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The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#123 - Reclaiming The Past Through Alex Rivera's Sleep DealerIn this episode of The Reality Dysfunction, Dr. Ernesto Mireles is joined by Scott Russell Duncan, Colton Campbell and Alex Garcia fellow thinkers and insurgent storytellers to dive deep into Alex Rivera’s prophetic 2008 film Sleep Dealer. What begins as a conversation about drones, borders, and labor quickly becomes a powerful indictment of settler colonialism, digital commodification, and the war on memory.
We explore the film’s dystopian vision of disconnected laborers—plugged into machines across borders—as a mirror of today’s racialized gig economy. Through Xicanx Gothic, racialized horror, and speculative fiction, the panel traces how Sleep...2025-06-1856 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#122 - Adan and Pauline interview two first gen NAU professors🎙️ First Gen Podcast | Adan & Pauline sit down with Drs. Manny Preciado & Ernesto Mireles to talk academia, hustle, and what brought them to NAU. Plus, their top advice for first-gen students — and the real secret to success. Don’t miss it!
2025-03-1948 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#118 - Perspectiva ChicanaJoin Ernesto Ayala is the Vice Chair for the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida. Join him as he checks in weekly to talk about the Partido, organizing, activism and growing up in the Movement.
2024-12-0619 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#116 - First Gen: Pride with no remorseIn this episode Pauline and Adan talk about their backgrounds and the support of their families as the began their journey through higher education.
Producer: Ernesto Mireles
2024-11-2625 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#115 - First Gen Series - The election.This week Dr. Ernesto, Pauline and Adan talk about the recent election of Donald Trump and among other things his promise to end the Department of Education.
2024-11-1129 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#114 - Ren Manning and BorderLinksIn this episode Dr. Ernesto, talks with Ren Manning the co-director of BorderLinks in Tucson, AZ.
BorderLinks is a community-based organization where people collectively learn, teach, reflect, share resources, and organize for justice in the borderlands. Through popular education rooted in place and lived experience, BorderLinks and community partners inspire and ignite action to transform unjust border and (im)migration laws and conditions. We belong to movements for social transformation & collective liberation.
https://www.borderlinks.org/
2024-11-0934 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#104 - Why we need a partyShort piece from Dr. Ernesto on the need for claiming political power in a settler election year and beyond.
2024-04-2408 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#96 - Human Cicada The poetry of Carlos Cumpian
In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction I talk with Chicago based poet Carlos Cumpian who has been writing and publishing poetry from the Windy City for the last 40 years. During our conversation we talk about his latest book Human Cicada and the importance of Xicana/o/x expression.
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2022-08-0336 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#95 - Anarchist politics and the Xicana/o/x movementDr. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish discuss the Kristen Williams pamphet "Whither Anarchism" and how anarchist politics, particularly preformative politics have moved into the Xicana/o/x movement mainstream.
2022-02-2132 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#94 - El Porvenir, Ya! Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl: A Chicano Science Fiction Anthology.This segment of The Reality Dysfunction is a conversation with Somos en Escritos editors Scott Duncan and Jenny Irizary and the forthcoming book El Porvenir, Ya! Joining us in the conversation two of the authors Rosa Martha Villareal who is recently retired as an Adjunct Professor at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California, and the author of several novels including Doctor Magdalena, The Stillness of Love and Exile, and Chronicles of Air and Dreams. She writes a periodic column, Tertulian’s Corner, for Somos en escrito. Also Ernesto Hogan who is the author of High Aztech, Smoking Mirror Blues, and Cort...2022-01-1442 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#93 - MX 2070: The Chicano Media ForumThis is one exciting conversation by media professionals from around the country. A review of the most relevant stories and issues of 2021 affecting our community.
Presenters:
Elena Herrada is a Detroit community activist leader, an advocate on issues of immigration, public education, national and international human rights and Director of the Oral History project of Fronteras Norterias organization. She was a member of the Detroit Public Schools Board of Education in Michigan, representing District 2. Herrada ran for election for an at-large seat of the Detroit Public Schools Board of Education in Michigan.
...2021-12-171h 01The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#92 - Biden‘s failed bid: Immigration and the same old, same oldThe failure of immigration policy is a two party failure. How can the Xicana/o/x community stop failing along with them?
2021-10-2531 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#91 - Heroines and Heroes: Latina/o organizing during the 1980s-1990s HIV/AIDS Epidemic
In this segment of The Reality Dysfunction, Juan Carlos Vega and Alex Lozada take over the mic to talk with Memory Activist, Julián de Mayo about his incredible work documenting the AIDS crisis in the late 80s and early 90s, and specifically the work and stories of the Latina/o Caucus of ACT-UP New York. Julián explains the history of a not so inclusive movement and the efforts to record what has been mostly until now a forgotten chapter of the fight against AIDS. ACT-UP stands for AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and in order to have...2021-06-3048 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#90 - Que Viva Chuy Negrete!
