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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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33 minutes ago
33 minutes ago
This recording is from the 2024 National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies held in April 2024 in San Francisco. The three presenters are Brinley Carrillo, Demi Garcia and Violette Valencia. I have broken their presentation in to three separate podcasts to make it easier to listen. The abstract for the presentation is below.
Three years after the passing of Cesar Chavez in 1994, the United Farm workers under the direction of their new president Arturo Rodriguez began organizing Strawberry Workers in Watsonville. The Watsonville Strawberry Campaign followed the same organizing model the UFW had implemented during the grape campaigns of the 1960s-1980s. Taking on the Watsonville grower establishment through worker strikes and demonstrations
This panel will talk about the power dynamic between the growers, the UFW and the national community. Strikers and union members were treated poorly simply protesting and demanding their collective bargaining rights. The workers fighting in this campaign were known to be some of the most socially and economically exploited in the country.
Workers in Watsonville were fighting for a wage of $4.25 an hour and basic human necessities such as drinking water and clean toilets in the fields. This campaign was the biggest one for the UFW since the 1970s when it came to organizing farm labor. In addition, strawberry workers endured workplace conditions that made them even more susceptible to injuries, including no health insurance, which is especially serious when considering the amount of pesticides the workers were exposed to, and the health issues that arose from exposure.
Through interviews with public action organizers from several different states working for the United Farm Workers on the Strawberry Campaign as well as the President of the UFW at the time Arturo Rodriguez we will explore the perspective of those who were directly involved in the community organizing campaign and the reasoning behind their participation. What they saw as organizers across the country and what contributions they believe the Strawberry Campaign made to bettering conditions for workers in Watsonville.
35 minutes ago
35 minutes ago
This recording is from the 2024 National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies held in April 2024 in San Francisco. The three presenters are Brinley Carrillo, Demi Garcia and Violette Valencia. I have broken their presentation in to three separate podcasts to make it easier to listen. The abstract for the presentation is below.
Three years after the passing of Cesar Chavez in 1994, the United Farm workers under the direction of their new president Arturo Rodriguez began organizing Strawberry Workers in Watsonville. The Watsonville Strawberry Campaign followed the same organizing model the UFW had implemented during the grape campaigns of the 1960s-1980s. Taking on the Watsonville grower establishment through worker strikes and demonstrations
This panel will talk about the power dynamic between the growers, the UFW and the national community. Strikers and union members were treated poorly simply protesting and demanding their collective bargaining rights. The workers fighting in this campaign were known to be some of the most socially and economically exploited in the country.
Workers in Watsonville were fighting for a wage of $4.25 an hour and basic human necessities such as drinking water and clean toilets in the fields. This campaign was the biggest one for the UFW since the 1970s when it came to organizing farm labor. In addition, strawberry workers endured workplace conditions that made them even more susceptible to injuries, including no health insurance, which is especially serious when considering the amount of pesticides the workers were exposed to, and the health issues that arose from exposure.
Through interviews with public action organizers from several different states working for the United Farm Workers on the Strawberry Campaign as well as the President of the UFW at the time Arturo Rodriguez we will explore the perspective of those who were directly involved in the community organizing campaign and the reasoning behind their participation. What they saw as organizers across the country and what contributions they believe the Strawberry Campaign made to bettering conditions for workers in Watsonville.
37 minutes ago
37 minutes ago
This recording is from the 2024 National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies held in April 2024 in San Francisco. The three presenters are Brinley Carrillo, Demi Garcia and Violette Valencia. I have broken their presentation in to three separate podcasts to make it easier to listen. The abstract for the presentation is below.
Three years after the passing of Cesar Chavez in 1994, the United Farm workers under the direction of their new president Arturo Rodriguez began organizing Strawberry Workers in Watsonville. The Watsonville Strawberry Campaign followed the same organizing model the UFW had implemented during the grape campaigns of the 1960s-1980s. Taking on the Watsonville grower establishment through worker strikes and demonstrations
This panel will talk about the power dynamic between the growers, the UFW and the national community. Strikers and union members were treated poorly simply protesting and demanding their collective bargaining rights. The workers fighting in this campaign were known to be some of the most socially and economically exploited in the country.
Workers in Watsonville were fighting for a wage of $4.25 an hour and basic human necessities such as drinking water and clean toilets in the fields. This campaign was the biggest one for the UFW since the 1970s when it came to organizing farm labor. In addition, strawberry workers endured workplace conditions that made them even more susceptible to injuries, including no health insurance, which is especially serious when considering the amount of pesticides the workers were exposed to, and the health issues that arose from exposure.
Through interviews with public action organizers from several different states working for the United Farm Workers on the Strawberry Campaign as well as the President of the UFW at the time Arturo Rodriguez we will explore the perspective of those who were directly involved in the community organizing campaign and the reasoning behind their participation. What they saw as organizers across the country and what contributions they believe the Strawberry Campaign made to bettering conditions for workers in Watsonville.
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#104 - Why we need a party
6 days ago
6 days ago
Short piece from Dr. Ernesto on the need for claiming political power in a settler election year and beyond.
7 days ago
7 days ago
This episode of The Reality Dysfunction Podcast talks with three young emerging scholars at Northern Arizona University. These three women will be presenting at the 2024 NACCS conference in San Francisco on the Public Action aspect of the Watsonville Strawberry Campaign in the late 1990s.
Monday Apr 22, 2024
National Xicano/Latino Plebiscite 5
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Short video describing the National Xicano/Latino Plebiscite.
Friday Apr 19, 2024
#102 - My Advice: Build Power
Friday Apr 19, 2024
Friday Apr 19, 2024
In this episode we talk about how to build power as colonized people within settler colonial society.
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
#101 - Existence is not resistance
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
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.
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Xicano plebiscite video
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Short informational video explaining aspects of the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida and the national plebiscite the party is organizing.
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
#100 - Mark Anthony Torres
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
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.
Monday Apr 15, 2024
How a Chicano Plebiscite is Different?
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
This short informational video talks about how voting in a Chicano Plebiscite is fundamentally different from voting in main stream electoral politics.
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Vanessa Bustamante
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
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.
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Xicano/Latino National Plebiscite 1
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Short informational video on the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida's national Xicano/Latino Plebiscite campaign.
Friday Apr 12, 2024
National Xicano/Latino Plebiscite 2
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
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.