Latino Rebels Radio

On Sunday night, Latino Rebels Radio connected with climate change activist Niria Alicia about the recent wildfires in Oregon and how they have decimated communities. Niria was one of the thousands of people who had to evacuate last week's Almeda Fire. Featured image: Pink fire retardant covers a car at an area destroyed by the Almeda Fire, Friday, September 11, 2020, in Talent, Ore. (AP Photo/John Locher) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over our podcast feed one more time while we are away on a break. Joining the LMC is guest Gregoria Flores, the former head of OFRANEH (the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras). She shares the latest in the Garifuna struggle for social justice against the Honduran government and what the Black Lives Matter movement means to Afro-Hondurans. Featured image: Flag of Honduras (Public Domain) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over the Latino Rebels Radio podcast feed with a show from earlier this summer. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, several politicians and media pundits have cited the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, tending to ignore the racism and xenophobia that occurred during that time. The LMC speaks with David Dorado Romo to set the record straight. Romo is the author of Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923. Featured image: People wait in line to get flu masks on San Francisco's Montgomery Street in 1918. (Public Domain) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It has become one of the country's most fascinating elections: the September 1 Democratic U.S. Senate primary in Massachusetts, the state where Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela lives. For this latest episode, Senator Ed Markey, the incumbent running against Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, talks to Julio about Puerto Rico, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and how the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionally impacting immigrant communities in the state. Photo via the Markey campaign. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It took another Sunday to get it done, but the results from Puerto Rico's 2020 primaries are in, and as with any major election, there are big losers (hello, current governor of Puerto Rico) and winners (like the island's fiscal control board). For this special Primary Night episode, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes guest Federico A. de Jesús, a Puerto Rican political commentator who was part of President Obama's Hispanic media team. Photo via Puerto Rico's official elections commission Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are a regular listener of Latino Rebels Radio, you know that the Latino Media Collective out of DC at times fills in for us as guest hosts. A few weeks ago, we learned the news that the father of LMC host Oscar Fernández died in late May due to COVID-19. For this episode, Oscar talks to LR Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela about the loss of his dad and how he is dealing with the grief. Photo of Oscar and his father Danilo (Courtesy of Oscar Fernández) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During the global movement for Black lives, what does solidarity and allyship actually mean? In this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with guests Manny Monterrey and Luis Guzmán about a new Truths Untold campaign that it trying to unite communities of color in the common purpose of racial justice and equality.Featured image by Mateo Zapata @mateoxzapata Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, our friends at the Latino Media Collective shared the following show with us about how the Black Lives Matter movement is deconstructing the myth of Costa Rica as the "Switzerland" of Latin America. The LMC speaks with Afro-Costa Rican activist and co-founder of Costa Rica Afro, Pamela Cunningham, about a reckoning on race and history. Featured image of Costa Rica's flag (Public Domain) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A few weeks ago, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela was a guest of Puerto Rico's fan favorite PUESTOS PA'L PROBLEMA political podcast. As the good Puerto Rican journalist that he is, Julio returned the favor and invited the show's hosts, Luis Herrero and Jonathan Lebrón, to discuss the latest political news from the island colony. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Earlier this week, a Florida man interrupted a COVID-19 press conference by governor Ron DeSantis. That man's name is Thomas Kennedy, a member of United We Dream, a former member of the Bernie Sanders campaign and an opinion writer for LatinoRebels.com. In this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Kennedy to talk about the video and why he did what he did. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After taking a few weeks off (thank you, Latino Media Collective, for your guest hosting), Latino Rebels Radio is back. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes organizer, political commentator and independent journalist Rosa Clemente. They discuss the Goya Foods mess and also the #AbajoHamilton petition that Clemente has been promoting since the beginning of July. Image of Rosa Clemente via RosaClemente.net Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over our podcast feed. From homophobic violence to racial violence, the LMC spends the hour with Ricardo McKenzie on his journey to the U.S. as a queer Jamaican refugee fleeing from his homeland. McKenzie is an activist, dancer, and queer immigrant. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over our podcast feed with their latest show about Brazil. In a country where the president praises authoritarianism and the police murder nearly seven times more people per capita than the United States, to say that police murders of Black people is a pandemic is almost an understatement. To shed some more light on this issue, the LMC speaks with Brazil-based freelance journalist Kiratiana Freelon. Featured image: In this June 11, 2020 file photo, people holding a banner that reads “Black Lives Matter” march during a protest against racism and police violence amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File) Ad read for plannedparenthood.org/telehealth (with music by Joseph McDade josephmcdade.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sandy Guardiola was killed in her home on October 4, 2017 by a Canandaigua (NY) police officer. She was a mother who proudly identified as a Black Puerto Rican woman. For this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks to Andrew Ocasio, Sandy's son, about why he wants to keeping sharing his mother's story to the world. ABOUT THIS SHOWProduced by Julio Ricardo Varela for Futuro MediaHosted by Julio Ricardo VarelaGuest: Andrew OcasioPhoto of Sandy Guardiola provided by Sandy's familyFor more about Sandy's case, visit the family's Change.org page.Music by Joseph McDade ( josephmcdade.com)Community Service Announcement by Toyota LatinoAdditional sponsor from plannedparenthood.org/telehealth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In late May, RAICES released the new "Homeland Insecurity" podcast, hosted by immigrant rights leader Erika Andiola. The podcast explores the unwritten history of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Andiola to discuss the why this latest podcast is so relevant today. _Featured image courtesy of RAICES. Community Service Announcement by Toyota Latino_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the middle of a global pandemic, Chelsea, Massachusetts —a majority Latino city right outside of Boston— has been the state's COVID-19 epicenter. It is also a city that has grappled with racial inequality and police brutality. On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks with Damali Vidot, a Chelsea City Councilor and 2020 candidate for State Representative. Featured image: At the March for Peace in Chelsea, June 7, 2020 (Photo via Damali Vidot) Community Service Announcement by Toyota Latino Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been a week since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis. For this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks to Rodrigo Sánchez-Chavarría, one of the original members of Latino Rebels and a resident of St. Paul who has been organizing in the community for years. Featured image: Terrence Floyd, George Floyd's brother visits the location where his brother was killed, now a memorial, at Chicago Ave. and E. 38th St. in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Photo by Lorie Shaull/CREDIT_) Community Service Announcement by Toyota Latino_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Friday, Dr. Carmen Rojas started her first day as the president and CEO of Marguerite Casey Foundation. For this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks to Rojas about how sees her role as a Latino in a position of power and why the push to change current power structures are critical to society. Featured image: Justice for George Floyd, 30 May 2020. Members of the UCSB community marching from Storke Tower towards Isla Vista, taken from the Pardall tunnel overpass. (Photo by Glenn Beltz/CC BY 2.0) Community Service Announcement by Toyota Latino and #NosotrosContraCOVID  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, Amanda Alcántara welcomes back Paula Ávila-Guillén —human rights lawyer and director of Latin America Initiatives for the Women’s Equality Center— to talk about about reproductive rights in Latin America during the time COVID-19. They also discuss how incidents of domestic violence are going up and how women need access to reproductive healthcare resources, even in the middle of a pandemic. Featured image: (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Community Service Announcement by Toyota Latino and  #NosotrosContraCOVID  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SOMOS Community Care describes itself as "a network of nearly 2,500 providers in the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn who have come together to ensure better health care for Medicaid members." During the last two months of NYC's COVID-19 fight, SOMOS was one of the many organization working in immigrant communities. For this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Dr. Ramón Tallaj, SOMOS' Chairman of the Board, to talk about the last two months of a global pandemic. Featured image (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.