Injustice

Original version here. It’s a far too familiar scene happening everyday all over the country: a person is arrested, incarcerated, possibly deported, for a non-violent drug related offense, and a family is torn apart. Thanks to the failed war on drugs, that person is most likely an African-American or a Latino even though whites use […]

I spent Memorial Day weekend in Tijuana, Mexico doing the same thing I did the weekend before, honoring U.S. military veterans. The sound of that still sounds strange to me, but unfortunately it is what it is. Tijuana is a place I’ve been to many times, but this time it was way different for me […]

It’s been a rough few days for immigration advocates on the ground. After more than a year of successfully building pressure on the President to step in and turn around his disastrous deportation record through executive action, we forced a full review of the White House’ immigration enforcement programs. With less than a month before […]

This month Rebel Diaz released another video off its Radical Dilemma album. Directed by Sense Hernandez, “La Patrulla” features King Capo. This bilingual collaboration “speaks to the issue of police violence, hyper vigilance, and mass incarceration in our communities.” You can access “La Patrulla” here. And while you’re at it, give @rebeldiaz, @kingcapo718 and @sensehernandez […]

Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the incarceration of Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican considered by many to be one of the longest-held political prisoners in the Western Hemisphere. What follows is the original message in English López Rivera shared with Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día: To love the homeland costs nothing, what would be costly is if we […]

“These will be the final words that I speak in public before I cease to exist.” So begins the moving communiqué from Zapatista leader Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. In the newly-released statement (available here in English), Marcos gives a brief account of the Zapatistas’ history, which he has had a leading role in since the armed […]

UPDATE, 8:15pmET, May 22, 2014: I had an email exchange with one of the study’s co-authors today, and she wrote me that Cohn’s inferences about the data were his and not her research group’s conclusions. She also wrote that the study was still not public, nor was it finalized. Read more here. In the ongoing […]

The following video is raw, but speaks for itself. It has gone viral, having been deleted from Facebook, but eventually showing up on YouTube. It happened on May 20 in Salinas, California. It shows two police officers chasing what appears to be an unarmed man. Eventually the police officer fire shots at the man, killing […]

Want to see what wealth inequality looks like? All you need to do is look at this photograph from Mexico. This photo is part of a campaign published here by Publicis, a Mexican ad agency. The photos refer to a site currently under construction.

UPDATE, May 17, 2014: The bill passed. Reports from Santo Domingo and the Dominican-American community are confirming that the Dominican Republican is ready to move beyond last year’s controversial constitutional tribunal ruling about who is a Dominican citizen. Here is what Dominican Today reported: The bill submitted to Congress by the Executive Branch Thursday will […]

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Two years ago today, #YoSoy132 began during a news conference at Ibero-American University. Tonight a video commemorating those two years was published on YouTube. Our memory says, “Never again.”

Via Vice News: As Barack Obama considers ways to enforce immigration laws “more humanely,” VICE News travels to Guatemala to meet a deportee named Ray Jesus, who lives apart from his American wife and 5 American children. When Ray lived in the U.S., he was the family’s breadwinner. Now they rely on welfare to get […]

In response to a series of Pro-USA protests scheduled for tomorrow at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, CA, this is what Live Oak students are saying:

The following statement by Georgine Scott-Codig­a was published on the site for one of the rallies occurring this Monday in front of Live Oak High in Morgan Hill, CA. The situation has gotten tense and ugly. Online evidence contains threats of violence against students. Scott-Codig­a and the Gilroy-Morgan Hill Patriots (GMHP) claim that other rallies […]

Once again, compassion is absent from the current political landscape that is immigration reform. While politicians from both sides of the aisles posture, real stories like the video below continue to get shared. If you don’t get emotional after seeing this video, you have serious issues. And before you say that this mother’s focus is […]

In what has become a contentious issue for the San Jose suburb of Morgan Hill, CA, emails sent to Latino Rebels tonight about upcoming Pro-US Flag Cinco de Mayo protests in front of Live Oak High School, allege that some pro-protest Tea Party members were threatening students at a local town meeting, even causing one […]

Looks like Cinco de Mayo 2014 is moving away from 2013 stereotypical ignorance to a new wave in patriotic nativism. Yesterday, we shared a story from California, where a school district had to warn parents that the safety of students could be in jeopardy on May 5. That decision by Morgan Hill Unified School District […]

With every cause, there is an effect. For a California school district, the cause is the prospect of rallies to celebrate American patriotism and protest a court ruling banning students from wearing US flag t-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. The effect of the rallies’s promotion and subsequent hate language being used by supporters have led to […]

Responding to a quote from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, our own @rscspokenword, one of the ORIGINAL REBELDES of LatinoRebels.com, shares his thoughts through spoken word. Where Are You Really From? It always starts with a simple question And ends with bruised egos and temples. You see, this question is not really simple to answer. So when […]

In a scathing opinion piece slamming Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s now epic dissent about this week Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling, Mike Gonzalez, the VP of Communications for The Heritage Foundation (the same person who defended Jason Richwine’s Latinos are stupid dissertation), wrote the following to explain why Sotomayor needs to calm down (boldface emphasis is ours): There […]