Currently reading:
-"The Cornel West Reader" by Cornel West.
"A grim spectre has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality." -Rachel Carson from Silent Spring
Animals can't speak for themselves - it's up to us to do it by J.M. Coetzee
Livestock impacts on the environment from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants by Human Rights Watch
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler from The New York Times
Study: vegan diets healthier for planet, people than meat diets from the University of Chicago.
Hungry world 'must eat less meat' from BBC News
Why vegans were right all along from The Guardian
Meat And The Planet from the New York Times
being brown (like my background!!!)
7 Grain with Flax bread
playing outside
my rice cooker
home made pizza.
raviolis
keeping my heart healthy
spinach
foxes
lentils
collards
the politics of consumption
passion
compassion
arm wrestling
meals i can make in under 25 minutes
playing sports (watching is boring)
social movements
veganism.
animal liberation.
human liberation.
environmentalism.
reading
"Tomorrow the world may burst into fragments. In that threat hanging over our heads there is a lesson of truth. As we face such a future, hierarchies, titles, honors are reduced to what they are in reality: a passing puff of smoke. And the only certainty left to us is that of naked suffering, common to all, intermingling its roots with those of a stubborn hope." -Albert Camus
I'd like to meet:
peta2 street teamers (but because of private profiles, I often can't reply to your message unless you add me as a friend)Anyone who spends time to help other people, the environment, or animals (preferably people who understand how all these issues are fundamentally related).People I know from school, shows, activism, emails, etc.Anyone who can recommend a good book and/or political artist.People who realize that who I'd Like To Meet actually means more than just sending a random request to chalk up more 'friends.'Individuals who are so completely different than me that every interaction will be amazingly uncomfortable.Cool kids who ride bicycles in citiesResidents of the 757.Anyone who will challenge me to do things I should be doing like spending time outdoors, being a bit more social, and learning to be patient.People who are not stupid.
Music:
Amanda Rogers, Earth Crisis, Maroon 5, Rage Against the Machine, Mos Def, M.I.A., Marilyn Manson, Dillinger Escape Plan, Saves the Day, Homesick for Space, Penfold / The Moirai, Tool, Indecision / Most Precious Blood, Blind Melon, Supergrub / The Division Group / Ben Kenney, Harvest, Shai Hulud, Rise Against / The Killing Tree, Joemca, Nine Inch Nails, Dog Eat Dog, The Assistant, any/all Doo Wop
Movies:
Meet Your Meat (www.meetyourmeat.com), Berkeley in the Sixties, Rebels With A Cause, Birth, Sharkwater, Stigmata, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Rugrats, American Beauty, Shut Up And Sing, No Country For Old Men, Rosemary's Baby, The Snowman, Mission Impossible..., Bourne..., Over the Top, The Island of Dr Moreau, American Desi, Running Scared, Disco Dancer, Norma Rae, Don, Saw, Home Alone, Karate Kid, Babel, Ghost Busters, My Girl, Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake, The Truman Show, Harold and Kumar...
Television:
Daily Show, Cosby Show, MacGyver, Drake & Josh
Books:
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Brown),
Jacob's Hands: A Fable (Huxley and Isherwood),
Animal Liberation (Singer),
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck),
1984 (Orwell),
The Namesake (Lahiri),
Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri),
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire),
Free the Animals (Newkirk),
Dominion:The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy (Scully),
The Power of Identity: The Information Age (Castells),
What Uncle Sam Really Wants (Chomsky),
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Terkel),
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck),
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Bookchin),
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (McLuhan),
Assata: An Autobiography (Shakur),
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Schlosser),
Lord of The Flies (Golding),
I Am Because We Are: Readings in Black Philosophy (Hord and Lee),
Pygmalion (Shaw)
A Civil Action (Harr),
Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience (Davis),
The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (Manson and Strauss)
Heroes:
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
