Injustice

On January 5, we shared the news of John Paul Quintero, a 23-year-old who was shot to death by Wichita police. The story has gotten a lot of local attention in Kansas, but no national media attention. Last week, facing mounting criticism on how it officers acted when confronting Quintero (whom police claimed reached for […]

The following video is incredibly graphic, but it needs to be shown. It is dashboard video from the police car of officer Grant Morrison, a member of the Billings Police Department in Montana. This week, officer Morrison was cleared of any charges in the fatal shooting of Richard Ramirez, an unarmed individual pulled over during […]

As part of yesterday’s #USTired2 national protests against Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, this YouTube video was tweeted to us today by @asambleahouston:

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Oscar López Rivera was born in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico in 1943. Roughly six years after the Ponce Massacre and about five years prior to the infamous Law 53—also know as the Ley de Mordaza. Five-year-old Oscar began coming into awareness of the society around him in a world where it was illegal to […]

This is what local Kansas media is reporting about the January 3 death of John Paul Quintero: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Yesterday, the Quintero family shared a statement with the media: My name is Alina Quintero. I am the cousin of John Paul Quintero and the spokesperson for our family. At this time I’m […]

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It’s all Dante’s fault. Were it not for his son, Bill de Blasio would probably not have won New York City’s Democratic primary, let alone the mayoralty. And the mess that boiled over last week between the mayor and the NYPD would’ve never happened. Dante —or rather, the political ad featuring him— was a hit […]

The following video, called “Missing Piece,” shows how Barrios Unidos in Santa Cruz, California, has rallied around #Ayotzinapa. You can read more here.

This past Saturday, Latino Rebels Radio co-host Sharis Delgadillo took her camera to the Millions March demonstration in Los Angeles. Here is a video that Sharis filmed and edited.

Earlier today, our friends at Puerto Rico Indie posted a recent interview with Angela Davis. The Puerto Rico Indie story is in Spanish, but the interview Ezequiel Rodríguez had with Davis is in English. Here is the YouTube version of the 9-minute interview.

Editor’s Note: Originally published at BeaconReader.com. Reprinted here with permission of the author. OVERVIEW The New York Times ran a story that pitted an oil terminal against a real estate project in Vancouver, Washington. The reporter did not mention anything about the people who would be displaced by both. *** I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s […]

There is no question that the Mexican government of Enrique Peña Nieto uses automated Twitter profiles (also known as “Peñabots”) to try and block out what the country’s Twitter users are actually saying, especially when it comes to the Iguala tragedy, which marked its three-month anniversary with more demonstrations on December 26. Such is the […]

Meet D, Texas and Tay, three breakdancing B-Boys from New York City’s underground. A few weeks ago, D and Texas arrested for dancing (not for the first time). Tay has also been arrested for dancing as well. This video, however, shows that plainclothes police (Gestapo) were used in their arrest. The criminalization of artists —particularly […]

The Late 1800s Arturo Alfonso Schomburg —born in Santurce, Puerto Rico— was a prominent figure during the Harlem Renaissance. He moved to Harlem in 1891 at the young age of 17. Schomburg was a self-proclaimed Afroborinqueño who later helped found the Negro Society for Historical Research. Known today as one of the fathers of what […]

With speculation that there is some type of progress in the case of Oscar López Rivera, the following press release was shared with Latino Rebels earlier this week. Birth of a Patriot, Star of a Nation La Respuesta magazine and National Boricua Human Rights Network call for a social media campaign on January 6, 2015 […]

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On December 13, we received the following email from a student a Cal State Long Beach: The university promotes itself as a “liberal” institution that promotes diversity speaks or teaches about “white privilege” but deeply embedded in its institutional culture and in other pockets of the campus culture is a white supremacist, individualistic and hateful […]

Over the weekend, several Spanish-language outlets reported that the FBI assisted Mexican officials in the investigation of the #Ayotzinapa case in Iguala. According to reports, Sergio Alcocer, Mexico’s Undersecretary for North America, said that FBI agents traveled to Mexico just days after the disappearances occurred to provide forensics assistance. Alcocer said that the FBI’s help […]

On December 22, 1997, 45 Tzotzil Indians were massacred in the village of Acteal, Mexico. Of the 45 who died, 21 were women and 16 were children. With the focus on Ayotzinapa continuing in Mexico along with the news that Mexican authorities were complicit in the recent Iguala mass kidnappings, the 17th anniversary of the […]

The short of it: On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab, an appointee of George W. Bush, declared President’s Obama’s executive action on immigration unconstitutional. As in struck down. Illegal. Void. Invalid. No good. The long of it: The decision is procedurally strange at best, and indefensible at worst. Meaning that it’s highly likely an […]