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pamg

lift up your consciousness....live up right and stay positive

About Me

jus tryin to 'live the life i love & love the life i live'

CalEJ.org - check it

My Interests

reading; music; dancing; hiking; camping; backpacking; sea kayaking; trying new things; environmental justice; climate change; the media; popular education; collective action

I'd like to meet:

musicians, music lovers, those who are socially & environmentally conscious, veggies, radical thinkers.

Music:

reggae. roots, dub, 1st wave ska, rocksteady; old school hip hop; turntabalism; funk; african highlife & more. in no particular order: isreal vibes, skatalites, desmond dekker, justin hinds & the dominoes, fantan mojah, thievery corp, rjd2, toots & the maytals, bob marley, peter tosh, sinead o'connor, king tubby, natalie merchant, funky meters, gladiators, fela & femi kuti, cut chemist, horace andy, lee scratch perry, grandmaster flash, lucky dube...get the drift? pandora.com check out great .. radio stations (NO ADS!): "scratch" for roots, rocksteady, dub, & ska http://www.azevedo.ca/scratch/
dostrece classics for old school hip hop http://dostreceradio.net
pandora.com to create your own radio stations

Movies:

children of men; a scanner darkly; baraka; wild style; country man; waking life; i heart huckabees; rockers; story of the weeping camel; spring, summer, winter, fall, spring; children of heaven (bacheha-ye aseman); life & debt; scratch; the corporation. an inconvenient truth is worth seeing...
imdb.com.

Television:

I have more than "4 arguments for the elimination of television" as we know it...
I listen to the radio. kpfa (reggae express Tu 10-12p; late night hype Wed 1:30a-6a), pacifica, npr, bbc, kpoo, kalx, kqed, shoutcast.com

Books:

so many...starting with: i've got the light of freedom (history of the mississippi organizing in civil rights movement) by charles payne; freedom is a constant struggle; decolonizing methodologies by linda tuhiwai smith; eden express by mark vonnegut; hocus pocus by kurt vonnegut, jr; a people's history of the US by howard zinn; methodology of the oppressed by chela sandoval; prison notebooks by antonio gramsci; four arguments for the elimination of TV by jerry mander; media unlimited: how the torrent of images and sounds overwhelm our lives by todd gitlin; amusing ourselves to death: public discourse in the age of show business by neil postman;

My Blog

Babylon Burning: Reggae, Rasta, & Climate Change

(An edited version of this article, titled CHANT DOWN CLIMATE CHANGE will appear in the Spring 2007 edition of Women & Environments International Magazine http://www.weimag.com/) Do you sing alon...
Posted by pamg on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:54:00 PST

sweetness

on a lighter note...some sage wisdom brought to you not by sweet reggae music but sweet fortune cookies * the mightiest oak in the forest is just a little nut that held its ground * do not worry ...
Posted by pamg on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:29:00 PST

what is your ethnic makeup?

Some youth from the Bay put together this video in the Media that Matters Film Festival.  I'm not a big fan of slam poetry, but it's def worth watching. http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/slip...
Posted by pamg on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:24:00 PST

war is not good for children & other living things

before we use any of our oh-so-expensive weapons, they're tested somewhere.  it's going on all the time & leaves a lasting legacy on the land & people. just a few quick reminders past&nbs...
Posted by pamg on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:31:00 PST

super mosquitoes, massive dust storms, fish parades...

"air pollution, overpopulation, and the widespread use of insect repellent around Athens have lead to the development of a 'super bread' of mosquito..."  you can't make up some of the stuff ...
Posted by pamg on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:57:00 PST

looking into that flashy thin new phone?

some progress on the electronic waste front.  unfortunately, recycling is not the easy solution either, as most of it ends up in the global south where they are not set up for the workers (o...
Posted by pamg on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:03:00 PST

political & anti war groups' protests tracked by state anti terrorism body

SACRAMENTO State's security office tracked protests Attorney general criticizes monitoring as unconstitutional - Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles TimesSaturday, July 1, 2006 (07-01) 04:00 PDT Sacramento ...
Posted by pamg on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:34:00 PST

for your eyes only

teases of my would-be blog topics...for another venue.    Chant down Babylon. (music & revolution; music & religion; imperialism; gramsci's war of position)   Myspace, your...
Posted by pamg on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:07:00 PST

So why should any of this be of concern to MySpace and internet users?

http://applexnet.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&am p;sid=1510 So why should any of this be of concern to MySpace and internet users? As stated earlier in this article, the MySpace privacy pol...
Posted by pamg on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:21:00 PST

News Corp.'s acquisition of the social networking site has unsettled some members.

JULY 29, 2005 NEWSMAKER Q&A MySpace: WhoseSpace?News Corp.'s acquisition of the social networking site has unsettled some members. But the founders, and a Fox exec, say don't worry The sale of MyS...
Posted by pamg on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:23:00 PST