"You must have refused water for the thirsty and food for the hungry. You probably think the land belongs to the powerful and only the privileged have a right to it! You must have sent widows away emptyhanded and crushed the hopes of orphans." Job 22: 7-9
Male
28 years old
Fresno, California
United States
"These demands are not pleas to the government; nor are they visions of future utopia 'after the revolution.' The Zapatistas are struggling for these demands within the actual existing human system, the only system there really is. The demand for land is answered in land occupations. The demand for information and access to media is answered in a network of rebel radio micro-transmitters throughout the Zapatista zones, and indigenous news services like Melel Xojobal that get statements from the most remote jungle settlements immediately posted on the Internet.
The demand for democracy is answered, first of all, by practicing it." ('Homage to Chiapas' pg. 201)
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." -Chinese Proverb
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi
"A great many activists and concerned people ask, quite rightly, what alternative form of social organization can be imagined that might overcome the grave flaws -- often real crimes -- of contemporary society in more far-reaching ways than short-term reform. Parecon is the most serious effort I know to provide a very detailed possible answer to some of these questions, crucial ones, based on serious thought and careful analysis." -- Noam Chomskyhttp://www.myspace.com/parecon
Music
Too many to name
Movies
Drama The Lives of Others, Bread and Roses, The Good Shepard, Cinderella Man, etc. I love theatre, just saw the Vegas version of Phantom of the Opera recently.
Non-fiction Valkyrie, Johhn Adams, The Great Debaters, Veronica Guerin, Talk to Me, Freedom Writers, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Motorcycle Diaries, In The Time of the Butterflies, Miss Potter (What? That lady was a G!), The Last King of Scotland, North Country
Documentaries The Power of Community, Made In L.A., A Crude Awakening, Planet Earth, The Big One, Who Killed The Electric Car?, The Corporation, Deliver Us From Evil, The End of Suburbia, SICKO, The 11th Hour, The Agronomist, Why We Fight, When the Levees Broke, The Network, Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8, Bowling For Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Fog of War, Supersize Me.
Edu-Tainment Blood Diamonds, The Yes Men, An Inconvenient Truth, A Day Without a Mexican, Slam, Slam Nation, etc.
Television
Trying to kick that habit.
Books
Of course, the Bible. I prefer KJV
Currently:
Just read all the Malcolm Gladwell books and I highly recommend them. Working on "No Logo" by Naomi Klein
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Understanding Power: the Indispensible Chomsky, Rules for Radicals, Nemesis, Sleeping With The Devil, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, What's the Matter With Kansas, Homage to Chiapas, The Dead Emcee Scrolls, Endgame, Bright and Morning Star, The God of Small Things, Patterns of Anarchy, The Prince and Other Writings, The Zapatista Reader, Homage to Catalonia, The Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Banana Republicans, Crashing the Party, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, One Nation Under God?, Fast Food Nation, Hitler's Pope, The Great Controversy (or anything by Ellen White), The Jungle, Anne Frank, Overdosed America, Values Shift, Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur; The Venezuelan Revolution, The Anarchist Collectives, etc. Z Magazine. Most recently I read A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut, which was excellent. Very funny, yet deep, and simple. Beyond Oil by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Sustainable Agriculture: How to Grow More Vegetables, The Sustainable Vegetable Garden, Proceedings from the Soil Food and People Conference, Future Fertility, One Circle, Backyard Homestead, Intensive Food Production on a Human Scale, Biointensive Sustainable Mini-Farming, Siberian Biointensive Research Report, Biodynamic Gardening in India, Living Quarters for Plant Roots, Appropriate Agriculture, Circle of Plenty Booklet, Man of the Trees, and Weaving a Lavender Wand.
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Heroes
Ashoka Fellows! Bill Drayton, Jean Dominique, Veronica Guerin, MLK, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Wright, Ralph Nader, Michael Moore, Fabio Rosa, Martin Luther, Paul of Tarsus, Zapatistas, to name a few. Much respect for Ellen White.
"Give me some men who are stouthearted men,
Who will fight for the right they adore;
Start me with ten, who are stouthearted men
And I'll soon give you ten thousand more!"
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” Bertrand Russell
"Solo voy con mi pena / sola va mi condena / correr es mi destino / para burlar la ley / perdido en el corazon / de la grande babylon / me dicen el clandestino por no llevar papel.Pa una ciudad del norte / yo me fui a trabajar / mi vida la deje entre Ceuta y Gibraltar / soy una raya en el mar / fantasma en la ciudad / mi vida va prohibida / dice la autoridad.Solo voy con mi pena / sola va mi condena / correr es mi destino / por no llevar papel / perdido en el corazon / de la grande babylon / me dicen el clandestino / yo soy el que quiebra la ley." Manu Chao "Clandestino"
"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations." Albert Einstein, quoted in "In Six Days", p. 156.
"The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed."
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires." Kahlil Gibran
Who I'd like to meet: Bill Drayton, Afeni Shakur, etc. I don't like mean people. If your mean to me that's bad enough, but if your just a cold hearted individual and you don't care at all about the world around you, we won't get along . . . so if that describes you, try not to talk too much.
I wrote a comment back to u on my own page by accident like duhh..lol! Anyways,yah I been workin outta fresno for the past year! Ill be in salas with the fam bam for turkey day and then back to fresno on sunday. Hit me up 8312108903
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haha, totally, I forgot about that! you know, I got telephone-polled by one of the SF tv channels about whether I was planning to get the swine flu vaccine, and one of the questions was about my political affiliation. wtf? I'm not sure what kind of picture they were trying to paint.
The Time Value of Life: Why Time is More Valuable than Money by Tisa L. Silver (iUniverse, 2009) 90pp. Paperback. $12.95 (ISBN: 978-1-440103480-7)
Recently, Professor Silver visited Ursinus College to discuss representations and realities of wealth in the African American community with two groups of students. In the conversations that followed, she and I agreed to an interview about the major themes of her book. The following transcript presents our exchange.
Dr. Walter Greason
Ursinus College
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Walter Greason (WG): The subtitle of your book is 'why time is more valuable than money.' Who is the audience you most hope will read this book and learn this lesson? How did they come to believe that the opposite relationship was true?
Tisa Silver (TS): I wrote the book with all people in mind, because we all must face decisions regarding how to use our time and money. However, I h
Please attend this great event if you can. If not, spread the word to interested friends and family.
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The conference organizers are very pleased to announce the upcoming 13th National Conference on Planning History taking place in Oakland, California this October 15-18, 2009. The preliminary program and conference registration forms, as well as travel and hotel information, are available on the conference website:
http://www.barnard.edu/urban/sacrph09 . The on-line preliminary program will be updated again in late September, in preparation for the printed program. During the weeks before the conference, additional links and information useful to participants will be added to the website, so please check back for updates.
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