Okay,

So I saw a bootlegged version of Gran Turino at D's house the other night. It was okay, wasn't great, wasn't horrible I guess.

But what bothered me about the movie was that it kinda turned out to be what i thought it would be in the first place. but then friends of mine -- progressive, organizer/educator friends of mine -- said, "oh no, he's a ( Read more... )

OMG WTF. That's all that i can say for now.

In response to the following article:

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/hiphopmediatraining/47509/dmx-adopts-pink-prison-wardrobe/

DMX Adopts Pink Prison Wardrobe

Posted Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:05pm PST by Billy Johnson, Jr. in Hip-Hop Media Training
Looks like Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has come up with the cure ( Read more... )

i can be a HELLA paranoid person! OMG WTF?

That pretty much sums up a lot of my recent drama.

1) Be open-minded when hearing another person's point of view. try to see how the other person would feel. it's okay for either party to be wrong, we won't necessarily judge each other for our mistakes ( Read more... )

What up fam,

This is a message that comes straight from the heart, for reals. Please spread the word -- Vote YES on Measure OO this November 4th election!

Measure OO will increase the amount of money that the Oakland Fund for Children and Youth (OFCY) can give to after-school youth programs such as Youth Together, Kids First, EBAYC, AYPAL, and ( Read more... )

You know what I fucking hate? people yadda yadda yadda...bullshit bullshit.

Anyway. not really.

I was asked what I wanted to do for my birthday. I don't know. I'm turning 30 and I would like to do something nice, but i don't think it's going to happen because I just don't have the time and effort to make something. The only people who said they ( Read more... )

So yesterday the youth interns led a workshop that they created about Vietnamese history during our weekly YLO meeting, focusing mostly on the Imperialist history of Vietnam from French colonization until the end of the Vietnam war. I really both like and dread this workshop for the exact same reason: that it relates so closely to the lives of the ( Read more... )

Difficult times ahead:

Check it out:
http://www.astrologycom.com/marsret.html

PLEASE COME OUT AND SUPPORT!
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Southeast Asian Youth Have Rights!

Tell Alameda Police Department to Stop Harassment of Our Communities Now!

Calling all youth, youth advocates, and people who care about justice in the East Bay!

What: Rally & ( Read more... )

Mercury's in Retrograde.

Astronomical background

There is no real backwards movement of Mercury; it's just that we see it this way from Earth, because of the combined movement of the Earth and Mercury around the Sun. However, astrologically this is very relevant.
General influence of Mercury retrograde

Mercury rules over the mind's processes ( Read more... )