31 de Mayo, 2008

Pullin the McCain Card!

YOU KNEW this wasn't going to be an easy nomination to lose for either side. I think this is Geraldine Ferraro's drinking buddy, can't be sure. John McCain has become the poop on the end of the stick that people pick up when they want to wave the ultimate...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 6:49 PM.  |

Rip it Up, Little Darling.

ARE YOU THINKING even now about how to live with less use of gasoline? Maybe you are already adjusting your driving in this way. What driving related activities in your life have changed? Do you predict any more changes? Are you thinking about how to maintain your own food stores?...

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Michigan and Florida - The RBC Votes.

DEMOCRATIC RULES AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE MEETING over, and while Ausman (and Levin) here had a nice rimlight/kicker effect going on, most people were not lit as well and were rather flat in appearance. I know that's what you were wondering about. Anyway, votes were taken, sides argued, and Harold...

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Hutto Residential Center Rally: An Introspection

Last year, I wrote throughout our lives, we can identify changes in one's own personal life by associating them to certain events that we either experienced or witnessed personally. Once again, going to Taylor, TX had an effect on me. However, it wasn't just going there, it was an accumulation...

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30 de Mayo, 2008

Nezua Goes to Denver?

OR... NEZUA GOES TO DENVER! That is to say, I have been given access and credentials to attend the Democratic Convention through my affiliation and bloggership with Culture Kitchen (which is the outfit run by the talented and lovely Liza Sabater, we also have worked together on other projects). I...

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Tus Mensajes [Roses for the Vile]

FROM THE MAIL: Seeing how I jumped into love with Ms. Li(-:-)Z Trotta.. to get her fired would make her upset with me. myself.. thinking.. we ought to get her a promotion.. higher pay scale and send her some bright red roses, it would be more constructive in nature than...

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29 de Mayo, 2008

Gasoline Rising

GASOLINE RISING is the newest video I've put together, on the prices of gas here in Oregon. Weighing in less than two minutes, it is short, sweet, and safe even for bike-riding vegans. The latest video by Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose Street Team 08 Citizen Journalist, Nezua....

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28 de Mayo, 2008

La Verdad Verde

CYNTHIA MCKINNEY is solid business. Want to see the state’s multibillion dollar budget deficit disappear? Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney says it’s a snap. If we cease spending money on the war in Iraq today, the state budget could be balanced overnight. Well, almost overnight. The controversial former congresswoman...

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Open Call for Oregon College Age Interviewees

IF you are an instructor at a Oregon university, or involved with youth in any other way (I'm thinking 18 - 27ish) here in West Oregon (or East Oregon, tho that can get pretty far away) and especially driving distance from Lane County, please get in touch. Also, get in...

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Stand for Sane Discussions and Against FOX News

ONCE, WHEN I WAS ABOUT 14 and in line to get on a plane—and mind you, this was 15 or 16 years before the WTC demolitions and subsequent paranoia that still grips our nation—I joked with a friend standing next to me, after we had passed the metal detectors....

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The Hardest Working American

NEVER EVEN SLEEPS. And now, a word from our sponsor....

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26 de Mayo, 2008

A Memorial of My Own

ON THIS DAY I choose to remember all the babies dead in Iraq because of my nation's greed. On this day I choose to memorialize all the children dead or maimed in Iraq because of my nation's aggression. On this one day, this Monday, I choose to remember all...

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The Murder Card

No doubt, we are indeed witnessing a historic and groundbreaking US election: before this past week, I'd never seen a presidential candidate invoke the assassination of presidential candidates as part of a campaign strategy. Now I have. Neato. [ Graphic by ebogjonson.] The torrential outrage and disgust that Hillary Clinton's...

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Hillaria in Puerto Rico

HORMIGUEROS, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday offered a slightly hallucinatory defense for continuing her presidential campaign as she sought to put to rest the uproar over her comments about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. "I just refuse to admit I understand what is going...

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25 de Mayo, 2008

Hillary Clinton's "Assassination" Remark & Why It Matters To Me

[Update: I've added several more blogger of color reactions below. I post these reactions to show the breadth of thought on the matter from bloggers of color. I don't necessarily agree with everything that is said. Oh Wait! You mean not all black people and other people of color think...

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 Kevin, when not battling the evil forces of academia, wiles his time away writing about truth, justice, and the American way at A Slant Truth. He most definitely doesn't have a comic book fetish, but he does seek to redefine those terms to mean something more humane. He also wants to make you dance. This post created at 8:47 PM.   | | (11)

My Neck of the Woods

As you might have heard, two presidential candidates decided to visit the little island of Puerto Rico this Memorial Day weekend. They took in the sights:...

