Stay ConnectedCommentary, news and analysis of the U.S. Latino world. Engaging traviesos. A 2019 iHeart Radio Podcast Awards nominee for Best Multicultural Podcast hosted by award-wining journalist Julio Ricardo Varela.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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Hosted by Julio Ricardo Varela
Guest: Andrew Ocasio
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For more about Sandy's case, visit the family's Change.org page.
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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.
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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)
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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_)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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