On Sunday, June 9th 2013 around 300 people took to the streets of Manteca, CA to protest the killing of Ernest Duenez Jr. by Manteca PD officer John Moody. Duenez was shot multiple times by Moody two-years and one day before on June… Read More ›
Racism
Hands Off Assata Shakur!
The double-speak as described in the classic novel 1984 has already been throughly used here in the United States. We cal it the Defense Department even though it has always been used for offense and has rarely defended anything. We call the agency in charge… Read More ›
More Bangladesh for Your Buck: Sweatshops in Hip-Hop
On April 24th a factory collapsed into rubble near Dhaka, Bangladesh killing at least 1,200 people, as they made clothes for around nine cents per garment, and brought international awareness to the horrendous working conditions in sweatshops that make a majority of the clothes Americans wear on a… Read More ›
Rebel Diaz Arts Collective, a Hip-Hop Community Center, Gets Evicted by NYPD, Feds
On Thursday, February 28, the Rebel Diaz Arts Collective in the South Bronx (RDACBX), a Hip-Hop community center for youth outreach, was raided, evicted, and virtually destroyed by NYPD officers and US Marshalls. “The violent actions taken yesterday are an… Read More ›
“Ain’t the Devil Happy” –Jeru the Damaja
We all know times are tough all around right now and it’s no surprise when those living in poverty turn on each other instead of uniting and fighting our common oppressor. It is why Modesto Anarcho started the “Stop Broke… Read More ›
Meet Me at the Capitol, It’s Going Down
The State Capitol is mostly useless, but once and a while it acts as the backdrop for real action… Neo-Nazis get sent home, cops get sent to hospital – According to http://modestoanarcho.org : “On Monday, February 27th, over 100 counter-demonstrators… Read More ›
It Happens All the Time, but Sometimes People Notice
The comedian Bill Maher once said “If you give every black person in America a video camera you could do a weekly show on police brutality.” It could also be said that if you did the same with all people… Read More ›
Modesto Police Terrorize Family in West-Side in Wake of Shooting
On March 5th, a shooting occurred near John Thurman Field in West Modesto. According to the Modesto Police, whose statements were reprinted almost word-for-word in the Modesto Bee, a uniformed officer in a car witnessed a drive-by shooting occur in… Read More ›
Chicano Unity Day: Bang on the System, Not Each Other
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 ›
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 ›