Latino arts, history and culture
The Judicial Bench Strikes Back It’s not news that ICE troops have been very busy chasing down and sweeping up brown-skinned people at Home Depot, restaurants and carwashes. Pause for a minute … [Read more...]
Are You Out of Your Mind? Big doings in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles this past week--Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) showed up with military trucks and … [Read more...]
The ABCs of ICE Pasadena is a city just a few miles from Los Angeles and around the corner from Altadena. That’s where a massive fire pretty much leveled the town of 45,000 in an unincorporated … [Read more...]
You’ve certainly heard this--on June 12 California Senator Alex Padilla was, as AP puts it, “forcefully removed” from a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary (and dog shooter Kristi … [Read more...]
Here’s one for you—a 4th grader from Torrance Elementary School, 9 years old, in Southern California is on track to be deported along with his father. Martir Garcia Lara accompanied his dad, Martir … [Read more...]
The indefatigable cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz just bagged himself yet another honor on May 22, a pretty big one. He’s already a two-time finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartoons, took home … [Read more...]
The week entering Memorial Day started with a little ruckus between the current Commander in Chief and the musician Bruce Springsteen. Seems like the commander got a kind of annoyed with Springsteen … [Read more...]
This week’s stunt of the week from the Trump Administration’s regular array was his vow to reopen Alcatraz, the 19th century military fortress on a 22-acre island San Francisco Bay which was … [Read more...]
Latinopia has promised to update how the resistance to the Trump Administration is going and who’s firing back at the policies the Administration has been rolling out. (Not literally firing back … [Read more...]
It’s Holy Week leading up to Easter and Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife had a message. " I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me: Stay strong. God hasn't … [Read more...]
FINDING YOUR FIGHT-BACK TRENCH By Bobbi Murray Mere weeks since the inauguration of the 2nd Trump Administration, many of us remain gobsmacked and gasping and scrambling for a response. Taking a … [Read more...]
The writer, photographer and veteran union organizer David Bacon frequently refers to “people who travel with the crops.” He means the agricultural workers who move from place to place to cultivate … [Read more...]
