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What are we listening to this weekend? This. You can download SubVerso’s song here. (H/T @latinoticias) For more about SubVerso, go here.

Tomorrow in San Juan. Tomorrow in New York City. Follow #FreeOscarLopez. Updates on Facebook (English and Spanish). From Congressman José Serrano: Although we sometimes disagree on other issues, this is a cause that unites us all. Oscar López Rivera has been in prison for more than 32 years- that is long enough. The President of […]

A troubling story from San Jose State. From a local outlet: Three San Jose State University students were charged yesterday with misdemeanor hate crime and battery after allegedly confining their black roommate with a bike lock and subjecting him to racial taunts, a prosecutor said Read more here. San Jose State’s student newspaper posted pictures […]

We will let you decide. What do you think of the tweet a Los Angeles publicity group tweeted out today from the Latin Grammys? Check out @JotDog outfits! #HEINEKENHOUSE pic.twitter.com/ZqMrvvx1AB — Digital Girl Inc. (@digitalgirl_inc) November 20, 2013 JotDog is a quirky pop group from Mexico City. What say you? All in good fun? Or […]

In case you missed it, a monument honoring Puerto Ricans who have served in the U.S. armed forces was unveiled yesterday in Boston’s South End neighborhood. Here is what the Boston Globe reported: The crowd of more than 100 people, including many veterans, broke into cheers in both English and Spanish as the monument, located […]

So a few weeks ago, we penned an open letter to the new Fusion channel that kind of went viral. The response to it was incredible, especially from those who actually felt the same way that we did. We still stand by what we wrote. We always will. A week after we wrote the letter, […]

Less than a day since posting a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game at the University of Texas-Austin and getting a crapstorm of negative reaction, the UT-A chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas has decided to cancel the event. This is the statement that event organizer Lorenzo Garcia shared and posted with outlets: To whom […]

In the northeastern tip of Colombia, fierce resistance to Cerrejón, one of the world’d largest open-pit coal mines, has seen indigenous communities block highways and railway lines in recent weeks. These protests take place in the context of a wider movement of indigenous people trying to safeguard their territories.  “In 30 years of pillaging natural […]

UPDATE: The event has now been cancelled. Wen it comes to the reaction towards the “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game promoted by Lorenzo Garcia, the University of Texas-Austin chapter leader of the Young Conservatives of Texas, it is safe to say that everyone thought Garcia’s idea was stupid. Here’s some perspective: yesterday morning at 5:57amET, […]

UPDATE, November 19, 2013: The “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game has now been cancelled. This just in from Librotraficante: Houston, TX (November 18, 2013) – It will be a full day of defying oppression for the Librotraficantes who were headed to Austin Wednesday morning to protest HB5 (More info: www.mastexas.org). Afterwards, they will head over […]

UPDATE, November 19, 2013: The event has now been cancelled. UPDATE, November 18, 2013: a counter-protest is now being scheduled. UPDATE, November 18, 2013: UT has responded with a statement. Apparently drawing from a 2005-06 plan of Young Conservative organizations on campuses across the country, the UT Austin chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) […]

We got this one from @TRANSLATINAS_NY, who tweeted us earlier this morning. (BTW, she had us at Anderson Pooper.) RACIST #ANDERSON POOPER RT@GayGuideMexico @AndersonCooper mocks #Peruvian culture http://t.co/fBKLep6tPL #lima #latism @latinorebels #peru — Brooke Cerda Guzman (@TRANSLATINAS_NY) November 18, 2013 A few clicks here and there, and this is what we found. First, the video (get […]

What do independence and music have in common? Independence is defined as freedom from outside control or support, and for a group of 15 bands that make up the music label, Laptra, there is no music without independence. Laptra began in 2000 with bands from Buenos Aires Capital, Buenos Aires Province, Mexico and Uruguay. The […]

This in from the YouTube page of closethesoa, or Close the School of the Americas: The School of the Americas is the Pentagon’s flagship training school for Latin American militaries. The SOA has trained hundreds of torturers, military dictators and human rights abusers. The purpose of the school is to maintain U.S. domination over Latin […]

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Ricardo Trade , Executive Director of Brazil’s Organizational Committee for the 2014 World Cup, recently gave an interview in which he spoke about the impact of nationwide protests that have occurred in Brazil since June have had on the event’s planning. He had the following to say, via The Raw Story: “The protests are democratic in […]

As first reported by The New York Post, a former Alexander McQueen saleswoman who is Latina filed a racial discrimination lawsuit claiming that her supervisor called her “burrito face,” “taco smoke” and “Goya princess.” This is what the Post said: Manhattan resident Moselle Blanco worked at the late fashion designer’s flagship in the Meatpacking District […]

VIA THE HUFF POST Another three activists belonging to the Dream 30 group were deported over the weekend, La Opinión reported Monday. With the return of Edgar Torres, Karen Hernandez and César Ortiz to Mexico, the total number Dream 30 activists deported comes to five, with another four remaining in detention in El Paso. The rest have […]

Watch this. This isn’t about politics, Speaker Boehner. This is real life. Real stories. So, if you agree with them, what are you going to do about it, Speaker Boehner?

Let’s just say this: we love Juan Escalante, known to us on Twitter as @JuanSaaa, and so when he shared this video today where he debates DA King on Fusion, of course we were going to share it. Here is the segment.

Update: yeah, we shared new info about this. See below. We got this one from from a fan: @latinorebels what’re y’alls thoughts on the new #Bordertown show on fox? Almost all latinos on tv are stereotypes :/ http://t.co/InhsNmHjyX — Zenen Jaimes Pérez (@zenenjaimes) November 12, 2013 So we checked it out, and we read that […]