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The Rush to Cruelty, the Climb to Liberty

At a fundraiser in Florida Thursday night, Barack Obama accused anti-immigrant crusaders Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh of "ginning things up" to such an extent that there was a rise in hate crimes against Hispanics last year. "A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There's a...

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24 de Mayo, 2008

Risky but Right.

IT'S MOVES LIKE THIS that impress me with Obama. Politically risky but Right. It's a sign that he does mean to make some real changes. And to my mind, this is one for the better. Because it's about time we started talking about being humane with Cuba. This chokehold...

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Breathe With Me

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The A-word

SO WHY ARE all these presidential assassination 'jokes' and 'gaffes' suddenly being dropped down into 2008 by Republicans people who want Obama to fail? Huckabee, Clinton. It won't be the last. And who would have thought McCain would be looking classy today in comparison? He does his double-faced Maverick Trick...

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Banking on Denial

HILLARY CLINTON plays a dangerous game. She uses her supporters—who believe in her so much that they refuse to see she is a calculating politician—to cover her crooked technique. Don't get me wrong, of course Obama is a calculating politician too. I don't think he is some beautiful pure...

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23 de Mayo, 2008

The Little-Discussed Resurrection-Nomination!

I LOVE how, well, disingenuous the arguments are getting from those trying to justify what Hillary did. "She was referring to herself getting shot" they desperately try to argue. HELLO, what?? Are you really about to try and say that she was arguing that she should stay in the race...

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Hillary Hints at Murder

WOW. This is going too far by anyone's standards, Senator. Either you are purposely feeding a violent and bone-white theme snaking around this election's feet, or you are plain stupid and unaware of what is dropping out of your mouth. And I respect you too much to call you...

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The Hillary Doll

I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WORK, but my feelings on All Things Hillary are not simplified into one single "hate" mode, as with some supporters of both sides. I do not like Hillary as a politician, I never have, since the days of her bid for New York rep.,...

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The Self as Art

I MISS TRAINING and in fact am thinking of carving some time for getting back into it. Perhaps if I remove a healthy portion of the energy and hours I use for blogging I can do that. Meanwhile, here is one example of someone making themselves into art. Enjoy...

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Obama Gets Four More

OBAMA scoopin' up more superdelegates. Takes four today, one of who was previously in Clinton's camp. State Senator Peter Burling of Cornish and Deborah Nelson of Hanover, two former Edwards superdelegates from New Hampshire, plan to announce their switch at a news conference this morning, the Associated Press reported....

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Rocky in the Black Spidey Suit

Hillary Clinton is not Rocky. Because Rocky was neither a dirty fighter nor a sore loser....

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22 de Mayo, 2008

Obama Guilty of Dull Outgoing Message

TO THE DISMAY OF MANY, Obama's outgoing cell-phone message seems not inspiring or hopeful at all....

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Voting in Oregon: The 2008 Democratic Primary

VOTING IN OREGON: The 2008 Democratic Primary gives you a peek into the mail-in elections that Oregon employs, as well as the inside of the Lane County Convention Center where the results came in the evening of the 20th. The latest video by Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose...

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20 de Mayo, 2008

Some of Your Money Funds Terrorism, too.

THERE IS misogyny among both supporters of Clinton and Obama. And there is racism in both camps, too. Some people will not vote for a woman, no matter what. And guess what, some people will not vote for a man who looks like Obama. Some people who harbor a...

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Petal Pusher

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Last Day for Oregon to Vote in Primary!

AS OREGON'S OFFICIAL MTV Street Team Rep. and all-around virtual dawn street crier, it falls upon me now to type out this message—OREGON: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to take your ballot and get thee to an official drop! Drive and be counted! Don't let Nader get elected due...

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19 de Mayo, 2008

Awe Koota Bilxpaak Kooxshiiwiash

WHILE HE WAS NOT quite slammin' shots with the Crow Indians, Obama clearly did impress the Crow Nation with his attention today. After holding a town hall meeting in Billings, Barack headed to the Crow Nation Reservation in Crow Agency, Montana, where he was formally adopted as a member...

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Listen for Light

NEWS OF THE DAY, street level indeed:...

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18 de Mayo, 2008

Sunday Poetry Review

Because sharing poetry is sharing love and peace and all that is good with the world. "All the World Moved" by June Jordan* All the world moved next to me strange I grew on my knees in hats and taffeta trusting the holy water to run like grief from...

