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jasleen

if i can't dance, i don't want to be a part of your revolution

About Me

i like to dance and spout leftist politics. especially at the same time.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

people in the labor movement. people in any movement. people who move.hot revolutionaries.oh, and someone who will help me find a mostly legit way to pay off my massive law school loans, so i can permanently erase those three years from memory.
Which Famous Revolutionary Are You?
Margaret Sanger
"I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strike out—I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women."

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Music:

me'shell ndegeocello, tribe, j5, j-live, the shins, belle and sebastian, magnetic fields, spearhead, etta james, jill scott, yo la tengo, de la soul, ozo, mos def, talib kweli, blackalicious, cesaria evora, thievery corporation, zero 7, marvin gaye, curtis mayfield, nina simone, les nubians, roots, outkast, peanut butter wolf, fela, madlib/quasimoto/jaylib/madvillian/lootpack, really anything that madlib has a hand in, anything on quannum, ubiquity or stone's throw. i love music. i want to marry it.

Movies:

city of god, pedro almodovar films, especially all about my mother and women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, hotel rwanda, rushmore, royal tenenbaums, the take (an AMAZING documentary about unemployed argentinean workers who turn abandoned factories into worker cooperatives - check out thetake.org). best short film is "running in tall grasses" by howard dhuy vu (check out the amazing smoke effects by yours truly).

Television:

daily show, arrested development, da ali g show, and i miss buffy...

Books:

midnight's children - rushdie, beloved - morrison, buddha of suburbia - kureishi, bone - faye myenne ng, 100 years of solitude - marquez, rolling the r's - r. zamora linmark, breath eyes memory - edwidge danticat, unbearable lightness of being - kundera, lone ranger and tonto fist fight in heaven - alexie, wind-up bird chronicles - murakami, namesake - jhumpa lahiri. best short story is "sonny's blues" by james baldwin.

Heroes:

activists, artists and especially, artists who are activists. oh, and my mom.

My Blog

marathoners do it longer...

...or, maybe more accurately, marathoners do it 26.2 times more than they should  I know this is a bit late, but I just wanted to finally write to everyone who donated/called/emailed/texted/sent...
Posted by jasleen on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:33:00 PST

latest marathon update

I just wanted to update all of you that yes, I have actually stuck with this insane training program and that the weekend before last, i actually ran seven-freaking-teen miles. yup, you heard me. ...
Posted by jasleen on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:25:00 PST

17 miles, baby

quick marathon update to say that i ran 17 miles last saturday.  seriously.  like, in a row.  and i feel fucking awesome.  okay, i'm limping but in a fucking awesome way :)
Posted by jasleen on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:11:00 PST

marathon update and donation incentives

First off, to all you lovely, lovely people who have already donated, I wantedto ask that you send me your address so that I can send you hugs and kisses viasnail mail - your support really does mean ...
Posted by jasleen on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:15:00 PST

l.a. marathon - yes, seriously

Dear family, friends, colleagues and random myspacers:I am writing to you because you are all amongst the most attractive people I know.  And I felt that you should know that.  Secondly (and...
Posted by jasleen on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:46:00 PST

more pictures from 9/28

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Posted by jasleen on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:52:00 PST

september 28th

i have been up all night camped outside the downtown parker center police station waiting as arrestees slowly trickle out.  so instead of a sleep-deprived recap, here's one article.  i'll po...
Posted by jasleen on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:36:00 PST

la lucha continua...

Workers at the LAX Hilton Hotel have been struggling for a union but have been met by threats, retaliation, surveillance and discrimination by management.  All of last week, I've been working on ...
Posted by jasleen on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:04:00 PST

singing the post-colonial chai blues...

during law school, i had to write a political autobiography for lani guinier's class on "race, class, gender and social justice."  this was in the fall of 2001, so a lot has changed in five (!) y...
Posted by jasleen on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:23:00 PST

sometimes i google myself...

...but it's nicer when someone else googles you.  well, maybe not always nicer, but at least different.  anyway, a friend googled me and wrote to say that she came across a letter i wrote to...
Posted by jasleen on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:30:00 PST