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About Me

Why June 7, 1929?
Because in my previous lifetime i (bravo pÃ©rez) was assasinated on june 7, 1929 by the colombian military, making me the first student killed by the colombian military in the 20th century.
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Â¿Porque el 7 de Junio del 1.929?
Porque en mi vida previa yo (bravo pÃ©rez) fui asesinado el 7 de Junio del 1.929 por el ejercito colombiano, convirtiendome en el primer estudiante asesinado por el ejercito colombiano en el siglo 20.
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"It seems to me outrageous that the computers of the guerrilla Raul Reyes can survive a Colombian military bombardment in a foreign country in the middle of the night while the computers of the paramilitaries can't survive an inspection by INPEC (prison authorities) in a maximum-security prison."
-Claudia Lopez-Independent political analyst who helped uncover a scandal linking warlords with politicians that has so far landed 33 members of Congress in prison.
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El Cazador-fernando botero
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soy colombiano
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Chiquita -- Did You Know?
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Masacre de Mejor Esquina-fernando botero
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Colombia Clean
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Masacre-fernando botero
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El Desfile-fernando botero
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The Boondocks-Huey and riley fight
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My Interests

Colombia, Plan Colombia, Canal de Panama, Parapolitica, Latifundio, Colonizacion, Opresion y sus dinamicas, Francisco de Miranda ("El Americano mas Universal"), SimÃ³n BolÃvar (El Libertador), Policarpa Salavarrieta (La Pola), Benkos BiojÃ³, QuintÃn Lame, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, MarÃa Cano (La Flor del Trabajo), Camilo Torres Restrepo, Luis Carlos Galan, justicia social, justicia economica, resistencia social, PDA, y bandeja paisa......................................... ........................................ ........................................

History of Colombian Civil War/Internal Conflict
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El Bogotazo
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I'd like to meet:

Arundhati Roy Quote

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Suheir Hammad-What I Will
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Homenaje a Camilo Torres Restrepo con motivo de cumplirse 40 aÃ±os de su muerte en combate.
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Music:

Zona Marginal, Mos Def, Choc Quib Town, Aterciopelados, Andrea Echeverri, Sizzla, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli, Earthdriver, The Welfare Poets, Molotov, Public Enemy, Wyclef Jean, Santacruz, Joe Arroyo, Grupo Niche, Sociedad Urbana. ..................... ..................... .....................
"I don't hate players, I don't love the game, I'm the shot clock, way above the game, To be point blank with you motherf*@k the game, I got all this work on me, I ain't come for play" -Mos Def
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"Brothaz wit knowledge is mo dangerous than brothaz wit gunz, they make the gunz easy to get and try to keep brothaz dumb" -Talib Kweli
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"On da realz, all these crab brothaz know the deal, when we start the revolution all they probably do is squeal" -Nas
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"El planeta es testigo de quien es el enemigo....
Es el sueÃ±o americano Vestido de gran hermano La magia negra se desintegra, ya va, ya va Igual que Roma ya desploma ya va, ya va
ProatÃ³mico, probÃ©lico AnticÃ³smico, antinatural Todo brilla en esa orilla, FantasÃa flor de un dÃa El dinero de primero y Ã©ste mundo de Tercero..
El show del gran capital, el dios multinacional La magia negra se desintegra, ya va, ya va Igual que Roma ya desploma ya va, ya va" -Aterciopelados
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"I ain't no perfect man, i'm tryen to do the best that i can wit what it is i have" -Mos Def
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"I'm on the border of Colombia, working for pennies Treated like a slave, the coca fields have to be ready The spirit of my people is starving, broken and sweaty Dreaming about revolution looking at my machete" -Immortal Technique
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"I don't give a f*@k about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, What your principles and standards are, You understand me y'all" -Mos Def
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No le pegue a la negra-Joe Arroyo
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Choc Quib Town-San Antonio
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if i was president-wyclef jean
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Movies:

War Takes
Directed By: Patricia Castano and Adelaida Trujillo Synopsis: For over four years, three Colombian filmmakers turned their cameras on themselves, using personal stories to expose the tough reality in their violent, war-ravaged country. According to these filmmakers, Colombia has been functioning for many years in the gray area between legalism and lawlessness.... .......... ........ .......... ........ ........ ........
La Sierra
Recently, as guerillas and paramilitaries sought to control marginal city neighborhoods, urban gangs aligned themselves with each side. In this way, the national conflict was translated into a brutal turf war that pitted adjacent barrios against each other. The documentary La Sierra explores life over the course of a year in one such barrio (La Sierra, in Medellin), through the prism of three young lives. www.lasierrafilm.com ........ ...... ....... ......... ... ......
FLOW: For Love Of Water
A new film by Irena Salina, highlights the local intimacies of an emerging global catastrophe: African plumbers reconnect shantytown water pipes under cover of darkness to ensure a community's survival; a Californian scientist forces awareness of shockingly toxic public water sources; a â€˜Big Waterâ€™ CEO argues privatization is the wave of the future; a â€œWater Guruâ€ in India sparks new community water initiatives in hundreds of villages; a Canadian author uncovers the corporate profiteering that drives global water business. www.flowthefilm.com ......... ............. ...................... ....... ....... ............
La Vendedora De Rosas
(1998) Victor Gaviria (Rodrigo D, No Futuro) directed this drama of street kids in Colombia. .... ......... ........... ............. ........ .......
Plan Colombia
What was the point of Plan Colombia? Is the US government still concerned with fighting drugs? Why have 20 years of drug wars in the Andes resulted in a two-fold increase in cocaine imported into the US in the last ten years alone? Could there be alternate purposes to a plan focused on beefing up the brutal Colombia military and spraying coca fields in rebel-held parts of the country when coca is grown all over Colombia? And what about oil, given that Colombia has the same oil potential as Venezuela, currently the second largest oil supplier to the US? The award-winning team that brought us Hidden Wars Of Desert Storm now shed light on the complex issues of drug-trafficking and civil struggle in Colombia and the impact of both the current chemical-spray program and the multibillion dollar aid package delivered to the military. Analysis and interviews with Noam Chomsky, the late Senator Paul Wellstone, Colombian Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt (later taken hostage by the FARC), US Members Of Congress John Conyers and Jim McGovern, US State Department officials, a World Wildlife Fund scientist, as well as Colombians from all walks of life, including guerilla leaders... Narrated by Ed Asner, this is another sterling effort of illumination on a subject that isn't going to go away anytime soon. www.plancolombia.org................. ................. .................
PRIETOS PARTE 1
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PRIETOS PARTE 2
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Effects of Plan Colombia on Afrocolombia
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A Brief History Of The USA
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MIRANDA REGRESA! TRAILER
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Television:

