""We are not proposing an orthodox revolution, but something even more difficult: a revolution which will make a revolution possible."-Subcomandante Marcos"
Male
26 years old
Fresno, California
United States
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Joshua's Interests
General
Job 22: 7-9
"You must have refused water for the thirsty
and food for the hungry.
You probably think the land belongs to the powerful
and only the privileged have a right to it!
You must have sent widows away empty-handed
and crushed the hopes of orphans."
". . . the end is the means."- Subc. Marcos
"These demands are not pleas to the government; nor are they visions of future utopia 'after the revolution.' The Zapatistas are struggling for these demands within the actual existing human system, the only system there really is. The demand for land is answered in land occupations. The demand for information and access to media is answered in a network of rebel radio micro-transmitters throughout the Zapatista zones, and indigenous news services like Melel Xojobal that get statements from the most remote jungle settlements immediately posted on the Internet.
The demand for democracy is answered, first of all, by practicing it." ('Homage to Chiapas' pg. 201)
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." -Chinese Proverb
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi
"A great many activists and concerned people ask, quite rightly, what alternative form of social organization can be imagined that might overcome the grave flaws -- often real crimes -- of contemporary society in more far-reaching ways than short-term reform. Parecon is the most serious effort I know to provide a very detailed possible answer to some of these questions, crucial ones, based on serious thought and careful analysis." -- Noam Chomskyhttp://www.myspace.com/parecon
Music
Everything, from Sinatra to Mos Def
Music is my greatest passion.
I think Lupe Fiasco's lyrics on "Hurt Me Soul" are some of the best I've ever heard.
Add to My Profile | More Videos Drama The Lives of Others, The Dead Girl, Bread and Roses, American History X, Pan's Labyrinth, Babel, Fight Club, Crash, The Godfather and The Good Shepard (closely related message), Cinderella Man, I Am Legend, Training Day, Two for The Money, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Lady In The Water, Black Snake Moan, Fur, V for Vendetta, Little Children, Forest Gump, some foriegn films like Pedro Almodovar's Volver. I love theatre, just saw the Vegas version of Phantom of the Opera recently.
Non-fiction Johhn Adams, The Great Debaters, Veronica Guerin, Talk to Me, Freedom Writers, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Motorcycle Diaries, Gotti, In The Time of the Butterflies, Blow, Miss Potter (What? That lady was a G!), The Last King of Scotland, North Country
Comedy Anchorman, Fun With Dick and Jane, Naked Gun 2 ½, any standup like Richard Pryor or Lewis Black.
Documentaries The Power of Community, Made In L.A., A Crude Awakening, Planet Earth, The Big One, Who Killed The Electric Car?, The Corporation, Deliver Us From Evil, The End of Suburbia, SICKO, Thug Angel, The 11th Hour, How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company, The Agronomist, Why We Fight, When the Levees Broke, The Network, Bastards of the Party, Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8, Bowling For Columbine, Treal TV, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Fog of War, Supersize Me.
Edu-Tainment Blood Diamonds, The Yes Men, An Inconvenient Truth, A Day Without a Mexican, Slam, Slam Nation, etc.
Television
Trying to kick that habit. But The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are some good ones.
Books
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Understanding Power: the Indispensible Chomsky, Rules for Radicals, Sleeping With The Devil, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, The Messiah of Morris Avenue, What's the Matter With Kansas, Homage to Chiapas, The Dead Emcee Scrolls, Endgame, Bright and Morning Star, The God of Small Things, Patterns of Anarchy, The Prince and Other Writings, The Zapatista Reader, The Holy Bible (KJV), Homage to Catalonia, The Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Banana Republicans, Crashing the Party, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, One Nation Under God?, Fast Food Nation, Hitler's Pope, The Great Controversy (or anything by Ellen White), The Jungle, Anne Frank, Overdosed America, Linda Goodman's Love Signs, Linda Goodman's Sun Signs, Values Shift, Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur; The Venezuelan Revolution, The Anarchist Collectives, etc. Z Magazine and F.E.D.S. Magazine is great too. Norman Mailer is a "cold piece of porkissus" (to quote E-40). Most recently I read A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut, which was excellent. Very funny, yet deep, and simple. Currently reading Beyond Oil by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Sustainable Agriculture: How to Grow More Vegetables, The Sustainable Vegetable Garden, Proceedings from the Soil Food and People Conference, Future Fertility, One Circle, Backyard Homestead, Intensive Food Production on a Human Scale, Biointensive Sustainable Mini-Farming, Siberian Biointensive Research Report, Biodynamic Gardening in India, Living Quarters for Plant Roots, Appropriate Agriculture, Circle of Plenty Booklet, Man of the Trees, and Weaving a Lavender Wand.
