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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Our friends at the Latino Media Collective host this week's Latino Rebels Radio. In this episode, freelance journalist Bryan Miranda speaks with LMC about the struggle for environmental justice by the indigenous Shuar community of Ecuador as they fight to prevent the development of a mining project on ancestral lands. LMC also talks about the few similarities this case has with the Standing Rock struggle as well.
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Immigration attorney Matthew Kolken joined us to give us his thoughts about President Donald Trump's immigration ban. He also told us what people can do to protect yourself from deportation.
Later in the show, co-host Sharis Delgadillo introduced us to two special guests from Sundance: guitarist Stevie Salas, who called in from Japan about the award-winning Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, and Nadia Hallgren, whose Motherland film takes us into the heart of the planet’s busiest maternity hospital in one of the world’s poorest and most populous countries: The Philippines.
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Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio this week to shed light on Bolivia's current drought crisis and lack of accessible water. Is it setting the stage for a repeat of the 2000 Water War? Nasya Razavi tells us the latest on the new struggle for the right to water in Bolivia.
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We were supposed to give you a live show about the end of the "Wet Foot, Dry Foot" policy and the "Here to Stay" protests, but our host had audio issues and we couldn't do the episode. Julito explains what happened.
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On December 23, the Facebook page of Conejo Productions published a video called BOYS WILL BE BOYS. It boldly confronted machismo culture in the Latino community. Since then, the video has been viewed more than 8 million times. Gloria Morán and Kimberly Bautista join us to talk about the story behind the video.
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We end the year with one special show! Our friends at the Latino Media Collective interview our co-hosts Julio Ricardo Varela and Sharis Delgadillo about 2016.
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This week, Latino Media Collective takes over Latino Rebels Radio with its latest show: Laura Carlsen, executive director of the Americas Program for the Center for International Policy, gives us her analysis of Colombia following its stunning NO vote against ending the almost six-generations-long civil war. Who lost? How did it all happen? Who stands to benefit from more war?
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Cornell University student Paola Muñoz discusses her powerful Huffington Post piece, which talks about the emotional labor students of color face on the Ithaca campus. She will tell us why she chose to write this article and what students can do to have their voices heard.
Later in the show, Lis-Marie Alvarado and 11-year-old Leah Cayasso join us to talk about the We Belong Together campaign. Leah is 11 years old and the daughter of undocumented parents and a DACAmented sister.
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This week on Latino Rebels Radio: Eduardo Arenas (É Arenas), bassist for Chicano Batman, joins us. É will tell us about his new solo effort, Nariz. We'll play a few songs from that album and also talk about Chicano Batman's upcoming Freedom Is Free album.
Later in the show, Erika Andiola joins us to shared the latest from the #FreeOscarLopez campaign.
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For this week's Latino Rebels Radio, we discuss the latest from the Dakota Access pipeline protest. Thousands of water protectors were determined to stop the construction of a new petroleum pipeline that they say will poison their water supply and destroy sacred lands. Journalist Wendy Carrillo tells us what she has seen during her stay there and what lies ahead for the water protectors.
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