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There is no other possible explanation as to why Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has gone on record to say that it would be "possible" to officially remove President Obama from the Arizona ballot since Bennett has yet to get a yes or no answer from Hawaii and he is concerned that he hasn't gotten […]

Democracy Now! provided as rather extensive and detailed report about the recent suit filed by the US Department of Justice against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose office has been charged with racially profiling Latino residents in the Phoenix area. Here is the video of the segment and the transcript from today's segment.   JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We […]

We have no doubt that the mainstream media will begin to filter ARIZONA V. UNITED STATES the moment oral arguments are completed today at the US Supreme Court. We, however, will do our very best to look at the actual primary documents surrounding the case and listen to the full public audio arguments that will be […]

Tomorrow, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments for and against Arizona's SB 1070 immigration law. What's at stake? Here is one infographic, (And for those who say it is from the ACLU, suck it.) This graphic presents some very interesting facts (for those who want to know about facts) regarding legal challenges to […]

This morning, DemocracyNow dedicated over 45 minutes of its show to the tragedy of Anastasio Herández Rojas, who was tortured and beaten mercilessly to death by US Border Patrol agents.   For more, visit WeAreAllAnastasio.org

We love "East WillyB". Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of having two members of the show's familia, @juliagrob and @jazminchavez, write one our favorite pieces of 2012: Latinos, Turn Off Your TV, Coño! The piece focused about why supporting independent Latino programming is a good thing. We agree 100%. Ever since that post, we have […]

The Puerto Rican Alliance for Awareness (PRAA), a non-profit organization founded by Carlos Jiménez Flores and Darlene Vazquetelles that is bringing awareness to the negative stereotyping of all groups, released its much-anticipated video today. The goal? To educate the world about the REAL FACES of Puerto Ricans, both on the island and on the mainland. So […]

We would like to take the opportunity to clarify a few misunderstandings about Latinos and specifically, the Latino Rebels. We’re not hard to figure out. In fact, we’re just like you. Except for one thing: we’re bicultural. We have one foot in each place: the United States and our origin of ancestry. The group of […]

Last week MySanAntonio.com reported that the city's proposed mural of a sleeping Mexican being considered for the revitalization of a historic drive-in has drawn protests and anger by several Latino activists and artists. The issue? The city wants to re-create the Mission Drive-In's original art, which showed Mission San José as well as two men […]

On Monday, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights expressing "grave concern" over  the Arizona Revised Statute §§ 15-112 that subsequently banned the TUSD MAS program. In the letter the Congressional Hispanic Caucus urged the Office for Civil Rights to investigate due to "the language […]

Yes, this story is now national, but as with any story, it is always good to check in on the local angle. Courant.com offers some good videos about the coverage of East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo's "taco" comments. Too bad Courant.com doesn't have an embed option on their page, since we would be more than […]

GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB"   By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican actor Amaury Nolasco’s character Angel, uttered the egregious statement on national TV, “I’m Puerto Rican, I’d be great […]

  Originally appeared on EdMorales.net. Reprinted with permission of the author. Ed Morales is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral politics, police brutality, street gangs, grassroots activists, and the Latino arts and music scene.  He has been a Latin music Newsday columnist and longtime Village Voice contributing writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York […]

When we launched this web page on May 5, 2011, we issued the following mission statement that we would like to share again since this last week has been a crazy ride of new visits, new readers, new cross-links and new connections. As with any content page, when people show up late to the party, they […]