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Broadcasting from Occupied Territories, War of the Flea Media, it’s The Reality Dysfunction podcast. A space where diverse a group of brown folk from across the nation explore the political experiences and the social future of our Xicano/Latino community. #Control the Narrative. #Resist the Dysfunction.
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Sunday Dec 27, 2020
Opinons? We got'em all day. The RealityDysfunction on steriods.
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
Dysfunctionals, We're almost to the end in the true spirit of 2020 the crew is tackling all the topics from Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexican Independence and Mexicano Revolution, Indian armies, pan dulce, cultural appropriation, the Mandalorian, why we should boycott movies like Liam Neeson's The Marksmans and how California is selling stocks in water. Its a wild ride - don't miss it.
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Sunday Dec 27, 2020
Radio KDNA - The History of Xicano Radio
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
This special presentation from Mexicanos 2070 presents the history of Radio KDNA in Seattle, Washington. Here is a description of the segment and some of the people talking.
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Medical care for the incarcerated: The story of Joaquin Ramos
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Joaquin Ramos is currently incarcerated by the Michigan Department of Corrections. He is Xicano revolutionary nationalist, a former Brown Beret from Detroit, Michigan. Joaquin and I have been close friends for the past 23 years. I believe this brother is dying from lack of adequate medical care from the staff of Duane Waters Medical Correctional Facility. Please take a moment and listen to this short interview. Below are links that will take you to the MDOC website
https://www.michigan.gov/corrections/0,4551,7-119-68921-269692--,00.html
Please take a moment and call 517-335-2252 and leave a message for Marti Kay Sherry who is the administrator for the MDOC Bureau of Health Care Services which according to the MDOC website coordinates and monitors health care services for prisoners. Please be respectful but let MDOC know in no uncertain terms people are watching, concerned and willing to act.
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Part Three - The struggle for Ethnic Studies in California
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Third and final part of a conversation with leaders of the Xicano Studies/Ethnic Studies movement in California. Sean Arce, Lupe Carrasco Cardona and Elias Serna give their final opinions on the state of the movement and the necessity of gente from across the country to engage in local mobilization and national activism.
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
PartTwo - The Struggle for Ethnic Studies in California
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
This second part continues the conversation with California Xicano Studies educators Sean Arce, Lupe Carrasco Cardona and Elias Serna. In this part of the conversation the group turns toward the preservation of Xicano studies and the role it plays in educating our community for self determination.
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Part One - The Struggle for Ethnic Studies in California
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
In this segment of The Reality Dysfunction we talk with Sean Arce, Lupe Carrasco Cardona and Elias Serna. Three leaders in the struggle for Xicano Studies in California K12 schools. Arce was also a leader in the struggle for Mexican American Studies in Tucson after the state of Arizona passed HB 2281 outlawing the teaching of MAS in public schools. Please listen to the first part of this conversation as these three layout the recent history of struggle for Xicano studies and the issues surrounding the fight in Califas.
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Environmental Justice - NACCS Rene Nunez Political Action/COMPAS
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
The Reality Dysfunction presents the first in a series of collaborations between TRD and the Rene Nunez Political Action Committee of the National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies. This first discussion is a presentation moderated by Professor Karleen Pendleton Jimenez (Trent University) the national chair of NACCS. The information on environmental justice is presented by Professor Devon Pena (University of Washington) with Professors Reynaldo Macias (University of California Los Angeles), Manuel Hernandez (Arizona State Univesity) and Raoul Contreras (Indiana University Northwest) responding and discussing. This segment was originally produced by Professor Ernesto Mireles and the Youtube video can be found here.
We hope you enjoy this intellectual and provocative conversation. This exciting collaboration is part of an ongoing effort by War of the Flea Media to bring a Chicana/o/x Studies perspective to the mainstream.
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Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Xicano/Latino Representation in film - rebuilding normal is resistance.
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
The question of normalization is important in terms of how we want to see ourselves on the big screen and the little screen. That question, as several of our crew puts forward, is, do we mean normalize brownness within white society, an action, which has a multitude of implications around assimilation and the perpetuation of a colonialism or normalized within a pro-indigenous decolonial frame where Xicanos and other Latinos take creative control of the storytelling process and make stories by us for us.
According to Dan Soza here are the top ten brown shows on Netflix:
- Como Caido del Cielo
- I’m no longer here
- 1994
- Lorena -light footed woman
- Rosario Tijeras
- You’ve got this
- Si mi amor
- Los tigres del Norte at Folsom prison
- Narcos
- Mr Iglesias
You be the judge. Leave a comment and let us know what you think.
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance - Daniel Osuna
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
The Reality Dysfunction presents the classic lecture of the 1990s by Daniel Osuna the intenational secretary for the Raza Unida Party. This recording october 19, 1992 at Michigan State Univeristy. Produced by Beatrice Peters (Tsimphean/Nicola Anishinawbe) and Brian Sorbo. The video was produced at WELM Public Access Television. Music is by Antawara. The video which can be found here https://youtu.be/ucZLOzhxL5Y.
