The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced

The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced

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The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced episodes

  • Sports Mascots part 2 -

    Greetings Dysfunctionals in the second part of our conversation on sports mascots the crew is speaking with Karen Schaumann-Beltran, Maria Zavala Paredes, and Monica Washington Padula the leader of a successful 6-year campaign in Paw Paw, Michigan, to rid the local high school of their racist Redskin’s mascot. Their stories are gripping and will give all of us real insight into how a successful anti mascot campaign is conducted and the personal price the people organizing the campaign pay.

     

    The cast of dysfunctional regulars appears, Alexandra Lozada, Daniel Soza, Francisco Lopez, Rainer Delgado, Juan Carlos Vega and myself Ernesto Todd Mireles.

     

    This is the link to the article referenced several times in the podcast.

    Hispanic activist want Chicano Studies classes censored

    1 hr 6 min
  • Sports Mascots Part1

    In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction the crew takes on the issue of sports mascots and the deeply ingrained anti-indigenous nature of so called "respect" in the naming of sports teams. 

     

    46 min
  • The 1930s Repatriado: The Mass Deportation of People of Mexican Ancestry
    This episode of The Reality Dysfunction is a special presentation of Mexicanos 2070. The description for the talk is below. 
     
    Mexicanos2070 will host Elena Herrada, a Detroit activist to talk about the issue of the repatriation of Mexicans after the Great Depression.
     
    The U.S. used the Mexican community as a convenient scapegoat from the economic devastation of the Depression. No other immigrant groups were being targeted for repatriation. By enacting laws depriving Mexicans of employment, mandating restrictive immigration policies and supporting deportation at the federal, state and local level, Americans became reassured in their endeavors of a more open job market. Due to these conditions in the U.S.
     
    The reason that this topic holds importance among the other aspects of Latino history is that it is something that the U.S. has chosen to forget. The vitality of this topic also poses the idea that something like this could happen again regarding the future of Mexican immigrants in the United States. It is the goal of Repatriation history to reveal the dynamic relationship of our past with modern day.  
     
    The video featured at the beginning of the podcast can be watched here.
    1 hr 2 min
  • Space + Time = Will: Insurgent Aztlan and National Liberation
    Dr. Ernesto Todd Mireles (host of The Reality Dysfunction) discusses his recently published book Insurgent Aztlan: The liberating power of cultural resistance. Dr. Mireles currently works at Prescott College as faculty in the Social Justice Community Organizing Master’s program. He is closing in on three decades as an organizer.
     
    As Xicanos navigate the first two decades of the 21st century, the Xicano Movement has arrived at a critical crossroads in terms of national identification. The process of indigenization that began in the 1990s is reaching a critical moment in the political development of the Xicanada. As a national community we are faced with grim political, economic and cultural decisions founded in the assertion the Xicano Movement is dead. Nationally, Xicanos must reflect on whether that description is accurate and means an actual political and cultural end or the evolution of the movement to an elevated level of resistance that could encompasses larger sections of Mexican Americans than ever before.
     
    This session of Mexicanos 2070 webinar was recorded on June 18, 2020.
    55 min
  • Abolish the Police!

    Abolish the police has been the battle cry across the country for the past couple of weeks. This abolitionist movement is not new and has been working for decades to achieve this goal. This week, our gang of dysfunctionals talks about their own hopes around abolishing the police. 

    We are joined again by Dr. Cirien Saadeh of Minneapolis who is talking about some of the push back by the non profit sector to stop the total disbanding of the police. 

    51 min
  • Rioters, Looters? How about Freedom Fighters? Black Lives Matter!

    Today we are talking about the recent rebellions taking place across this country as reactions to the deaths of Geroge Floyd, Breona Taylor and Auhmad Arbery. Black men and women visciously murdered by the police all within the past month. 

    Our dysfunctional crew of experts takes on the topic and how it applies to the Xicano/Latino community and what we need to be doing in our own communities to support and validate Black lives while preparing politically to end the mass incarceration of children on the border, men and women in prison, and the disregard the colonial system has for Black and Brown lives. This episode was recorded on June 3, 2020.

    In this episode we mention a few different links. You can find them below. 

    Sign the petition to reinstate the Raza Unida Party Facebook page. https://www.change.org/REINSTATERAZAUNIDA

    Also, if you get a chance check out my latest blog post You Say You Want a Revolution? 

    47 min
  • On the ground in Minneapolis

    This episode of The Reality Dysfunction has us talking to Dr. Cirien Saadeh and Cruz Rodriguez, both of them are organizer/activists in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This conversation was recorded on Friday May 28, the day after the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct building was torched by protesters demanding justice on behalf of the murdered George Floyd. 

    Floyd was choked to death by Derek Chauvin a Minneapolis police officer with a history of violent behavior toward people of color. In the last few days spontaneous uprisings have occurred in cities across the United States all demanding justice and an end to the murder of black and brown people by the police. 

    Below you will find links to a number of organizations that are doing important work on the ground in Minneapolis. Donate if you can. 

     

    *note* do not include “BLM” in your payment note, some are getting blocked. Also many orgs listed below are in immediate need as well, please check out that section.

