Injustice

More bad news for the family of David Sal Silva occurred yesterday when the FBI issued the following statement, essentially ending the federal investigation into Silva’s in-custody death at the hands of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office in Bakersfield, California, on May 7, 2013. Federal Investigation into Death of David Silva Closed U.S. Attorney’s Office […]

This morning, NPR did a bit more digging about a new immigration detention facility being built in Dilley, Texas. The 7-minute report explores what is really behind the construction of what U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to call a “residential center” for mostly women and children who arrive into the United States from […]

On October 12, LatinoRebels.com ran the story of Teodulo Sánchez and a video he recorded showing a Buckeye, Arizona police officer telling Sánchez that he would ” kill [him] right here” during a traffic stop. On October 13, Buzzfeed ran a story about the video and spoke to Sánchez. That same day, our founder and […]

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 […]

A few days ago we posted Part One of The Mike Brown Rebellion from Rebel Díaz’s “Ñ Don’t Stop” show on TeleSurEnglish. Here is Part Two:

UPDATE: The Facebook video has been removed but it is still on YouTube. The following video below posted last night on Facebook has already gotten over 100,000 shares on Facebook. It shows students from Sonora, Mexico, protesting the missing students from Ayotzinapa teachers’ college in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The world is waking up […]

As a follow-up to a #FergusonOctober commentary piece he wrote last Friday for this page, Rebel Diaz’s Rodrigo Starz wanted to share his group’s latest “Ñ Don’t Stop” episode on TeleSur English: “The Mike Brown Rebellion, Part One.”

Last month, WalletHub labeled Salinas, California, as the second least educated city out of the largest 150 metro areas in the United States. The story was featured on Forbes.com, and soon made headlines in Salinas’ news platforms and across social media. The study, of course, is problematic and flawed on so many levels. First, the WalletHub post defined “educated” while not going […]

Yesterday we posted a piece about racist graffiti at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We now hear from the University’s Chancellor that “an individual has been charged today in court in connection with his alleged involvement in two recent incidents where racist, intimidating messages were scrawled on residence hall doors.” Here is a copy of […]

UPDATE, October 20, 2014: An individual has been arraigned for a connection to both these incidents. You walk home from the library late night thinking about the paper you have to submit by midnight. You walk back from the gym pumped up because basketball season is starting soon. You walk back from the cafeteria missing […]

Last weekend, thousands of people from all over the country came together in the St. Louis/Ferguson area to participate in a weekend of resistance that organizers called #FergusonOctober. For those that have been living under a rock for the last couple of months, the small town of Ferguson, Missouri, exploded in resistance after the cold-blooded […]

This week, nearly 3.5 million working families took a stand against the devastating effects marijuana prohibition has had on the residents of Washington, D.C. SEIU, the nation’s largest private sector labor union, the UFCW and D.C. Working Families came out in support of D.C’s marijuana legalization initiative (Initiative 71) and took a stand against the discriminatory enforcement practices that target […]

Buffalo Field Office Director Michael T. Phillips has just denied a request for prosecutorial discretion which if granted, would have allowed Ben Sangari, a citizen of the United Kingdom, to apply for a green card pursuant to his marriage to his United States citizen spouse Arlita McNamee Sangari. Mr. Sangari entered the U.S. on May 30, […]

UPDATE, October 14, 2014: Diana Durán has uploaded the entire 12-minute video to YouTube. She also said via telephone today that her husband is now having problems at work because initial media report incorrectly stated that her husband was undocumented. She insists that he is not and that he has legal status in this country. […]

Enough said.

Today the city of Minneapolis will celebrate its first-ever Indigenous People’s Day, the same day that an observation of Christopher Columbus and the “discovery of the new world” is federally imposed. The initiative to rename the date is a clear attempt to recognize indigenous people as true natives of this land that, as a matter […]

UPDATE: The full 12-minute video has been uploaded to YouTube, but then it was taken down. UPDATE: Our publisher reported that Sánchez and his family met with Buckeye’s Police Chief on the afternoon of October 13. UPDATE: The Buckeye Police Department released the following statement on its Facebook page this afternoon, Monday October 13, 2014: […]

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