This week on The Reality Dysfunction, Dr. Ernesto and the crew talk about and remember Xicano super star Jesus "Chuy" Negrete. This LEGEND of the Xicano movement returned to the ancestors this month. We wanted to take a moment and pay tribute to the man who brought our songs and history to us for over 4 decades.
CHUY NEGRETE PRESENTE!
2021-06-1441 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#89 - Life after CovidIn this episode of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto and crew talk about their vaccines, how and when will the Xicano Latino community go back to work, work expectations, what they plan on doing this summer, and how issues of pay have been impacted by the past year.
2021-06-0828 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#88 - Jose Oliva and the HEAL Food Alliance fighting for workers rightsThis segment of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto talks with Jose Oliva of the HEAL Food Alliance based in Chicago, Il. Jose came to the United States, with his parents as a young man, in the 1980s fleeing governmental oppression in his home country of Guatemala. The work he is doing alongside workers in the food industry is vital not just to fairness and equity but to environmental sustainability an often overlooked aspect of workers rights. For more information about HEAL click the link below.
https://healfoodalliance.org/
2021-05-3049 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#87 - Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida 2021: It's time for a party!In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto speaks with Chair Pro Tem of the La Raza Unida Party Ernesto Ayala and James Ortega a Raza Unida member about the weekly study group, why it is a requirement for membership, and how important it is to develop the organic intellectual side of the Xicana/o/x movement.
Click on the link below to get more information about the weekly study group.
https://form.jotform.com/202060962074045
2021-05-2343 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#86 - The Fight for Puerto Rican, Latinx, & Queer Studies
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and received his BA from Harvard (1991) and his MA and Ph.D. from Columbia (1999). He is author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (2009), Keywords for Latina/o Studies and of several books of fiction. His most recent book Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2021) is part of the Triangulations: Lesbian...2021-05-1655 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#85 -This is what we talk about when no one is listening.In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction we trashed the political, and just talked about clothes, belt buckles, health and tattoos. In case anyone was wondering this is what we say to each other before the tape starts rolling.
2021-05-0230 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#84 - Lori Lizarraga, Channel 9 in Denver and the fight for brown stories in the pitch room
This week we're back with a conversation on media, Latina reporters and how important it is to fight for responsible brown voices in our mass media.
On March 27 of this year Lizarraga published a piece about her two year's working as a reporter at Denver's Channel 9 (an NBS affiliate) . The opinion piece, which unfortunately is more likely the rule to the exception starts like this, "It was during my s...2021-04-2541 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#83 -Tales from Aztlantis - Kurly Tlapayawa and Ruben Arellano
In this segment of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto talks with Mexica internet sensation Kurly Tlapoyawa and Dr. Ruben Arellano about their new podcast Tales from Aztlantis where they talk about their own experiences within the contemporary Mexica movement, and the need to question "tradition."
They're smart, they're skeptical, they know what they are talking about, and they are down for their people. Please listen in to this very interesting conversation and definitely check out Tales from Aztlantis.
2021-04-1850 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#82 - Aztlan Report 2021
Greetings Dysfunctionals, we're back with a special episode of The Reality Dysfunction. Today we have the first every Aztlan Report, a state of the Xicana/o/x union presentation from Xicana/o/x organizations around the country. This recording was made on March 31, 2021, an originally ran live on Facebook. This presentation was sponsored by Mexicanos 2070, Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida, La Mesa Brown Berets, Union del Barrio, Centro Community Service Organization/Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Servicios de la Raza and other community organizations. This presentation brought organizations throughout Aztlan and the diaspora together to r...2021-04-111h 17The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#81- Among other things, Fuck Rush LimbaughThis episode of The Reality Dysfunction is actually the second half of the How Do We Get Power discussion. But lets face it, Francisco Lopez's logic and passion won the day. So, the second half the conversation dealt with how the crew felt about Limbaugh's death (take a wild guess) and how the white trash hate mongering industry that walking piece of shit helped create has impacted the Xicano Latino community.
2021-04-0718 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#80 - How do we get power?In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction the Dysfunctionals get jiggy with the question of how do we get power? They also get a little jiggy with each other over the issue of immigration and how Xicana/o/x's should pick the top political issues facing the Xicano Latino community. It is an interesting discussion.
