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A media platform featuring a series of podcasts and videos exploring the contradictions abundant in our society. Broadcasting out of occupied Aztlan

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    • Mar 19, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    #122 - Adan and Pauline interview two first gen NAU professors

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 48:40


    #121 - First Gen reveals all

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 28:12


    Adan and Pauline open up about their first year and talk about how things have developed from the first semester to the second semester.  Email Adan and Pauline directly at dysfunctionalfirstgen@gmail.com.  

    #120 - "I'm proud to be fucking Mexican, and that's on period."

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 26:27


    POWER HOUSE EPISODE! First Gen Podcasters Pauline and Adan talk politics and belonging in their most recent podcast. Their take on the impending (threatened) ICE raids and deportations. This one is a banger. Share far and wide.

    #119 - First Gen: We're Back!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 27:10


    In this episode Adan and Pauline discuss their first winter break, returning to campus and the existential dread of switching majors. 

    #118 - Perspectiva Chicana

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 19:04


    Join Ernesto Ayala is the Vice Chair for the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida. Join him as he checks in weekly to talk about the Partido, organizing, activism and growing up in the Movement.  

    #117 - Anonymously Famous: You'll never see us coming

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 35:33


    Soe and Owahee join The Reality Dysfunction Podcast as regulars with the Anonymously Famous series. Powerful stories to be told.

    #116 - First Gen: Pride with no remorse

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2024 25:02


    In this episode Pauline and Adan talk about their backgrounds and the support of their families as the began their journey through higher education.    Producer: Ernesto Mireles

    #115 - First Gen Series - The election.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 29:56


    This week Dr. Ernesto, Pauline and Adan talk about the recent election of Donald Trump and among other things his promise to end the Department of Education.

    #114 - Ren Manning and Borderlinks

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2024 34:32


    In this episode Dr. Ernesto, talks with Ren Manning the director of Borderlinks in Tucson, AZ. BorderLinks is a community-based organization where people collectively learn, teach, reflect, share resources, and organize for justice in the borderlands. Through popular education rooted in place and lived experience, BorderLinks and community partners inspire and ignite action to transform unjust border and (im)migration laws and conditions. We belong to movements for social transformation & collective liberation. https://www.borderlinks.org/

    #113 - The First Gen Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 11:55


    In this episode I want to introduce you to Adan and Pauline. Two first year students, please take a quick listen to our first conversation. We plan to record on Friday's and post by Monday so that there will be new fresh content on a regular basis. I want to thank all of you who have hung in there with the Reality Dysfunction this far and we're also really excited to continue this  conversation about Chicano culture and Chicano politics into the 21st century. In this new series I'll be working with students at Northern Arizona University, specifically 1st generation college students like myself, to have on-going conversations about their experiences and coming to campus, the changes that they see in themselves and the opportunities that they have to explore their history and their culture at a greater depth.  

    #112 Why Peace is Impossible

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 71:42


    This is a recording of a talk I thought I had lost. I gave this lecture on Nov. 15, 2014, at the Prescott College Masters Symposium. They never asked me back? The title of the talk is "Why Peace is Impossible."   I hope you enjoy it.

    #111 - Exploring Aztlan: From Myth to Insurgency

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2024 55:10


    This presentation was given on August 15, 2024, over Zoom. It is a collaboration between the Chicano Liberation Committee of Denver, CO., and the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida. Below is a description of the talk. This file is the presentation. Another file with the discussion will also be uploaded. The video of this meeting will be uploaded to YouTube and we will put the link to that in this description when it is.   "Aztlan represents more than a political stance; it is a declaration of Xicano identity and a call for resistance against settler colonial oppression. Aztlan embodies Xicano heritage, struggle, and a political vision for a future where our people are free from the constraints of a system never designed to serve us."

    Why build a political party?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 1:55


    Short informational on the benefits of building a political party for the Xicana/o/x community.

    Did you know?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2024 0:46


    Learn more about the history of Aztlan.

