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Here is the original piece: #NoMames ALERT: Now @dailykos Displays @CafePress “Anti-Mexican” and “Spic” Ads on Daily Kos Site http://is.gd/IL0kc5

UPDATE, 8:33 EST: We checked one more time to test if indeed the CafePress ad was taken down. It wasn't. Did we clean our cache? Yes. Did we check from two computers? Yes and yes. Here is the pic we took at 8:33 EST And here is the screen capture of the file name of […]

Last month, we reported about a bill by a Mississippi legislator that called for the name change in the Gulf of Mexico. This week, Mississippi lawmakers actually had to OFFICIALLY vote to DROP the satirical bill, yet a couple of other bills went through committee.   From a local Mississippi report: Mississippi lawmakers scrambled Tuesday to […]

Invisible Children, the organization behind the viral #Kony2012 campaign that has been sizzling throughout the Internet this week, posted their answers about the several questions and criticisms regarding their campaign. Here are just some highlights and answers from their official site: THEIR INITIAL STATEMENT Thank you for reading this and doing further research about Invisible […]

Yesterday, we were one of the first independent media outlets in the world to raise questions about the two sides of the #Kony2012 controversy. By continuing to ask questions about a viral campaign that literally set the Internet on fire, we were commended by many. To all those who dig deeper and look for facts, […]

UPDATE: Invisible Children has addressed the questions and critiques listed here as well as other critiques. When something goes viral as quickly as the #Kony2012 video did, the initial reaction is to share. Millions and millions of people online did just that over the last two days, creating a topic that, quite frankly, was not […]

Last week, the Latino Rebels were presented with the opportunity to write about a new web series called "The Guzman Show," which is the story about a stereotypical Mexican family that includes a cholo baby, pregnant teen and a goat, described as “a Latin-American Family Guy drenched in Tapatío hot sauce and created by a […]

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 […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT NYCLATINOPOLITICS.COM BY JULIO PABON The two-week grace period that Boricuas For a Positive Image (BFPI) had extended as a courtesy to ABC-TV for their efforts to schedule a meeting runs out on March 8th, 2012. So on Thursday March 8th we look forward to seeing all our friends and new acquaintances again on 66th Street and […]

Today, Maricopa Country Sheriff Joe Arpaio held a press conference where he claimed (along with his Cold Case Posse) that President Obama's birth certificate is a forgery. Here are video segments of the press conference embedded from ABC15.com. Already on Facebook, the conspiracy theories and opinions are out in full bloom.  

A huge kudos to our friends at Pocho.com, the comedic talent behind @MexicanMitt. Looks like America's First Latino President-to-Be now has a theme song. ¡Ajúa!   From Pocho.Com (CREDITS: Mexican Mitt Romney for President (The Musical) Lyrics and vocals by Chris Garcia with assistance from Lalo Alcaraz chrisgarciacomedy.com Music by DJ Real djrealsmells.com Directed and […]

Around 7pm EST today, we reported that CafePress issued a statement about the article we wrote about its "Anti-Mexican Gifts" section, and when an astute reader check the page, the "Anti-Mexican Gifts" section was taken down. Nonetheless, another reader alerted us that CafePress still has an "Anti=Mexico Gifts" section, and that section is still up […]

UPDATE: CafePress has eliminated this page section from their site. Cafepress.com is one of the world's "customized" online shopping destinations. The idea is a simple one: create your own designs, upload them, make them into t-shirts, cups, bumper stickers, etc., and sell away. According to its site, "CafePress.com today ships over 6 million products annually, and […]

Rebelde Charlie Vázquez breaks down this weekend's LibroTraficante event in New York City. For more information about how you can help, go to LibroTraficante.com. Writer and literary activist Charlie Vázquez talks about the Librotraficante project, the banning of Latino Studies materials in Arizona and how a similar book ban would affect Nuyoricans and those of […]

Though initially I wanted to follow the Tucson Unified School District's ban on Mexican studies classes and related books, as it unraveled, given the many conflicting versions and accounts of what was taking place, I gave up on covering it altogether. That was until yesterday when I decided to attend a presentation by Librotraficante at John Jay College in Manhattan. […]

This one is personal. When our boss @julito77 began his professional career as an editor in 1991, the call for authentic US Latino literature was just in its infancy, and one of the goals in the education space was to promote this literature to the K-12 world. In his early years, Julito helped to commission […]

UnivsionNews posted a teaser of what will surely be a very intense and heated interview this Sunday on Al Punto. Here is a video clip (in English) where Jorge Ramos interviews Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In this segment, Arpaio says that he will reveal more information about President Obama's birth certificate on March 1 […]

Blogging attracts like-minded folks just as much as dissenting foes. It is part of the game, and in my own experience, the criticism I have received (of any kind) is always better than indifference. Yes, I have been criticized by Latinos from all sides with much of the criticism and/or disagreement ending up in a mutual respect. After […]

  The official TipsyCake Facebook page offered this statement from Owner Naomi Levine. This was posted today around 3:15 EST. TipsyCake Dear Fans I would like to sincerely apologize to the Humboldt Park Community for my insensitive comments made in the City Soles interview that was posted on our Facebook page on February 21st With […]