2021-04-0428 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced# 79 - Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez "Who declared war on the word Xicano"This week on The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto, Alex Lozada, and Juan Carlos Vega talk with Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, the author of the seminal Xicano essay "Who Declared War on the Word Xicano" and "Our Sacred Maiz is our Mother" and "Yolqui: Testimonios of Violence"
Dr. Cintli talks about his experiences writing his last books, what drives him to write and what brown folk can do to come together for a better world.
2021-03-2848 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#78 - Dr. Javier Sanchez and why the Covid 19 vaccine is critical.Everyone here on The Reality Dysfunction podcast hopes you are being safe as the world works to bring this pandemic under control. We're getting out shots and we truly hope that when you opportunity arises you will too!
This special segment, the Dysfunctional Crew is pleased to present Dr. Javier Sánchez, who talks with us about why the Covid 19 vaccine is critical for the Xicano/Latino community. Dr. Sanchez is a family practice doctor for Southern California Kaiser Permanente and is an Associate professor at the University of California, Riverside Medical School. The crew talks with D...2021-03-2454 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#77 - What is the future of the White supremacists movement and the Latino CommunityAnd we are back!
In the episode of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto, Alex Lozada, and our guests Dr. Teofilo Reyes and Berte Reyes return to discuss the how the white supremacist movement is impacting the Latino community. Why do so many Latinos claim whiteness? Why are Latinos embracing the supremacist agenda of claiming whiteness?
Below are two links for articles the panelists discussed.
https://www.mic.com/articles/187062/with-the-rise-of-the-alt-right-latino-white-supremacy-may-not-be-a-contradiction-in-terms
https://www.latinorebels.com/2021/01/19/latinovoterrecord/
#mexicanos2070,#Latino,#Latina,#Latinx,#Chicano,#Chicana,#Chicanx,#Xicano,#Xicana,#Xicanx,#controlthenarrative',#resist...2021-03-2443 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#76 - Fallout from the Coup - what are the ramifcations for the Xicano Latino community?As the events of 2021 continue to unfold one thing is for certain. A certain segment of the Xicano Latino community is openly embracing white seperatism, white supremacy as their political ideology. As the protest ramp up around the country it is clear a group of us have bought into our own colonization to such a degree they actually believe their "rights" are threatened to such an extent they are compelled to defend the very system that has disenfranchised indigenous people from our history, culture and political self determination. Mass delusion - the foundation of any settler colonial society.
2021-01-1740 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced#75 - Siege at the US Capitol - We told you all these people is crazy!This segment of The Reality Dysfunction is a sound file of the live broadcast we did on Wednesday Feb. 6, 2021 as the US capitol was being ransacked and pillaged by bunch of American "patriots".
As always, The Dysfunctionals do the best they can to keep the focus on the Xicano/Latino community and what these unfolding events mean for us.
#controlthenarrative
#resistthedysfunction
2021-01-1349 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced2020 Sucked!In this final segment of The Reality Dysfunction the crew talks about their year, what they hope for the next year and how much we appreciate all of you being a part of this with us. We can't wait to do it again in the 2021.
Para La Gente!
#controlthenarrative
#resistthedysfunction
2020-12-3123 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedSELENA ROCKS!Dysfunctionals! Forget the hater hype blasting the latest show about the iconic Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla, you heard it here first. Selena ROCKS!
2020-12-2857 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedOpinons? We got'em all day. The RealityDysfunction on steriods.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.
#controlthenarrative
#resist the dysfunction
2020-12-2842 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedRadio KDNA - The History of Xicano RadioThis 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.
KDNA, also known as Radio Cadena, La Voz del Campesino, has served The Yakima Valley in western Washington for 40 years, facilitating not only information and entertainment but community development as well. For the last four decades KDNA has created specialized programs for the Chicano audience and motivated community organizations and campaigns related to the AIDS and COVID pandemics, the census and electoral politics. Its program, MIGRA WATCH, inspired United Farmworkers Union c...2020-12-281h 04The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedMedical care for the incarcerated: The story of Joaquin RamosJoaquin 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 l...2020-12-2019 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedPart Three - The struggle for Ethnic Studies in CaliforniaThird 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.
2020-12-1317 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedPartTwo - The Struggle for Ethnic Studies in CaliforniaThis 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.
2020-12-0625 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedPart One - The Struggle for Ethnic Studies in CaliforniaIn 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.
2020-12-0332 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedEnvironmental Justice - NACCS Rene Nunez Political Action/COMPASThe 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 f...2020-11-291h 05The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedXicano/Latino Representation in film - rebuilding normal is resistance.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 N...2020-11-2553 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced500 Years of Indigenous Resistance - Daniel OsunaThe 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.