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Books:

Relatos de La Guerra De Los Mil DÃas
El Olvido Que Seremos
8 y 9 de Junio: Dia del Estudiante, CrÃ³nicas de Violencia
Colombia: Una NaciÃ³n a Pesar de sÃ Misma, De Los Tiempos Precolombinos a Nuestros DÃas
The Profits Of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia
Revolutionary Priest, The Complete Writings and Messages of Camilo Torres
Resistencia Civil, ArtesanÃa de Paz
Colombia y Las FARC-EP: Origen de La Lucha Guerrillera, Testimonio del Comandante Jaime Guaraca
The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia
GaitÃ¡n: Vida, Muerte y Permanente Presencia
Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza
Colombia and the United States, War, Terrorism, and Destabilization
Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953
Profeta en el Desierto
El Bogotazo: Memorias del Olvido
Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War
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"The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."
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Heroes:

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Huey Freeman makes the White People Riot
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Cornel West: To Be a Leftist in the 21st Century (1/3)
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Cornel West: To Be a Leftist in the 21st Century (2/3)
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Cornel West: To Be a Leftist in the 21st Century (3/3)
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My Blog

Un dedo ensangrentado señala a Piedad Córdoba

DE TAL PALO TAL ASTILLA Por Gloria Gaitán - Con copia a la Revista Paris Match y a los señores Bertrand de la Grange y Maite Rico - Hoy, en el diario colombiano El Tiempo, escribe e...
Posted by Colombian Connection on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:35:00 PST

agua como derecho fundamental

El agua busca un espacio en la Constitución como derecho fundamental Agencia de Prensa IPC Martes 10 de junio de 2008 Que en Colombia cerca de 10 millones de personas no consum...
Posted by Colombian Connection on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:23:00 PST

Estudiantes colombianos rechazan violación a la autonomía universitaria

Estudiantes colombianos rechazan violación a la autonomía universitaria La semana pasada, luego de una protesta, el mandatario colombiano autorizó a las fuerzas policiales a ingresar a los reci...
Posted by Colombian Connection on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:10:00 PST

Chavez’s Call for FARC Disarmament

Chavez's Call for FARC Disarmament Takes Washington By Surprise By Mark Weisbrot, AlterNetPosted on June 11, 2008, Printed on June 11, 2008 Washington's foreign policy establishment -- and much of th...
Posted by Colombian Connection on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:20:00 PST

Latin America: Why There’s a Water Crisis

Latin America: Why There's a Water Crisis in the Most Water-Rich Region By Bart Beeson, North American Congress on Latin AmericaPosted on May 1, 2008, Printed on June 11, 2008 The 16th commemor...
Posted by Colombian Connection on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:58:00 PST

Blackwater-Colombia & the "war on drugs"

Blackwater's Private CIA By Jeremy Scahill, The NationPosted on June 9, 2008, Printed on June 11, 2008 The notorious mercenary company now offers spy "services" to Fortune 500 companies, for the righ...
Posted by Colombian Connection on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:50:00 PST

Uribe y los grupos paramilitares, enemigos del movimiento estudiantil universitario en Colombia

El presidente Uribe y los grupos paramilitares, enemigos del movimiento estudiantil universitario en Colombia Domingo 8 de junio de 2008 Un triste comienzo El primer estudiante asesinado por l...
Posted by Colombian Connection on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:53:00 PST

video-Water Crisis

Latin Pulse - Water Crisis http://www.linktv.org/latinpulse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhojFHnfA8E (Latin Pulse: May 19, 2008) Encompassing both glaciers and the Amazon basin, Latin ...
Posted by Colombian Connection on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:47:00 PST

Uribe ¿a la reelección?

Revive el debate Uribe ¿a la reelección? Los uribistas ya arrancaron con el proyecto para buscar una segunda reelección del presidente Álvaro Uribe, mientras que el mandatario continúa eludi...
Posted by Colombian Connection on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:28:00 PST

Colombian warlords laptops, cell phones handled carelessly

"It seems to me outrageous that the computers of the guerrilla Raul Reyes can survive a Colombian military bombardment in a foreign country in the middle of the night while the computers of the param...
Posted by Colombian Connection on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:58:00 PST