REBEL MEDIA is a 28-minute 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 available on public access stations and on the web at YOUTUBE and BLIP.TV.
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. They began a campaign to organize and mobilize the community and provide health care services, meals, clothing, cultural and political education.
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.
REBEL MEDIA is a 28-minute 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 available on public access stations and on the web at YOUTUBE and BLIP.TV.