2020-11-221h 01The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedWhat Do We Know About COVID-19 Infections and Death Among LatinosThe Reality Dysfunction is pleased to invite you to listen to a special presentation by Dr. Rogelio Saenz, a professor of demography at UT San Antonio, who has done remarkable work reporting on data that reveals the inordinate impact on Mexican Americans from the coronavirus pandemic.
"More than 100,000 Americans have officially died of coronavirus complications. Researchers believe that number could be higher. AMP Research Labs show that the numbers of COVID-19-related fatalities among Black Americans is 2.4 times higher than that of white Americans. The same research shows the number of Latino fatalities is slightly greater than that of whites...2020-11-2256 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedTRD Perserving History: Cesar Chavez - The Delano Grape Strike (Pacifica Radio)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.
2020-11-1530 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedXicano: an autobiographyThis 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.
2020-11-081h 54The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedChingatumaga: Post Election Wrap UpIn 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.
2020-11-0649 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedThe Ballad of Emiliano Zapata - Tucson Freedom Summer July 2012This 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.
2020-11-0405 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedCancel the Rent, Forget the Debt Organizers Speak UpThis 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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Revolution has come - Rebel Diaz
This is for La Raza - Kid Frost
2020-11-0247 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedErnesto Mireles presents at Palo Alto College in San Antonio - Hispanice Heritage Month.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 Tal...2020-11-011h 03The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedTo secede or not to secede, that is the question.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...2020-10-281h 05The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedXicano Institute for Teaching and OrganizingIn 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?
2020-10-1250 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedJuvenile Life without Parole: Efren Paredes and the fight for his lifeIn 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 sto...2020-10-0154 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedJennifer Allen Aroz: CHISPA and how Xicano/Latino communities are joining the fight for environmental justice.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/
2020-10-0143 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedDr. Yomaira Figueroa on Afro Latino Identity and Radical Community Archiving - Part 2In this second part the Dysfunctionals finish their conversation with Michigan State University professor Dr. Yomaira Figueroa. This converstation got so interesting it went long and we had to break it into two parts. Listen to the first part here. Below is a link to Dr. Figueroa's website.
And as always mad respect to The Fugees.
http://www.yomairafigueroa.com/
Guantanamera by The Fugees
2020-09-2039 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedDr. Yomaira Figueroa on Afro Latino Identity and Radical Community Archiving - Part 1This week the Dysfunctionals talk with Michigan State University professor Dr. Yomaira Figueroa. This converstation got so interesting it went long and we had to break it into two parts. Listen to the first part here. Below is a link to Dr. Figueroa's website.
And as always mad respect to The Fugees.
http://www.yomairafigueroa.com/
Guantanamera by The Fugees
2020-09-2041 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedTurning out the BIPOC vote in battleground statesIn this episode of The Reality Dysfunction, the dysfunctionals talk with Pete Vargas the Resturant Organizing Center Michigan director who is raising money and moblizing Black and Brown organizers to help defeat Donald Trump in the fall.
2020-09-131h 02The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedDr. Carlos Aleman - Building Political Power and Networks in the Deep SouthThis week on The Reality Dysfunction the dysfunctionals are talking with Dr. Carlos Aleman the deputy director of Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama a non-profit organization, created in 1999, which aims to improve the quality of life for Latinos living in Alabama. In addition to these duties Dr. Aleman recently ran for Homewood, Al., city council and won with a resounding 58% of the vote. It is important to note that Homewood is 80 percent white. A truly impressive win.
2020-09-0357 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedRNC - The Cucuy is gonna get ya!The week the Dysfunctionals take on the Republican National Convention and it ain't pretty.
2020-08-2748 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedHow we see - the DNC.This week the dysfunctionals take on the Democratic National Convention and it's underwhelming Xicano/Latino presence. It's a free ranging conversation but important as we come to grips with our political presence in this country.
2020-08-2557 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced“Developing our Bench” field notes from a winning electoral campaign.In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction, our dysfunctional gang talks with three term state of Michigan House representative Vanessa Guerra. Representative Guerra, (D-95th district) won the August 4, primary against four time incumbent Saginaw County Clerk Michael Hanley. Guerra won by a landslide 6000 votes in largely rural county in which Mexicans make up eight percent of the population. The gang has many questions for Guerra and she has lots of advice for young people (and old) about running for office and how and when to get involved.
In addition to Rep. Guerra our usual dysfunctional crew...2020-08-171h 01The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedSports Mascots part 2 -Greetings Dysfunctionals in the second part of our conversation on sports mascots the crew is speaking with Karen Schaumann-Beltran, Maria Zavala Paredes, and Monica Washington Padula the leader of a successful 6-year campaign in Paw Paw, Michigan, to rid the local high school of their racist Redskin’s mascot. Their stories are gripping and will give all of us real insight into how a successful anti mascot campaign is conducted and the personal price the people organizing the campaign pay.