    Cesar Chavez and Ernesto Mireles

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2024 2:11


    An idea I've been kicking around. Xicana/o/x spend so much time examining history - which is important. I think sometimes we forget that we're tomorrow's history. What happened 50 years ago is important but so is what's happening right now.   Be in the moment, right?  

    Counterinsurgency and the Xicano Movement

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2024 10:17


    This episodes talks about how the current narratives questioning Xicano Indigeneity most likely originate with long term U.S. domestic counterinsurgency campaigns designed to depoliticize indigenous populations.

    Insurgency and Aztlan

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 1:42


    Insurgency is defined as a form of resistance against colonial or occupying forces.

    The Anti Aztlan Psyops

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 1:46


    Could those who label Aztlan as a tool of settler colonialism actually be long term government agents running a very sophisticated psyops in the Chicano community because they are worried about changing demographics in favor of Mexican Americans in the US and are trying to find a way to eliminate irredentist moves within the borders of the US.

    From Aztlan to Palestine

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 50:51


    From Aztlan to Palestine is a presentation that examines the intersections between the Palestinian liberation struggle and the Chicano liberation struggle in the United States. Using first hand experience and documents from the Raza Unida Party archive Ernesto Ayala describes in detail the similarities between both peoples histories and social movements showing how Aztlan and Palestina are closer than one would ever imagine.

    What is the Raza Unida Party?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 1:29


    In the context of the Xicano national liberation movement and the ideology of Aztlán, the Raza Unida Party (RUP) was a political party founded in 1970 in Crystal City, Texas. It emerged in response to systemic discrimination and the political disenfranchisement of Mexican Americans. The RUP aimed to achieve self-determination for the Xicano community through political representation, education reform, and economic justice. It sought to build a unified front advocating for the rights and interests of Xicano/as, emphasizing cultural pride and grassroots activism to challenge and dismantle colonial structures within the United States.      

    Self Determination

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 0:48


    In the Xicano national liberation movement, self-determination refers to the right of Xicano/as to independently determine their political, cultural, and economic future. It emphasizes reclaiming control over their ancestral lands, preserving and promoting their indigenous heritage, and making decisions free from external domination and colonial influence. Self-determination is a core principle driving the quest for autonomy, justice, and the recognition of their sovereignty within the framework of Aztlán.

    Intro To Aztlan

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 1:40


    Aztlán as a concept serves as a powerful counter-narrative to settler colonialism, emphasizing indigenous sovereignty, historical legitimacy, cultural reconstitution, and resistance to colonial domination. These arguments collectively undermine the notion of Aztlán as a settler colonial project, framing it instead as a legitimate struggle for indigenous rights and self-determination.

    A Chicano plebiscite is different than regular voting

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 1:54


    Voting in a Chicana/o/x plebiscite is not necessarily equivalent to supporting settler colonial political parties like the Republicans and Democrats. Here's why:

    Aztlan is not a settler colonial ideology

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 1:15


    Please share this brief informational. 

    #110 - Interview with Candelario Moreno and Selah Hernandez on contemporary and historical media misrepresentations

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 12:04


    In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction I am speaking with two exception young scholars Candelario Moreno and Selah Hernandez. We are discussing their recent presentation at the National Association of Chicana Chicano Studies conference in San Francisco. Its a good talk.

    #109 Melanie Vega - Voices Unheard: Accent Discrimination Against Chicanos in the United States

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 10:09


    This episode is a recording of a National Association of Chicana Chicano Studies presentation by Melanie Vega. She is a first year student at Northern Arizona University in the political science department. The title of the panel was Voices Unheard: Accent Discrimination Against Chicanos in the United States.

    #108 Desirae Diaz - Voices Unheard: Accent Discrimination Against Chicanos in the United States

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 18:43


    This episode is a recording of a National Association of Chicana Chicano Studies presentation by Desirae Diaz. She is a first year student at Northern Arizona University in the psychology department. The title of the panel was Voices Unheard: Accent Discrimination Against Chicanos in the United States.

    Voices of Students for Palestine

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2024 11:07


    Spent the afternoon at the Northern Arizona University Free Palestine encampment. Students talked about why they were there and why it is important to support Palestine.

