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Showing videos filed under: puerto rico
Maria Isa & Lah Tere: Dancing to the Puerto Rico Revolution
March 5, 2011"Now we have the opportunity to open our books and write our history. Now we're baking the bread and we're going to make them eat it," says Maria Isa, hip-hop artist and activist. Maria and fellow Puerto Rican artist Lah Tere were in Puerto Rico when protests began last year--protests that have seen students and workers in the streets over budget cuts and tuition hikes, seen peaceful demonstrators teargassed by police. Protests as dramatic as anything in the UK, Egypt, Tunisia, or Wisconsin--yet almost never seen on US news despite taking place in the US.Maria Isa & Lah Tere, Water On The Table, & Immigration
March 4, 2011"Now we have the opportunity to open our books and write our history. Now we're baking the bread and we're going to make them eat it," says Maria Isa, hip-hop artist and activist. Maria and fellow Puerto Rican artist Lah Tere were in Puerto Rico when protests began last year--protests that have seen students and workers in the streets over budget cuts and tuition hikes, seen peaceful demonstrators teargassed by police. Protests as dramatic as anything in the UK, Egypt, Tunisia, or Wisconsin--yet almost never seen on US news despite taking place in the US.Week in Review: Blowback: From Latin America to Afghanistan
November 29, 2009The School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, has long been a training facility for Latin American military officers, many of whom have gone on to be involved in gross human rights violations. A graduate of the SOA is one of the coup leaders in Honduras.Blowback: From Latin America to Afghanistan
November 25, 2009The School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, has long been a training facility for Latin American military officers, many of whom have gone on to be involved in gross human rights violations. A graduate of the SOA is one of the coup leaders in Honduras.Blowback, Jeremy Scahill, and Bissell Workers
November 24, 2009President Obama is expected to announce that he will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan next week. In the wake of that decision, discussion of the consequences of United States intervention around the world becomes even more important. It's not only wars that produce blowback for the US; training and funding for right-leaning groups in Latin America has been a long-standing source of resentment and anger around the world.Week in Review: Latino in America but Ignored in the Media
October 25, 2009This week, our media panel focused on those ignored issues, from the Basta Dobbs! campaign to the general strike in Puerto Rico, the continued standoff in Honduras and the way the mainstream media equates "Latino" with "immigrant." Joining us are Roberto Lovato of Presente.org and New America Media, Erica Gonzalez of El Diario/La Prensa, and Cathy Areu of Catalina magazine and the Washington Post magazine.
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