    Immediate Need (updated 5/30 6:00pm) :

    • WFPC Direct Action and Rapid Response Spreadsheet (consistently updated, supply drop offs, sign ups, donations, etc.) centralized frontlines fund: https://secure.everyaction.com/fxrNs65SYEiFw59Zegwcnw2?fbclid=IwAR0PYYLjqSscr1uK6dbru074-Tih8tsMlbsKEGDqLJ0A49Cl7oI7BaAlcUQ
    • @melly3141 on venmo (on the ground, food and supplies)
    • $Isakdouah on cashapp (buying gas masks for protestors) 
    • zelle number: 6125989366, $yhaante on cashapp (on the ground, supplies/first aid)
    • @cypress-kenney on venmo (warm meals for organizers and frontliners)

     

    Listed on 5/29 (have not been updated of status but most likely still accepting funds)

    • @gabisoglam on venmo, $sapphireluxxe on cashapp (Black trans woman in need of funds for medical attention w/out insurance coverage and funds to support a care team sending out supplies and care)
    • $notmuna on cashapp, https://www.paypal.me/munaahmed (Black woman protester in need of funds)

    Listed on 5/28 (have not been updated of status but most likely still accepting funds)

    • $voxpayne on cashapp (on the ground, supplies and hospital bail fund)
    • @femmeempowermentproject on venmo (on the ground, supplies/herbal medicine care)
    • @cassidyminarik on venmo (on the ground, supplies)
    • @miasolange on venmo (on the ground, supplies)
    • $CarmenMeans on cashapp (donations for local food bank, also accepting items for donation: https://twitter.com/prozacandblunts/status/1266068258572111876)
    • @sonianeculescu (on the ground, funds for unhoused folks) 

    Organizations and Groups (consider making monthly donations!!):

    • Minnesota Freedom Fund (bail funds): UPDATE 5/29 2:49pm, MFF asking for donations to also be directed to other orgs listed below!! They have received a flood of support, please share the wealth!!! Keep donating here as well!!!
    • Reclaim the Block (organizing)
    • Black Visions Collective (organizing and mutual aid)
    • Northstar Health Collective (medical donation): 
    • MN Healing Justice Network / Spiral Collective (long haul care, ongoing trauma response, immediate funds to healers on site at Cup Foods and Moon Palace Medic Relief)
    • Unicorn Riot (on the ground independent media)
    • Lake St Council (help clean and rebuild lake st. businesses): 
    • Women for Political Change Mutual Aid Fund (mutual aid and resource coordination) 
    • Women for Political Change Frontline Fund (protestor supplies and redistributed funds to direct protestors) 
    • Divine Natural Ancestry (free food for the people, local farm led by Black womxn) 
    • Minnesota Youth Collective (organizing and space) 
    • Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en La Lucha, CTUL_TC (organizing and space) 
    • Twin Cities Recovery Project (Grief and trauma support, long haul care, ongoing trauma response, immediate funds to healers on site at Cup Foods and Moon Palace Medic Relief)
    • Twin Cities DSA (groceries for meals for community members) 

    Individual Funds: 

    • @gabisoglam on venmo, $sapphireluxxe on cashapp (Black trans woman in need of funds for medical attention w/out insurance coverage and funds to support a care team sending out supplies and care)
    • $notmuna on cashapp, https://www.paypal.me/munaahmed (Black woman protester in need of funds)

    Lawyers:

     

    • BEST # FOR PROTESTORS TO WRITE ON THEIR BODY: 612-444-2654 National Lawyers Guild MN Chapter: https://nlgmn.org/, https://www.facebook.com/nlgminnesota, contact is Michelle Gross  [email protected] 
    • Noah M. Johnson “I am willing to give free legal advice to anyone associated with tonight’s protests”: [email protected] , 612-827-6781 (office), 763-213-9068 (cell) 
    • T. Zathras “If anyone is in need of legal representation due to their participation in tonight’s protests, DM me. I may not have criminal law experience but I will represent you for free”.: https://twitter.com/TZath/status/1265488843534467080?s=20 
    • Criminal and Juvenile Defense Clinic at University of St. Thomas is offering free legal representation, probably will have to leave message but team will respond quickly: 651-962-4960
    • Legal Rights Center: 612-337-0030, AFTER HOURS: 612-444-2654 (Nat’l Lawyers Guild)
    • Rachel Crane “IMMIGRATION SPECIFIC - Not an attorney, but work with many immigration attorneys. I can put people in touch with attorneys who will do pro bono immigration work for those whose participation in these protests has an impact on immigration status”: 805-815-6209 or [email protected] 
    • Martine Law “If any peaceful protestors were wrongfully arrested and need pro bono representation please invite them to call” 612-208-8076

    George Floyd Family/Memorial Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

    NATIONAL LIST:

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CjZMORRVuv-I-qo4B0YfmOTqIOa3GUS207t5iuLZmyA/edit

     

    56 min

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The Reality Dysfunction Platform is the latest in unapologetic, thought-provoking discourse on Xicano identity, resistance, and liberation. Through podcasts, essays, and dialogue, we challenge conventional narratives, confront colonial legacies, and amplify voices committed to social transformation. Whether exploring cultural politics, insurgent theory, or grassroots organizing, The Reality Dysfunction Platform is where radical thought meets real-world action.