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16 de Mayo, 2008

Myanmar

SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND DEAD. Estimates up to 128,000 dead. I can't begin to imagine the scale of this....

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The Gold Rush (Daily)

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La Locura Automatica

THIS IS A VIDEO REMIX of La Secta Allstar's song "La Locura Automatica" featuring Eddie Dee, by DJ Andres. I actually very much enjoy the slower version and it's a regular on my playlist, but they won't let me embed it. So here's a Reggaeton remix of the track,...

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15 de Mayo, 2008

Path to the Oasis

BLOGMIGO (and wicked-good writer) Kai Chang tackles the recent occurrences of white racist attacks against Asians in the Canadian fishing industry, and tells us what the Ontario Human Rights Commission is doing about it, as well as how this must serve as a model for our own work right...

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She'll Never Need to Wait For Me

THE SKY is beautiful right now. Usually I try to photograph it, usually I send photographs to Facebook via my Mobile Uploads, which I really enjoy. But this sky is too fragile for my iPhone...and for once I'll refrain from turning Mother's morning poem into digital bricks. The sunrise...

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The Toll of Neglect

The recent AFL-CIO annual study: Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect recently reported workplace fatalities as having increased sharply for Latino and immigrant workers. In 2006, fatal injuries among Latino workers increased by seven percent over 2005, with 990 fatalities among this group of workers, the highest...

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I havent seen her in 108 years

IF I GET FRUSTRATED by anything lately, it's that I can't do everything at once. Music, sculpture, video, writing, painting. It's not a complaint I make too often, only a sense I experience and privately note, because it's a hard thing to talk about with other people, I have...

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Chillin' on the 20 Yard Line

NOTE TO SELF: Must blog soon on important social justice issue or risk losing that "feeling good and helping the world" sensation I've come to love from my computer tappings. Sometimes I feel like a football fan out here. But...I am! I've said it before. Politics seem to be...

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14 de Mayo, 2008

John Edwards for Barack Obama!

NOW we can say it for sure. So, as suspected, it wasn't a slip the other day when, as reported in the Ticket, [also snatched up by the mighty ears of UMX!] former Sen. John Edwards said he was going to endorse the Democratic presidential candidate he had just...

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Obama in Eugene Pt. 3 [MTV vlog 5-14-08]

OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 3) concludes our trilogy featuring Obama's rousing event that energized the town of Eugene, Oregon as well as the University of Oregon, and packed McArthur Court to overflowing on March 21, 2008. • Part One here. • Part Two • The Making Of narrative The...

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13 de Mayo, 2008

Change in the Weather

BOY did I pick the wrong gig if I wanted not to be immersed in politics all the time. Whew. There's one giant politician here after another, every other day. When I'm not eating, I'm editing. When I'm not editing, I'm asleep. I hear Hillary is coming back and...

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Bill Clinton in Eugene, Oregon

BILL CLINTON spoke last night at the University of Oregon in Eugene in behalf of his wife's candidacy, and of course, your trusty citizen journalist Nezua was on the scene. The speech was attended by about 800 - 1000 people. I didn't count, but the venue was switched at...

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12 de Mayo, 2008

Irena Sendler Dies

I'VE WRITTEN a few times of why the Warsaw Poles (and all the related horror) are personally important to me. But one need not have a story of their own ancestry tied to such horrific events to admire and be in awe of the young social worker and activist in...

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Earthquake in China

IT IS GETTING HARD not to mention dispiriting to keep track of the horrific natural disasters unfolding around the world. Over 900 students buried alive in China, at last estimate. Updates are claiming 9000 dead. 7.8 earthquake....

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Shut Softly Your Watery Eyes

THIS IS THE STORY of a straight-A student who might still be alive if one of her achievements had not been being dark of hue...or if she lived in world where police didn't find that a trait marking her as worth less love and care....

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11 de Mayo, 2008

The Ultimate Concern Troll

THE ULTIMATE CONCERN TROLL. The dough-headed criminal slimes his way out in front of the bright TV lights because he's lonely left to his own meaningless existence, and so dares to hope he can remain relevant in a world that hisses upon even hearing the name "Bush." And the...

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¡Feliz Dia de Las Madres!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! I don't know about you, but my mother was the constant in my life. She wasn't perfect, isn't perfect, but without her love and her help, and without her own mothers' help—my nana put us up for a while when my own mother was divorced and...

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10 de Mayo, 2008

Obama at the Quad

EIGHT THOUSAND members of the O.F.B. showed up yesterday at the Memorial Quad at the University of Oregon to listen to Senator Obama. As usual, I feel exhausted after the whole ordeal, and it's always hard to believe that this is mostly from standing and waiting. As well as...

