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This morning, NPR did a bit more digging about a new immigration detention facility being built in Dilley, Texas. The 7-minute report explores what is really behind the construction of what U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to call a “residential center” for mostly women and children who arrive into the United States from […]

Our friends at the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) have a knack for cutting through the noise and getting to the issue. Last week, the NHFA wrote a letter to the respective heads of HBO and Starbucks about one very simple issue: Where are the Latino performers in the upcoming Concert for Valor […]

On October 12, LatinoRebels.com ran the story of Teodulo Sánchez and a video he recorded showing a Buckeye, Arizona police officer telling Sánchez that he would ” kill [him] right here” during a traffic stop. On October 13, Buzzfeed ran a story about the video and spoke to Sánchez. That same day, our founder and […]

A new short documentary called “Makeshift Americas” is trying to bring more awareness to the issue of forced labor in Latin America by focusing on research-based case studies in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. The group behind the film, led by Ana Maria Defillo, has produced a short about the project, with the hopes of raising […]

This past Monday I started working at a producer of legal marijuana in The Evergreen State of Washington. This means I work at a state-licensed farm where the plant of many names is grown, harvested, processed and packaged for sale at retail stores where it can be purchased much like at a liquor store. I […]

The following video was posted today on Facebook. It shows unidentified DREAMers interrupting a rally for North Carolina senator Kay Hagan, a Democrat who is running for re-election. In the video, Hagan, whose immigration record has been the target of progressive organizations, tells the DREAMers the she is for immigration reform, unlike her Republican opponent […]

I have become highly skeptical of immigration movies. I don’t know why, but maybe it’s because our collective has received so many emails this year, that it suddenly feels like overkill. Immigration rights is a “hot topic,” and while more and more projects have become real movies and even Oscar winners, very little has happened […]

Tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before the screening of Underwater Dreams at MIT, @julito77 interviewed José Gómez, one of the first MIT students to publicly declare that he is undocumented. Here is the full interview: Earlier today Latino Rebels received the following release about the MIT students who announced their undocumented status tonight: Today, in conjunction […]

Abuse at the hands of law enforcement has been making headlines as of late. From Oakland to Ferguson to Iguala, communities _domestically and abroad— have been coming together to scream “¡ya basta!” to police brutality. But there is another kind of abuse at the hands of law enforcement that rarely occupies the public discourse but […]

A few days ago we posted Part One of The Mike Brown Rebellion from Rebel Díaz’s “Ñ Don’t Stop” show on TeleSurEnglish. Here is Part Two:

This just in via a Twitter fan: A burrito chain in Colorado is called “Illegal Pete’s.” Residents want the name changed http://t.co/13oNKxvxLo @latinorebels — Jenifer Abreu (@jenabreu1) October 23, 2014 That took us to this story from The Coloradoan. The owner’s is Pete Turner and according to the local story, he visited “Fort Collins on […]

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UPDATE: The Facebook video has been removed but it is still on YouTube. The following video below posted last night on Facebook has already gotten over 100,000 shares on Facebook. It shows students from Sonora, Mexico, protesting the missing students from Ayotzinapa teachers’ college in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The world is waking up […]

Dear Governor Cuomo, As members of the Dominican-American community in New York City, we were appalled that, during a recent trip to the Dominican Republic, you failed to address a grave situation of ongoing human rights violations in the country. Since a ruling issued by the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal last year, the Dominican government has […]

UPDATE: MassLive reported news of the decision with detailed minutes of the decision. And apparently, the initial reports by Latino Rebels about an October 7 vote was accurate. That came a day after the council voted 10-5 to override Morse’s veto of an order the council had approved Oct. 7 to establish an indefinite moratorium […]

This past July, Janet Van Huysse (@janetvh), Twitter’s Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, wrote a rather high-profile post about the company’s serious diversity challenges, promising that Twitter was going to make “diversity an important issue for ourselves.” Van Huysse shared some rather disheartening data reflecting how Twitter’s diversity problem confirmed the tech industry’s own […]

As a follow-up to a #FergusonOctober commentary piece he wrote last Friday for this page, Rebel Diaz’s Rodrigo Starz wanted to share his group’s latest “Ñ Don’t Stop” episode on TeleSur English: “The Mike Brown Rebellion, Part One.”

President Obama recently proclaimed part of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California as a national monument. Like the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks and the Río Grande Del Norte National Monuments, proclaimed by President Obama in the last 18 months, the San Gabriels designation was the result of years of advocacy from local residents. These monuments, […]

MISSION DISTRICT, SAN FRANCISCO—A new age is upon us, the Age of Soy. No, I’m not talking about some new genetically-modified organism that will (further) fundamentally alter the corn in our tacos, the gas in our cars or the farmland of the Midwest. The development of which I speak has to do with how Mountain […]

Last month, WalletHub labeled Salinas, California, as the second least educated city out of the largest 150 metro areas in the United States. The story was featured on Forbes.com, and soon made headlines in Salinas’ news platforms and across social media. The study, of course, is problematic and flawed on so many levels. First, the WalletHub post defined “educated” while not going […]

Yesterday we posted a piece about racist graffiti at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We now hear from the University’s Chancellor that “an individual has been charged today in court in connection with his alleged involvement in two recent incidents where racist, intimidating messages were scrawled on residence hall doors.” Here is a copy of […]