The cast of dysfunctional regulars appears, Alexandra Lozada, Daniel Soza, Francisco Lopez, Rainer Delgado, Juan Car...2020-08-021h 05The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedSports Mascots Part1In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction the crew takes on the issue of sports mascots and the deeply ingrained anti-indigenous nature of so called "respect" in the naming of sports teams.
2020-07-2745 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedThe 1930s Repatriado: The Mass Deportation of People of Mexican Ancestry
This episode of The Reality Dysfunction is a special presentation of Mexicanos 2070. The description for the talk is below.
Mexicanos2070 will host Elena Herrada, a Detroit activist to talk about the issue of the repatriation of Mexicans after the Great Depression.
The U.S. used the Mexican community as a convenient scapegoat from the economic devastation of the Depression. No other immigrant groups were being targeted for repatriation. By enacting laws depriving Mexicans of employment, mandating restrictive immigration policies and supporting deportation at the federal, state and local level, Americans became reassured in their endeavors of a more open job market...2020-07-271h 01The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedNational Level Politics - Getting past ourselves to create political power.In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction we talk about national politics and how we can get past our own egos, drop the fingerwagging (name shaming), identity boxes and what it will take to build a politcal persona in the Xicano/Latino community across the country.
2020-07-1356 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedWhy can't 50 million "Latinos" force an immigration amnesty?In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction your panel discusses immigration, someof the recent successes and the importance of getting involved and a little bit on why we cant get this amnesty done.
2020-07-0149 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedSpace + Time = Will: Insurgent Aztlan and National LiberationDr. Ernesto Todd Mireles (host of The Reality Dysfunction) discusses his recently published book Insurgent Aztlan: The liberating power of cultural resistance. Dr. Mireles currently works at Prescott College as faculty in the Social Justice Community Organizing Master’s program. He is closing in on three decades as an organizer.
As Xicanos navigate the first two decades of the 21st century, the Xicano Movement has arrived at a critical crossroads in terms of national identification. The process of indigenization that began in the 1990s is reaching a critical moment in the political development of the Xicanada. As a national community we...2020-06-2254 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedDo Mexicans Hate Black People?In this freewheeling episode of The Reality Dysfunction, the dysfunctionals discuss the subject of Brown on Black prejudice.
2020-06-2046 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedAbolish the Police!Abolish the police has been the battle cry across the country for the past couple of weeks. This abolitionist movement is not new and has been working for decades to achieve this goal. This week, our gang of dysfunctionals talks about their own hopes around abolishing the police.
We are joined again by Dr. Cirien Saadeh of Minneapolis who is talking about some of the push back by the non profit sector to stop the total disbanding of the police.
2020-06-1450 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedRioters, Looters? How about Freedom Fighters? Black Lives Matter!Today we are talking about the recent rebellions taking place across this country as reactions to the deaths of Geroge Floyd, Breona Taylor and Auhmad Arbery. Black men and women visciously murdered by the police all within the past month.
Our dysfunctional crew of experts takes on the topic and how it applies to the Xicano/Latino community and what we need to be doing in our own communities to support and validate Black lives while preparing politically to end the mass incarceration of children on the border, men and women in prison, and the disregard the c...2020-06-0546 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedOn the ground in MinneapolisThis episode of The Reality Dysfunction has us talking to Dr. Cirien Saadeh and Cruz Rodriguez, both of them are organizer/activists in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This conversation was recorded on Friday May 28, the day after the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct building was torched by protesters demanding justice on behalf of the murdered George Floyd.
Floyd was choked to death by Derek Chauvin a Minneapolis police officer with a history of violent behavior toward people of color. In the last few days spontaneous uprisings have occurred in cities across the United States all demanding justice and an end t...2020-05-3155 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedThe Raza Unida Party: It's history and what the 21st century holds in terms of political powerThis special episode of The Reality Dysfunction was recorded April 23, 2020, in a Zoom/Facebook live webinar hosted by Mexicanos 2070 an organization I have been working with for close to a year now.
In this presentation the moderator is myself Dr. Ernesto and the panelists are all current members of the Raza Unida Party located in the Pacoima/San Fernando area. Our speakers are Ernesto Ayala, Jenaro Ayala, Estela Ayala, and Amado Guzman. This is a dynamic conversation about the current state of Xicano/a politics and the necessity of building organization in our communities.
