June 2012
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TIME magazine showcases undocumented immigrants on...
nbclatino:
TIME Magazine’s cover displays undocumented immigrants, once again spotlighting Latinos.
TIME Magazine is once again shining a national spotlight on Latino affairs, this time with a cover displaying 36 undocumented immigrants.
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Undocumented and Unafraid: TIME Cover Features New...
You don’t think immigration is an issue in this country? That it is all about a law that, quite frankly, does not reflect the economic reality and the economic necessities we need to promote as a country in the 21st century? Tell that to TIME. This week they published the following cover:
Here is an excerpt from TIME’s Behind the Cover piece:
In Spring 2010, four undocumented...
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On the Floor of the US Senate, Florida Senator...
What is going in Florida? While the junior senator from Florida, Marco Rubio (R), defended Florida’s controversial voter purge law (“I wouldn’t characterize it as an effort to purge Latinos from the voting rolls. I think there’s the goal of ensuring that everyone who votes in Florida is qualified to vote. If you’re not a citizen of the United States, you...
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Senator Menéndez: Cuban Dissident from Senate...
Just days after longtime Cuban dissident and activist Jorge Luis García Pérez spoke at a Senate hearing via a video link from Havana and was then arrested and allegedly beaten by the Cuban government, a tweet by US Senator Robert Menéndez (D-NJ) this afternoon says that García Pérez has been released:
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Dora the Explorer Parody from 2008's SNL Season...
Once in a while SNL hits a homer. This is a homer. A 2008 parody of Dora the Explorer called Maraka.
Enjoy.
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CNN Covers Story of Cuban Dissident Arrested by...
Some stories are covered because they have to. There was no way that CNN could avoid not covering this story, considering that it was there during Senate hearings on Cuba last week. There, longtime Cuban dissident and activist Jorge Luis García Pérez spoke about the problems in Cuba and President Obama’s Cuban policy. As García Pérez said, “Policies of appeasement only strengthen the...
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Shellie Zimmerman Booked on One Count of Perjury
NEWS RELEASE
SEMINOLE CO. (June 12, 2012) – Earlier today, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) was contacted by investigators with the Office of State Attorney Angela Corey, Fourth Judicial Circuit, who advised a warrant had been issued for Shellie Zimmerman, 25 years of age.
At approximately 3:30 p.m., deputy sheriffs with SCSO arrested Shellie Zimmerman at the location she was...
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VIDEO: Author Carmen Tafolla Tells The Truth About...
Author Carmen Tafolla = Rebelde. By the way, Tafolla is San Antonio’s Poet Laureate.
¡Break it down, hermana!
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Facebook Page of UFW Deletes Fans' Comments About...
Yesterday, after we reported a story that our constant requests to ask the United Farm Workers (UFW) a few basic questions about the use of a Budweiser logo under the organization’s iconic “Sí se puede” symbol have been ignored and has also led to the UFW’s Facebook page blocking our founder for posting the very same questions we submitted via email, several community...
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In Court Documents, Arpaio's Defense Says Civil...
What planet do the lawyers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio live on? In a 23-page response to a federal lawsuit that alleges the racial profiling and discrimination of US Latino citizens, Arpaio’s lawyers offer the following argument as one of the reasons why the lawsuit should be dismissed:
PLAINTIFFS’ CLAIMS BASED ON LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION MUST BE DISMISSED FOR FAILURE TO...
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The UFW Continues to Stay Silent About Budweiser...
Nine email requests. Four phone calls. Two weeks of follow-up, and the United Farm Workers (UFW) has yet to answer the following questions we have for them regarding the placement of a Budweiser logo under the iconic “Sí se puede” image that has become a symbol of US Latino pride for many. The following text below is what we wrote to them on May 25. Last Thursday, we called them for...
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Boricua Power: Gymnast John Orozco Wins US Title...
A Puerto Rican Olympic gymnast from the Bronx? Yeah, this ain’t Hollywood, this is real life. This weekend in St. Louis, John Orozco, who hails from Boogiedown Bronx, won the national title in gymnastics. He will be representing the US at this summer’s London Olympics.
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Pictures From Today's #YoSoy132 Marches
Here are some additional photos stream through Twitter from some of the #YoSoy132 marches that took place today in Mexico and other parts of the world. [View the story “Pictures From Today’s #YoSoy132 Marches” on Storify]
Is Mexico waking up?
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Early Pictures of #YoSoy132 June 10 Marches
Today, several #YoSoy132 marches are happening all over Mexico and yes, in other parts of the world.
Here is the first series of early pics getting shared on Twitter.
[View the story “Early Pictures of #YoSoy132 June 10 Marches” on Storify]
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In New Obama Ad, Marc Anthony Tells US Latino...
The Obama campaign is starting to roll out the celebrities, and Marc Anthony is just one of them. In a new ad (see below) for Latinos.BarackObama.com, Anthony tells voters that the “President has our back” and that he needs four more years to get the job done. By the way, Anthony is headlining an Obama fundraiser on June 26 in Miami Beach (of course, Miami).
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The Puerto Rican "BanderaGate" Follow-Up: New York...
So, within 24 hours, here is what happened:
An image gets uploaded on Facebook around lunch time. We call The New York Daily News. They respond. We break the story online.
The reaction goes viral.
The Puerto Rican press picks it up around 3pm EST.
We contact the newspaper again and they give us a statement. The apology gets tweeted.
Our story gets picked up by The New York Times, The...
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New York Daily News Apologizes for Printing Cuban...
Just hours after an editor from Latino Rebels uploaded the following picture to our Facebook site, which shows New York Giants boricua star Victor Cruz in front of two Cuban flags promoting the June 10 Puerto Rican Day Parade in the “viva New York” section of the New York Daily News, a spokesperson for the newspaper issued the following apology to us via email:
“As the...
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Mister Rogers Remixed: Did You Ever Grow Anything...
We would dance to this at the club. Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind? Flipping brilliant!
From PBS’ Digital Studios: “Mister Rogers remixed by Symphony of Science’s John Boswell for PBS Digital Studios.”
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The New York Daily News Goofs By Printing Cuban...
What’s in the Daily News? We’ll tell you what is in the Daily News, the picture of a Cuban flag next to New York Giants boricua star Victor Cruz advertising this Sunday’s Puerto Rican Day Parade. Talk about an oops. That is one big oops, considering that the parade is one of the city’s most popular ones and the Puerto Rican community has been a major force in the...