The copyright is El Partido Nacional de la Raza Undia.
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
What Do We Know About COVID-19 Infections and Death Among Latinos
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
Sunday Nov 15, 2020
Sunday Nov 15, 2020
This special segment of The Reality Dysfunction is a speech given by Cesar Chavez on 88/88/88 at Harvard University about the Delano Grape Strike as context for the second grape boycott that took place in the 1980s through the 1990s.
From the vault of Pacifica Radio.
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Xicano: an autobiography
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
This special segment of The Reality Dysfunction is a talked given by Apaxu Maiz author of Xicano: a autobiography and Aztlan: birthright or right for birth. This talk was given at Michigan State University in the winter of 1996
We apologize for the sound. A lot of work went into cleaning up the audio to bring you this important lecture on its 25th anniversary.
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Chingatumaga: Post Election Wrap Up
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
In this segment of The Reality Dysfunction the crew takes on the challenges of navigating post election fallout especially concerning the emerging narratives of the conservative "Latinos" voted for Trump when it's clear Xicanos and Puerto Ricans enmass and across the country voted against Trump. What gives? Clearly, its time to revisit the term Latino and make some decisions about who we want to be affiliated with.
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
The Ballad of Emiliano Zapata - Tucson Freedom Summer July 2012
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
This is a recording of Leif Khan aka the Desert Rat signing his original The Ballad of Emiliano Zapata at an open mic session during Tucson Freedom Summer in 2012. We hope you enjoy it.
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Cancel the Rent, Forget the Debt Organizers Speak Up
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
This segment of The Reality Dysfunction is hosted by Juan Carlos Vega. He and the crew talk with organizers Shakeara Mingo and Julian Zepeda from the Cancel the Rent DC and Forget the Debt Phoenix and the role their respective campaigns are playing in trying to bring relief to covid weary communities.
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Musica
Revolution has come - Rebel Diaz
This is for La Raza - Kid Frost
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
This special segment of The Reality Dysfunction presents Dr. Ernesto Mireles speaking at the San Antonio Palo Alto College's Hispanic Heritage Month Sept. 2020, with Dr. Lori B. Rodriguez the director of the Chicano Studies program. Their conversation centers on Dr. Mireles' book Insurgent Aztlan: the liberating power of cultural resistance.
If you haven't got your copy of Insurgent Aztlan yet, contact me directly at ernesto.mireles@prescott.edu to purchase.
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2020 Hispanic Heritage Month Event Author Talk/Plática with Ernesto Todd Mireles Insurgent Aztlán: The Liberating Power of Cultural Resistance (2020 International Latino Book Award - Nonfiction: Best Political/Current Affairs) Webinar link: https://alamo.zoom.us/s/93966667325 Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:30 – 11:30 am
Music:
Revolution has come - Rebel Diaz
This is for La Raza - Kid Frost
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
To secede or not to secede, that is the question.
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Once again The Reality Dysfunction takes on an often overlooked aspect of this election. The noise around post election violence is becoming more and more strident everyday but what does that really mean for the Xicano/Latino community. Its to the point words like civil war are being thrown around like it may be an inevitability. Recent the questions was posted by Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez if white supremacist declare a civil war and secede from the United States will POC follow their example? (you can read his article here) It's a provocative subject and one that deserves consideration within the realm of Xicano politics. Included here are jpegs of a letter that is being passed around in the Prescott, AZ., area from the leader of the local milita. Read the messages below.
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Music:
Kid Frost "This if for La Raza"
Rebel Diaz "Which side are you on"
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Xicano Institute for Teaching and Organizing
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
In this special segment of The Reality Dysfunction we are posting a recent discussion that took place with MeXicanos 2070. This discussion centered on the Xicano Insitute for Teaching and Organizing (XITO) and it's emergence from the Tucson Mexican American Studies struggle. How is XITO carrying on the legacy of the MAS struggle in the teacher training work it is doing across the country?
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Juvenile Life without Parole: Efren Paredes and the fight for his life
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction we talk to Efren Paredes Jr, who at age 15 was convicted of a murder he did not commit. He has been incarcerated for the past 31 year. He battled tirelessly to overturn the Juvenile Life Without Parole Laws in the country, which changed in 2012. After battling the Berrien County prosecutor for 10 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that youth should not be sentenced to life without parole Efren will finally be entering the court room next week on Oct. 5 for his last chance to appeal to the Berrien County court to stop pursuing a sentence of life and give him a term of years. Which would make him eligible for parole immediately after the resentencing hearing. In effect he has been held in the MDOC system without a legal sentence for 10years, on top of already having served 21 years for a crime he did not committee.
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
In this episode the dysfunctional crew talks to Jennifer Allen Aroz, League of Conservation Voter's (LCV) senior vice president of community engagement who founded Chispa in 2014.
Chispa is the community organizing/engagment arm of LCV that is staffed by Xicana/o/x and Latina/o/x organizers in barrios and cities across the country creating community based committees that are addressing environmental justices issues.
Here is a link to learn more about Chispa and the work they are doing across the country. https://www.lcv.org/chispa/