A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash .. Add to My Profile | More Videos
Heroes
Ashoka Fellows! Bill Drayton, Noam Chomsky, Jean Dominique, Tupac Shakur, Arundhati Roy, Antonio Maceo, Veronica Guerin, Glenn Murcutt, Prodhoun, Dave Chappelle, Bakunin, Melvin Van Peebles, Thomas Jefferson, Pancho Villa, Lewis Black (even tho I don't always agree), Immortal Technique, Bertrand Russel, MLK, Rosie O'Donnell, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Pryor, Richard Wright, Ralph Nader, Michael Moore, Minerva Mirabal (and the Mirabal sisters, AKA "Las Mariposa"), Fabio Rosa, Cesar Chavez, Emporer Ashoka, Che Guevara, Martin Luther, Chris Rock, Fred Hampton, Malcom X, Thomas Paine, Paul of Tarsus, Saul Williams, Mhatma Ghandi, Zapatistas, and virtually all other revolutionaries who at least tried to make things better (imperfect though they may be) instead of just crying about the way things are. Much respect for Ellen White.
I wear many hats, and none of them say "New Era". Feel me?
"Solo voy con mi pena / sola va mi condena / correr es mi destino / para burlar la ley / perdido en el corazon / de la grande babylon / me dicen el clandestino por no llevar papel.Pa una ciudad del norte / yo me fui a trabajar / mi vida la deje entre Ceuta y Gibraltar / soy una raya en el mar / fantasma en la ciudad / mi vida va prohibida / dice la autoridad.Solo voy con mi pena / sola va mi condena / correr es mi destino / por no llevar papel / perdido en el corazon / de la grande babylon / me dicen el clandestino / yo soy el que quiebra la ley." Manu Chao "Clandestino"
"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations." Albert Einstein, quoted in "In Six Days", p. 156.
"The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed."
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
I find it interesting that "brushed off my airs" can mean two perfectly opposite things nowadays (depending on whether or not the 'a' in 'airs' is capitalized).
Who I'd like to meet:
Arundhati Roy . . . if she wasn't married. Hmmm . . . Rashida Jones, beautiful and intelligent *drooling* ;p
Noam Chomsky, Saul Williams, Bill Drayton, Afeni and Assata Shakur, etc. I don't like mean people. If your mean to me that's bad enough, but if your just a cold hearted bastard in general and you don't care at all about the world around you, we won't get along . . . so if that describes you, don't talk too much or you'll get on my nerves
josh(there should be a couple of extra letters here, but i know how you feel about that nickname being placed on myspace)...i just wanted to say hello!!!!!!!
Man.......... Your blogs are genius. You definitely have a revolutionary mind like myself. I just want to thank you for putting your thoughts and facts out to the people that need it. You really need to be in the newspaper or some big hip hop site so you can spread it to not jus the hip hop community but everyone. (jus saying hip hop site cuz they get the most hits per day)
Can i give you some suggestions what to write next? I wanted to know what did you fill about the "WAR ON DRUGS" and that b.s. And How thats part of the plan to put minorities in prison. And did you know that the prisons/"Correctional Facilities" are 37 billion dollar businesses? Did you know that the united states has 5 percent of the worlds population and we rank first in locking up our citizens? Heres some of the statistics that i got from different websites that i forgot to save the links to.
U.S.A. 2. 4 million in prison CHINA 1.5 Million in prison Russia 870,000 in prison
The thing about it is. China has double our population! Which is depressing.
Prison these days are modern day slavery centers. They make prisoners make toys, desk, street signs ect. For lil pay and they sell it for way more and make big $$$$$ off it. and as a MC ima address this in my music without being too preachy about it. like crooked i says " ITS TIME FOR A CHANGE, OBAMA I AINT MAD AT YOU "
And im just curious too, who are some of your favorite mc's other than immortal technique and papoose? Thanks for ya time bruh. GOD bless..
I read about the microfinance concept a couple of years ago. It was started in India by a philanthropist. I can't think of his name. I think he may have won a nobel prize. This is the first I've seen of it in Africa. I wish I had sound. I have to remember to get new speakers. I'm sure that vid was interesting. I'll have to check it out at work. I must visit your page more often. :)
Tara Hill in Ireland is in immediate danger of desecration due to a motorway being cut through it’s valley.... a motorway which could be redirected if enough people sign a petition to the UN/UNESCO for them to fully protect it as a World Heritage Site. Please show your support by signing the TARA UNESCO PETITION and by joining the ’SAVE TARA!’ - TaraWatch campaign on myspace! For more info. visit http://tarawatch. org !
Arundhati Roy . . . if she wasn't married. Hmmm . . . Rashida Jones, beautiful and intelligent *drooling* ;p
Noam Chomsky, Saul Williams, Bill Drayton, Afeni and Assata Shakur, etc. I don't like mean people. If your mean to me that's bad enough, but if your just a cold hearted bastard in general and you don't care at all about the world around you, we won't get along . . . so if that describes you, don't talk too much or you'll get on my nerves