2020-05-2554 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedGentrificationIn the episode of The Reality Dysfunction: X/L Edition our panel of dysfunctional experts on the Xicano Lation community take on the issues of gentrification. As the children of white flighters find their way back into the inner city Xicanos/Latinos find themselves faced once again with physical, emotional and economic displacement from neighborhoods that have generational significance.
Perhaps a part of the solution to gentrification can be found in the development of political, economic and educational strucutures that push the Xicano/Latino community beyond our colonized relationship with the United States.
Find us o...2020-05-2346 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedA conversation with the Brown BeretsThis special episode of The Reality Dysfunction is a recording made May 14, 2020 in a Zoom/Facebook live webinar hosted by Mexicanos 2070 an organization I have been working with for close to a year now.
The moderators on behalf of Mexicanos 2070 are Daniel Osuna and Ernesto Ayala. The three Brown Berets present are Connie Gonzalez of San Bernardino, Sergio Lujan of El Paso, Tx, and Argelio Grion of Northern Califas. They are speaking on behalf of their own chapters and La Mesa a national organizing structure for Brown Beret chapters all over the country.
This is a...2020-05-1854 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedWe ain't fake newsIn this episode of The Reality Dysfunction: X/L edition the crew takes on where we get our news and how important it is to maintain those open lines of communications in our respective communities. One way to combat misinformation is to double check your facts. Social media gives a whole new perspective on the practice of chisme so we have to ask ourselves, how can we use the advances of modern technology to push a social, political and economic agenda forward for our community? We talk about this and more.
2020-05-1551 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedJustice for All Tucson Style - making sure immigrants are legally representedIn this episode of The Reality Dysfunction we have the very real pleasure of talking with Margo Cowan, Lupe Castillo and Gage Stewart. Margo and Lupe are organizers of many decades who have taken on the US immigration system over and over with surprising success. Their secret is building community power through community mobilization. We talked about their ongoing campaign - Justice for All - which takes as one of its central tenets that the right to legal counsel should not depend on charity. It is a brilliant campaign that Castillo and Cowan are heading up through their grassroots “fi...2020-05-0456 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedCan Obama sway Xicano/Latinos for Biden?This episode of The Reality Dysfunction is a wide ranging conversation on the relationship between the Xicano/Latino community and Biden, Obama and Trump. The question is are we even a consideration anymore in this presidential contest? Or, even more importantly, have we ever been a consideration to any party for any presidential election? In one corner we have the incumbent republicans and in the other is the challenging democrats. Are Latinos once again standing in limbo having to choose between the lesser of two evils?
Come listen to our expert panel of Rainer Delgado, Alexandra Lozada, Fra...2020-04-3040 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedDr. Jerry Garcia - Preserving Xicano History in the Pacific NorthwestThis episode we are talking with Dr. Jerry Garcia vice president of Education Services, Sea Mar Museum, and Sea Mar Housing is talking with us about his passion for Xicano history, his work creating a Xicano history museum in the Pacific Northwest and how happy he is to be back in his home state of Washington.
2020-04-2845 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedXicanos and Latinos are the Essential WorkersToday our panel of experts on the Xicano/Latino community who will be hashing it up about the role of essential workers and how these men and women, a vast majority of them Xicano/Latino, have gone in the short span of two months from being ignored, and considered unskilled low paid disposable labor to essential.
In the crucible of the covid 19 crisis the very definition of essential and non essential is being debated, and discussed as wage lines are being redrawn. What this means for the future also becomes important as there is little evidence of...2020-04-2346 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedOn the Front line: managing community center response to pandemicsIn this episode of The Reality Dysfunction I am talking with Daniel Soza III, a dear comrade from my MEXA/Brown Beret days who now lives in his hometown of Saginaw, MI., where he runs a community center that is still open and provides essential services to the people in the neighborhood surrounding the center.
Danny comes from a long line of Midwest Xicano activists, his father Daniel Soza II was a long time city councilman in Saginaw and member of the Brown Berets in Saginaw during the 1960s. In the 1990s when me and Danny were a...2020-04-2035 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedXicanx sheroes and heroes building the resistance narrativeOne of the main topics that constantly come up in discussion like the one we are having is how our community has very little sense of history. We are very clear about the historical myths that found the United States. These myths are taught to us from the moment we walk into school as babies (literally) and are then relentlessly pounded into our heads for the next 12 years. For many of us our first contact with Xicano/Mexicano/Indigenous history of any kind does not happen until we get to college. Therein lies the rub – most of us never ma...2020-04-1639 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedEscaping Rikers Island in the time of Covid19On April 4, 2020 Jose Diaz a masters student in NYU’s social and cultural analysis program and student services coordinator for the NYU prison education program was released from Rikers Island after being put there on a technicality. It was through an epic effort lead by the director of NYU’s prison education program Dr. Kaitlin Noss worked to bring together a number of organizations who joined in the effort to get Jose Diaz released.
