border?” paranoia crap. As O’Rourke said last week: There’s a longstanding history in this country of projecting whatever fears we have onto the border. In the absence of understanding the border, they insert their fears. […]

So after gearing up for today’s ‘Shut Down All Ports’ protest, the lead organizer cancelled the event earlier this morning, citing “an unsubstantiated threat of mass violence to attendees, along with very suspicious activity on the Facebook site.” A few hours after Stasyi Barth posted the following, she told this to The Blaze: It was […]

We are going to take a guess and say that the Argentine artists Pool & Marianela will be getting new fans and new haters after their latest pieces of art have caused controversy in Latin America and will be pissing off toy maker Mattel as well. Because when you start publicizing photos like these… Well, […]

UPDATE, September 24, 2014: According to Pocho.com, Tressy Capps is no longer with Coldwell Banker. Capps has also reached out to us to see if she can appear on our live radio show. She plans to join us this Sunday night at 10pmET. Capps said that she was not representing Coldwell Banker when she made […]

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