    #107 Violette Valencia - Public Action workers in the Strawberry Campaign: Interviews with Public Action Organizers

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 21:12


    This recording is from the 2024 National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies held in April 2024 in San Francisco. The three presenters are Brinley Carrillo, Demi Garcia and Violette Valencia. I have broken their presentation in to three separate podcasts to make it easier to listen. The abstract for the presentation is below. Three years after the passing of Cesar Chavez in 1994, the United Farm workers under the direction of their new president Arturo Rodriguez began organizing Strawberry Workers in Watsonville. The Watsonville Strawberry Campaign followed the same organizing model the UFW had implemented during the grape campaigns of the 1960s-1980s. Taking on the Watsonville grower establishment through worker strikes and demonstrations This panel will talk about the power dynamic between the growers, the UFW and the national community. Strikers and union members were treated poorly simply protesting and demanding their collective bargaining rights. The workers fighting in this campaign were known to be some of the most socially and economically exploited in the country. Workers in Watsonville were fighting for a wage of $4.25 an hour and basic human necessities such as drinking water and clean toilets in the fields. This campaign was the biggest one for the UFW since the 1970s when it came to organizing farm labor. In addition, strawberry workers endured workplace conditions that made them even more susceptible to injuries, including no health insurance, which is especially serious when considering the amount of pesticides the workers were exposed to, and the health issues that arose from exposure. Through interviews with public action organizers from several different states working for the United Farm Workers on the Strawberry Campaign as well as the President of the UFW at the time Arturo Rodriguez we will explore the perspective of those who were directly involved in the community organizing campaign and the reasoning behind their participation. What they saw as organizers across the country and what contributions they believe the Strawberry Campaign made to bettering conditions for workers in Watsonville.

    #106 Demi Garcia - Public Action workers in the Strawberry Campaign: Interviews with Public Action Organizers

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 13:46


    This recording is from the 2024 National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies held in April 2024 in San Francisco. The three presenters are Brinley Carrillo, Demi Garcia and Violette Valencia. I have broken their presentation in to three separate podcasts to make it easier to listen. The abstract for the presentation is below. Three years after the passing of Cesar Chavez in 1994, the United Farm workers under the direction of their new president Arturo Rodriguez began organizing Strawberry Workers in Watsonville. The Watsonville Strawberry Campaign followed the same organizing model the UFW had implemented during the grape campaigns of the 1960s-1980s. Taking on the Watsonville grower establishment through worker strikes and demonstrations This panel will talk about the power dynamic between the growers, the UFW and the national community. Strikers and union members were treated poorly simply protesting and demanding their collective bargaining rights. The workers fighting in this campaign were known to be some of the most socially and economically exploited in the country. Workers in Watsonville were fighting for a wage of $4.25 an hour and basic human necessities such as drinking water and clean toilets in the fields. This campaign was the biggest one for the UFW since the 1970s when it came to organizing farm labor. In addition, strawberry workers endured workplace conditions that made them even more susceptible to injuries, including no health insurance, which is especially serious when considering the amount of pesticides the workers were exposed to, and the health issues that arose from exposure. Through interviews with public action organizers from several different states working for the United Farm Workers on the Strawberry Campaign as well as the President of the UFW at the time Arturo Rodriguez we will explore the perspective of those who were directly involved in the community organizing campaign and the reasoning behind their participation. What they saw as organizers across the country and what contributions they believe the Strawberry Campaign made to bettering conditions for workers in Watsonville.

    #105 Brinley Carrillo - Public Action workers in the Strawberry Campaign: Interviews with Public Action Organizers

