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alejandra

About Me



"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality." Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Police repression hushes up and distorts a political struggle, but does not eliminate it... Passionate political struggle is being waged throughout the country." Trotsky

Music:

Cafe Tacuba Maldita Panteon Ely Kinky the cure the clash mos def spearhead ani difranco ben harper billy holiday miles davis bambu skim jade ross pachamama silvio rodriguez pablo milanes jorge drexler lila downs julieta venegas mos def melaaz dead prez the coup psycho realm telmary immortal technique tribe called quest run dmc tupac ice cube nas nina simone fabulosos cadillacs hombres G Los Amantes de lola manu chao miguel mateos Al Green Erykah Badu India Arie

Movies:

slam, brown sugar, love and basketball, color purple, land and freedom, bread and roses, el norte, amores perros, machuca, y tu mama tambien, maria full of grace, los olvidados, pans labyrinth and of course wayne's world party time excellent!

Television:

Law and Order, the office.

Books:

A list of what I've read so far and recommend. Malcom x (by Alex Haley). Assata. Che Guevara ( by Jon Lee Anderson). Frederick Douglass (get the selected speaches and writings). Mother ( by Maxim Gorky). One day in the Life (by Manlio Argueta). Anything by bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh. Negroes with Guns (by Rob Williams). the bluest eyes by Toni Morrison. Native Son and Black boy by Richard Wright. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire. The Jungle. Teamster Rebellion. Revolution Betrayed and On France by Leon Trotsky. State and Revolution by Lenin. My reading list is not finished but start with these and we will have something to talk about.

Heroes:

"I need your help." Usually when we get angry with someone, we want to do the opposite. We want to say, "I don't need you. I can survive by myself alone." "I need your help" means "I need your practice, I need your deep looking, I need you to help me to overcome this anger because I suffer." And if I suffer, there is no way that you can be happy, because happiness is not an individual matter. If the other person suffers, there is no way that you can be truly happy alone. So helping the other person to suffer less, to smile, will make you happy also. -Thich Nhat Hanh

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Dear Family and Friends

Dear Family and Friends,             2007 has been an amazing year filled with lots of great changes.  We had a small and beautiful commitment ...
Posted by alejandra on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:36:00 PST