War Of The Flea Podcast

Milta Ortiz is smart, passionate about her community and showcases her commitment through the arts. Ortiz is a bilingual, bi cultural playwright, poet, and performer born in El Salvador. She moved to the United States at the age of eight and was raised in Northern California. She currently a director of the Borderlands Theater Company in Tucson, AZ., where she lives with her family.  I had some trouble with the recording so the first couple of sentences are a little garbled but its fine after that.  Here is the Wikipedia page for Milta. Please share widely and feel free to leave comments. If you want to contact me directly you can do that on Twitter @ernestomireles. 

In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto Mireles and Oscar Medina a recent Ph.D. student in Sustainable Education and a high school teacher in Tucson, AZ., talk about their own educational journey and how bringing Indigenous epistemologies to Raza students is helping to heal the inter-generational trauma of settler colonialism.    https://changemakerhighschool.org/ https://www.facebook.com/Praxis2019/   Please DM me on Twitter @ernestomireleswww.waroftheflea.org

In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction our panel of Xicanx experts will be discussing the 2019 mass shootings in El Paso, Tx., and possible responses that could be pursued by the Xicanada.      As always you can DM me on Twitter @ernestomireles or Alex Yanish @bingbongvictory   Check out www.waroftheflea.org 

Dr. Anita Fernandez is the director of the Prescott College Tucson Center, located on the campus of Changemaker High School. Dr. Fernandez has been critical here in the state of Arizona in defending Mexican American Studies in the public schools and has helped to found the Xicanx Insitute for Teaching and Organizing (XITO) a professional development institute for teachers that is working with school districts across the country.  In this conversation we cove a wide range of topics about the attacks on ethnic studies in the past 10 years, the victories not only in Tucson but across the country and how it is more important now that ever for dedicated RAZA educators, artists, organizers and parents to get deeply involved who will be responsible for bringing ethnic studies to our K - 12 schools.      When you get a chance DM @ernestomireles on Twitter with questions or comments. Also, check out www.waroftheflea.org. 

Nick Panlibuton is a Social Justice Community Organizing masters student here at Prescott College originally from the Washington D.C. area. In this episode Nick talks with Prof. Ernesto Mireles about his experiences working for the Painters International union this summer as an apprentice. How that experience expanded his ideas about social justice and brought home the necessity of theory in labor struggles. Nick is starting his first semester as a SJCO student and is currently involved in local immigration campaigns, and working with harm reduction organizations in the state of Arizona. Nick is Filipino, with a rich family history in activism. His fathers father emigrated to San Francisco in the 1930s. His family was part of the International Hotel eviction struggle in the 1970s, which brought students from the newly created Ethnic studies programs at San Francisco State University to aid in the fight. You can check out Prof. Mireles at: @ernestomireles www.waroftheflea.org

Adriana Abundis is a rising star in the Xicanx educational world. Working as a teacher in San Antonio, Tx., for the past eight year Abundis has immersed herself in the life and culture of that city. She is an emerging muralist who is creating visual resistance and opportunities for her students to immerse themselves in the history and cultury of their Xicanx community. She has led and created 3 inspirational murals on the West Side of San Antonio that stretch over 3,000 square feet and continues to create artistic symbols of indigeneity, identity and pride with her art network: Arte de Lush. Please listen in on the future of Xicanx education in the Occupied Territories. Brave New Voices for a New Century.   www.waroftheflea.org @ernestomireles @bingbongvictory

In  the episode of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish speak with famed organizer/author Ernesto Vigil of Denver, Colorado. Vigil was a leader in the Denver based Crusade for Justice and worked closely with Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez during the heyday of the organization. In his early 20's Vigil was the first Xicano draft resister in the Southwest and has spent the last 51 years pursuing justice for Xicanos in the United States. In this episode Ernesto Vigil will be talking about his forthcoming book titled Decades of Deception: the American Indian Movement, the FBI and the death of Anna Mae Aquash. Don't miss this riveting first hand account fully documented by one of the foremost scholars on the FBI's campaign against Xicano/Indigenous movements in the United States. ----- Vigil is also the author of The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent first published in 1999. Below is a description of the book: This definitive account of the Chicano movement