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9 de Mayo, 2008

Our Death Will Be Inside Our Homes

AND IN THE LAND THAT FLOATS UPON OIL, U.S. Forces and their subordinates are murdering the children of Iraq at the fastest rate possible. Though it's not quite fast or deadly enough to save them from the looming WMDs that endanger them all—the ones that required our military to...

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Three Gods, An Ocean of Blood, and a Sodden Press

THERE IS SOMETHING profoundly lacking from the discussion of Hagee the Vitriolic and Falwell the Freakish vs. Wright the Black Pantheresque. I've listened to both of the soundbytes, and even to the full sermons that Wright gave. Te ones that were, of course, chopped down to a sentence or two...

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John Edwards Endorses Obama

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards on Friday declined to make an endorsement in the Democratic presidential battle, but said Barack Obama could unite the party and win in November. In an interview on NBC's "Today" show, Edwards said Obama appears set to win the nomination....

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I Expect You'll Understand the Difference Between White and Wrong

IT IS FUNNY how the primaries don't even seem to be about who actually wins or loses each state, but how each win or loss matches up to the expectation of whether or not that state will be won or lost. Of course the expectations are constantly massaged, sort...

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8 de Mayo, 2008

Oregon is Voting, Even as We Speak

NEXT STOP, Oregon! And that's my beat. Here's a new MTV Choose or Lose blog wherein I lay down just the littlest bit of historia and shed some light on one of the factors that had an influence on how Oregon became the first state to switch entirely to...

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Rust Takes Down the (Clinton) Machine

A CONCISE AND UNEMOTIONAL article on why the Clinton Machine couldn't crest the hill. Some say "old guard" and this piece more or less backs that up. Their thinking is yesterday's news in various ways and that's why they never saw what hit them. Bam, bam, bam! Blogmigo Kai just...

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7 de Mayo, 2008

Symbol and Essence: Part 4.5

GRACIAS to Jessica Wakeman, who interviewed me yesterday for her Cinco de Mayo article at mainstreet.com. Thanks, Jessica, for doing just what you promised by putting some focus on certain points I hoped to stress. Even if that geography wasn't originally in your plan. What? My tacky chile pepper...

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Summoning Us to Greatness

I'M RATHER DISAPPOINTED that the Clintons will not be moving back into La Casa Blanca. After all, it would have been great to have Hillary as President. I could have proudly pointed both my daughters to her and show them how a strong and smart woman should act in...

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5 de Mayo, 2008

Cyclone Toll Rising

TALK ABOUT people who did not live to see this day. Wow. This is horrible. The death toll from the devastating cyclone in Myanmar over the weekend escalated to nearly 4000 people on Monday, with thousands of others still missing and at least one entire village wiped out, state television...

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Happy Cinco de Mayo!

MIS AMIGOS! It's a sunny day, we're alive in a moment many others have not lived to see, and still we refuse to be ruled by fear and misdirection and by those who would control us and keep us mired in an occupation of the mind, soul, and belief...

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4 de Mayo, 2008

A Little Sunday Hip Hop Jam

So, the weekend kinda flew by what with all the celebrating I've been doing. I'm only sad that I couldn't make it to Nez' fiesta. I know y'all that made it had a blast, and you can bet that I was at least there in spirit. Since I missed posting...

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The Empire Strikes Barack

THE FORCE is strong with this one....

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3 de Mayo, 2008

¡Feliz...Tres de Mayo!

DIPPING IN QUICKLY to say hey! Hope you are having a good weekend. I have been running around all day getting ready for my little fiesta. Not to overprepare, because it won't be a Kid N Play sized event, just a few amig@s chillin', but the fact is my...

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1 de Mayo, 2008

Carne Asada is Not a Crime!

OYE, lovers of Carne Asada and other related deliciousness! The Great Endangered Taco Truck is not just an issue in Jefferson Parish, New Orleans! As la buena gente at saveourtacotrucks.org/ reminds us, Carne Asada is Not a Crime! As mentioned in The Los Angeles Times, to celebrate this year’s...

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Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 4]

LAST WEEK we watched a young man (whom one person wrote me and called "arrogant") engage the democratic process as he questioned Hillary Clinton during her Town Rally at the South Eugene High School (April 4). The bold student wanted to know if when all was said and done...

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Marching Side by Side

HAPPY MAY DAY. And may the day resonate with the energy of our collective hopes and la lucha that can not end until justice is felt in the heart and the lives of all those who need to be so recognized. The USA teaches us many myths: the Hero Myth,...

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