Injustice

In observance of Women’s History Month, LatinoRebels.com celebrates the Latinas who are making important contributions to our society across industries, sectors and movements. This week, Rebeldes Mónica Ramírez, Jen Wilton and Luis Marentes worked together to highlight some of these incredible leaders. They are role models in their communities, schools and workplaces. We thank them […]

On the days following the March 12 tragic explosion that leveled two five-story tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem (that is being attributed as possibly gas-related), the death toll had been officially verified at eight. One of the victims was found just after sunrise, as the surrounding community arose to prepare for another work day, to […]

We got the following post from our friends at Presente: WARNING: THE VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT AND MAY BE UPSETTING. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. Five Moore, Oklahoma police officers attacked and killed Luis Rodriguez in front of his wife and daughter as his family left a movie theater on Valentine’s Day. Luis was unarmed, innocent, […]

On the eve of World War II, the Nazis began to describe the European Jews as “Untermenschen.” The word literally means “subhumans”—a creature that resembles a person, but is nevertheless a bestial humanoid aberration. This was a way to dehumanize them in preparation for a statewide programm of mass extermination. Since the Holocaust, scholars have […]

Remember the immigration mural in Wichita, Kansas defaced with racist graffiti this week? We have some good news to share. The folks at The Seed House/Casa de la Semilla updated us this evening about the mural. It has been restored. Here are three images the group shared on its Facebook page. And this, too: A […]

Reaction to the images of racist anti-immigrant graffiti from Wichita, Kansas shared with Latino Rebels earlier this morning has already gained momentum in our Facebook community and on our Tumblr. The story was also featured in Buzzfeed. The response by the artists who discovered their works defaced? They are “are ready to strike back.”  In a release sent to […]

When we got the following story from Addicting Info, we did not believe it. But when we read the actual bill that Arizona Republican legislator Carl See (Phoenix) is endorsing, we knew it wasn’t a joke. The HuffPost’s Roque Planas also wrote about Seel and since Roque is good peeps, we really knew that it […]

We got this tip from @el_sanchez7 Powerful video by the @UCLABLSA on what it feels like being 33 out of 1,100 students at @UCLA Law: http://t.co/GrjVtBvBnE c: @latinorebels — Víctor (@el_sanchez7) February 10, 2014 So we checked it out. On February 10, 2014 a group of students from the UCLA school of Law gathered together […]

This is nuts. Read the slideshow. It’s long, but it is quite telling.   [View the story “Travis County Sheriff’s Twitter Trolling #Not1More Protesters” on Storify]   By the way, a press release by #Not1More organizers was sent today: Travis County Sheriff Trolls #Not1More Protestors on Twitter Sheriff’s Online Comments Demonstrate His Misunderstanding of the  […]

Last week Justicia Para el Pueblo released the 35-minute video “24 de Febrero, Día de las Autodefensas, la Película” (“February 24, Day of the Autodefensas, The Movie”), commemorating the uprising’s first anniversary that falls on Mexico’s “Flag Day.” Beginning with some of the footage of the shorter “The Right to Defend Myself” explaining the uprising’s […]

UPDATE, February 1, 2014, 1:30pmET: looks like the Facebook photos have been taken down. But they are still here. The following images were pulled from that site: *** ORIGINAL STORY PUBLISHED EARLIER ON FEBRUARY 1, 2014 So those pictures of kids shooting paintball pellets at cutouts of migrant targets with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents? […]

Editor’s Note: This story was developed as a collaboration between Carolina Drake (@CarolinaADrake on Twitter) and Luis Marentes (@marentesluis on Twitter). Since our site does not allow for double bylines, we ran Carolina’s byline at the top, but want to acknowledge Luis as well for his contribution to this piece. On Sunday, January 19 the […]

This was posted via YouTube on January 24.

While the struggle in Michoacán continues between the self-defense groups, the Knights Templar drug cartel and the Mexican army and police, media reporting from Mexico has portrayed the various views from locals. But what do those who emigrated from nearby areas of Michoacán, and follow the news from the U.S. think? So far, reports from […]

Here is a video being shared on social media the last few days. It has English subtitles, and speaks for itself.

King visited the island at least two times in his life: in 1962 and in 1965.

DreamActivist has initiated a online petition calling for U.S. immigration officials to release 60-year-old Miguel Paz, currently being detained at Stewart Detention Facility in Lumpkin, Georgia. The petition text states: Homeland Security agents detained Mr. Paz and his wife after they crossed the Texan border in late October 2013. The two fled Honduras after being […]

[View the story “Social Media Images of #Autodefensas Michoacán Occupation” on Storify]

An internal affairs report released today by the Durham, NC Police about the Jesus “Chuy” Huerta case states that the 17-year-old shoot himself to death on November 19 with a weapon while he was handcuffed in the back of a police patrol car, according to local outlets. This is the latest 6pm broadcast out of […]

This one is for all the neo-nativists out there, every one of you who talk about how those “damn illegals” are taking over this country and they are just a bunch of lawbreakers who no consideration for anything. Today Tresa Baldas of The Detroit Free Press wrote about Marco Gonzalez, an undocumented father of five […]

We saw this via the Prison Culture blog, and even though at first we balked at the pop-like feel of the song, we listed and then we read some more. Yes, a catchy (maybe sappy) music video about private prisons that in the end is actually a bit tender and moving. As the artist Lara […]