". . . the end is the means."- Subc. Marcos
"These demands are not pleas to the government; nor are they visions of future utopia 'after the revolution.' The Zapatistas are struggling for these demands within the actual existing human system, the only system there really is. The demand for land is answered in land occupations. The demand for information and access to media is answered in a network of rebel radio micro-transmitters throughout the Zapatista zones, and indigenous news services like Melel Xojobal that get statements from the most remote jungle settlements immediately posted on the Internet.
The demand for democracy is answered, first of all, by practicing it." ('Homage to Chiapas' pg. 201)
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." -Chinese Proverb
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi
"A great many activists and concerned people ask, quite rightly, what alternative form of social organization can be imagined that might overcome the grave flaws -- often real crimes -- of contemporary society in more far-reaching ways than short-term reform. Parecon is the most serious effort I know to provide a very detailed possible answer to some of these questions, crucial ones, based on serious thought and careful analysis." -- Noam Chomskyhttp://www.myspace.com/parecon
I'd like to meet:
Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Saul Williams, Bill Drayton, Afeni and Assata Shakur, etc. I don't like mean people. If your mean to me that's bad enough, but if your just a cold hearted bastard in general and you don't care at all about the world around you, we won't get along . . . so if that describes you, don't talk too much or you'll get on my nerves
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Music:
Everything, from Sinatra to Mos Def
Music is my greatest passion.
I think Lupe Fiasco's lyrics on "Hurt Me Soul" are some of the best I've ever heard.
Movies:
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Drama
The Lives of Others, The Dead Girl, Bread and Roses, American History X, Pan's Labyrinth, Babel, Fight Club, Crash, The Godfather and The Good Shepard (closely related message), Cinderella Man, I Am Legend, Training Day, Two for The Money, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Lady In The Water, Black Snake Moan, Fur, V for Vendetta, Little Children, Forest Gump, some foriegn films like Pedro Almodovar's Volver. I love theatre, just saw the Vegas version of Phantom of the Opera recently.
Non-fiction
The Great Debaters, Talk to Me, Freedom Writers, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Motorcycle Diaries, Gotti, In The Time of the Butterflies, Blow, Miss Potter (What? That lady was a G!), The Last King of Scotland, North Country
Comedy
Anchorman, Fun With Dick and Jane, Naked Gun 2 ½, any standup like Richard Pryor or Lewis Black.
Documentaries
The Power of Community, A Crude Awakening, Planet Earth, Who Killed The Electric Car?, The Corporation, The End of Suburbia, SICKO, Thug Angel, The 11th Hour, How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company, The Agronomist, Why We Fight, When the Levees Broke, The Network, Bastards of the Party, Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8, Bowling For Columbine, Treal TV, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Fog of War, Supersize Me.
Edu-Tainment
Blood Diamonds, The Yes Men, An Inconvenient Truth, A Day Without a Mexican, Slam, Slam Nation, etc.
Television:
The Simpsons, The Office, Family Guy, Scrubs, South Park, King of Queens, The Chappelle Show, C-Span, Golden Girls (what?! Little Sophia is a "g"! "Picture it, Sicily, 1952 . . . " lol), The Daily Show w/John Steward (and Lewis Black!), The McLaughlin Group (me and my sister call it the "Grumpy Old Man Show", lol).
Books:
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Understanding Power: the Indispensible Chomsky, Rules for Radicals, Sleeping With The Devil, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, The Messiah of Morris Avenue, What's the Matter With Kansas, Homage to Chiapas, The Dead Emcee Scrolls, Endgame, Bright and Morning Star, The God of Small Things, Patterns of Anarchy, The Prince and Other Writings, The Zapatista Reader, The Holy Bible (KJV), Homage to Catalonia, The Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Banana Republicans, Crashing the Party, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, One Nation Under God?, Fast Food Nation, Hitler's Pope, The Great Controversy, The Jungle, Anne Frank, Overdosed America, Linda Goodman's Love Signs, Linda Goodman's Sun Signs, Values Shift, Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur; The Venezuelan Revolution, The Anarchist Collectives, etc. Z Magazine and F.E.D.S. Magazine is great too. Norman Mailer is a "cold piece of porkissus" (to quote E-40). Most recently I read A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut, which was excellent. Very funny, yet deep, and simple. Currently reading Beyond Oil by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Sustainable Agriculture:
How to Grow More Vegetables, The Sustainable Vegetable Garden, Proceedings from the Soil Food and People Conference, Future Fertility, One Circle, Backyard Homestead, Intensive Food Production on a Human Scale, Biointensive Sustainable Mini-Farming, Siberian Biointensive Research Report, Biodynamic Gardening in India, Living Quarters for Plant Roots, Appropriate Agriculture, Circle of Plenty Booklet, Man of the Trees, and Weaving a Lavender Wand.A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash
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Heroes:
Ashoka Fellows! Bill Drayton, Noam Chomsky, Jean Dominique, Tupac Shakur, Arundhati Roy, Antonio Maceo, Glenn Murcutt, Prodhoun, Dave Chappelle, Bakunin, Melvin Van Peebles, Thomas Jefferson, Pancho Villa, Lewis Black (even tho I don't always agree), Immortal Technique, Bertrand Russel, MLK, Rosie O'Donnell, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Pryor, Richard Wright, Ralph Nader, Michael Moore, Minerva Mirabal (and the Mirabal sisters, AKA "Las Mariposa"), Fabio Rosa, Cesar Chavez, Emporer Ashoka, Che Guevara, Martin Luther, Chris Rock, Fred Hampton, Malcom X, Thomas Paine, Paul of Tarsus, Saul Williams, Mhatma Ghandi, Zapatistas, and virtually all other revolutionaries who at least tried to make things better (imperfect though they may be) instead of just crying about the way things are.
