Injustice

This video from YaMeCansé dropped yesterday. (h/t @Revolución3_0)

To start a new collaboration between Latino Rebels and La Madre Tierra, we first look to the future with voices that give us hope. Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martínez is a world-renowned 14-year-old (yes, 14) indigenous climate activist and the very embodiment of this hopeful leadership. La Madre Tierra spoke with Xiuhtezcatl in Colorado over the summer. Here […]

In case you missed it, since there was little to no coverage at all in mainstream U.S. media, here is a video of a November 15 solidarity protest in downtown San Francisco for #Ayotzinapa: One of our own Rebeldes was on the ground in San Francisco taking pictures from the scene: Another one from @minsd […]

Created as a tribute to Mexico’s #YaMeCansé global movement, a #USTired2 mobilization calling for peace in Mexico launched this morning, campaign organizers told Latino Rebels. The group has identified December 3, 2014 as the day of demonstrations and rallies in at least 43 US cities to represent the 43 Ayotzinapa students. Organizers said that their focus will be […]

Editor’s Note: We received the following essay last night from political activist Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, originally from Mexico City and currently studying in the United States. The images featured are courtesy of MásDe131, a site that covers Mexico’s protest movement. Submitted to LatinoRebels.com by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez. Comparto artículo que escribí para @latinorebels sobre Ayotzinapa y la […]

This morning, Jesús Murillo Karam, Mexico’s attorney general, is not expressing any regret for the “Ya me cansé” (“I am so tired of this”) comment he made last Friday at the end of a press conference where he said that three members of the Guerreros Unidos gang admitted to burning the bodies of the 43 missing Ayoztinapa […]

[View the story “CRUNCH Mexico Blasted for Tweet Joke About #Ayotzinapa” on Storify]

The following video is in Spanish. It provides a history of state violence and corruption in Mexico. As the video channel says in English: The straw that broke the camel’s back. We do not fear. Tlatelolco, June 10, Aguas Blancas, Acteal, Atenco, Nursery ABC Tlatlaya, Ayotzinapa: A cumulative violence of murders and disappearances have raised […]

After trending globally last night on Twitter, videos are starting to appear on Vine and YouTube showing scenes from last night’s demonstrations in Mexico City as well as calls by Mexicans expressing how they are already “tired” of the country’s situation. The #YaMeCansé hashtag was created after Jesús Murillo Karam, Mexico’s attorney general, was finishing […]

[View the story “After Tragic News of Mexican Students, #YaMeCansé Trends Globally on Twitter” on Storify]

A new short documentary called “Makeshift Americas” is trying to bring more awareness to the issue of forced labor in Latin America by focusing on research-based case studies in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. The group behind the film, led by Ana Maria Defillo, has produced a short about the project, with the hopes of raising […]

I have become highly skeptical of immigration movies. I don’t know why, but maybe it’s because our collective has received so many emails this year, that it suddenly feels like overkill. Immigration rights is a “hot topic,” and while more and more projects have become real movies and even Oscar winners, very little has happened […]

Tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before the screening of Underwater Dreams at MIT, @julito77 interviewed José Gómez, one of the first MIT students to publicly declare that he is undocumented. Here is the full interview: Earlier today Latino Rebels received the following release about the MIT students who announced their undocumented status tonight: Today, in conjunction […]

Abuse at the hands of law enforcement has been making headlines as of late. From Oakland to Ferguson to Iguala, communities _domestically and abroad— have been coming together to scream “¡ya basta!” to police brutality. But there is another kind of abuse at the hands of law enforcement that rarely occupies the public discourse but […]

[View the story “Social Media Images from October 8 #JusticiaParaAyotzinapa March” on Storify]

Reading about Mexico reminds me of El Salvador. Older Salvadoran sensations —the smell of rotting flesh mixed with the sweet fragrance of almond trees, the sight of young faces burned into half skeletons that look like the masks our kids wear for Halloween, the unforgettably sad sound of a dead student’s mother screaming without ceasing— […]

[View the story “Mexicans Demand #JusticiaParaAyotzinapa” on Storify]

For the last ten years, when faced with internal political and ethical frustrations about teaching, research and community advocacy on campus or in my hometown, Chicago, my correspondence with Oscar López Rivera provides clarity. I write to him because, as I struggle with where I wanted to continue the legacy of those bridge builders that came […]

Domestic and sexual violence are pervasive problems that impact individuals throughout our country. Studies show that the Latino community members fall victim at high rates and face unique challenges in the fight against violence, language being one of them. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, and the 2011 American Community Survey, over 37.6 million residents […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: José Ángel N. wrote to Latino Rebels and gave us permission to publish this letter. It has also appeared here and here. You can visit José Ángel at his blog. July 25, 2014 Dear President Obama, I know you will probably never read this letter. But, as a good Mexican, I’ve been taught to […]

Estela de Carlotto, the leader of Argentina’s human rights organization “Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo,” has finally found her missing grandson after more than 35 years of searching. Her daughter Laura disappeared during the last dictatorship and gave birth to a son, Guido Carlotto, in a military hospital on June 26, 1978. Hoy Estela estará […]