police brutality
Washington Redskins #TakeAKnee? Not so fast! (toon)
[Ricardo Caté cartoons at Without Reservations.]
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Watch: We found the perfect phone for filming police brutality
Planning to video some police brutality? Do you need extra battery life because the popo are out of control? Police badge number recognition? Instant posting to Facebook? Jerrod Carmichael has the perfect phone for you!
Chicago to Mexico City: We stand with the teachers of Oaxaca (posters)
Chicago artist CHema Skandal! is standing with the teachers of Oaxaca and designed these posters in support. “OaxaCAN!” he notes. Multiforo Alicia — a DF cultural center — is printing and distributing them in Mexico City.
Mas…Chicago to Mexico City: We stand with the teachers of Oaxaca (posters)
Los Salvajes (The Savages): ‘Downpressor Sh1tstem’ (NSFW music video)
O.C. Chican@ activists-artists-musicians Salvajes’ new music video Downpressor Shitstem has a message: “Stand up for your rights and f___ the police!” [NSFW. language.]
Guns! Order Now! E-Z Payment Plan! (video)
Procure the protection you crave with one phone call and 12 easy payments: Gun!
Tia Lencha’s Cocina: My heart is so broke, I make Heartbreak Buñuelos
Hola. Is Tia Lencha here. My heart is broke. I no have a novio anymore. My comadre say there is something wrong with all the mens on the Google. Is true. In this case, I wasn’t enough of a man for him. Oh gwell.
I oso a little heartbreak because my carro (thas car for ju pochos) die. My comadre say that only my luck gwith mens is worser than my luck gwith carros.
Oso, I am very heart break because of the 43 estudents that got kill and throwed away in Mexico.
Then I saw Mijo look sad jesterday and ask him what wrong. He say that he is sad because the police who kill Michael Brown and Eric Garner got out for free. He say this country is no the country of freedom if black mens cannot gwalk the streets without getting kill.
Mas…Tia Lencha’s Cocina: My heart is so broke, I make Heartbreak Buñuelos
When they made this video last summer, it was a joke :-(
A white cop encounters an unarmed black dude and you won’t believe what happens next!
Now more than ever: ‘Somos Todos Guerreros de la Libertad’ (video)
This video from Bolivia’s Alma Eterna is a couple of years old but the message is timeless. In Ayotzinapa and Ferguson, we are all Guerreros for La Liberatad — fighters for freedom.
Ask A Mexican: Why should we care about Ferguson? (NSFW video)
Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano recalls America’s history of police brutality against people of color in his latest video: Why Mexicans Should Care About Michael Brown and Ferguson. The author and editor (OC Weekly) reprises a 2007 toon from POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz to prove his point. One additional pregunta, though: Is Gustavo’s hoodie fashion forward, rain gear or a political statement? [NSFW F-bomb.]
Mas…Ask A Mexican: Why should we care about Ferguson? (NSFW video)
‘Maybe (I Grew Up…)’ (@SchemeNavarro audio)
Last month we published the powerful essay Maybe I grew up in a Latino and African-American neighborhood by Navarro, the Chicago-based hiphop artist formerly known as Scheme. Now it’s back, with music: