It’s Friday night, and time for a little Comedy Time Latino.
Who’s up for a little Fay Boo? Here is Rick Izquieta.
It’s Friday night, and time for a little Comedy Time Latino.
Who’s up for a little Fay Boo? Here is Rick Izquieta.
So, by now, you have seen it. The "famous" TIME magazine cover. It was all over the social web. Everyone was posting it and everyone was talking about it.
When we posted it last Friday on our Facebook site, our community commented and we had a great discussion about cultural and social norms. Many people saw the beauty of the cover while others just saw TIME just being TIME and privilege being privilege.
Yesterday for Mother's Day, some of us Rebeldes posted a few other photos of indigenous women breastfeeding their child. The pictures were real, authentic and beautiful. The point was that all mothers are nurturing. All mothers represent love. We don't need a TIME cover to justify it or tell us what we think about nurture and love. Well, after a few hours, over 200 likes and about 50 shares, the photos we posted were gone, but the TIME cover was still up. The photos we posted were not only gone from our wall but on the walls of individuals as well. Guess Facebook deemed the photos "inappropriate" or someone reported us.
Nonetheless, when we said the following tonight on our Facebook site
So after getting such a response from others, we went ahead and posted another picture that we loved, and so does our community:

No mames, Facebook.
To EVERYONE who has posted, shared, commented (both good and bad) about THE IMMIGRATION PICTURE THAT SET FACEBOOK ON FIRE, ¡gracias!
As of this morning, our new Facebook analytics came through. Guess that picture resonated with people since our page experienced a 477% growth in engagement between fans and people who are talking about us, meaning that 4 times more people on Facebook are taking about our page than we have fans. The numbers say it quite clearly:
BREAKING UPDATE AS OF 4:55 PM EST:
It gets even crazier when you get a glance of our backoffice. A weekly increasy of 6917%.
To the community that made this photo gop viral, thank you!

Cuando lanzamos esta página el 5 de mayo de 2011, publicamos la siguiente declaración que nos gustaría compartir ya que la última semana ha sido un viaje emocionante de visitas nuevas, nuevos lectores, nuevos enlaces y nuevas conexiones.

Nuestra misión no ha cambiado pero cuando las personas llegan tarde a la fiesta, es posible que hayan perdido toda la actividad que ha sucedido antes de llegar.

En 48 horas, esta foto recibió más de 30,000 LIKES en FACEBOOK
Por lo tanto, como un servicio a nuestros nuevos lectores que han encontrado esta página por una broma tonta sobre los narcos o por una foto que se compartió más de 30 mil veces en Facebook en sólo 48 horas, les queremos decir lo siguiente:
Los Latino Rebels son un grupo de activistas latinos, autores, blogueros, comediantes, artistas, cineastas, y admiradores de la red social. Utilizamos la sátira, comedia, análisis, entrevistas en video, escritos y películas para educar a la gente sobre la vida de la población latina de EE.UU. en el siglo 21. A través de nuestro contenido, vamos a criticar a los “patriotas” que usen la ignorancia y el odio para difundir mentiras sobre los latinos que viven en nuestro país. Vamos a matar estereotipos con humor, comentarios, compasión y tal vez un fuerte GRITO DE QUESO. Apreciamos las opiniones de todos, las buenas y las malas. Pero recuerde, una vez que estén con los Latino Rebels, el viaje será un poco loquito y controversial. ¡ORALE! ¡WEPA! ¡COÑO!

Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi
Word out of Puerto Rico is that the local media is now starting to report and get comments from the players involved in a bizarre Facebook incident that had the office of Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner Pedro Peirluisi—a non-voting member of the US House of Representatives—block and censor LatinoRebels.com founder Julio Ricardo Varela, an active Puerto Rican blogger who does not favor Pierluisi's stance of Puerto Rican statehood.

Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77), founder of LatinoRebels.com
Varela blogged about this incident over the weekend on his own personal blog JulioRVarela.com, one of the top Puerto Rican issues and politics sites in the world. In that blog, Varela shared an audio recording of a phone conversation he had with Pierluisi's office, where the spokesperson admits that they did indeed censor Varela from the Resident Commissioner's public and official Facebook page, but they do not have any evidence as to why he has censored. The blocking period occurred during the time when President Obama was visiting Puerto Rico. Varela found out he was blocked from the site when he wanted to post a video link that showed Puerto Rican Independentista supporters burning a US Flag. That video has now over 60,000 views and over 500 comments, mostly controversial ones that generally insult those "spic Puerto Ricans living on welfare."
In addition, two of the top bloggers in Puerto Rico, Raúl Colón of RaulColon.net and Michael Castro of Poder5, have both written blogs criticizing the Resident Commissioner's social media ban. Colón also let his fellow Rebels know that the Puerto Rican press is now asking him questions about this incident, as well as taking with others involved. The press has yet to contact Varela.





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