Come with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear (1980), when Republican candidate George H.W. Bush backed the rights of kids brought into the country without documents and GOP rival Ronald W. Reagan just said no to a fence on the Mexican border.
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Rosa Diaz goes ‘method’ on Charles Bukowski project (audio, video)
Philly singer-songwriter Rosa Diaz started a Charles Bukowski-themed project, and to make it authentic, she became a Method Actor — actually living the writer’s hard-drinking life style until it almost killed her.
LatinoUSA’s Nadia Reiman reports:
In this recent a capella music video, Diaz sings about Pain:
Mas…Rosa Diaz goes ‘method’ on Charles Bukowski project (audio, video)
Mexico breaks own record for world’s largest torta (video)
Dozens of cooks joined forces in Mexico City late last month to prepare a 173-foot (53-meter) monster torta as part of the opening ceremony of the ninth annual Torta Fair, thus setting the new world record for the sandwich, according to the World Record Academy.
Mas…Mexico breaks own record for world’s largest torta (video)
Public Service Video: Disabled people can be assholes, too
Disabled people are like everyone else — some are cool, some are assholes. Stop the stereotyping.
The Bodega: Attention NYC hipsters, get turnt here! (videos)
Two brothers working in their dad’s New York City Bodega try to get rich quick by turning the store’s back room into an underground “Bodega Bar” night club for hipsters. Will their plan make enough bank get them out of working at the bodega?
What happens next? Here’s episode two:
Mas…The Bodega: Attention NYC hipsters, get turnt here! (videos)
War on drugs, war on immigrants are racism in action (video)
America’s “mass incarceration and the U.S. deportation machine are deeply intertwined,” according to Colorlines.com. “And black immigrants get swept up in both systems. A new video from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration spells it out.”
Robin Williams reads Pablo Neruda’s ‘Sonnet XVII’ (video)
In the film Patch Adams, Hunter “Patch” Adams — played by the late Robin Williams — “commits himself into a mental institution. Once there, he finds that using humor to help his fellow inmates gives him a purpose in life….”
Sonnet XVII
By Pablo Neruda
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Mas…Robin Williams reads Pablo Neruda’s ‘Sonnet XVII’ (video)
Cops out of control kill Eric Garner in NYC, Mike Brown in MO (videos)
#RIPMikeBrown #RIPEricGarner & to all boys/men of color who've lost their lives to ignorance, hate & injustice. pic.twitter.com/GlimbBMhT0
— Veronica Rodriguez (@LaresNYC) August 13, 2014
Mas…Cops out of control kill Eric Garner in NYC, Mike Brown in MO (videos)
Canadian NDN group Drezus is on the ‘Warpath’ (music video)
First Nation band Drezus is on the Warpath in this single from their new album Indian Summer. “When it all goes bad,” they ask, “who’s gonna ride with me?”
PREVIOUSLY ON NATIVES:
Mas…Canadian NDN group Drezus is on the ‘Warpath’ (music video)
X-rays prove Mexican Christ statue has human teeth (videos)
That awkward moment when an art restorer finds the teeth in an 18th Century Mexican statue of Jesus are human teeth. Y tambien en español:
Mas…X-rays prove Mexican Christ statue has human teeth (videos)
Be all that you can be, en la Marina mexicana (video)
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RIP Robin Williams aka Ramon the singing, dancing Mexipenguin (video)
There will never be another actor and comedian like Robin Williams, and there will never be another Ramon, the animated, singing, dancing Mexican penguin Williams brought to life in Happy Feet. Williams, 63, was pronounced dead at his home by first responders today in Tiburon, north of San Francisco.
Orbitas: In space, no one can hear you hug (video)
Down on the planet, it’s war. But for two astronauts from “enemy countries,” Orbitas is a trajectory for love. [Short video from Spanish animation school PrimeFrame.]
Watch: German Boy Scouts make mass quantities of ‘burritos’
“Last week we made 90 burritos in about 45 minutes in our Boy Scout tent camp,” video uploader Major Boerns explains:
Mexican / Texmex food is hardly known in Germany at all, so it was a bit of a experiment and therefore I posted this here. The children liked it very much… I know this may be some youtube stuff…but this is for the people who look for some recipes for a huge amount of guests… 🙂 Any ideas for improvement and of course any insults welcome 🙂
End of a Bromance: ‘Tear Drops for Eric Cantor’ by John Boehner
Speaker of the House John Boehner has the sad now that his GOP bromantic buddy Majority Leader Eric Cantor is stepping down. What’s that? Water gushing from Boehner’s ojos? Elise Roedenbeck’s musical dramatization is called Tear Drops for Eric Cantor.
Jon Stewart: I can solve kid crisis at the border (educational video)
Why do the right wing haters make it so hard? The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart knows exactly what to do to clean up the mess at the border. PRO TIP: Do not risk monitor damage and/or electric shock by drinking coffee, beer or any other beverage while watching this educational video. Extreme danger of spitting on the screen! Kombucha drinker? Put down the beverage and step away from the computer.
La Santa Cecilia picks Beatlefruit in ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ (video)
Beatle John Lennon’s song about playing in the Salvation Army’s Strawberry Fields children’s home near his casa in Liverpool becomes an animated allegory about who picks the juicy red fruits and the crop’s journey from farm to table table to farm as East Los homies La Santa Cecilia transform Strawberry Fields Forever.
