On this special joint episode between the LMC and Latino Rebels Radio, Julio Ricardo Varela and LMC host Oscar Fernandez finally join forces to discuss the highs and lows of 2017 & how the struggle for social justice continues into 2018. Sigue la lucha & thanks to everyone for following us this year!!!!
Category Archives: Beyond Latinx
Dec 22nd 2017: The Mapuches of Chile
Daniel Cano, the co-founder of the Kuykuitin project, speaks with the LMC on this episode about the struggle for social justice and indigenous rights for the Mapuche people of Chile. He explain the little-known history of the Mapuche and how to resolve the conflict between the Chilean state that goes back to 1883.
Dec 1st 2017: Assimilation
In recent times, the concept of Assimilation is used against immigrants to push them into submission and subservience. However, very few people know about the dark and tragic history of Assimilation in the US & Canada against native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Freelance writer Julian Brave Noisecat speaks with the LMC about the dark and deadly history of Assimilation in North America. He is a member of the Canim Lake band Tsq’escen and descendant of the Lil’Wat of Mt Currie in British Columbia, Canada.
