Monday, April 27, 2009
L'International Marathon
May Day is Friday! If you didn't know about the Internationale the metal version below didn't make sense. So here's some different versions!
Friday, April 24, 2009
4/24/09
Working out has been helping. Time off is the next goal.
Here is one of many good songs that make me feel like getting ready for May Day...
Here is one of many good songs that make me feel like getting ready for May Day...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
4/22/09
Worked out yesterday. That's been good to get back on a twice a week schedule. Walking afterward is tough, but seems to help!
I decided to apply for a Masters in Public Health! We'll see how that goes...
Oh yeah! And happy Mother Earth Day!!!
I decided to apply for a Masters in Public Health! We'll see how that goes...
Oh yeah! And happy Mother Earth Day!!!
Labels: Chicano Chingon
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
April 21, 09 Fun Chinese music!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Fast Food Sadness?
There seems to be a link between fast food and lack of happiness. Go figure!
Labels: Hell In Handbasket
Friday, April 17, 2009
Friday, April 17
Well, I got to workout this week. I'm going to try again tonight. Then I have lots to get ready for. Things seem really crazy!
Will have to figure out making the best of it.
May Day is coming soon! An interesting link http://www.maydayusa.org/
Keep Lefting!!!
Will have to figure out making the best of it.
May Day is coming soon! An interesting link http://www.maydayusa.org/
Keep Lefting!!!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Mas Tea Bags
According to the news "thousands" of people turned out to tea bag yesterday. According to an eye witness account there wasn't more people than during the Peace demonstrations that the news reported as "hundreds."
That they led with crime stories, then the tea baggers, THEN something on NM being recognized for eliminating the death penalty internationally seems like a slant to me. What do you think?
That they led with crime stories, then the tea baggers, THEN something on NM being recognized for eliminating the death penalty internationally seems like a slant to me. What do you think?
Labels: Hell In Handbasket
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Split in Tea Bag Movement
I was very saddened by the lack of depth that News 4 did on covering the Tea Bagging event in Albuquerque, I thought I would post something a little more in depth.
Labels: Hell In Handbasket
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Me Sacaon de Tenampa
If you know the original you can tell where this is spiced up! Very Chingon!
Labels: Chicano Chingon, Musica y Musicos
Monday, April 13, 2009
Rasmussen Polls
Here is some interesting information. Major Party differences are actually decreasing!
And the number of people with some agreement about socialism is rising.
And the number of people with some agreement about socialism is rising.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Juanito's 19th
Today is my son's birthday. I hope he had a good day. We did some stuff together. Tomorrow is a BBQ if the weather holds out!
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Social Democracy 4/8/09
Surely not in America. Well, Bill Moyers had an interesting conversation on it a couple of weeks back and here is a response - I Love Bill Moyers, but He's Wrong About Socialism.
The author's conclusion.
The left needs to help build grassroots movements and a political party that will confront the rule of corporations and Wall Street--something the Democratic Party cannot do no matter how much we push Obama to the left, given the place of finance and the corporations in the party. We need such movements, and an independent party that represents them, not only to wrest concessions and victories today but also so that people can learn how to truly govern themselves tomorrow. And along with activism, we need at least multiple sketches, if not a single blueprint, of a workable socialist future. If we are not inspired and guided by the vision of a socialist alternative, in the end the corrupt financial and political elites that have brought us to this point will continue to run the show.
And from a blog - Global Labor's Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression.
In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It’s a little-known historical might-have-been that could have helped halt the Great Depression, the rise of Adolph Hitler, and the Second World War. And, as the efforts of world leaders to address today’s “Great Recession” threaten to break down in nationalist rivalry and petty political bickering, it bears lessons – and perhaps an alternative vision – for today.
Workers and organized labor have historically advocated government public works as a solution to unemployment. Not only would they provide jobs and income for those directly employed, but they would raise overall purchasing power, thereby creating demand for the products of other workers and creating a virtuous circle of economic growth. In the context of swelling unemployment in the early Depression, discussion of national public works programs developed in many countries.
The author's conclusion.