Jose was incarcerated at Rikers on the same day NYC’s Mayor De Blasio publicly stated there would be no more people sent to Rike...2020-04-1353 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedBad Ass Latinas on The Reality DysfunctionBad Ass Latinas are in full effect on The Reality Dysfunction in this episode. We are talking to NYC education activists Lilah Mejia, Naomi Pena and Los Angeles area teacher activist Consuelo Frausto, about the complexities of navigating the public education system as women of color and outspoken advocates for their children and children in general. These women are destroying through their organizing and advocacy work the long held stereotypes of the submissive, compliant Latina. Although as many of us already know that stereotype is one dramatically out of touch within the reality of the Latinidad.
Follow The...2020-04-0952 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedMarc Pinate: Creative Place Making and Xicano TheatreGreetings Dysfunctionals, we're back again with another episode of The Reality Dysfunction. This time I am talking with a dear friend Marc Pinate. Marc is the director of the Borderlands Theatre Company in Tucson, AZ. I met Marc years ago when he was touring with his band Grito Serpentino. He is, and has been a Xicano rock star, guerilla theatre actor, and national slam poet champion. He is a father and husband. Currently, Marc is creating large-scale “creative place” projects in Tucson and Nogales. He talks about place making what it means in the Xicano context and his current book...2020-04-071h 00The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedXicano/Latino representation: Reclaiming our narrativeAnother episode of The Reality Dysfunction’s CoronaVirus WTF! Series. Join our cast of experts as we discuss Xicano Latino image and representation in education, media and literature. The recent American Dirt kerfuffle is just one recent example of how we as a community continue to be defined by the ideologies of settler colonialism and proxy narratives. A conversation about what we might be able to do as a community to take back our image and power.
2020-03-2544 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedBiden and Bernie : what's the deal for the Xicano/Latino community?Biden or Bernie? What does our panel of Xicano/Latino experts say on the matter? Only one way to find out! Listen now!
2020-03-2430 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedCoronaVirus WTFFirst in a series of conversations bringing different voices from the Latino community around the in to talk about daily life in a pandemic. Our goal is to publish daily.
2020-03-2132 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedMayfield Brooks - Performance ArtistThis is an older recording from last fall. I just forgot about it and am now posting. Excellent conversation about performance art, understanding the body and some about afro pessimism.
2020-03-2147 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedThe Rhetoric of Hate - Conversation with Berte Reyes on hate rhetoric and the gaming industryIn this episode of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish speak with Berte Reyes a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona in the Rhetoric, Composition and teaching of English program. In this episode we will talk about the nature of hate and how video games are being used as a recruiting tool by the far right.
2019-11-3056 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedMilta Ortiz - Salvadoran playwright bridging indigenous realities for the 21st century.Milta Ortiz is smart, passionate about her community and showcases her commitment through the arts. Ortiz is a bilingual, bi cultural playwright, poet, and performer born in El Salvador. She moved to the United States at the age of eight and was raised in Northern California. She currently a director of the Borderlands Theater Company in Tucson, AZ., where she lives with her family.
I had some trouble with the recording so the first couple of sentences are a little garbled but its fine after that.
Here is the Wikipedia page for Milta.
Pleas...2019-10-0145 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedOscar Medina - Raza educator bringing indigenous perspectives to the classroom.In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto Mireles and Oscar Medina a recent Ph.D. student in Sustainable Education and a high school teacher in Tucson, AZ., talk about their own educational journey and how bringing Indigenous epistemologies to Raza students is helping to heal the inter-generational trauma of settler colonialism.
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2019-09-1227 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedThe El Paso Shootings - A Xicanx response to anti-Mexican violence and the need to build political organizationIn this episode of The Reality Dysfunction our panel of Xicanx experts will be discussing the 2019 mass shootings in El Paso, Tx., and possible responses that could be pursued by the Xicanada.
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2019-09-0957 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedDr. Anita Fernandez - Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing and the fight for culturally sustaining curriculum.Dr. Anita Fernandez is the director of the Prescott College Tucson Center, located on the campus of Changemaker High School. Dr. Fernandez has been critical here in the state of Arizona in defending Mexican American Studies in the public schools and has helped to found the Xicanx Insitute for Teaching and Organizing (XITO) a professional development institute for teachers that is working with school districts across the country.
