Red Revolution Tales

As more people take on the vegan lifestyle, I feel compelled to write this piece to bring out the necessity of a Marxist approach to veganism for the growth of the animal rights movement. The vegan movement is one that believes in non-humans right to life without exploitation. The vegan lifestyle is one that does not use nor consume any product that had come, or has an ingredient, from an animal or animal exploitation. Examples of what is not vegan: honey in tea, an egg and cheese sandwich, leather, horseback riding, going to zoos, etc. As one practices a vegan lifestyle, the more it becomes apparent how many times animal products, and unnecessarily too, are used in everyday products from cigarettes to toothpaste. Often vegan products or companies trying to appeal to vegans will label their products “cruelty-free” which then becomes very controversial since that is often not true, something or someone had been exploited. The point of veganism has now become to live as ethically...

White Supremacy Violence While many of us woke up on February 14th, 2018 eager for the showering of Valentine’s Day gifts and kisses from our loved ones, one 19-year-old white man prepared his weapons and ammunition and stormed Stoneman Douglas High School shooting ruthlessly at the kids he’d spent years growing up with. When the news first broke out on social media, a rumor started by the alt-right identified the “shooter” as a young white man wearing a Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and hammer and sickle shirt. Immediately conservatives began claiming this was a terrorist attack on behalf of “antifa” and leftists on various social media platforms were being harassed and threatened. Worst of all, the innocent man who they claimed to be the shooter was on the verge of suicide for a crime he didn’t commit. And then Republic of Florida, a white nationalist terrorist group, had come out and claimed the shooting was on their behalf and suddenly the conversation of political terrorism dispe...

While American media might make it seem like the Afro-Latinx identity has only existed since debates over Cardi B's race, we've always been here, we've always been speaking about our blackness, we've always been the ones forced to defend our latinidad at the hands of white and mestizo latinx. While American and Latino media will homogenize the "latin" ethnicity with light-skin white and mestizo latinx, we've been the ones on the ground underrepresented and erased. Here are Afro-Latinx who have led movements and combated injustices that you already know about. Susana Baca - Beyond being one of the most prominent Afro-Peruvian figures and a two time Latin Grammy Award winner, Susana Baca uses her platform to advocate for the justice of the 2.5 million Afro-Peruanx in Peru. Baca had served as Peru’s Minister of Culture and Arts. Her album Afrodiaspora is a poetic composition of the struggles of afro latinidad.   source: ANDINA (2012). Cantante ...

So I'm currently working on a piece of the brief history of communism which actually isn't brief at all. I'll have to divide it up into Pre-WWII and Post-WWII: Imperialism and it's taking F O R E V E R. In the meantime, here's a play list of some angsty and moody jams stuck in my head this winter. Calla - "Custom Car Crash" The B-52's - "Dance This Mess Around" Hinds - "And I'll Send Your Flowers Back" Donovan - "Season of the Witch" Black Lullabies - "Black Lullabies" Japanese Breakfast - "Jane Cum" Cookin' On 3 Burners - "This Girl" Sunflower Bean - "I Want You to Give Me Enough Time" The Zombies - "Time of the Season" The Doors - "Light My Fire" The B-52's - "Rock Lobster"  A CLASSIC Mina - "Un anno d'amore" Radiohead - "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" My Bloody Valentine - "Sometimes" The Gl...

From Toussaint Louverture to Celia Cruz, from the Haitian revolution to Peru’s recognition of Afro-latinx officially, Afro-Latinx have been the backbone of Latin American liberation and the dominating force in Latin American culture. Yet in American culture, it may seem like recognition begins and ends with Afro-Latina Cardi B’s chart topping hit, “Bodak Yellow”. A great deal of this is due to the homogenous representation of Latinx people in media, which is very anti-black, and the lack of knowledge of Latin American culture in general. A key point to understanding who we are and our history is that being Latinx and/or Hispanic is simply an ethnicity composed of people of many races. The Latin American region is the South-Western Hemisphere of countries formerly colonized by the Spanish, French, and Portuguese.  When Toussaint Louverture and the enslaved people of Haiti raised their fists against the tyranny of the French colonizers, they blazed with the strength of Ogun and swpt...

In the United States, there is a two party system, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, that dominate and manipulate the public’s interests and issues. Despite the colonist “Founding Father” George Washington’s resistance to any sort of political party, quickly after his departure grew a dual system and has evolved and continued this duality to the present. This is not to say that other parties do not exist, but these two parties are considered the only credible ones as they’ve maintained their position as dominant parties through policy and sabotage. This system has created a false polarity in United States politics so that many think you must be one or the other. This narrative has made it so that the GOP and conservatives call anyone who is a Democrat a liberal, socialist, and communist. The Democrats have called anyone who isn’t a Democrat, a Nazi, Fascist, etc. The argument I am making today is that Liberalism is not too different from Conservatism and both are plagues t...

I've always loved The B-52's, great punk rock band from Washington, but this was my first time watching "Rock Lobster" the official video. AMAZING CINEMATOGRAPHY TRULY A WORK OF ART. HERE YOU ALL ARE STAY BLESSED