Samantha Bee: Undocumented immigrants make your food (video)
Samantha Bee stops by the City of Brotherly Love’s South Philly Barbacoa and learns about the vital roles immigrants (undocumented and documented) play in making the food we eat.
Not racist trainer: ‘I was only giving free coffee to that Mexican worker’
(PNS reporting from CENTURY CITY) The area “villain” of a viral video — she was filmed transferring some delicious hot coffee to a Latino contractor at a condo complex here — has denied being a racist.
Mas…Not racist trainer: ‘I was only giving free coffee to that Mexican worker’
The Legend of The Wolf Woman/La Loba, The Bone Woman/La Huesera (video)
La Loba, from film student Margarete Laue re-imagines the traditional Mexican folk tale popularized by Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Women Who Run With the Wolves:
She creeps and crawls and sifts through the mountains and dry riverbeds, looking for wolf bones.
Hot enough for you? In CDMX you can get tacos de helado! (video)
Hot under the collar in Mexico City? Tizne Tacomotora has ice cream tacos!
‘I Don’t Like the Comics You Drew’ and ‘The Critic’ (videos)
In the brand new music video I Don’t Like the Comics You Drew, Dave draws the first page of his comic book and excitedly shows it to his friend Lei Lei. Lei Lei, however, is not impressed.
Hollywood comic hero Mel Brooks was not impressed either. Here’s Oscar-winning The Critic from 1963:
Mas…‘I Don’t Like the Comics You Drew’ and ‘The Critic’ (videos)
The U.S. was once known as ‘a nation of immigrants’ — now, not so much (video)
A Mexican cleaning lady in New York Ctiy learns that the “nation of immigrants” is not so friendly these days. Based on a true story, Let My People Stay is by Olivia G. Jimenez.
La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe meet the neighbors
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La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe build a temple
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La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe use the ATM (toon)
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‘Carmelita’ by Warren Zevon: Life, death, mariachis, and heroin in Echo Park (live video, lyrics)
The late musical genius Warren Zevon was in Ensendada, no maybe he was in Echo Park. And maybe he OD’d on heroin, or not. He did hear “mariachi static on his radio,” however. The live video is from 1977.
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We used to have a man in the White House we could be proud of; Joan Baez explains in ‘The President Sang Amazing Grace’ (video)
At the memorial service in Charleston, S.C. for the victims of a white wing racist terrorist, Barack Obama, the last real President of the United States, joined the congregation of mourners. What he did on that day became a song by Zoe Mulford, performed here by Xicana OG activist Joan Baez and animated in pastel watercolors by Jeff Scher. [EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s OK to cry.]
Video via The Atlantic.
In 1963, the Fantastic Four fought THE HATE-MONGER (toons)
In 1963, Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four confronted a sinister politician who sought to divide the people. They called him THE HATE-MONGER. He seemed familiar somehow.
Mas…In 1963, the Fantastic Four fought THE HATE-MONGER (toons)
In ‘Welcome to America’, undocumented Yeni González crosses the country to be reunited with her kids stolen by La Migra (video)
Yeni González is one of the mothers who suddenly found herself thousands of miles away from her children this spring, after the alt-white regime’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy went into effect. This TIME Red Border Film documentary shows how grassroots activists banded together to transport González from a detention center in Eloy, AZ, to New York City, where her children were placed at a social service agency after the undocumented family crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and was apprehended by the Border Patrol in May.