Reality check at the Sierra Blanca, Texas border checkpoint (video)
At the Sierra Blanca, Texas, border checkpoint, even La MIGRA has realized that immigrants have rights.
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Mas…Reality check at the Sierra Blanca, Texas border checkpoint (video)
Al Madrigal explains comedy to a pinche puppet (video)
Star of stage, little screens and even littler screens, POCHO Migrant Editor Al Madrigal tries to stay cool, calm and collected during a Green Room interview with FUSION’s “Talking Hot Dog.” [SWF: F-bombs bleeped.]
Just 8% of SF/fantasy stars are pochos but Zoe Saldaña will save us
Almost no science fiction and fantasy movies feature protagonists of color — not to mention women of color — but thankfully we have Zoe Saldaña! Check out this study and awful infographic from Lee & Low Books:
Mas…Just 8% of SF/fantasy stars are pochos but Zoe Saldaña will save us
Watch: ‘First contact’ with isolated Ashaninka Indians in Brazil
A group of “isolates” from the Ashaninka Indian tribe in Acre in Northwest Brazil made “first contact” with government scientists last month.
Mas…Watch: ‘First contact’ with isolated Ashaninka Indians in Brazil
Looking for a lawyer? We specialize in ‘Accidentes!’ (videos)
When you’re involved in one or more traffic accidents, or Accidentes as we like to call them, you need a good lawyer. But if you can’t afford one, call us!
Wait! This looks somewhat familiar. Haven’t we seen this before?
Mas…Looking for a lawyer? We specialize in ‘Accidentes!’ (videos)
POCHO History 101: The invasion – how America ‘grew’ (video)
Via EHistory.org:
Between 1776 and 1887, the United States seized over 1.5 billion acres from America’s indigenous people by treaty and executive order. The Invasion of America shows how by mapping every treaty and executive order during that period. It concludes with a map of present-day Federal Indian reservations.
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Mas…POCHO History 101: The invasion – how America ‘grew’ (video)
NPR: Who are the refugee kids at the border? (audio, video)
Researcher Elizabeth Kennedy interviewed a 12-year-old boy who returned to El Salvador barefoot; he had been robbed of everything he owned.
"I asked him if he was going to try again," says Kennedy, "and he just burst into tears and said, 'What would you do if you were me? I haven't seen my mom or my dad in 10 years ... and no one here loves me.'"
Since October, a staggering 57,000 unaccompanied migrant children have been apprehended at the southwestern U.S. border. Sometimes, they’ve been welcomed into the country by activists; other times they’ve been turned away by protesters.
Mas…NPR: Who are the refugee kids at the border? (audio, video)
Happy Mexican Dancing Horse Day! (videos)
Post by Pal Feis Tucson.
OK, we made up Mexican Dancing Horse Day, but we think there should be holiday like that, with Banda music and all the oats you can eat! Above is a brand-new dancing horse video, and here’s a classic dancing horse FAIL video:
Linda Ronstadt awarded National Medal of the Arts (videos)
Pocha sweetheart Linda Ronstadt was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama on Monday, citing the singer’s “one-of-a-kind voice and her decades of remarkable music.” The actual awards start after 5:30 or so in the video.
Sadly, Ronstadt can no longer sing. This spring, she told Diane Sawyer why:
Mas…Linda Ronstadt awarded National Medal of the Arts (videos)
I’m MAD about SDCC because I saw Sergio Aragones (photo,toon,video)
Here he is, my old amigo, comics legend Sergio Aragones, at SDCC Sunday.
He is the world’s fastest and funniest cartoonist, and a really nice guy!
Mas…I’m MAD about SDCC because I saw Sergio Aragones (photo,toon,video)
Stop the gay Muslim Chinese terrorist illegal aliens! (video)
Conservatives explain how gays, Muslims, Mexicans and President Obama are all working together to destroy the moral fabric of America. Video’d at an anti-immigration protest in Houston, pro-immigration supporters also chime in while dancing.
Nothing in this video is original, except the video: ‘Not Mine’
Creator Guy Trefler writes:
Not Mine is my graduate project in Graphic Design at the HIT college in Israel. My thesis is that nothing is original, therefore, none of the materials presented in the project were made by me. All of the 469 photos used in this video were taken out of Google’s image bank.
‘How Tequila Is Made,’ ‘Maguey, Plant of 1000 Uses’ (videos)
Tequila — real tequila — can only be made from the blue agave. This short British documentary explains the process.
But wait, there’s more. How about the 1952 Ralph Adams documentary Maguey: Plant of a Thousand Uses:
Mas…‘How Tequila Is Made,’ ‘Maguey, Plant of 1000 Uses’ (videos)
The Champs rock ‘Tequila’ on American Bandstand
This clip from American Bandstand is so old everyone is in black and white, including a 20-something Dick Clark. Dick presents a gold record (1,000,000 45 RPM singles sold) and introduces The Champs and their hit Tequila.
We featured the back story on this tune in our series Unsung Heroes of Hispanic History Month:
The rise and fall of a Homies vending empire (NSFW video)
David Gonzalez’ East Los-styled cholos and hynas Homies toys were a big hit for a while in New York-based vending machines, and then not so much. [NSFW adult language.]
VICE explains:
Mas…The rise and fall of a Homies vending empire (NSFW video)