4 de Mayo, 2008

A Little Sunday Hip Hop Jam

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Guest Blogando , Kevin , Música | Tags:

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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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 5:42 PM. 
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19 de Abril, 2008

In Memory of Aimé Césaire

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Guest Blogando , Kevin , Literatura | Tags: Aimé Césaire, Post Colonialism

On Thursday, 17 April, the Martinique poet, activist, politician, and post-colonial theorist Aimé Fernand David Césaire died. Césaire was a central figure in what can be considered the French version of the Harlem Renaissance. While in school at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he helped found L'Étudiant Noir (The Black Student), a...

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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 10:44 AM. 
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16 de Abril, 2008

The Chinook

Categorized under Artivism , Indígena | Tags: Benzene, Chinook Indians, Chinook Salmon, Citizen Journalism, indigenous, MTV, Oregon

THE CHINOOK SALMON are disappearing from the Pacific coast. With numbers of chinook salmon at historic lows, and fishing likely to be outlawed from California to Washington to protect the remaining fish, a new scientific study paints an even harsher picture of the future of wild chinook salmon. The study,...

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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 5:21 AM.
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4 de Abril, 2008

Remembering Mister King

Categorized under Artivism , Corazón , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Salud | Tags: African Americans, Citizen Journalism, Film, hope, MLK, MTV, race

A MOMENT OF SILENCE to honor the man whose spirit and dream and work can never be jailed or shot down and yet lives on today. Martin Luther King, Jr. Salud. And thank you for the example. And the words. And the work. My MTV Citizen Journalist video titled Because...

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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 7:59 AM.
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26 de Marzo, 2008

Medium Rare

Categorized under Artivism | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, MTV, Power to the People, Street Team 08, YouTube

I HAD WANTED in some way to remember Lt. Ehren Watada, as this anniversary of the Iraq Invasion passed us. Remember him? Yeah. Mad respect for this cat. But the media has drowned out that story, it's slipped away, they lost it...we've moved on to Jeremiah Wright and other...

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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 6:48 AM.
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25 de Marzo, 2008

Vigil (to End the War) - [MTV Vid 3-25-08]

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Política Estados Unidos , Protesta , Violencia | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Iraq, MoveOn, MTV, Oregon, Protest, War Crimes, war on terror

ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Iraq Invasion, MoveOn held vigils all over the country at the same time. This video commemorates and captures the public vigil held in Eugene, Oregon to call for an end to the Iraq Occupation. The latest video for my MTV Citizen Journalist gig....

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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 5:39 PM.
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19 de Marzo, 2008

Tazing Eugene [MTV vlog 3-19-08]

Categorized under Artivism , Ley , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Violencia | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Criminal Justice System, Eugene, Iraq, MTV, Oregon, Police Brutality, Police State, Street Team 08, Veterans

MY LATEST vid for MTV Citizen Journalist Land is introduced here, and viewable here....

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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 3:27 PM.
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7 de Marzo, 2008

MALVERDE - La Marcha

Categorized under Artivism , Cultura , Frontera , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: borders, HR4437, Immigration, Latino, MALVERDE, May Day, Mexicans, Mexico, music, YouTube

I KNOW you been bumpin' this. For when gente feel like they've had enough Flamenco for the evening. Some pride and unity and rhythm and flow from Mexican American Hip Hop artist Malverde....

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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 4:54 PM.
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News From Nezua #1 [MTV Vlog]

Categorized under Artivism , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Bobby Green, Citizen Journalism, escuela, MTV, Oregon, poverty, Schoolsystem, Street Team 08, Voting

COME WATCH ME change my clothes. On MTV's dime. The newest vlog titled News From Nezua [1] is freshly-shorn and waiting to entertain you with nifty editing and news of Oregon. True, a volatile mix, but Creosote is my middle name, chula. Either that or Pine Cone...it's hard to...

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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 8:30 AM.
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23 de Febrero, 2008

Sí Se Puede Cambiar

Categorized under Artivism , M , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Change, Obama, Power to the People, YouTube

A beautiful and thoughtful song by Andrés Useche, performed in Spanish with English subtitles. I find it very difficult to side with the skeptics against the deluge of inspirational art and music this election has generated. If loving these songs is wrong, I don't want to be right. Hat-tip to...

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M spits hot fire at Problemchylde. This post was rhymed and ripped by the hottest blogger of all time at 7:34 AM.
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17 de Febrero, 2008

'Woman' Means Strong

Categorized under Artivism , Sexismo | Tags: Change, Format, Jin, misogyny, music, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Webbie

BETWEEN songs like Jin's Foolish Little Girls (as in don't choose to be one), and this song (INDEPENDENT by Webbie), I think we are beginning to see more and more hip-hop that doesn't spend all it's time hating women and worshipping bling. I love the message. Not just toward women,...

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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 6:26 AM.
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30 de Enero, 2008

Strange Winters [mtv vlog 1-30-08]

Categorized under Artivism , Medios | Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Eugene, Film, MTV, Oregon, Vlog

THIS WEEK in Eugene, Oregon and the surrounding areas, there has been a lot of talk about the weather. But not in a mundane fashion, such as when you are having your gas pumped (remember that 'round here, you cannot pump your own gas, it is all full serve!) and...

