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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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3 days ago
#101 - Existence is not resistance
3 days ago
3 days ago
This short episode I talk about the idea of existence as resistance within a settler colonial political world. This one is a little different. It's just me.
3 days ago
Xicano plebiscite video
3 days ago
3 days ago
Short informational video explaining aspects of the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida and the national plebiscite the party is organizing.
3 days ago
#100 - Mark Anthony Torres
3 days ago
3 days ago
In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction we talk with Mark Anthony Torres a 3 decade Chicano Michigan activist about his new book, his clothing line and his run for congress.
4 days ago
How a Chicano Plebiscite is Different?
4 days ago
4 days ago
This short informational video talks about how voting in a Chicano Plebiscite is fundamentally different from voting in main stream electoral politics.
7 days ago
Vanessa Bustamante
7 days ago
7 days ago
A clip from a recent interview with Dra. Vanessa Bustamante, chair of the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida.
This interview was recorded at Northern Arizona University 4/2/24.
7 days ago
Xicano/Latino National Plebiscite 1
7 days ago
7 days ago
Short informational video on the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida's national Xicano/Latino Plebiscite campaign.
7 days ago
National Xicano/Latino Plebiscite 2
7 days ago
7 days ago
Informational video explaining the national Xicano/Latino Plebiscite effort being organized by the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida.
Friday Apr 12, 2024
We are the Backbone
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Video on the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida and it's national plebiscite campaign.
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
#99 - Dr. Vanessa Bustamante
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction we talk with Dr. Vanessa Bustamante the Vice Chair of El Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida about her life and activism on behalf of the Xicana/o/x community. About growing up a first generation Xicana in Southern Califas, the educational struggles on her way to a Ph.D., and why she is proud to call herself a chola.
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
#98 - Veronica Garcia
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction we talk with Veronica Garcia the Texas state director for the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida. We talk about plans for Raza Unida to expand across the country and in the great state of Texas.
Monday Feb 20, 2023
#97 - Enrique Cardiel
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
In this episode of The Reality Dysfuncton we interview Enrique Cardiel a long time Raza Unida Party activist and community organizer in Alburquerque, NM., he recently ran for a state rep position in that state. We talk about his campaign, and the state of Xicana/o/x politics in the United States.
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
#96 - Human Cicada The poetry of Carlos Cumpian
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
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.
Monday Feb 21, 2022
#95 - Anarchist politics and the Xicana/o/x movement
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Dr. 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.
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
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 Cortez on Jupiter. Those novels, along with his short fiction have won him the reputation of being the Father of Chicano Science Fiction. His mother’s maiden name is Garcia, he was born in East L.A. His work has appeared in Amazing Stories, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and other magazines and anthologies.
Established and upcoming Mexican American writers of Science-Fiction and Fantasy come together in one place to offer visions of raza futures and indigenous otherworlds. Included works by Martin Hill Ortiz, Carmen Baca, Frank Lechuga, Lizz Huerta, Kathleen Alcalá, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, Pedro Iniguez, Rosa Martha Villarreal, R. Ch. Garcia, Nicholas Belardes, Ricardo Tavarez, Ernest Hogan, Michelle Robles Wallace, Scott Russell Duncan, Rios de La Luz, and Mario Acevedo.
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
#93 - MX 2070: The Chicano Media Forum
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
This 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.
Dr. Jose Flores is cofounder of the Hispanic Center for Western Michigan, the Hispanic Festival, The Community Voice/La Voz Magazine, and La Familia Grocery/Convenience Store.His community activism helped bring needed interpreters to the emergency services units in police/fire/medical care units of Grand Rapids, and he was a chief advocate for providing court interpreters for persons unable to fully understand English. As a community advocate, he led efforts to improve U.S. Decennial Census counts, engage youth in summer employment opportuni ties, and worked on committees to reduce drop-out rates among minority youth.
Maria Emilia Martin is an award-winning independent multi-media journalist who currently directs the GraciasVida Center for Media, a nonprofit organization based in Austin, TX and La Antigua, Guatemala devoted to the practice of independent journalism in the public interest (www.graciasvida.org). She is an award-winning public radio journalist for over three decades, Martin developed ground breaking programs and series for public radio, including NPR's Latino USA, and Despues de las Guerras: Central America After the Wars and reports regularly for NPR and other media outlets.
Miguel Barrientos is the General Manager of El Concilio Hispano Media Group, a Latino Media Agency in Southern Nevada through which he produces a daily Latino Talk Radio and News program, Publisher of Nevada Hispanic Magazine and prepare to produce News and Community programs on local Latino TV and social media from Las Vegas. He has been at the forefront with many great community leaders in Las Vegas, fighting for immigration reform, Civil rights and helping increase Hispanic Voters at the polls.
Monday Oct 25, 2021
#92 - Biden‘s failed bid: Immigration and the same old, same old
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
The failure of immigration policy is a two party failure. How can the Xicana/o/x community stop failing along with them?
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Related Resources & Articles:
- [ES]tatus: the Latino/a Caucus of ACT UP New York Exhibit video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5RnPIKGs5o&ab_channel=JuliandeMayo
- Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s: https://nacla.org/article/latinos-act-transnational-aids-activism-1990s
- Article with photos: https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/silenciomuerte-an-interview-with-julian-de-mayo-on-the-legacy-of-act-ups-latina/o-caucus
- Conversation between Latina/o Caucus member Alfredo Gonzalez and Dr. Jorge Pérez Ávila on Cuba's HIV sanatoriums for NACLA: https://nacla.org/news/2017/11/29/cuba%E2%80%99s-hiv-sanatoriums-prisons-or-public-health-tool
- Julián’s Soundcloud with some interviews: https://soundcloud.com/julian-de-mayo
- For more information, contact: demayo.j@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter: @j_deMayo
Monday Jun 14, 2021
#90 - Que Viva Chuy Negrete!
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
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!
Monday Jun 07, 2021
#89 - Life after Covid
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
In 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.
Sunday May 30, 2021
#88 - Jose Oliva and the HEAL Food Alliance fighting for workers rights
Sunday May 30, 2021
Sunday May 30, 2021
This 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/