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Hello all! If you see my artwork pop up on Amazon absolutely do not buy it! It is 100% stolen and I guarantee you it’s terribly made on top of being, well, -stolen- art. These theives are jacking my art (and several other hard working artists I know!) and coloring over the signature and slapping it up on Amazon. Dozens, possibly hundreds of people have bought from them already. Just know you are buying stolen goods :( If you see any please contact me. I’m honestly thinking about lawyering up or taking serious action as I have been fighting this Amazon theft for weeks (you report one store; several more pop up in its place like a hydra)

Bike Corrals 4.0 no caps from paul mihalec on Vimeo.

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Muscle-Up from Robert McIntosh on Vimeo.

World's smallest HD cinema drone cruises through Muscle Beach. Stabilized with ReelSteady for Adobe After Effects. reelsteady.com Unstabilized version + outtakes vimeo.com/218837928 Big thanks to Eric Maloney for helping to make this happen. Aerial inquiries: [email protected]

American Tapes clip from Louis Hock on Vimeo.

What happens when Mexican “illegal aliens,” hounded by the immigration authorities and vilified in the media, are suddenly transformed into potential U.S. citizens? The answer is illustrated by looking at the lives of my 1978 neighbors. Most people think of immigration as a finite moment; yet as a story it really spans several generations and two nations. The American Tapes (2013) follows the lives of four families for 30 years who began living in San Diego as unauthorized immigrants. English & Spanish with English subtitles. The Mexican Tapes (1986) featured the same families and was shown on the PBS, BBC, and Televisa networks.

Rey Video 2 1 from Michael Montenegro on Vimeo.

Toyota from Michael Montenegro on Vimeo.

Beyond Borders: Undocumented Mexican Americans (PBS Version) from Independent Production Fund on Vimeo.

The Independent Production Fund and its partners, Editorial Clio and Fabrica de Cine, are making our new film, Beyond Borders, available for free to all who are interested. Please tweet us at @BBDocFilm and tell us what you think, using the hashtag #BeyondBordersFilm.

If you'd like to download this video for a community screening, please contact [email protected] for the password to do so. (We are asking you to send an email just to have a listing of groups showing the film. Please share widely!)

Find out more about the film at beyondborders.tv/ and on our social media platforms: facebook.com/BeyondBordersFilm/ twitter.com/bbdocfilm instagram.com/BeyondBordersFilm/

Support Nahuatlahtolli - Los Angeles from Julio Márquez on Vimeo.

#SupportNahuatl On August 7th, 2016 we held our first Nahuatl class at Marsh Park in Los Angeles. Temachtiani John Garcia has been leading our class which focuses on Huasteca Nahuatl. Since then, we have begun to look for ways to sustain our class to help preserve the language that many of our peoples spoke. Please share this video and help us fundraise so that we can continue to do the work we do. Tlazocamati nohuampo.

The Plague of Nationalism from subMedia.tv on Vimeo.

This week we unpack the recent #Brexit vote in the UK, which has sparked both a political crisis, and a rise in anti-immigrant violence.

On the musical break, we've got Caxton Press with Broken Dreams.

We then shift our attention to the United Snakes, where the effects of prolonged neoliberalism are manifesting in a rise in reactionary politics among the working class. Finally, we interview Brazo, an anti-racist organizer from California, about the recent clashes in Sacramento between anti-fascist and anti-racist militants and members of the Traditionalist Workers Party.

Sorry we are french from R&C Prod on Vimeo.

SORRY WE ARE FRENCH Les frenchies aussi peuvent faire des films de classe américaine.

A film by R&C Prod

PILOTS Laurent Roudneff - Henri Grandjean

SPOT Dune du Pyla - France

CAMERA Laurent Roudneff - R&C Prod - facebook.com/RCPRODS/ Guillaume Nicollet - Chooks Prod - chooksprod.com/ David Charpentier Romain Egea - romainegea.com

MUSIC Our own house - MisterWives - misterwives.com/

THANKS TO Vesna AsanoviĆ - Camille Blouzon - Manu Brechignac Sylvain Cassot - David Charpentier - Robin Cochard Kenny Delrieu - Romain Egea - Julien Fric Brieuc Huon - Marty Martinez - Guillaume Nicollet Le dos de Matt - Josselin Paul - Romaric Paul Guillaume Simon - Grazielle Vermeil

Dudek Paragliders - dudek.fr/ Matahi Baobab Energy Juice - matahidrink.com/ La vache s’envole - lavachesenvole.com/

@LightHouseSkateshop Promo Commercial from Michael Montenegro on Vimeo.

