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Ryan

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Fate is a woodpecker, and I'm a hunk of wood.
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My Interests

life, nature, survival, altruism, pacifism, animism, humans, primates, botany, going local, books, tea.
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I'd like to meet:

Leonard Peltier, Tariq Ali, Howard Zinn, Billy Cobham, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, his holiness the Dalai Lama, Jon Krakauer, Jane Goodall, Richard Leakey, Michael Franti, and Frank McCourt.

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Music:

Willy Mason, Abu Nurah, The Be Good Tanyas, Cake, Michael Franti, Carbon/Silicon, Brett Dennen, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Harper, Lucinda Williams, Damien Rice, Howe Gelb, Adam Freedman, Youssou N'Dour, Elan, The B-Side Players, Ozomatli, Hugh Masekela, Heartless Bastards, Eddie Vedder, Matizyahu, The Smiths, Citizen Cope, Flogging Molly, The Clash, Generation X, J5, Pearl Jam, Arctic Monkeys, Ani DiFranco, The Talking Heads, The Ramones, Afro-Celt Soundsystem, Without Reservation, Ulali, The Neville Bros., Marvin Gaye, The Beatles, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Bob Dylan, B.B. King, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart, Johnny Cash, Muddy Waters, Blind Lemon Jefferson, John Lee Hooker, Duke Ellington, The Gershwins, Anita O'Day, Billie Holiday, Billy Cobham, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Marley and family, Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytals, The Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars, Colin Hay, John Denver.I like a lot of indie stuff, blues (delta not rockabilly), folk, junk band, jazz (traditional not "elevator music"), motown, all things acoustic, anything from the singer/songwriter era, soul, old school hip-hop, Bakersfield country, world music, guerrilla music, I'm a sucker for scratch vocals and anything with a social concience. La Gallina

Movies:

Favorites: The Puffy Chair, Lost in Translation, Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring, The Life Aquatic, The Station Agent, Stranger Than Fiction, Mongolian Pingpong, Le Balon Rouge, Sugarcane Alley, Ghost World, The Science of Sleep, Little Miss Sunshine, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Pow-Wow Highway, Motorcycle Diaries, Cool Hand Luke, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, The Magnificent Seven, Seven Samurai, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, A Hard Day's Night, Human Nature, Danny Deckchair, About a Boy, Cautiva, Hotel Rwanda, The Last Emperor, The Darjeeling Limited, The Nephew, In America, Green Street Hooligans, Gandhi, Fire, Earth, Water, and anything with Steve McQueen or Paul Newman.Documentaries: Yakoana, Independent Media in a Time of War, The Lost Boys of Sudan, You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train, Amandla!, The Yes Men, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Liberty Bound, Time Will Tell, Beads and Trinkets, An Inconvenient Truth.

Television:

Democracy NOW!, FreeSpeechTV, Going Tribal, Globe Trekker, SurvivorMan, The Office.

Books:

Ishmael, The Story of B, My Ishmael, The Holy, After Dachau, Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest, Beyond Civilization, An Animist Testament Tao Te Ching, Into the Wild, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Native Son, Guests of the Sheik, Next of Kin, Silent Spring, A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife, Prison Writings, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, A People's History of the United States, The Tipping Point, The Selfish Gene, Jaywalking With the Irish, 1984, When The Legends Die, The Man Who Planted Trees, The Plague, Don Quixote, Custard Died For Your Sins, Reservation Blues, Into Thin Air, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Lorax, Me and Mine, The Peace Book, Three Cups of Tea, anything written by Tariq Ali, Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, Jack London, Leo Tolstoy, Jack Kerouac, Jean Giono, Edward Abbey, or Jon Krakauer.

Heroes:

Simon Bolivar, Eugene V. Debs, Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Henry David Thoreau, The Camden 28, Gandhi, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Martin Luther King Jr., Leonard Peltier, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Amy Goodman, Daniel Quinn, Edward Abbey, and Lao Tzu. Leonard Peltier Tribute
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My Blog

Instant Karma

Yes the words you're reading have actually come from my brain, that's right: a blog with no cut-and-paste message...instead, my words..... No hell has not frozen over...or maybe it has, you can never ...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 31 May 2008 11:07:00 PST

Indigenous Hawaiian Protestors Take Over Palace

I came across this story today, and although the AP doesn't do the story justice, I still felt it was worth posting. Power to the Peaceful, and remember...WE are a power governments cannot suppress. &...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 01 May 2008 11:52:00 PST

Evo Morales

Yes, Latin America is on the rise! Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and now Paraguay: South America is quickly transforming from a bunch of puppet governments controlled by the United States, into a boomi...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:10:00 PST

Beijing : We Are Ready

Check out this video: Beijing : We Are Ready ..Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:59:00 PST

Election Madness (by Howard Zinn)

Ah yes. Howard Zinn never fails in his attempts to tell it like it is. I've got to admit, even I've found myself occupied from time to time with the garbage the media throws at us and calls "news". To...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:07:00 PST

CALLING ALL HA:SAN SUPPORTERS

Hey All (faculty and friends)-I know this year hasn't been kind to any of us....(understatement). Our boys basketball team has battled adversity all season long. We've had a handfull of devoted parent...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:35:00 PST

US tells Peace Corp Volunteers to spy on Venezuelans and Cubans in Bolivia.

This is an interview conducted by Amy Goodman of "Democracy NOW!". Check it out. If this is something of interest to you (AND IT SHOULD BE), I'd highly suggest reading "Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis ...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:43:00 PST

READ THIS. IM BEGGING YOU.

Our way of Life By, Ofelia Rivas The O'odham way of life is based on the land that has held the remains of our ancestors since the creation of this world. The O'odham did not migrate from anywhere ac...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:43:00 PST

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is rarely mentioned that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed shortly after he began to craft a "Poor People's Economic Bill of Rights." Before his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King was criss-...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:32:00 PST

Hoop Dreams

Well, it's been a while since my last personal blog. I've been in copy and paste mode lately...thought I'd mix it up a little and put some of my words down. However, don't expect the usual "damn the m...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:13:00 PST