REBEL MEDIA is a news-magazine that offers a global perspective on news, current events and culture, presenting viewpoints seldom covered in the U.S. media.
It achieves this by covering U.S. domestic issues on a national and neighborhood basis, and then showing their connection to global affairs. The program offers a mix of original segments hosted by Felix Leo Campos, Robert Waddell and Ismael Nuñez.
Besides producing original segments, REBEL MEDIA also provides diverse perspectives on world events by rebroadcasting presentations of other nations’ newscasts. Through these personal stories, REBEL MEDIA tries to humanize the ‘other’ and counter the tendency to make enemies out of the unknown. REBEL MEDIA is also available on public access stations and on the web at FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE and BLIP.TV.
Media activists, freelance & civilian journalists are all welcomed to contribute segments to our show. In return, we’ll provide you with dubs of episodes for airplay on your local community media outlet.
REBEL MEDIA2010: Cementerio Woodlawn (Esp)
El Cementario de Woodlawn en el condado del Bronx, en la cuidad de Nueva York tiene, internado, muchas personas historica y famosa. Pero en su 147 años encontramos que lo que falta es un ambiente sin racismo y avance justo para los trabajadores de etnidad Latina y Afro-Americanos.
REBEL MEDIA2010: Woodlawn Cemetery (Eng)
No one can say that the Bronx hasn’t had it rough.
It burned for more than two decades and now that it is undergoing a “revitalization” many wonder if the improvements are meant for its residents, businesses, and communities or investors and tourists.
A historic 147 year old cemetery where many famous people are interned doesn’t yet have any supervisors or directors that are of ethnic & racial minority descent.
The dead may be at rest but for the Latino & African-American employees there’s “No Respect, No Rest!”
That’s not all. Watch our report and, please, leave us your comments.
REBEL MEDIA2009: CASA Del Las Americas
As does the summer with both the Venceremos Brigade and the IFCO Friendship Caravans traveling to Cuba, the annual Las Casas Del Las Americas & the July 26 Coalition’s New Year’s Eve Gala, the winter season also has its demonstration of solidarity in the U.S. with Cuba. Here is their web site for more information www.casadelasamericas.com
REBEL MEDIA Comite Noviembre2009: Health in the Latino Community Art, like music, is an international language. It also “soothes the savage” beast allowing for an avenue of release, expression, and healing.
The venues that provide space for this to happen are “watering holes” where different people gathered for different reasons meet and share the experience of what art does for them. In part two of our report on the 4th Annual Comite Noviembre Artisan’s Fair we found the fair to be such a venue. Thanks for watching our work. Please leave us your comments & suggestions.
REBEL MEDIA2009: Comite Noviembre Arts & Social Movements
As of the 1960′s many organizations arose from the struggle for social justice and equality, in the U.S. Many had a focus on cultural maintenance and education. Comite Noviembre is one such organization. Their annual event during Puerto Rican Heritage Month (November) centers on lectures, conferences, and workshops. For the last 4 years arts & crafts have been included as a means of educating generations of Puerto Ricans who, born & bred in the U.S, have never traveled to the island and don’t know its history, its heroes & heroines, or its culture. Thanks for watching our work. Please leave us your comments & suggestions.
REBEL MEDIA2009: 40ta Aniversario de los Young Lords: Comunidad y Cadre
En pasar por El Barrio hoy en dia, uno es facil nover a larga historia de resistencia social y actos de desobedencia civil. Pero en Agosto del año 1969 Los Young Lords, una organizacion multi-cultural encabezada por Boricuas, tomaron la Primera Iglesia Metodista y lo convertieron en un centro de enseñanza y servicios sociales.
En Agosto del 2009, mas de 25 miembr@s se unieron en El Barrio para celebrar y comemorar la ideaologia de comunidad y cadre. Agradecemos que nos visite. Por favor de dejarnos su comentarios y sugerencias.
