On Saturday, September 10th over 100 people gathered at Costa Alegre Carniceria on Crows Landing Road in South Modesto for the 1st Annual 209 Chicano Unity Festival, put on by RHHR, Modesto CopWatch, Modesto Anarcho, and the newly formed Modesto… Read More ›
Immigrant Issues
Why We Need a Deeper Dialogue on Black-and-Brown Relations
By Luis J. Rodriguez Recently, African American comedian Katt Williams went on a xenophobic anti-Mexican rant during a comedy show on August 27th in Phoenix, Arizona, apparently in response to a heckler. In comedy it’s painfully hard dealing with audience… Read More ›
Brown Berets de Aztlan: New Modesto Chapter
As the original Brown Beret organization, the Brown Berets de Aztlan are the only Berets who have been organizing for 40+ years. We are, and have been, a Revolutionary group of Chican@s and Mexican@s that stand up for the rights… Read More ›
The New Lynching: the Death of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
Submitted by Modesto Anarcho In May 2008, Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez was only 17 when she fainted into her fiancées arms, slipping from this world, and taking not only herself, but the life of the unborn child inside her. She… Read More ›
Mexico is Bleeding.
Along with the so-called “war against drug-dealers” we see the whole Mexican territory turn olive green. The militarization is part of the global war driven by the United States, which began with the 9-11 events and created new enemies: terrorism… Read More ›
May Day: A Modesto Tradition
In 2006 over 10,000 people took to the streets of South Modesto and then to Downtown in support of worker and immigrant rights both locally and globally. Millions marched in cities throughout the country including New York, Washington, Las Vegas,… Read More ›
Expand Justice, Not Landfills
Save Kettleman City, Stop Environmental Racism On Saturday, June 18th a few RHHReporters joined almost two hundred people for a rally in Kettleman City to protest against environmental racism and the expansion of the West Coast’s largest hazardous-waste landfill operated… Read More ›
Apartheid in Arizona
Apartheid (n): a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa. Immigration Enforcement SB 1070 -HB 2162 these bills would make any non-citizen… Read More ›
The Story of Cesar Chavez
THE BEGINNING: The story of Cesar Estrada Chavez begins near Yuma, Arizona. Cesar was born on March 31, 1927. He was named after his grandfather, Cesario. Regrettably, the story of Cesar Estrada Chavez also ends near Yuma, Arizona. He passed… Read More ›
Modesto Brown Berets…Y Que?
The Modesto chapter of the Brown Berets was first established in 2006 under the motto “Culture, Community, Revolution” CULTURE | Infusing Mexicano, Chicano and indigenous culture into the community. COMMUNITY | Establishing programs and providing services for poor people… Read More ›