Politics

Earlier this month, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Linda Sánchez (D-CA) wrote the following letter to President Obama, calling for the “immediate release” of Oscar López Rivera. This is the full letter Latino Rebels received today. Congressional Hispanic Caucus Oscar López Rivera Letter to President Obama by Latino Rebels

Nota del autor: Este ensayo creativo fue una colaboración con Rafael Acevedo-Cruz, Jorge Román Ortíz, Omaris Zamora Reyes y yo, William García Medina. La versión en inglés se encuentra aquí. Parte I Drama en dos actos en algún pequeño auditorio público La trama: Nelson A. Denis publicó recientemente un libro sobre una historia de Puerto Rico titulado […]

Editor’s Note: This morning, Latino Rebels received the following bilingual email from Cristina, a mother from Central America who was detained at the Berks County, PA detention facility with her 12-year-old son for 14 months. Of note is that even though Cristina is no longer detained at Berks, she is still being monitored at home […]

Today a group of immigration lawyers —all individual members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)— published an open letter to AILA’S executive director, formally asking that a keynote speaker invitation to the White House’s Director of Public Policy be rescinded. The letter, which appears below, says that AILA should not have Cecilia Muñoz as […]

CHICAGO—It’s May 2015, which means the start of the 2016 presidential campaign season is only a blink away. Already hopefuls are throwing their hats into the ring. So far only one person has mounted a challenge to Hillary Clinton, the presumed Democratic nominee—though why Bernie Sanders, a self-styled democratic socialist and the independent junior senator […]

In the spirit of sharing yet another story out of Puerto Rico few mainland Americans would even care to follow, a new ad from a group called the Puerto Rico Healthcare Crisis Coalition is now running in the Washington, D.C., media market: The coalition, which according to its website is “a group of concerned patient […]

This Monday I was the moderator on a political roundtable where the hot topic was the 2016 presidential election. The one name that stood out above all the others was Hillary Clinton. According to one of the panelists, political psychologist and television analyst Bart Rossi: Hilary has a winning personality. It’s not just about the politics or policies, […]

In case you aren’t following the latest from the Democratic senate primary race, this past weekend during the state party’s convention in Anaheim, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, one of the candidates running for Barbara Boxer’s seat, made one really ridiculous gesture at a restaurant when talking about a story regarding her outreach to the state’s Indian […]

UPDATE, May 20: Since we wrote the following piece on May 14, two outlets have covered the protests and what has happened since: PRI and HuffPost. Both outlets have linked to our original piece. We waited a few hours to write this post just to give the U.S. mainstream media a chance to actually cover […]

A recently published book, They Know Everything About You, discusses the loss of privacy in modern life. It shows how corporations, governments and the Internet have eliminated the privacy of virtually everyone on the planet. The combination of high technology, internet data collectors, the Patriot Act and global surveillance have created a world where our […]

Editor’ Note: A few of us here at Latino Rebels have read Jonathan Marcantoni’s book, so we decided to write a review. Jonathan is also one of our newest contributors, so we welcome him to the group, and while you’re at it, go get his book and read it! In his 1989 essay “Stalking the […]

Before we share the following interview that’s been floating around the Internet for the past few days, we are wondering if Mark Halperin would ever ask a African American candidate a series of questions like the ones he asked Cruz. Let’s be real here for a second: Ted Cruz is of Cuban descent. You might […]

Seasonal employers were relieved when the U.S. Department of Labor recently resumed processing H-2B visa program labor certifications. However, an ominous cloud of proposed new program regulations threaten what could be sunnier days for employers and workers alike. The long-running H-2B program enables businesses that perform seasonal work to legally hire employees from outside of […]

I think we’ve all agreed that racism and ethnic slurs are not OK in 2015, haven’t we? Maybe we haven’t. In today’s world, a lot of bigoted/racist/xenophobic sentiment creeps up not overtly, but in the subtle ways that are less perceptible. For example, we all constantly hear racist jokes, see stereotypical costumes and read publications […]

In case you missed it last night on The Daily Show, Senior Latino Correspondent Al Madrigal breaks it down pretty brilliantly: The Daily ShowDaily Show Full Episodes,  More Daily Show Videos,  Comedy Central Full Episodes

You may have heard the abbreviation TPP in some background noise, or seen it on a screen at one point. Maybe you even heard a brief discussion about it in what passes for news coverage on TV. But even if you know that TPP means Trans-Pacific Partnership, you may not know what it really means. […]

Most people don’t care about Honduras: even historically-conscious Latinos and keen observers of Latin American happenings. Big-name countries like Mexico, Brazil and Cuba hog all the limelight, because they either have substantial economies, a storied relationship with the United States or a strong emigrant presence in America. (In the case of Mexico, it’s all three.) […]

Versión en inglés aquí. ¿Cuánta más inquietud tendrá que sostener este país hasta que por fin se discuta sustantivamente las injusticias que gravemente impactan la comunidad afroamericana? En los últimos meses, en todas partes del país y del mundo, decenas de miles de personas han salido a las calles para exigir justicia para las familias […]

The following video, posted last month on the Facebook page of California Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu, kind of speaks for itself. This is a clip of what Rep. Lieu said at a March 17 Oversight and Government Reform Committee meeting. Congressman Lieu: “I think it’s easy for people like you and me who wear suits […]

“They’re no better than the Republicans,” says Ramón, my 92-year-old Salvadoran immigrant father, while watching another local news report featuring a family sad and angry at the deportation of the male head of the household. “If this continues, I’m not going to have a reason to go vote next year.” Such refrains from Latino voters […]

We are living historic moments of oppression, to which the people have the right to respond with historic moments of resistance. The “Which Side Are You On REMIX” came out on our Radical Dilemma album, but the time is NOW for the song and the message it represents. It was an honor to link with […]