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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 10:59 AM.
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23 de Enero, 2008

Because Dreaming is Not Enough (Vlog 1-23-08)

Categorized under Artivism , Medios | Tags: Change, Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Film, Jr., Martin Luther King, MLK, MTV, Oregon, racism, Street Team 08

CLICK the pic to the left to find yourself magically transported to a page hosting my latest MTV Street Team '08 video, which was shot in Eugene, Oregon at a Martin Luther King Jr rally and march on January 21, 2008. All shooting, editing and sleeplessness by Nezua....

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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 1:34 PM.
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17 de Enero, 2008

An Intro by Citizen N.

Categorized under Artivism , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Citizen Journalism, español, MTV, Oregon, Power to the People, Street Team 08

NOT BAD for a sick man working all gear and angles himself! Just a little intro vlog for my MTV gig. And hey, I only look a little bleary. Which is actually what impressed me. Aside from the fact that gettting through the entire approval process (for Street Team...

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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 4:16 PM.
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6 de Enero, 2008

The Unapologetic Mexican: 2008

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Citizen Journalism, fotoshop, MTV, the Unapologetic Mexican, Vlog

WELL, WE ARE DOWN TO T-minus1, and tomorrow is our launch date. So this is as good a time as any to let ya know what's up for this blog in 2008. I planned to have this post ready on January 1st, but sometimes that's just the way the taco...

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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 5:40 AM.
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20 de Diciembre, 2007

Nezua Named MTV's Street Team '08 Rep for Oregon!

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Chronicles of Nezua , Medios , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: blogs, Change, Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, MTV, Oregon, the Unapologetic Mexican, Vlog

SOME OF MY regular readers (I do not, at this point, necessarily refer to the bran-eating amongst us, though they are a well-stirred crew, I'm sure) remember the day back in August I casually (you should have seen me, I was sipping a mint julep as I typed) posted...

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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 6:38 AM.
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9 de Diciembre, 2007

The Story of Stuff

Categorized under Acción , Artivism , Ciencia , Planeta | Tags: Annie Leonard, Consumption, Environment, Film, Mother Nature, Outsourcing, Pollution

THIS 20 MINUTE SHORT is fantastic. It will make you cry, it will make you sick, well, hell. It's just a great time. For the whole familia. Seriosly, important message and education on the many hidden costs of material consumption, delivered by an eco-hero in a fun, dreadful, animated...

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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 1:20 PM.
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12 de Noviembre, 2007

The Red Carpet Treatment [Veterans Day]

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Humor , Raza | Tags: Ken Burns, Lalo Alcaraz

LALO ALCARAZ, a Xicano who pens some damn funny comix on the regular, wrote me and asked me to post up his latest comment on the Ken Burns saga. Behind the cut, I give you Lalo's latest. Should have been up ayer, but only got it anoche....

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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 8:28 AM.
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Tus Mensajes [Tunnel of Oppression mail]

Categorized under Artivism , Medios , Pelicula , Tus Mensajes | Tags: Ben Harper, brown pride, Chicanism@, escuela

FROM THE MAIL: Hola, nada mas queria comentar que el video de "A xicano interpretation" esta buenisimo. we played it at our university for our yearly "Tunnel of Oppression" it was awsome! me trajo un gran orgullo de saber que soy mexicana, con mcuho respeto a ud, le doy las...

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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 7:08 AM.
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4 de Noviembre, 2007

Notes on Manifesto, 7

Categorized under Artivism , Gobierno , Palabras | Tags: Change, hope, I should tag this something, music, My Life, Power to the People, resistance

I'VE GONE BACK to putting a tiny bit of cream in my coffee. Maybe it will be easier on my stomach. My mother was here for a week. She flew out after my grandfather's funeral. She thinks I have an esophygeal sort of condition, some corrosive thing where my...

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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 6:45 AM.
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24 de Octubre, 2007

The Green, Green, Benzene Scene, Take 2

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando | Tags: Benzene, Choose or Lose 08, Environment, MTV, Nature, Plastics, Toxins

AS YOU KNOW, in turning in the video for MTV's vlogger competition, I had rushed like a madman to meet (what I thought was) the original deadline—as it had been (at least to me), unclear. That's the day I tried to do three crews' worth of work in 19...

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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 11:36 AM.
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22 de Octubre, 2007

A Thread I Will Follow

Categorized under Artivism , Planeta | Tags: Benzene, Choose or Lose 08, Eugene, Film, MTV, Oregon, Willamette, YouTube

COULD BE WORSE for a video taken from mental shotlist to production to post to sound to scoring in a total of about 24 hours. 19 of those were today, editing and doing a very, very, very rudimentary sound design and scoring attempt. I've been at this since about six...

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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 2:02 AM.
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13 de Septiembre, 2007

Back in the Good Ole O.R.

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Indígena , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: activism, borders, Chris Simcox, Environment, False History, Immigration, KGB Bar, New York City, NYC 2007 Pro-Immigration Meetup, The Haunted Land

AS IT TURNS OUT, I cannot blog on much that went on at the Immigration Strategy Meeting. My packet of materials is half drafts that cannot be disseminated (lest they "fall into the wrong hands"), and the cat who invited me to the panel I spoke on (and who funneled...

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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 7:56 AM.
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24 de Agosto, 2007

Vitruvian Muertos

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Cultura , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: Outtakes and Remakes

PART OF AN ONGOING Artivism project between me and mi amigo Jerry at vigilarte.net. See below the cut for the full skelemonty....

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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 10:29 AM.
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