The left needs to help build grassroots movements and a political party that will confront the rule of corporations and Wall Street--something the Democratic Party cannot do no matter how much we push Obama to the left, given the place of finance and the corporations in the party. We need such movements, and an independent party that represents them, not only to wrest concessions and victories today but also so that people can learn how to truly govern themselves tomorrow. And along with activism, we need at least multiple sketches, if not a single blueprint, of a workable socialist future. If we are not inspired and guided by the vision of a socialist alternative, in the end the corrupt financial and political elites that have brought us to this point will continue to run the show.
And from a blog - Global Labor's Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression.
In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It’s a little-known historical might-have-been that could have helped halt the Great Depression, the rise of Adolph Hitler, and the Second World War. And, as the efforts of world leaders to address today’s “Great Recession” threaten to break down in nationalist rivalry and petty political bickering, it bears lessons – and perhaps an alternative vision – for today.
Workers and organized labor have historically advocated government public works as a solution to unemployment. Not only would they provide jobs and income for those directly employed, but they would raise overall purchasing power, thereby creating demand for the products of other workers and creating a virtuous circle of economic growth. In the context of swelling unemployment in the early Depression, discussion of national public works programs developed in many countries.
Labels: Hell In Handbasket
Monday, April 06, 2009
04/06/09
Thanks for the recent comments! Those always provide more energy.
I'd like to play like this guy below, but realized that I am happy being a casual player. So I told my musical colleagues - the ones I work with - about taking a break until May 12, and from there not doing tons of rehearsals. We'll see how it goes.
I'd like to play like this guy below, but realized that I am happy being a casual player. So I told my musical colleagues - the ones I work with - about taking a break until May 12, and from there not doing tons of rehearsals. We'll see how it goes.
Bernie Sanders on Bailouts
Friday, April 03, 2009
Quote on Love
Love withers under constraint; its very essence is liberty. It is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy nor fear. It is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited when its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve.
- Percy Byshe Shelley
- Percy Byshe Shelley
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
G20 Protests
Big Mistake!
Glad this didn't happen to my family. But UCSD really goofed!
And thank to Smacking and Machi for their comments!
And thank to Smacking and Machi for their comments!
Prayer Vigil
PRAYER VIGIL AND SPEAK OUT!
SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 7:00-9:00pm
Robinson Park (at downtown round-about)
Join us in circle and community to continue to celebrate the life of Amber A. Archibeque to acknowledge the circumstances that brought her precious life and the lives of so many women, to an abrupt end. We also celebrate the lives of Victoria Chavez, Michelle Valdez and her unborn baby, Cinnamon Elks, and Julie Nieto who were found on the Sacred Site/West Mesa Grave Site and the many other Women who are missing in Albuquerque.
We stand together to oppose the silence of violence against women, silence of sexual abuse, and the silence of addiction that feeds our pain and tears at our communities.
We come together in circle and community to restore hope, to amplify the voices of women, our struggles, and heal the current systems that perpetuate the cycles of poverty, addiction, sexual abuse, and violence in hope and action toward a better world for our children, families and communities.
Their loss is a perpetuation of the inattention and continued violence against women that WILL NOT GO UNVOICED!
For more info call: Family @ 249-6309. Young Women United @ 831-8930 . Kalpulli Izkalli @ 452-9208
SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 7:00-9:00pm
Robinson Park (at downtown round-about)
Join us in circle and community to continue to celebrate the life of Amber A. Archibeque to acknowledge the circumstances that brought her precious life and the lives of so many women, to an abrupt end. We also celebrate the lives of Victoria Chavez, Michelle Valdez and her unborn baby, Cinnamon Elks, and Julie Nieto who were found on the Sacred Site/West Mesa Grave Site and the many other Women who are missing in Albuquerque.
We stand together to oppose the silence of violence against women, silence of sexual abuse, and the silence of addiction that feeds our pain and tears at our communities.
We come together in circle and community to restore hope, to amplify the voices of women, our struggles, and heal the current systems that perpetuate the cycles of poverty, addiction, sexual abuse, and violence in hope and action toward a better world for our children, families and communities.
Their loss is a perpetuation of the inattention and continued violence against women that WILL NOT GO UNVOICED!
For more info call: Family @ 249-6309. Young Women United @ 831-8930 . Kalpulli Izkalli @ 452-9208