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 16:16


    This recording is from the 2024 National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies held in April 2024 in San Francisco. The three presenters are Brinley Carrillo, Demi Garcia and Violette Valencia. I have broken their presentation in to three separate podcasts to make it easier to listen. The abstract for the presentation is below. Three years after the passing of Cesar Chavez in 1994, the United Farm workers under the direction of their new president Arturo Rodriguez began organizing Strawberry Workers in Watsonville. The Watsonville Strawberry Campaign followed the same organizing model the UFW had implemented during the grape campaigns of the 1960s-1980s. Taking on the Watsonville grower establishment through worker strikes and demonstrations This panel will talk about the power dynamic between the growers, the UFW and the national community. Strikers and union members were treated poorly simply protesting and demanding their collective bargaining rights. The workers fighting in this campaign were known to be some of the most socially and economically exploited in the country. Workers in Watsonville were fighting for a wage of $4.25 an hour and basic human necessities such as drinking water and clean toilets in the fields. This campaign was the biggest one for the UFW since the 1970s when it came to organizing farm labor. In addition, strawberry workers endured workplace conditions that made them even more susceptible to injuries, including no health insurance, which is especially serious when considering the amount of pesticides the workers were exposed to, and the health issues that arose from exposure. Through interviews with public action organizers from several different states working for the United Farm Workers on the Strawberry Campaign as well as the President of the UFW at the time Arturo Rodriguez we will explore the perspective of those who were directly involved in the community organizing campaign and the reasoning behind their participation. What they saw as organizers across the country and what contributions they believe the Strawberry Campaign made to bettering conditions for workers in Watsonville.

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    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2024 14:16


    #104 - Why we need a party

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2024 8:21


    Short piece from Dr. Ernesto on the need for claiming political power in a settler election year and beyond.

    #103 - Brinley Carillo, Demi Garcia and Violette Valencia Up and Coming Scholars

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 14:49


    This episode of The Reality Dysfunction Podcast talks with three young emerging scholars at Northern Arizona University. These three women will be presenting at the 2024 NACCS conference in San Francisco on the Public Action aspect of the Watsonville Strawberry Campaign in the late 1990s.

    National Xicano/Latino Plebiscite 5

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 2:44


    Short video describing the National Xicano/Latino Plebiscite.

    #102 - My Advice: Build Power

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2024 7:20


    In this episode we talk about how to build power as colonized people within settler colonial society.

    #101 - Existence is not resistance

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 8:46


    This short episode I talk about the idea of existence as resistance within a settler colonial political world. This one is a little different. It's just me.

    Xicano plebiscite video

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 2:44


    Short informational video explaining aspects of the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida and the national plebiscite the party is organizing.

    #100 - Mark Anthony Torres

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 37:52


    In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction we talk with Mark Anthony Torres a 3 decade Chicano Michigan activist about his new book, his clothing line and his run for congress.

    How a Chicano Plebiscite is Different?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2024 1:54


    This short informational video talks about how voting in a Chicano Plebiscite is fundamentally different from voting in main stream electoral politics.

    Vanessa Bustamante

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2024 1:59


    A clip from a recent interview with Dra. Vanessa Bustamante, chair of the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida. This interview was recorded at Northern Arizona University 4/2/24.

    Xicano/Latino National Plebiscite 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2024 0:31


    Short informational video on the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida's national Xicano/Latino Plebiscite campaign.

    National Xicano/Latino Plebiscite 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2024 0:35


    Informational video explaining the national Xicano/Latino Plebiscite effort being organized by the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida.

    We are the Backbone

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 1:20


    Video on the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida and it's national plebiscite campaign.

    #99 - Dr. Vanessa Bustamante

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2023 53:31


    In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction we talk with Dr. Vanessa Bustamante the Vice Chair of El Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida about her life and activism on behalf of the Xicana/o/x community. About growing up a first generation Xicana in Southern Califas, the educational struggles on her way to a Ph.D., and why she is proud to call herself a chola.

    #98 - Veronica Garcia

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2023 24:18


    In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction we talk with Veronica Garcia the Texas state director for the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida. We talk about plans for Raza Unida to expand across the country and in the great state of Texas.

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    #97 - Enrique Cardiel

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2023 32:06


    In this episode of The Reality Dysfuncton we interview Enrique Cardiel a long time Raza Unida Party activist and community organizer in Alburquerque, NM., he recently ran for a state rep position in that state. We talk about his campaign, and the state of Xicana/o/x politics in the United States.

