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After a campaign by Boricuas for a Positive Image calling for MilerCoors and the Puerto Rican Day Parade to stop the distribution and production of an official parade Coors Light beer can displaying the colors and images of the Puerto Rican flag went viral via social media, both MillerCoors and the Puerto Rican Day Parade […]

Yesterday we published the news of a campaign organized by Boricuas for a Positive Image calling for MillerCoors to stop the distribution and production of a limited edition Coors Light product classified as the official beer of the Puerto Rican Day Parade. The can displays the parade organization’s logo and includes the colors of the […]

Last week Boricuas for a Positive Image, a grassroots New York City community group formed after ABC’s “Work It” fiasco, has formally asked for MillerCoors to stop distribution of special Coors Light beer cans donning the Puerto Rican flag. Marketed as the official bear of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, held this June in Manhattan, […]

Earlier in the spring, our publisher wrote a piece about the irony of Rick Santorum hoping that an undocumented German homeschooling family would win an asylum case and not get deported back to Germany. Looks like Santorum’s pleas and the pleas of many U.S. homeschooling families didn’t get heard. Last week the 6th U.S. Circuit […]

With reports that new developments surrounding the in-custody death of David Sal Silva on May 8 in Bakersfield will possibly be made public next week, we wanted to take a moment today and summarize what we know so far about Silva’s death and what we don’t know. It has been a fast-moving and developing story, […]

Earlier this week, attorney John Tello, the lawyer representing the witnesses who had taken cell phone videos of the alleged police beating death of David Silva at the hands of Kern County and California Highway Patrol officers, had said that he was hoping to release one of the videos yesterday. However, instead of releasing the […]

As major developments are expected to be shared later today about the May 8 alleged police beating death of 33-year-old Bakersfield father David Silva, the Los Angeles Times covered a Thursday morning vigil for Silva (video link here) at the Kern County Superior Court building: About a dozen people gathered in front of the Kern […]

According to a story in today’s Bakersfield Californian , the attorney to the witnesses who filmed the alleged beating death of 33-year-old father David Silva at the hands of Kern County and California Highway Patrol officers, said that one of the videos his witnesses took and police had initially seized will likely be released “as […]

As the alleged beating death of David Silva at the hands of Kern County and California Highway Patrol officers continues to get national attention (the HuffPost published its first story yesterday), local Bakersfield coverage continues to provide the most current updates. Here is one of the case’s latest reports: Now that the cell phones are […]

The David Sal Silva case in Bakersfield is just beginning to get major media attention, including an article in The New York Times. The Los Angeles Times has quickly become one of the outlets providing constant updates of the case, which led to the Silva’s in-custody death after Kern County and California Highway Patrol officers […]

It really doesn’t surprise us that ProEnglish, which was formed in 1994 by John Tanton, the very same John Tanton who heads up a network of some of the most racist and anti-immigrant organizations in this country (with help from the Vice Chairman of the Heritage Foundation), has now entered the push to stop comprehensive […]

Yesterday afternoon at 3:30 PST, the office of Kern Country Sheriff Donny Youngblood released the following press statement about the death of David Sal Silva, a case that has begun to get local and national media attention. Silva died in-custody, and the release of video and a chilling 911 call raises several questions about the […]

The story of the alleged beating death of David Sal Silve by Kern County deputies last week in Bakersfield has begun to gain more national attention. The Associated Press has published an article and CNN has filed a report. Here is what CNN reported today. Additional details from the story have begun to emerge, including […]

The following is an edited YouTube video showing local Bakersfield news coverage about the alleged police beating of David Sal Silva, who died in-custody. For more details about this story, you can click on this post. Here is the video.

Yesterday, we shared a very troubling story out of Bakersfield, where David Sal Silva was allegedly beaten by Kern County deputies. Silva died in-custody. Here is a 911 call about the incident. One report said the following, “And though several witnesses caught the brutal murder on camera, police immediately seized cell phones from every one […]

Here is the on-the-scene report submitted yesterday May 10 by NISGUA, the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala. For all other posts of the Efraín Ríos Montt genocide trial, visit NISGUA here. NISGUA gave Latino Rebels permission to republish their posts from the trial. Today in Guatemala, Judge Yazmin Barrios found former dictator Efraín Ríos […]

By now I’m sure you’ve seen the video interview of Charles Ramsey, a man being declared hero for rescuing three kidnapped Cleveland women missing for over a decade who were presumed dead.  It’s not surprising such incredible news would go viral.  It’s also not surprising one of the first few things to happen was the […]

Last week an online group called Concerned Chicagoans went online to publicly criticize a neighorhood-wide “Derby de Mayo” celebration being held in several Lincoln Park establishments. You can read more about what they wrote here, but essentially the CC post  asked readers the following: “What we ask is that folks think critically about the Chicago community. We are not post-racial. […]

NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following report of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish all their reports about this historic trial. NISGUA continues ongoing coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Rios Montt and […]

The latest turn in the the drama that is Venezuela involves a 35-year-old documentary filmmaker from California. According to the Associated Press and Venezuela’s TeleSur, Timothy Hallet Tracy has been arrested by the government of Nicolás Maduro for “fomenting postelection violence on behalf of the U.S. government.” TeleSur reported that Miguel Rodríguez Torres, the government’s […]

The Huff Post’s Roque Plenas speaks the truth in his latest piece, titled “No Politico, Not All Undocumented Immigrants Are Latino.” Politico made waves with an article published Monday that attempts to parse out the political efforts of a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform. The article argues that “pumping as many as 11 million new Hispanic […]