In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction Prof. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish talk with historian Dr. Nora Salas and Daniel Osuna creator of the presentation 1492: Invasion or Discovery, 500 years of Indigenous Resistance. (https://youtu.be/qOgaK1UEJns) This wide ranging conversation begins with the recent MEXA situation and goes through the necessity of building mass movements, the role of social media in building mass movements and the lack of leadership in the currenty Xicano movement. We apologize for the sound on Brother Osuna's comments. We did the best we could and will work to improve it for the next time we have him on.  Check out our website: www.waroftheflea.org Get in touch on Twitter with us: Alex Yanish @bingbongvictory Ernesto Mireles @ernestomireles

In this episode we speak with Kurly Tlapoyawa. Author and activist for Mexikayotl and the Xicano movement. Kurly is a founder of the Mexica Eagle Society and author of three books: We will Rise, Slipper Earth and Totacho: Our Way of Speaking. Kurly is a professional stuntman with an impressive list of movie and television appearances, directed his own horror movie and recently graduated the University of New Mexico with a degree in Anthropology. Among other sites Kurly maintains Mexika.org, which is a destination site for us with excellent information.  During this free ranging conversation we talk about Xicano identity, the role of archeology in helping understand the world and the importance of maintaining Xicano indigenous identity.        Check out our website: www.waroftheflea.org Hit up our YouTube: REALITY DYSFUNCTION YOUTUBE Get in touch on Twitter with us: Alex Yanish @bingbongvictory Ernesto Mireles @ernestomireles

In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction, Prof. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish discuss the applications of Mao's theory of protracted warfare to North American Indigenous struggles. They do this through the frame of the essay by Edward Lawrence Katzenbach, who worked at the Pentagon as deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for education and manpower resources during the Kennedy administration. His brother Nicholas deBelleville "Nick" Katzenbach (January 17, 1922 – May 8, 2012) was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.     Check out our website: www.waroftheflea.org Hit up our YouTube: REALITY DYSFUNCTION YOUTUBE Get in touch on Twitter with us: Alex Yanish @bingbongvictory Ernesto Mireles @ernestomireles

The last discussion on the master work Left/Right: On the Significance of a Political Distinction. In this episode we go after it, Freedom and Authoritarianism and the Book end chapter Polestar.  In this special episode, we go after the most nefarious enemy, THE CENTRIST... NY TIMES: CENTRIST ARE THE MOST HOSTILE TO DEMOCRACY    Check out our website: www.waroftheflea.org  Hit up our YouTube: REALITY DYSFUNCTION YOUTUBE  Get in touch on Twitter with us: @bingbongvictory @ernestomireles  

A special episode! Alex Yanish and Proffessor Ernesto Mireles sit down to talk with Maddox Wolfe about their organizing with the National Audubon Society, their theories of power and change, electoralism, and even a little about RED EMMA.  Maddox is a long friend of the Reality Dysfunction and is doing great work nationally.  Get in touch with the Reality Dysfunction  @ernestomireles @bingbongvictory Check our Website www.waroftheflea.org 

Third of a four part discussion by Prof. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish on the book by Norberto Bobbio which investigates the importance of the Left/Right political distinction in contemporary politics. In this episode the Reality Dysfunction works through Chapter 5, Other Criteria and Chapter 6, Equality and Inequality. Why is the distinction so confusing? Does the Right or Left have the monopoly on Equality or is it about how one defines what inequality really means? The conversation continues... Check out our website: www.waroftheflea.org   Get in touch on Twitter with us: @bingbongvictory @ernestomireles  

The Reality Dysfunction sits down with Turiya Coll of Sonoran Prevention Works. We sit down with the Northern Arizona Harm Reduction Coordinator to talk about Harm Reduction and different ways of approaching people who use drugs.    #Harmreduction #Arizona