Sir Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez, Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender, and the rest of the Texas Tornadoes remind us that despite all the pendejos in charge, don’t mess with Texas.
COMIC SAENZ
New Smithsonian video celebrates the art of POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz
The Smithsonian American Art Museum writes:
Artist Lalo Alcaraz created the striking digital portrait “I Stand with Emma” of Emma González after watching the high school senior advocate for stronger gun control in an impassioned speech days after surviving the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Mas…New Smithsonian video celebrates the art of POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz
The Amber Ruffin Show: Why we need a ‘White History Month’
The PEACOCK star has some learning for you.
Los Hip Hop Hoodíos spark ‘Ocho Kandelikas’ for Chanukah (video)
Feliz Chanukah from POCHO and the Hip Hop Hoodíos!
Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, begins at sunset Thursday night and lasts eight days: Ocho noches means Ocho Kandelikas.
Los Hebrew Homies make Hanukkah potato latkes (NSFW video)
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah חנוכה starts Thursday night, so Hebrew hermanos Jaquann and Luis prepare potato latkes (pancakes) one of the season’s signature treats. (Totally NSFW adult language.)
‘Happy Asian Thanksgiving’ from the Fung Brothers (video)
American children of immigrants are all the same when it comes to dealing with Thanksgiving.
Y digamos: “Amén.”
POCHO History 101: Undocumented Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving (video)
The Pilgrims, after all, were boat people fleeing religious oppression, ordinary families seeking freedom in a new land. But no one expects the Algonquin Migra. [Video by the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors.]
THINGS TO DO ➜ 1: Click 2: Download 3: Print 4: Display 5: VOTE!
POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz is back with new election posters/yard signs you can download, print, and display — in English y Español tambien.
Mas…THINGS TO DO ➜ 1: Click 2: Download 3: Print 4: Display 5: VOTE!
NPR Audio: La Linda (Ronstadt) reflects on her Mexican Heritage
Linda Ronstadt‘s family is from the Sonora Desert — on both sides of the border.
Mas…NPR Audio: La Linda (Ronstadt) reflects on her Mexican Heritage
Hip Hop Hoodíos: ‘Mexican Miller (The Self-Hating Stephen Miller Song)’
Former nice Jewish boy and current White House official Stephen Miller coagulates coordinates Trump’s bloody anti-immigrant message and policies.
This begs the musical question: What would Miller rap about if he were a self-hating Mexican and not a self-hating Jew?
Mas…Hip Hop Hoodíos: ‘Mexican Miller (The Self-Hating Stephen Miller Song)’
You Asked For It: Download, print your own ‘TRUMP 200,000’ yard sign
You sent us email! You texted us! You asked for it, and now you’ve got it.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ➤ trump200kpdfalcaraz.pdf.
This 1.9 MB PDF file is suitable for printing your own lawn sign, yard sign, bumper sticker, and/or political poster. FYI, typical lawn signs are 18″ X 24″.
TRUMP 200,000 is © 2020 POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz and reproduced here with his permission. You are free to download and print this PDF, but please do not modify Lalo’s artwork. ¡Adelante, siempre adelante!
WATCH: Jovita Idár, Mexican American journalist who exposed lynching
Jovita Idár, a Mexican American activist and journalist (1885-1946), helped organize the first Mexican American civil rights conference in 1911 to address racism, lynching, and dismal educational opportunities for Mexican American children.
Mas…WATCH: Jovita Idár, Mexican American journalist who exposed lynching
WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5781
Enjoy this musical Happy Jewish New Year greeting from our friends at Temple B’Nai Pocho.
The Jewish High Holiday of Rosh HaShanah, which marks 5781 years since the Creation of the World, starts tomorrow, Friday, at sundown.
Happy New Year y Shanah Tovah tambien.
Mas…WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5781
Singer Nancy Sanchez: Why vote? ‘The Kids Are Still In Cages’
For singer-songwriter Nancy Sanchez — brought to the United Estates as a babe-in-arms — this election is personal.
PS: She’s not a creep.
Mas…Singer Nancy Sanchez: Why vote? ‘The Kids Are Still In Cages’
Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2020
It’s Labor Day Weekend!
¡Orale!
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Sing along with the music that celebrates the ordinary working people who keep this country — and the world — in business: 9 to 5 from Dolly Parton, Look for the Union Label, Workin’ in a Coal Mine, This Land Is Your Land, and Solidarity Forever.
Mas…Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2020
Los Lobos: ‘One Time, One Night in America’ (July 4 video, lyrics)
Sometimes homies Los Lobos sound like they are John Cougar Mellencamp’s or Tom Petty’s brothers from another mother. This is one of those times. These all-American stars sing all-American stories, like One Time, One Night in America. Respect.
Mira los lyrics:
Mas…Los Lobos: ‘One Time, One Night in America’ (July 4 video, lyrics)
Via black-ish: Schoolhouse Rock, The Roots on Juneteenth: ‘I am a slave’
Do you know the history of Juneteenth?
Schoolhouse Rock and The Roots explain. (From black-ish, Season 4.)
The complete I am a slave song:
Mas…Via black-ish: Schoolhouse Rock, The Roots on Juneteenth: ‘I am a slave’
WATCH: Cinco de Mayo at Home with POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz
POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz tells our friend Abelardo de La Pena, Jr. (LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes) what it’s like to be named a finalist for the uber-prestigious Pulitzer Prize, discusses his childhood growing up on the border, and his mission to put Latinos on TV and the big screen.
Mas…WATCH: Cinco de Mayo at Home with POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz
Happy May Day 2020 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
Enjoy the Internacional, the world-wide (Get it? It’s international!) anthem of those commie cabrones in Russia and Cuba and Venezuela and China and North Korea (and lurking in secretive anti-lockdown cells here in the Homeland but the lamestream media won’t tell you that).
Today, May 1, is May Day AKA International Workers’ Day, when the comrades sing this stirring appeal, with its hummable melody and a vague vision of making the future great again that’s hard to disagree with, except maybe the LUCHA FINAL aspect.
Mas…Happy May Day 2020 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
WATCH: Lock Down Quarantine Reservation Blues
POCHO contributor Ricardo Cate directs and stars in this just-released music video Lockdown Reservation Quarantine Blues. You think you’ve got it bad? Ricardo and the fam have to Pow Wow from Home! Music by Adrian Wall.
How does Lalo Alcaraz do what he does?
Lalo’s latest editorial cartoon, “CORONATION”, not only delivers a powerful visual indictment of our deluded self-crowned moron monarch, but comes with a bonus track: a 2-minute time lapse video.