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WRITING/READING/LEARNING FROM IFA-ORISHA/HEALING MYSELF AND HELPING OTHERS TO HEAL/HERBS/ART/MUSIC/THE GOOD RED ROAD/ ALCHEMY...
CURRENT MOON moon phases
I'd like to meet:
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE GOOD AND DO IT...
COMMUNITY ARTISTS WHO ARE ALSO CRITICAL THINKERS/ACTIVISTAS!..
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Music:
Jazz, Mowtown-Old Soul, Blues, R&B, Tejano; John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra, Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes, Stevie Wonder, Laura Nyro, Nona Hendryx, Patti Labelle, Abbey Lincoln, Jonie Mitchell, The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, Bob Marley, Ana Carolina, John Santos, Ojala, Faye Carol, Wayne Wallace, Los Van Van, Mana, Lila Downs, Pura Fe, Ulali, Public Enemy, Erykah Badu, Hawk Beatz and on and on and on!
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Movies:
BARRIO CUBA, HABANA BLUES, MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, FRIDA, POW WOW HIGHWAY, THUNDER HEART, ABRE LOS OJOS, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN - OR ALMOST ANYTHING BY ALMODOVAR, DANZON, DANCE ME OUTSIDE, SMOKE SIGNALS, ONCE WERE WARRIORS, INCIDENT AT OGLALA, WHALE RIDER, MI FAMILIA, ZOOT SUIT, A DAY WITHOUT MEXICANS, BOUND BY HONOR, FOLLOW ME HOME, THE BALLAD OF GREGORIO CORTEZ, WOLFEN, MALCOLM X, CROOKLYN, DO THE RIGHT THING, MO BETTER BLUES, VAMPIROS EN LA HABANA, STRAWBERRIES AND CHOCOLATE, GUANTANAMERA, BLADE RUNNER, DANZON, PARIS TEXAS, MISSISSIPPI MASALA, MAN ON FIRE, V, MATRIX TRILOGY, AND MANY MORE!
Television:
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Which literature classic are you?
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four. You are the classic warning against the threat of totalitarianism. To you, politics and philosophy are inseparable, auchtorities suck and the reality might not exist outside our imaginations.
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Books:
THE DIARY OF ASSATA SHAKUR, SOLEDAD BROTHER, BROTHER'S KEEPER, BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, BELOVED, POCHO, CHICANO, 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE, IN THE TIME OF BUTTERFLIES, BLESS MI ULTIMA, WITH A SIX GUN IN HIS HAND: THE BALLAD OF GREGORIO CORTEZ, GEORGE WASHINGTON GOMEZ, THE HAMMON AND THE BEANS, GORILLA MY LOVE, AND ENOUGH TO FILL UP 1000 PAGES!
Heroes:
MIS ANCESTROS - LOS EGGUN, THE ORISHA, SITTING BULL, CRAZY HORSE, LITTLE HAWK, ANTONIO MACEO, EMILIANO ZAPATA, FRANCISCO 'PANCHO' VILLA, BENITO JUAREZ, SANDINO, MALCOLM X, CHE GUEVARA, CAMILO CIENFUEGOS, HO CHI MINH, CARLOS FONSECA AMADOR, EMMA TENAYUCA, FRIDA KAHLO, CESAR E. CHAVEZ, REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, LOLITA LEBRON, CELIA SANCHEZ MANDULAY, DANG THUY TRAM, HAYDEE SANTAMARIA, VILMA ESPIN, FRED HAMPTON, MARK CLARK, STEPHEN BANTU BIKO, PATRICE LUMUMBA, MEHDI BEN BARKA, AMILCAR CABRAL, SALVADOR ALLENDE, PEDRO BISSONETTE, NILAK BUTLER, BUDDY LAMONT, FRANK CLEARWATER, LAS MARIPOSAS, RACHEL CORRIE, JUDI BARI, TANIA, JUNE JORDAN, Y MUCHOS MAS... ALL THOSE GREAT LEADERS WHO ARE STILL ALIVE AND STRUGGLING FOR LIBERATION.AND OF COURSE, MI FAMILIA:TO ALL MY RELATIONS WHO HAVE GONE ON TO THE SPIRIT WORLD, LUZ Y PROGRESO!AND TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE STILL HERE LIVING AND LOVING LIFE, ASHE O!
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Migratory Birds
for
my mother
you were born
to gypsies
though you didn't
want to be
every spring
when orange blossom's
perfume
filled the air
your world was packed
into a few bundles
then your family
was off
living in tents
trailers
dirt floor shacks
you were born
to nomads
though you didn't
want to be
longed to live with
the settled and the straight
work in the five and dime
go to school
play tennis
but every time
you found a friend
it was time to go
another town
another round
in a world
that made
you dizzy
you were born
to migrants
though you didn't
want to be
from Texas to Illinois
living a blur
out a car window
roads endless
as fields of crops
to be picked
by the piece
never making enough
to eat
let alone
for the trip back home
pleading for the
traveling to stop
words in the wind
whooshing by ears
of the gypsy king
you were born
to wanderers
though you didn't
want to be
when you got the chance
you planted
yourself
deep
in concrete
and steel
to make sure
you or your
offspring
wouldn't
branch out
too far
from home
you were
settled
for
ever
I was born
to a life of never change
though I didn't
want to be
same familiar streets
same people
year after year
until one sweltering
Chicago summer night
the moon full
color of sun
reflecting off
fields of green
and the sweet scent
of lilacs from
our back yard
helped me sprout wings
so that I
could fly
away
© Odilia Galvan Rodriguez
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