Injustice

Editor’s Note: Earlier this afternoon, regular Latino Rebels contributor Roberto Lovato wrote this story from El Salvador. He emailed it to us for publication. All the photos in this piece are Roberto’s. Greetings from El Salvador, land of the soon-to-be sainted Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero. I’m here as a journalist covering Romero’s formal beatification ceremony and […]

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 […]

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 […]

While millions of Americans have suddenly become enlightened about the bleak plight of racial minorities in segregated inner-cities and impoverished suburbs, especially with the spate of police killings of unarmed blacks, for those of us who grew up in ghettoes and barrios, we are all too familiar with the rampant cases of police misconduct and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Spanish version here. How much unrest will our country experience before we substantively address the injustices acutely impacting Black people? For months, across the nation and even the world, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand police accountability, transparency and justice for the families that have fallen victims to state […]

“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 […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following piece first appeared at Latin America Is a Country. Both the site and the author have given us permission to repost the piece here. This past March, the murder rate in El Salvador soared to levels not seen in a decade. In just one month, some 481 people were murdered across the […]

The following video comes from our friends at Narco News. As Narco News tells us: The idea for the latest NNTV video was born at the 2014 School of Authentic Journalism, a laboratory where new ideas are created at the intersection of journalism and social movements and where participants share experiences from movement leaders and […]

As you read this, please note that I’m not condemning Toya Graham, the woman seen in a viral video smacking her 16-year old son after she spotted him rioting in Baltimore. Instead, I’m condemning a system of oppression that colonizes us to the point that we will brutalize our children to keep them safe from […]

Over the weekend in Jupiter, Florida, an 18-year-old Guatemalan teen was killed by three other teens who were going “Guat hunting.” The murder of Onésimo López-Ramos has been formally called a hate crime by Jupiter’s police chief, who also told local news that the targeting of Guatemalans has been an ongoing problem. What follows is […]

In case you missed it, this report from Baltimore was posted on Facebook yesterday. Gang members came together to "fight police brutality" but the #BaltimorePolice claim that this means violence. Now, #Baltimore area #Bloods and #Crips explain that they never once said anything of the sorts. So why is the Baltimore Police Department and mainstream […]

Phoenix, Arizona. Pale blue sky blushes at sunset. The heat still feels just warm on the skin this time of year. Food trucks serve up some of the best tacos this side of the border. It‘s been five years since SB1070 was signed into law. Governor Jan Brewer and state Senator Russell Pearce are out […]

As you know, we like to check out what’s new in Neo-Nativism, so we subscribe to the newsletters of several so-called “Patriot” groups. Last night we got this email from a Maryland group with the following subject line, “Can It Get Any Worse?” You can read more about the context of the email here and […]

The things you find on the Internet. Here a 2012 video from South Africa that now making the rounds online and getting more and more attention. By the way, protesters in Johannesburg marched earlier today against recent violent attacks on immigrants. Nando's "immigration" chicken ad is going viral This ad, banned in South Africa in […]

A few weeks ago, I was turned on to poetry collection Detrás del Acero (Editorial Trance 2015) by Joseph Carvalko. His book examines life in 20th century America, placing special emphasis on the working class and the evolving relationship racial minorities have had with the greater society over that time. The book is both socially […]

Editor’s Note: All photos from the author. The deserted island rose above the sands of the waterless Kern River. Gone were the days when its inhabitants waded to the shores. The island was now a wasteland. Among the trash of a destroyed homeless encampment lay a page ripped from a bible, half-covered in dirt and […]

Last week, Latino Rebels received the following email to our general inbox. The subject line said, “Hi, I need help.” The email’s first sentence read, “This happened to my friend’s mother, we want people to know.” After some back and forth with the person who sent the email, we decided to publish the entire email: […]

This weekend we heard a story discussing the systematic “exporting” of drug addicts from many Puerto Rican municipalities to Chicago. We were disturbed both by the policy and by the way in which the story was framed in the pieces we heard. The stories we heard emphasized a corruption scheme in which Puerto Rican municipal […]