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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
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