Injustice

In breaking news today from Durham, NC, police have released a search warrant suggesting that 17-year-old Jesus Huerta, whose in-custody death on November 19 in the back of a Durham patrol car had led to community protests and questions about police action, was linked to reports of recent burglaries. Here is a local report from […]

Latino leaders must begin leveraging their power to speak out against widespread imprisonment It is 2013, over 40 years after President Nixon launched the War on Drugs in response to conservative demands for “law and order” in the post-Civil Rights era. Every president since has intensified the government’s war efforts, enlisting Congress, the judiciary, and […]

UPDATE, January 3, 2014: Police have ruled the fire accidental. Here is a video posted today on YouTube showing burnt remnants of a makeshift memorial for Andy Lopez, the local Santa Rosa boy shot eight times by police in October for carrying a a toy BB gun Deputy Erick Gelhaus was real. The YouTube poster […]

In a story published yesterday by Mexico’s La Jornada, Subcomandante Marcos shared several thoughts and reflections as the Zapatista movement in Chiapas celebrates its 20th anniversary. Here are just a few of his words in Spanish with an English translation by us: La rebeldía no es patrimonio exclusivo de los neozapatistas. Lo es de la […]

Para los que leyeron la traducción al inglés que hizo José Santana acerca de un correo electrónico criticando al autor Junot Díaz, le pasamos la versión original en español que Santana compartió con nosotros. Esta versión también se encuentra aquí. (Observación del editor: Errores ortográficos y mecánicos son del autor y no de nosotros.) “La Soberanía […]

The Jesus Huerta story is not going away, now that video of a vigil last night in Durham, North Carolina has been uploaded to YouTube. Here is the video. Local Durham news is covering what happened last night, and it is troubling: What was initially billed as a peaceful vigil for a 17 year old […]

Here’s one we missed from December 15. Leonel Fernández, former president of the Dominican Republic (twice), gave a speech in La Vega and said some interesting things (given the context of the whole DR-Haiti debacle): “Today Dominicans can tell Nelson Mandela that this is the first country where there was an uprising of black slaves, […]

A summary of #ShutDownICE. Here is the video. For more, visit NotOneMoreDeportation.com.

Yes, this is satire, a unique collaboration between Narco News and Alianza Mexicana contra el Fracking. But it hits too close to home. Frack U. Mexico. Dirigido por Greg “Gringoyo” Berger. Guión de Al Giordano. ¡Buenas noticias! México tiene la cuarta reserva más grande en el mundo de gas de lutitas (gas shale) y el […]

We are a group of students, educators, community activists, and artists living in New York City, composed primarily of Dominican-Americans, as well as allies. We feel a great deal of pain over the decision of the Constitutional Tribunal to revoke the nationality of Dominican-born children of undocumented immigrants, primarily of Haitian descent, applied retroactively to […]

With all the talk about the Dominican Republican and its whole “Haiti” issue, just a reminder (yes, we got this from some of our Facebook fans) that a similar situation is also happening in The Bahamas, and it has been going on for a while. Like since the 1970s. Watch. Lakay (Home) – Documentary on […]

On September 23, 2013, the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic decreed that all persons born to non-Dominican parents after 1929 are denied Dominican citizenship; this measure has stripped more than 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent of Dominican citizenship. Several individuals and entities, from human rights groups to prominent members of the Dominican diaspora, have […]

Of all the posts and articles we have read about the Dominican Republic’s decision to basically make several Dominicans of Haitian descent stateless, this video from Washington Heights caught out eye. Watch this. A message of solidarity from Washington Heights to the DR and the world. We will not accept the discriminatory ruling of the […]

For those who think that it’s just Latino sites and organizations that are saying #Not1More to record deportations by the Obama administration, check out this letter from congressional Democrats. Yes, these people are part of the same party as the President’s. An excerpt: Our efforts in Congress will only be helped by the sensible and […]

How did we miss this from Al Punto and Jorge Ramos last month? That was Aníbal de Castro, Dominican ambassador to the United States, basically saying that this is all about nationality and that there any undocumented in the DR and their offspring aren’t Dominican. He also said that this doesn’t affect 200,000 people, just […]

Last week Dominican writer Giovanny Cruz wrote a rather scathing and nationalistic op-ed in notimundord.com basically slamming fellow Dominican writers Junot Díaz and Julia Álvarez for writing a letter to The New York Times criticizing the Dominican government for its recent ruling on citizenship for Haitians. The October 29 Times letter, co-signed by Díaz, Álvarez, Mark Kurlansky […]

This 2012 gem was found by Upworthy. This is Peter Christ, co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Start at 3:06, when he says, “We are out there enforcing morality when we enforce drug laws.” Truth.

EDITOR’S NOTE: After we backlinked to Lamont Lilly’s piece earlier this week, he gave the Rebels permission to reprint his entire post. Another Durham resident has now died in a controversial encounter with the Durham Police Department. This time it was teenager and local Riverside High School student, Jesus Huerta. An official response from Durham […]

Last week in Durham, North Carolina, home of Duke University, 17-year-old Jesus Huerta died in the back of a police car. This is what a local Durham newspaper wrote about the case: Jesus Huerta, a 10th-grader at Riverside High School, was being charged with second-degree trespassing just before 3 a.m. Tuesday and was in the […]

What are we listening to this weekend? This. You can download SubVerso’s song here. (H/T @latinoticias) For more about SubVerso, go here.

Tomorrow in San Juan. Tomorrow in New York City. Follow #FreeOscarLopez. Updates on Facebook (English and Spanish). From Congressman José Serrano: Although we sometimes disagree on other issues, this is a cause that unites us all. Oscar López Rivera has been in prison for more than 32 years- that is long enough. The President of […]