REBEL MEDIA2009: Young Lords 40th Anniversary Community & Cadre
Originated in Chicago, and following the example and philosophy laid out by the Black Panthers Party and Chairman Fred Hampton, the Young Lords were organized out of street gangs, by Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, as a means of combating racial prejudiced and social injustice. In NYC’s Spanish Harlem, the Young Lords took over the First Spanish United Methodist Church in the summer of 1969.
40 years later, 2009, more than 20 members returned and joined an audience of 200 people to commemorate their actions and re-enforce the theme of community and cadre. Ismael Nunez has the details.
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REBEL MEDIA2008: No Thanks Given 2008 part 2
It’s November and that brings two commemorations of the same holiday. They’re polar opposite in life experience of a shared history and view of one another. The widely popular view of Thanksgiving is a day of gratitude and gratefulness. The taught origin of the tradition that is taught in schools starts with a new people struggling to survive in a new land who, after being taught survival skills by native people, shared a first harvest meal in celebration and gratitude.
The untold story doesn’t honor the same tradition in the same way nor for the same reasons. For Native Americans, the November holiday means “NO THANKS GIVEN”. Ismael Nunez traveled with the International Action Center (www.iacenter.org) to Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 2008. He returns with a story that has a new perspective of history as well hope for sobering change with the new election in the U.S. Thanks for watching our work. Please leave us your comments & suggestions.
REBEL MEDIA2008: El Rincon Criollo, La Casa de Chema
Part 1: Journalist, Edward Rueda, joins Robert Waddell in this production of an urban landmark and cultural phenomenon, El Rincón Criollo/La Casa de Chema (The Creole Corner/Chema’s House). Located in the South Bronx, El Rincón Criollo represents a renaissance of Puerto Rican identity and cultural maintenance in the ‘belly of the beast’.
REBEL MEDIA2008: El Rincon Criollo, La Casa de Chema part 2. Journalist Edward Rueda joins Robert Waddell in this expose production of an urban landmark and cultural phenomenon in the South Bronx, El Rincón Criollo/La Casa de Chema. Thanks for watching our work. Please leave us your comments & suggestions.
REBEL MEDIA: The 18th Annual Friendship Caravan to Cuba was launched at the Brecht Forum in NYC. Attendees were privy to knowledge about US policy against Cuba not widely publicized in the mainstream press. Felix Leo Campos reports from the Brecht Forum.
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REBEL MEDIA2008: Slumlords of Washington Heights. Responding to the housing crisis in his district, Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat gives viewers a tour of a tenant under going the same eviction tactics used in the 1960′s & 70′s.
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REBEL MEDIA2007: No Thanks Given 2007 part 1
For most U.S. citizens, November and Thanksgiving are synonymous with gratitude. For Native Americans, November and the holiday are reminders of something else. Ismael Nunez finds out what it is in his report on the 38th National Day of Mourning (NO THANKS GIVEN). Thanks for watching our work. Please leave your comments & suggestions.
REBEL MEDIA2006: Comite Noviembre 1st Puerto Rican Artisans Fair 2006, part 1.
2006 marked the 1st year of a Puerto Rican arts & crafts fair for Comité Noviembre held at Hunter College. Ismael Nuñez attended the event and brings interviews with organizers and supporters, artists and artisans, and the attending public, as well as scenes of performances and audience participation. This episode on Comité Noviembre 2006 is broken up into 4 individual segments.
REBEL MEDIA2006: Comite Noviembre 1st Puerto Rican Artisans Fair 2006, part 2. Recorded on location at Hunter College, Ismael Nuñez interviews author Bobby Gonzalez, El Barrio native and professional boxer Edgar Santana, during Comité Noviembre’s 1st Arts & Crafts Fair.
REBEL MEDIA2006: Left Forum Political Prisoners. This annual event held at the East Village’s historic Cooper Union School for Arts & Sciences brings together progressive thinkers, publishers, entrepreneurs, together for a two day conference on various social, environmental, political topics.
Here a scene of the workshop and reporter, Julian Gerena Quiñones, speaks with panelists of the 2006 on Filiberto Ojeda-Rios & Puerto Rican Nationalism. Featured are Waleska Yamira Rodriguez and Dylcia Pagan.
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