Injustice

UPDATE 9:00 PM EST: UCSB issued a statement on its Facebook site earlier today. This week Latino Rebels received the following statement and image from UCSB IDEAS (Improving Dreams, Equality, Access, and Success), an undocumented student support group from the University of California, Santa Barbara: On the morning of August 4th, 2013, a threatening message directed […]

It is described as a freak accident, because as far as automobile wrecks go, for a bus to hit a lamppost that falls on a baby in a stroller, well, it’s just not supposed to happen that way. But that’s how it went, and 8-month-old Angelie Paredes is gone. But this July 30 “freak accident,” […]

While our site was down today due to a server outage, we used our Storify account to publish the following update about the #Dream9. [View the story “The Latest Updates from the #Dream9” on Storify]

A July 23 story by Animal Político said the Mexican consulates near the Mexico-US border reported that 13,454 unaccompanied minors were deported by US immigration officials. The article stated that since the passing of the 2008 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, there has been a marked increased in the number of deported minors who wind […]

Tonight legendary band Molotov tweeted the following: Molotov’s Official Statement… pic.twitter.com/zr0PsSJbnD — Molotov (@MolotovBanda) July 30, 2013 The tweet displayed a statement by the band: This statement was shared in response to the story of Esteban Navarro, a gay Chilean teen who was attacked last month. Here is what the HuffPost reported on July 9: […]

As the #BringThemHome campaign enters its second week, a nationally-recognized immigration lawyer called the action organized by undocumented immigration youth a “publicity stunt,” saying that it does nothing to forward the push for comprehensive immigration reform. In a interview with Miami’s VOXXI, David Leopold, a Huffington Post contributor and the former president of the American […]

This just in from our friends at Cuéntame. Watch this, especially the last few minutes when the Hyatt workers talk about the people they served at the hotel. Many workers at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix immigrated to America for the chance of a better life. However, the workers’ standards of living stand in stark contrast […]

Yesterday, the National Immigration Youth Alliance and DreamActivist organized an action where several DREAMers who self-deported to Mexico, crossed the pedestrian crossing in Nogales, Sonora, and were detained by United States immigration officials. The action was part of a #BringThemHome campaign that highlights the 1.7 million people deported during the Obama administration by testing the […]

Almost three months have passed since the in-custody death of David Sal Silva in Bakersfield occurred, and key questions still remain about how Silva died and whether deputies from the Kern County Sheriff’s office were responsible for it. This weekend The Bakersfield Californian published two articles with updates about the case. In one article, there […]

Yesterday NBC Latino reported that the National Council of La Raza “has joined the NAACP, National Action Network, National Urban League and other advocacy organizations in asking to meet with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss possible next steps by the federal government just two days after a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of […]

In response to a not guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, here is what the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released last night: (Orlando) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released the following statement on the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin: NAACP […]

EDITOR’S NOTE; After a hiatus from published writing, Author Ivan Sanchez returns with his latest opinion piece. Welcome back, Ivan. Several months back I put the pen down and told myself I wasn’t going to write anymore freelance articles. The reasoning behind my decision was simple. Media, especially social media now moves so fast that […]

Chile is one of the most restrictive abortion countries in the world. How restrictive? This is what Human Rights Watch says: Abortion has constituted a crime in Chile since 1874. The 1874 penal code, still in force, prohibits abortion in all cases. In 1931, a national health law (Código Sanitario) gave doctors the possibility to […]

Last week, we shared the story of gay bashing from Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, towards James “Wally” Brewster, an openly gay LGBT activist and current choice for US ambassador to the Dominican Republic. This week reports from the Caribbean nation show that the archbishop’s diocese is facing a child molestation […]

Two stories out of Latin America got our attention this week. The first one comes from Costa Rica via TicoTimes: Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly on Monday passed a measure – by accident – that could legalize same-sex civil unions as part of a larger bill, lawmakers noted on Tuesday. Conservative lawmakers voted for the bill’s […]

Looks like a movie called “VIEQUES” is in the works, as the following casting announcement states: Tara Thomas Agency and Marlo Films is at it again! Tara Thomas has teamed up with Angelo Lopez, Michael Diesel and Tuffy Questrell to make this the movie of 2014. This time with Vieques whose casting is currently on […]

This just in from the New York Daily News: Officer Jessenia Guzman is not the only Spanish-speaking cop to face consequence under the NYPD’s controversial English-only policy. A total of nine Hispanic officers have been cited for running afoul of the policy, a national Latino police organization said Tuesday. Many of the officers were hit […]

Yesterday, Presente.org, one of the country’s largest Latino advocacy groups, issued the following statement: LARGEST ONLINE LATINO ADVOCACY GROUP OPPOSES IMMIGRATION BILL BILL WILL INCREASE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN IMMIGRANT LIFE THROUGH INCREASED MILITARIZATION OF THE BORDER June 24, 2013 In response to the very disturbing new proposals contained in the Corker-Hoeven Amendment to the […]

Tonight at 10 pm EST (check local listings) FRONTLINE will premiere “Rape in the Fields,” an investigative report developed in partnership with Univision. The report tells “the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families.” According to the FRONTLINE […]

This is powerful. Watch. Images of border militarization over Obama’s recent speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Produced by Laura Carlsen and Murphy Woodhouse of the Americas Program. Original photography by Murphy Woodhouse, Paul Ingram and Sean Arce. Sketch of Operation Streamline by Lawrence Gipe. By the way, the “border surge” amendment in the […]

You don’t think words matter? You don’t think people like Michelle Malkin and Rep. Steve King aren’t strategically using words and labels to whip up the desperate nativist fervor in the United States of America? Last week, the Twitter profile Rep. King was sharing the Iowa congressman’s disgust that a bunch of young people (“self-professed […]