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Showing videos filed under: Rebel Diaz
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.Bringing Food Justice to Trader Joe's
August 13, 2010Trader Joe's is one of a batch of new corporations wrapping their push for profits in feel-good green slogans and promises of fair labor practices. But at least a few of their products aren't coming from fair labor at all. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community organization of farmworkers in Florida, have gotten other corporations like Whole Foods and Subway to sign a pledge to buy tomatoes from growers that have good labor practices--after workers in Florida have been rescued from conditions that have been legally deemed slavery.David Finkel, Food Justice for Trader Joe's, and War on Flooding
August 12, 2010The war in Iraq is far from over despite Obama's best speeches; and journalist David Finkel notes, "This war is leaving Iraq and moving into America." It is our duty, he says, to understand what the soldiers went through at the very worst of their experience there.Was Eric Holder Right?, Rebel Diaz on Rap and Politics, and a Highflying Act
February 23, 2009In a speech before the Department of Justice celebrating Black History Month last week, Attorney General Eric Holder said that we remain “a nation of cowards” when it comes to the issue of race in America. Referring to the “historical experience of black people in this nation” Holder argued that to get to the heart of this country’s history we must examine its racial soul.
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