    #96 - Human Cicada The poetry of Carlos Cumpian

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2022 36:35


      In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction I talk with Chicago based poet Carlos Cumpian who has been writing and publishing poetry from the Windy City for the last 40 years. During our conversation we talk about his latest book Human Cicada and the importance of Xicana/o/x expression.    ORDER THE BOOK HERE  

    #95 - Anarchist politics and the Xicana/o/x movement

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2022 32:14


    Dr. Ernesto Mireles and Alex Yanish discuss the Kristen Williams pamphet "Whither Anarchism" and how anarchist politics, particularly preformative politics have moved into the Xicana/o/x movement mainstream.     

    #94 - El Porvenir, Ya! Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl: A Chicano Science Fiction Anthology.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2022 42:16


    This segment of The Reality Dysfunction is a conversation with Somos en Escritos editors Scott Duncan and Jenny  Irizary and the forthcoming book El Porvenir, Ya! Joining us in the conversation two of the authors Rosa Martha Villareal who is recently retired as an Adjunct Professor at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California, and the author of several novels including Doctor Magdalena, The Stillness of Love and Exile, and Chronicles of Air and Dreams. She writes a periodic column, Tertulian's Corner, for Somos en escrito. Also Ernesto Hogan who is the author of High Aztech, Smoking Mirror Blues, and Cortez on Jupiter. Those novels, along with his short fiction have won him the reputation of being the Father of Chicano Science Fiction. His mother's maiden name is Garcia, he was born in East L.A. His work has appeared in Amazing Stories, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and other magazines and anthologies. El Porvenir, Ya! Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl: A Chicano Science Fiction Anthology.  ​Established and upcoming Mexican American writers of Science-Fiction and Fantasy come together in one place to offer visions of raza futures and indigenous otherworlds. Included works by Martin Hill Ortiz, Carmen Baca, Frank Lechuga, Lizz Huerta, Kathleen Alcalá, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, Pedro Iniguez, Rosa Martha Villarreal, R. Ch. Garcia, Nicholas Belardes, Ricardo Tavarez, Ernest Hogan, Michelle Robles Wallace, Scott Russell Duncan, Rios de La Luz, and Mario Acevedo.  

    #93 - MX 2070: The Chicano Media Forum

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2021 61:00


    This is one exciting conversation by media professionals from around the country. A review of the most relevant stories and issues of 2021 affecting our community.    Presenters: Elena Herrada is a Detroit community activist leader, an advocate on issues of immigration, public education, national and international human rights and Director of the Oral History project of Fronteras Norterias organization. She was a member of the Detroit Public Schools Board of Education in Michigan, representing District 2.  Herrada ran for election for an at-large seat of the Detroit Public Schools Board of Education in Michigan.   Dr. Jose Flores is cofounder of the Hispanic Center for Western Michigan, the Hispanic Festival, The Community Voice/La Voz Magazine, and La Familia Grocery/Convenience Store.His community activism helped bring needed interpreters to the emergency services units in police/fire/medical care units of Grand Rapids, and he was a chief advocate for providing court interpreters for persons unable to fully understand English. As a community advocate, he led efforts to improve U.S. Decennial Census counts, engage youth in summer employment opportuni ties, and worked on committees to reduce drop-out rates among minority youth.   Maria Emilia Martin is an award-winning independent multi-media journalist who currently directs the GraciasVida Center for Media, a nonprofit organization based in Austin, TX and La Antigua, Guatemala devoted to the practice of independent journalism in the public interest (www.graciasvida.org). She is an award-winning public radio journalist for over three decades, Martin developed ground­ breaking programs and series for public radio, including NPR's Latino USA, and Despues de las Guerras: Central America After the Wars and reports regularly for NPR and other media outlets.   Miguel Barrientos is the General Manager of El Concilio Hispano Media Group, a Latino Media Agency in Southern Nevada through which he produces a daily Latino Talk Radio and News program, Publisher of Nevada Hispanic Magazine and prepare to produce News and Community programs on local Latino TV and social media from Las Vegas. He has been at the forefront with many great community leaders in Las Vegas, fighting for immigration reform, Civil rights and helping increase Hispanic Voters at the polls.

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