LatinaLista — Valentine’s Day is all about giving your heart to friends, family, classmates or co-workers to show them how much you care. But what if you could show how much you care to some impoverished children in two remote Guatemalan villages who desperately need electricity for their schools — and you don’t have to [...]
Video: Documentary looks at youth violence & encourages passage of Youth PROMISE Act
Across the country, young people are dying every day from senseless street violence. Many of their stories go untold, as do the solutions that could have saved their lives. The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising story of three “violence interrupters” in Chicago who try to protect their communities from the violence they once employed. [...]
Viernes Video: Beating death of undocumented immigrant unites town against hate
“Not In Our Town: Light In The Darkness” is a documentary about the violent beating and death of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero at the hands of a group of teenagers on Long Island in 2008. The documentary is about how the residents of Patchogue, New York came together to take action after anti-immigrant violence devastated [...]
Art in Video: Mexican exhibit makes art out of arms trafficking
In Mexico City a powerful mixed media exhibit titled “A Farewell to Arms” opened at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia (Museum of Memory and Tolerance) in Sept. 2011 and runs until April 2012. The exhibit focuses on illegal arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico in an attempt to raise awareness about this deadly [...]
International Video: A medical mystery in Nicaragua killing off sugar cane workers
La Isla, a small community located on the outskirts of Chichigalpa, Nicaragua in the Central America lowlands, depends on the sugar cane industry for its economic survival. Yet, 70% of the men, ages 18-40s+, working in the industry develop Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) due to unknown causes. Research done by US and Nicaraguan universities has [...]
Video: Fighting for respect for domestic workers
Andrea Cristina Mercado is lead organizer at Mujeres Unidas y Activas, a grassroots Latina immigrant women’s organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. She shared with the TEDx audience how she is currently leading a statewide effort to include domestic workers in labor laws. There are over 30 grassroots domestic worker organizations across the country, [...]