Latino Rebels Radio

For this holiday weekend, Latino Rebels Radio gives you a BONUS episode from our friends at Latino Media Collective! The LMC goes north of the border to speak with Todd Gordon, author of "Imperialist Canada" and "Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America." Todd Gordon is an assistant professor of social justice & community engagement at Wilfred Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latino Rebels Radio is off for the holiday weekend, but our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over the show with a episode from late March. Sabrina Fernandes returns to speak with the LMC on the internal fragmentation within the Brazilian leftist movements that set the stage to last year's coup against president Dilma Rousseff. You can learn more about her analysis at http://ppesydney.net/crisis-praxis-brazilian-left/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The National Puerto Rican Day Parade is facing another controversy after announcing that it would honor Oscar López Rivera, the 74-year-old nationalist whose federal sentence for "seditious conspiracy" was commuted by President Obama earlier this year.Angelo Falcón of the National Institute for Latino Policy joins us to share the latest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Texas governor Greg Abbott went on Facebook Live to sign Senate Bill 4 on May 7, it took many by surprise, including many Texans who have been fighting against the bill. To opponents of SB 4, the new bill is just a more subtle version of Arizona's anti-immigrant SB 1070 bill. Tony Diaz and Celina Moreno join us to talk about SB 4 and what it means for the Lone Star State. Tony is an original Rebelde based in Houston and Celina is an attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF).Photo by Marco Galaviz Luna Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Latino Media Collective takes over Latino Rebels Radio this week. Laura Embree-Lowry, the program director for CISPES, joins the show to discuss the historic mining ban in El Salvador. She explains how El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban all metallic mining nationwide and about the activists whom risked their lives to fight for social and environmental justice. Learn more at cispes.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week two members of iconic LA-based band Ozomatli, Raúl Pacheco and Ulises Bella, join Latino Rebels to talk about the group's upcoming album and what it's like to be musicians in the age of Trump. More at ozomatli.comFeatured image by Sharis Delgadillo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Latino Rebels Radio talked with Daniel Robelo of the Caravan Against Fear, a grassroots mobilization that is traveling from California to Texas to defend immigrant rights, keep families together, resist Trump and build momentum for the May 1 National Strike. Daniel has been sharing some Facebook Live videos of the Caravan on the Latino Rebels Facebook site.Later in the show, Greisa Martínez Rosas of United We Dream updated us about the Juan Manuel Montes deportation case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are off this week, but our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio (we call LMC our "third host") with an episode about the Falkland Islands War. April marks the 35th anniversary of the war between Argentina and the UK, James J.A. Blair, a visiting assistant professor in Anthropology at Brooklyn College, joins the show to talk about the complexities and the legacy of this war. More at https://soundcloud.com/latinomediacollective/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio again this week with Jonathan Jayes-Green, the co-founder of the Undocublack Network. Jonathan talks about the immigrant experience from the Afro-diaspora point of view from Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, and all points in between. Learn more at http://undocublack.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We bust the myth that undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes with Belén Sisa, who will be talking about her recent viral story and what the reaction has been—both the positive AND the negative. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio this week with their late February show on sanctuary cities. Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez speaks with the LMC about recent actions taken against immigrant community in the U.S. and how declarations by mayors about sanctuary cities should be put into actual practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latino Rebels Radio co-host Sharis Delgadillo chatted with Residente at SXSW about his newest documentary and his latest music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is not fake news. This week, Latino Rebels Radio spoke with THE John Leguizamo about his show, LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS, which is at NYC's Public Theater until the end of April.Later in the show, Sharis joins us from SXSW to share her clips with Van Jones, Wagner Moura (NARCOS) and Alice Braga (Queen of the South).Photo by Joan Marcus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julito and Sharis are back with a new Latino Rebels Radio episode this week. We start the show with Sharis' recent visit to DC and an independent journalism conference that she attended for the Rebeldes.Then, we spoke with Silvio Carrillo, nephew of slain Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who told us how her memory lives on, one year after her death.Later in the show, we welcomed back Carlos Andrés Gómez, who shared his latest poem, Where Are You Really From?, with us and talked about what it all means in the Age of Trump. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Latino Rebels Radio, our friends at Latino Media Collective are back with a new show. LMC engineer Abby Roberts takes the lead in speaking with Brujas skateboarder and herbal healing activist Antonia Perez on the importance of Latina feminist activism, defending environmental rights, and how herbal medicine and natural healing can be helpful during these times of political upheaval.The regular Latino Rebels team will be back with a new show on March 5. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We start with a story from California that went viral during Thursday's "Day Without Immigrants" protest. At Rubidoux High School, several teachers were put on paid leave after they posted public social media comments mocking students who did not attend school to participate in a the nationwide action. Irene Monica Sanchez, who has been writing about the controversy, shares the latest with us.Later in the show, THE Juan Bago of the ROOM 28 comedy crew joins us to share what the group is creating in the days leading up to the Oscars. We caught a sneak peek of their latest project and it's flipping hilarious. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

¡Tenemos más Latino Rebels en español! Sharis habla con Ramón Emilio Calendario, actor de la película dominicana, 'Carpinteros'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

¡Latino Rebels en español! Sharis habla con Jean Jean, actor principal de la película dominicana, 'Carpinteros'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While Sharis was at Sundance this year, she got to talk with writer/director José María Cabral, whose “Carpinteros” (Woodpeckers) is the first feature film from the Dominican Republic to debut at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We discuss the news of recent ICE raids with New York immigration attorney Bryan Johnson, Arizona activist Maria Castro, CHIRLA communication director Jorge-Mario Cabrera and NDLON national campaign coordinator Salvador G. Sarmiento. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.