Injustice

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— […]

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UPDATE: The owner claims her email was hacked. This week on Facebook, Vanessa Hernández Juárez, a member of UCal Berkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association, posted an email exchange she had with Sachi Landscape, a local Berkeley company. The email says it all: Post by Vanessa Hernandez Juarez. Are you joking? Go ask a Latino based […]

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 […]

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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 […]

A viral video published by the Facebook page of Por el amor en el caserío shows 13-year-old David Santiago Román, a resident of the Luis Llorens Torres housing project in San Juan, Puerto Rico, giving the island’s current governor, Alejandro García Padilla, some advice about how to make life in U.S. territory better for kids. […]

Once again, Obama has put the interests of his party and corporate sponsors above those of the people. After promising an executive action on immigration by the end of the summer, he is now backing away deciding to delay it until after the elections in November. At the same time, thousands of families are separated […]

The latest from the Immigrant America series is out.

This is a story about the villas of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Not a story about the usual stigmas and stereotypes, but one about human rights. Today marks one year since a nine-year-old boy named Kevin Molina was killed by a stray bullet while he watched the Disney Channel with his siblings in the Villa Zavaleta. […]

This following is a video of Ly Kou. Kou and others spoke in front of the Riverside, CA, City Council about whether or not Riverside should become a sanctuary city for recent Central American migrants fleeing their countries. Riverside eventually voted against the measure, but it looks like Kou needs to brush up on her […]

On August 29, 1970, what began as a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War turned into one of the worst examples of police brutality in the history of the United States.

The latest episode from EddieG is out. This week: a spoken word piece called “On Ferguson.”

Remember the guys behind “Frack U. Mexico?” It looks like the filmmaker who created Joe T. Hodo is at it again, this time asking people to help him fund, as he calls it, “the story of Central American migrants in Mexico…and the media’s stupidity in covering it.” Thousands of migrants travel from Central America through […]

This story came via Raw Story, which referred to a local Bangor, Maine, paper about how a Bangor native and four other immigration activists have now been charged with “felony lynching” after protesting in Murrieta, California, on July 4. Janet Mathieson, a 22-year-old college student originally from Bangor, told her story to the local Maine […]

The perception that Latin@s have been silent about Michael Brown’s murder and the images of police brutality witnessed in Ferguson since then has captured the attention of many in social and mainstream media. Recently, a Colorlines article was published called the “Pew Survey Explores Racial Attitudes Toward Ferguson Crisis.” The piece was originally called “Do […]

The body falls, A tall boy falls, Tumbles to the ground. The sound of Pop, pop, pop, Pop, pop, pop, Tops the air. Hits a cloud, Bounces around. His lungs slowly Come to a halt there. He has no escape. Scraping the asphalt Beneath his skin, He’s drenched. It’s 12:01 pm, His heart pumps Slower […]

This video was posted tonight by @juanitozarate. Some of the language is raw, but Juan’s honesty is real. A must watch. So, what did you do during Ferguson? Peace.

It seems that we have never really overcome. Ferguson. When I watch the images and the blaring graphics coming out of my television, the soundtrack that plays in the back of my skull like napalm is Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth”: There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. There’s a man […]

Last week, LA’s KTLA reported about the August 2 beating death of 37-year-old Omar Abrego at the hands of Los Angeles Police officers. There is a protest scheduled for later today in LA for both Abrego and Ezell Ford, who was shot by LAPD officers. March today for #EzellFord #OmarAbrego #MikeBrown 5:30pm 65th and broadway […]

Editor’s Note: Originally published in AlterNet.org, the authors of the piece approached us as well and have given us permission to reprint. The following essay is our latest installment of opinion pieces regarding U.S. policy in Central America. “[I]n the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the […]