A promo commercial that I Directed, Shot & Edited for Lighthouse Skateshop grand opening event in Santa Barbara, CA.

Canon T2i Edited in After Effects

It was awesome to finally meet @longdrivesouth at Vermin on the Mount Readings. He read a excerpt from his book: Down and Delirious in #MexicoCity . The perfect book to read before visiting #mexicodf #bookstagram #chicanos (at BOOK SHOW)

#chicanos #mexicodf #bookstagram #mexicocity

Chela Sandoval - The Nuts and Bolts of Chicana Feminist Theory from rafael solorzano on Vimeo.

I set out to create an animated video series of different Chicana Feminist Theoretical frameworks, beginning with Chela Sandoval's Methodology of the Oppressed. This video was created to bridge scholars and community activists who are engaging in campaigns that build community across cultures, creating new languages of resistance, and uplifting policies that empower our most marginalized communities. This video series is intended for an emerging generation of community activists, who are looking for frameworks that help them think critically about power, dominant ideologies, coalition building, heteropatriarchy, and multisided resistance.

For the past 15 years, I have seen many community activists and organizers struggle internally and externally over issues of how to create change. How does one build coalitions and alliances among and/or across race, class, gender and sexualities? What are the radical possibilities of coalitions? How do you address heterosexism and homophobia among men and women? How do we organize campaigns that are multi-issue and speak to our lived realities as people of color? How do we create a theory of change that addresses multiple faces of power? How do we (de)code languages of resistance and/or domination? These questions are not new and have been written about extensively by U.S. third world feminist, especially Chicanas.

In the 60s and 70s, U.S. third world feminist created a politic that responded to our colonial ways of organizing our homes and communities as colonized people. They were speaking out against distorted relationships grounded in heteropatriarchy. I propose to share the radical methodological teachings of Chicana Feminist theorists via social media, as a way to popularize their tools and interventions among community activists, who are engaged in thinking critically about how to transform themselves and their communities,

This is a work in progress so I would love to hear your feedback. Please comment below with your questions and comments.

One of the magic moments in Activism..

Its beautiful to see comrades from different parts of the country by enriching people and or organizing their community. Its a online "I see you" type of novel by reading their posts. The real moment of magic is when you catch up in person and talk chisme about it, all the good, and all the bad, finding the commonality in the struggle, oppression and mission.

I wrote this because I use Facebook as my main social media outlet, where I’ve cultivated a network of activists, artists, scholars -- in others words, my newsfeed is pretty damn interesting and inspiring. So when we catch up, it feels epic. Maybe I put my comrades on a pedestal but i think they’re badasses and think of the common struggle of how we’re all connected.

I go with the saying “If you want to be a badass, you gotta kick it with badasses”.

The American Ruling Class from Lorrnae on Vimeo.

The American Ruling Class (2005) is a dramatic documentary film written by Lewis H. Lapham and directed by John Kirby that "explores our country's most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic."

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To the Mothers - poem

Happy mothers days to my mom for being a badass. Happy mothers day to my sister Adriana, who kinda raised me. Happy Mothers day to my tias and my abuelitas for making me feel special. Happy Mother’s day to the mother of my daughter. Happy Mother’s day to the mothers who have died from police brutality and domestic violence. Happy Mother’s day to the Dads for being the moms too, including the queer Dads. Happy Mother’s day to the moms, who lost their children from child services. Happy mother’s day to the women who became mothers because of rape. HAPPY MOTHER"S DAY TONATZIN aka Mother Earth! Lastly, Happy Mother’s day to the women, who are sterile.

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To the Mothers - poem

Happy mothers days to my mom for being a badass. Happy mothers day to my sister Adriana, who kinda raised me. Happy Mothers day to my tias and my abuelitas for making me feel special. Happy Mother’s day to the mother of my daughter. Happy Mother’s day to the mothers who have died from police brutality and domestic violence. Happy Mother’s day to the Dads for being the moms too, including the queer Dads. Happy Mother’s day to the moms, who lost their children from child services. Happy mother’s day to the women who became mothers because of rape. HAPPY MOTHER"S DAY TONATZIN aka Mother Earth! Lastly, Happy Mother’s day to the women, who are sterile.

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