Injustice

On the night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday (January 15, 1929), we share the following recording of “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” an open letter Dr. King wrote on April 16, 1963. For more about the letter, you can visit this link. To all those who fight injustice every day, we dedicate this recording […]

UPDATE, 8:15 PM EST, January 14, 2013: The petition continues to go viral, just hours after Change.org sent an email to people. La Noticia ha dado la vuelta al mundo! Llevamos 49,000 firmas en Change.org @change_mex @lomashill twitter.com/Ceci_HR/status… — Cecilia Hernández (@Ceci_HR) January 15, 2013 @hmilkfoundation We now have over 25K signatures from Mex and […]

On Thursday night, January 10, 2013, prominent AZ-based DREAMer activist Erika Andiola sent out Facebook pleas to stop the detainment of her undocumented mother and brother. Working together, prominent DREAMers fired up an aggressive social media campaign to bring publicity to her situation. Her massive network of allies seeded a phone tree to find legal […]

Here is a statement from DREAMer leader Erika Andiola that was shared with the press today in response to news that her home was raided last night by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. For a couple of years now I have been speaking to media about other cases, Dreamers and their families put […]

UPDATE, 5:00 pm EST. Andiola posted the following status on her Facebook. UPDATE, 2:00 pm EST, January 11, 2013. Andiola has released a statement to the press. UPDATE: 11:00am EST January 11, 2013. We received word that Andiola’s mother was granted a formal stay and that Andiola’s brother was already released. There is a press […]

It is Day 4 since #BoicotLaComay was launched in response to comments about dead publicist José Enrique Gómez that were made by "La Comay," the puppet host of Puerto Rico's highest-rated show, WAPA-TV's "SuperXclusivo." And the momentum to get the show off the air continues to grow. Here are just a few of the latest […]

More and more stories about #1DMx are beginning to surface, and this time, they are coming from The Guardian. The site published an English-language report from Mexico City chronicling the revelation that Mexican police tortured protesters last Saturday during demonstrations against Enrique Peña Nieto, the country's new president. Here is what The Guardian's Jo Tuckman […]

Tonight the international arm of the #YoSoy132 movement tweeted us a YouTube video that allegedly lists all those who were illegally detained by Mexican authorities this past Saturday at the #1DMx demonstration against Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto. The hashtag #TodosSomosPresos (We Are All Prisoners) has become the official hashtag for finding more about the status […]

More details have emerged about the alleged anarchist provocateurs who were paid 300 Mexican pesos to incite acts of vandalism and violence during Saturday's #1DMx protests against Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto. (Pictures from #1DMx can be found here.) According to news reports from Mexico, the provocateurs planned their attacks at least two weeks before the […]

As more and more content is being shared online about #1DMx, a demonstration against Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, reports from Reforma, Proceso, and La Jornada are beginning to present a fuller account of what is rapidly becoming a tragic weekend in Mexico. The #YoSoy132 movement had claimed that the protesters who committed acts of vandalism […]

The #1DMx protests against Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN) have countless of stories being shared via Twitter and Facebook. One tweet from @epigmenioibarra (a Mexican telenovela producer with over 100K Twitter followers) has garnered attention and is beginning to go viral. It should be noted that Ibarra has already been criticized by many for […]

Today, the YouTube channel of EmergenciaMx.org released an 18-minute video of the #1DMx protests, which occurred this Saturday. According to its site and Facebook page, EmergenciaMx is an alternative non-profit media collective of filmmakers, artists, and communicators that offers different points of view that you won't in in mainstream Mexican outlets that "form part of the […]

Another Puerto Rican man was murdered over the holiday. You've heard his name before, it was Hector. (In fact, Hector was one of more than 20 who were murdered in Puerto Rico.) When the news broke, the stories coming out were tearful and full of prayers, until Monday rolled around. I guess everyone was done mourning. By then […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT THREE SONORANS One of the most important parts of the federal desegregation court order on Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is the new Unitary Status Plan (USP) which is being worked on right now. Over the next three days, ending at midnight on November 28th, 2012, the public nationwide has an important role […]

Editor's Note: We are proud to call Tony Diaz, the Librotraficante, a key member of the Latino Rebels familia. I was recently knighted. I didn’t fully understand what was happening at the time as I flew to New York. But I did know that we were making history. All around the nation Librotraficantes convened, on […]

San José del Progreso, Oaxaca – In a small, dry town in the south-west of Oaxaca, Mexico there is a deadly political battle being waged over local resources. By all accounts the town has been split in two—those in favor of and those who oppose the Cuzcatlán silver mine that started operations in the vicinity in […]

From the YouTube channel of IDREAM Campaign: IDREAM campaign and A 1986 Project is proud to present "Untitled" a 12-episode series documenting the faces of undocumented youth in Arizona. In this short teaser of Angelica Hernandez's Untitled Piece, she shares with us what being a Dreamer means to her. To learn more about the IDREAM […]

UPDATED, October 29, 9:25PM EST: A reader shared the original Facebook pic that shows two pictures of the child and how the person who took the pictures questioned that she might have been kidnapped because the "mother" was darker than the little girl. The last few days a story from Mexico made the English-language online media in […]

This just in from our friends at Cuéntame. "A major victory for all these efforts, but much still needs to get accomplished. A big boost for the movement, we are proud at Cuéntame Immigrants for Sale to be part of it." —Axel Caballero Cuéntame Founder |Director WELLS FARGO DUMPS PRIVATE PRISON STOCK In a major […]

Last night, the presidential debate was all about the Middle East, Israel, mixed in with a little bit of China. All we really heard about Latin America was this from Governor Romney (oh yeah, he also mentioned that President Obama likes to cozy up with Castro and Chávez): Number two, we're going to increase our […]

Leave it to our friends at Cuéntame to produce some very high-quality content that tries to educate and inform. Here is their latest video, "This is What Happens When Latinos Don't Vote." For more information, visit LatinosDontVote.com. Here is what their YouTube channel says: The stakes in this election for the Latino community are at […]