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¿brendan? is on live video

i has dreams that break soil and bring sadness

About Me


Yes, We Can






My Interests

modern languages, contemporary dance, modern dance, hip-hop, jazz, ending US/corporate hegemony, smashing imperialism, marijuana legalization and ending the drug war, queers, labor history, perversion, Cuba, Mexico, American Sign Language (ASL), français, castellano, nihongo, spoken word, music, the media, anarchism, socialism, Deafness, battements and penchés, undermining audism, divas and divaness, anti-racism, Chicana/o history, sociology, art and artists, el Caribe


I'd like to meet:

those who dance, however it is that they may

me gustas cuando hablas y estás como presente

burly coven

Music:

Amadou & Mariam, Los Super Elegantes, Tokyo Police Club, Joanna Newsom, Kings of Convenience, Las Orishas, Tom Vek, Björk, Hot Chip, Sleater-Kinney, CocoRosie, Ali Farka Touré, Broadcast, Dilated Peoples, Ms. John Soda, Phoenix, Issa Bagayogo, The Knife, RJD2, Manu Chao, J5, Daft Punk, Shakira, Stereo Total, Beirut, Asobi Seksu, Café Tacuba

Movies:

Hable con ella, Y tu mamá también, El crimen del Padre Amaro, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Drawing Restraint 9

Television:

the death of thought

Books:

The God of Small Things, The Life and Times of Mexico, Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media, Celestino antes del alba, A People's History of the United States, Ceremony, Cat's Cradle, ...Y no se lo tragó la tierra, The Freddie Stories, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, The Archaeology of Knowledge, Housekeeping

Heroes:

grace meredith small, derkface, cristina mora, my mama

My Blog

Cali Renters Beware - No on Prop 98

the special election taking place this June is a historically low turn-out election--which tends to favor conservative voters.profit-hungry landlords and developers, knowing that people pay less atten...
Posted by ¿brendan? is on live video on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:42:00 PST

Au Sénégal - Gay men set free

Police in Senegal have released several men who had been arrested after the publication of pictures in the Senegalese magazine "Icone" allegedly depicting a same-sex wedding ceremony.  Most of th...
Posted by ¿brendan? is on live video on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:05:00 PST

Free Hawai’i

Free Hawai'i..ILLEGAL OVERTHROW OF HAWAI'I TO BE OBSERVED"Sovereign Sunday" Events At 'Iolani Palace This WeekendHONOLULU - "Sovereign Sunday" will be observed from noon to 4 PM on ..Iolani Palace gro...
Posted by ¿brendan? is on live video on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:28:00 PST

Take a Stand for Racial Justice Today

Support the Jena 6 and take a stand to stop the injustice being carried out by a racist legal system that is punishing these young black men for having had the audacity to sit under a tree understood ...
Posted by ¿brendan? is on live video on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:45:00 PST

The Witch Fires & the War in Iraq: Making the Connection

The Witch Fires & the War in Iraq: Making the Connection Protestors at an anti-war march in San Francisco on Oct. 27 call attention to the equipment and personnel deficits created by the Iraq War ...
Posted by ¿brendan? is on live video on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:56:00 PST

Mass Mobilization and Critical Mass to Protest the IMF!

Mass Mobilization and Critical Mass to Protest the IMF! Another World Is Possible On Friday, October 19, the International Monetary Fundy (IMF) is convening its biannual meeting in Washington, DC. Gl...
Posted by ¿brendan? is on live video on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:23:00 PST

Globalize This, Reagan!

Attend 10/3 Street Theater Action Wednesday, October 3 at 5 p.m.@ Powell and Market On Wednesday 10/3 at 5:00 p.m. Globalize This! will be putting on a street theater action in support of Costa Rican ...
Posted by ¿brendan? is on live video on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:38:00 PST

Free the Jena 6 -- end Jim Crow Justice in the 21st Century

http://www.freethejena6.org/ Free the Jena 6! Free Mychal Bell!Join the Protest at the U.S. Justice Department Tuesday, October 2 at 5:00 pm9th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. NWWashington DC On Sept. 20, ...
Posted by ¿brendan? is on live video on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:54:00 PST

INS Accused of Medical Mistreatment by Family of Transgender Undocumented Immigrant

INS Accused of Medical Mistreatment by Family of Transgender Undocumented Immigrant by brendan behan johnson Three weeks after the death of Victoria Arrelano at a federal immigration detention center...
Posted by ¿brendan? is on live video on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:37:00 PST

moral deficits you can count on

Hmmm...   ...exciting momentum at a time when so many significant trade and other policy decisions are being made behind closed doors with increasingly less public input or scrutiny.   Expa...
Posted by ¿brendan? is on live video on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:41:00 PST