In this conversation we cove a wide range of topics about the attacks on ethnic studies in the past 10 years, the victories not only in Tucson but across the c...2019-09-0830 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedNick Panlibuton - Working into theory, bridging the gap between grad school and the union movementNick Panlibuton is a Social Justice Community Organizing masters student here at Prescott College originally from the Washington D.C. area. In this episode Nick talks with Prof. Ernesto Mireles about his experiences working for the Painters International union this summer as an apprentice. How that experience expanded his ideas about social justice and brought home the necessity of theory in labor struggles. Nick is starting his first semester as a SJCO student and is currently involved in local immigration campaigns, and working with harm reduction organizations in the state of Arizona. Nick is Filipino, with a rich family hi...2019-08-1431 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedAdriana Abundis - Bringing cultural relevant curriculum to Xicanx students through Math and Murals in San AntonioAdriana Abundis is a rising star in the Xicanx educational world. Working as a teacher in San Antonio, Tx., for the past eight year Abundis has immersed herself in the life and culture of that city. She is an emerging muralist who is creating visual resistance and opportunities for her students to immerse themselves in the history and cultury of their Xicanx community. She has led and created 3 inspirational murals on the West Side of San Antonio that stretch over 3,000 square feet and continues to create artistic symbols of indigeneity, identity and pride with her art network: Arte de L...2019-07-2542 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedErnesto Vigil - Uncovering the FBI's war on Xicano/Indigenous movements through FOIAIn the episode of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish speak with famed organizer/author Ernesto Vigil of Denver, Colorado. Vigil was a leader in the Denver based Crusade for Justice and worked closely with Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez during the heyday of the organization. In his early 20's Vigil was the first Xicano draft resister in the Southwest and has spent the last 51 years pursuing justice for Xicanos in the United States. In this episode Ernesto Vigil will be talking about his forthcoming book titled Decades of Deception: the American Indian Movement, the FBI and the de...2019-07-211h 06The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedBuilding Mass Xicano Movements: Challenges and MisconceptionsIn this episode of The Reality Dysfunction Prof. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish talk with historian Dr. Nora Salas and Daniel Osuna creator of the presentation 1492: Invasion or Discovery, 500 years of Indigenous Resistance. (https://youtu.be/qOgaK1UEJns)
This wide ranging conversation begins with the recent MEXA situation and goes through the necessity of building mass movements, the role of social media in building mass movements and the lack of leadership in the currenty Xicano movement.
We apologize for the sound on Brother Osuna's comments. We did the best we could and will work to...2019-05-0948 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedKurly Tlapoyawa: Mexikayotl and the war on the word XicanoIn this episode we speak with Kurly Tlapoyawa. Author and activist for Mexikayotl and the Xicano movement. Kurly is a founder of the Mexica Eagle Society and author of three books: We will Rise, Slipper Earth and Totacho: Our Way of Speaking. Kurly is a professional stuntman with an impressive list of movie and television appearances, directed his own horror movie and recently graduated the University of New Mexico with a degree in Anthropology. Among other sites Kurly maintains Mexika.org, which is a destination site for us with excellent information.
During this free ranging conversation we tal...2019-05-061h 02The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedSpace + Time = Will : The Politico-Cultural Theories of Mao Tse TungIn this episode of The Reality Dysfunction, Prof. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish discuss the applications of Mao's theory of protracted warfare to North American Indigenous struggles. They do this through the frame of the essay by Edward Lawrence Katzenbach, who worked at the Pentagon as deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for education and manpower resources during the Kennedy administration. His brother Nicholas deBelleville "Nick" Katzenbach (January 17, 1922 – May 8, 2012) was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.
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2019-05-0548 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced'Left/Right - on the significance of a political distinction' Chapters 7 & 8The last discussion on the master work Left/Right: On the Significance of a Political Distinction. In this episode we go after it, Freedom and Authoritarianism and the Book end chapter Polestar.
In this special episode, we go after the most nefarious enemy, THE CENTRIST...
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2019-05-0455 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/UnsilencedReality Dysfunction in Conversation with Maddox Wolfe Campaigns Manager with the Audubon SocietyA special episode! Alex Yanish and Dr. Ernesto Mireles sit down to talk with Maddox Wolfe about their organizing with the National Audubon Society, their theories of power and change, electoralism, and even a little about RED EMMA.
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2019-04-0909 minThe Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced'Left/Right - on the significance of a political distinction' Chapters 5 & 6Third of a four part discussion by Prof. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish on the book by Norberto Bobbio which investigates the importance of the Left/Right political distinction in contemporary politics.
In this episode the Reality Dysfunction works through Chapter 5, Other Criteria and Chapter 6, Equality and Inequality. Why is the distinction so confusing? Does the Right or Left have the monopoly on Equality or is it about how one defines what inequality really means? The conversation continues...
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