War Of The Flea Podcast

Everyone here on The Reality Dysfunction podcast hopes you are being safe as the world works to bring this pandemic under control. We're getting out shots and we truly hope that when you opportunity arises you will too! This special segment, the Dysfunctional Crew is pleased to present Dr. Javier Sánchez, who talks with us about why the Covid 19 vaccine is critical for the Xicano/Latino community. Dr. Sanchez is a family practice doctor for Southern California Kaiser Permanente and is an Associate professor at the University of California, Riverside Medical School. The crew talks with Dr. Sanchez about the COVID-19 vaccines, what we can expect from them and when we can expect to get back to ‘normal.’ Dr. Sanchez is also part the National Campaign #ThisIsOurShot which seeks to spread knowledge on the COVID-19 vaccines and how people can get it.   You can check it out here: https://www.nam.org/thisisourshot/ https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine

And we are back! In the episode of The Reality Dysfunction Dr. Ernesto, Alex Lozada, and our guests Dr. Teofilo Reyes and Berte Reyes return to discuss the how the white supremacist movement is impacting the Latino community. Why do so many Latinos claim whiteness? Why are Latinos embracing the supremacist agenda of claiming whiteness?    Below are two links for articles the panelists discussed.  https://www.mic.com/articles/187062/with-the-rise-of-the-alt-right-latino-white-supremacy-may-not-be-a-contradiction-in-terms https://www.latinorebels.com/2021/01/19/latinovoterrecord/     #mexicanos2070,#Latino,#Latina,#Latinx,#Chicano,#Chicana,#Chicanx,#Xicano,#Xicana,#Xicanx,#controlthenarrative',#resistthedysfunction,#ColegioChicano,#Insurgent Aztlan,#ThisIsOurShot,#Prescott College,#resistthedysfunction,#controlthenarrative

As the events of 2021 continue to unfold one thing is for certain. A certain segment of the Xicano Latino community is openly embracing white seperatism, white supremacy as their political ideology. As the protest ramp up around the country it is clear a group of us have bought into our own colonization to such a degree they actually believe their "rights" are threatened to such an extent they are compelled to defend the very system that has disenfranchised indigenous people from our history, culture and political self determination. Mass delusion - the foundation of any settler colonial society.  

This segment of The Reality Dysfunction is a sound file of the live broadcast we did on Wednesday Feb. 6, 2021 as the US capitol was being ransacked and pillaged by bunch of American "patriots".  As always The Dysfunctionals do the best they can to keep the focus on the Xicano/Latino community and what these unfolding events mean for us.    #controlthenarrative #resistthedysfunction

In this final segment of The Reality Dysfunction the crew talks about their year, what they hope for the next year and how much we appreciate all of you being a part of this with us. We can't wait to do it again in the 2021.   Para La Gente!   #controlthenarrative #resistthedysfunction

Dysfunctionals! Forget the hater hype blasting the latest show about the iconic Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla, you heard it here first. Selena ROCKS!

Dysfunctionals, We're almost to the end in the true spirit of 2020 the crew is tackling all the topics from Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexican Independence and Mexicano Revolution, Indian armies, pan dulce, cultural appropriation, the Mandalorian, why we should boycott movies like Liam Neeson's The Marksmans and how California is selling stocks in water. Its a wild ride - don't miss it.    #controlthenarrative #resist the dysfunction 

This special presentation from Mexicanos 2070 presents the history of Radio KDNA in Seattle, Washington. Here is a description of the segment and some of the people talking.  KDNA, also known as Radio Cadena, La Voz del Campesino, has served The Yakima Valley in western Washington for 40 years, facilitating not only information and entertainment but community development as well. For the last four decades KDNA has created specialized programs for the Chicano audience and motivated community organizations and campaigns related to the AIDS and COVID pandemics, the census and electoral politics. Its program, MIGRA WATCH, inspired United Farmworkers Union co-founder César Chávez, who in 1979 visited KDNA-FM and marveled at the radio station’s farmworker-oriented operations, which in 1983 developed KUFW Radio Campesina, equally convinced that radio was the most efficient means of reaching farmworkers toiling in the fields.   Rosa Ramon is the only female co-founder of KDNA and served as the station manager from

Joaquin Ramos is currently incarcerated by the Michigan Department of Corrections. He is Xicano revolutionary nationalist, a former Brown Beret from Detroit, Michigan. Joaquin and I have been close friends for the past 23 years. I believe this brother is dying from lack of adequate medical care from the staff of Duane Waters Medical Correctional Facility. Please take a moment and listen to this short interview. Below are links that will take you to the MDOC website  https://www.michigan.gov/corrections/0,4551,7-119-68921-269692--,00.html Please take a moment and call 517-335-2252 and leave a message for Marti Kay Sherry who is the administrator for the MDOC Bureau of Health Care Services which according to the MDOC website coordinates and monitors health care services for prisoners. Please be respectful but let MDOC know in no uncertain terms people are watching, concerned and willing to act. 

Third and final part of a conversation with leaders of the Xicano Studies/Ethnic Studies movement in California. Sean Arce, Lupe Carrasco Cardona and Elias Serna give their final opinions on the state of the movement and the necessity of gente from across the country to engage in local mobilization and national activism. 

This second part continues the conversation with California Xicano Studies educators Sean Arce, Lupe Carrasco Cardona and Elias Serna. In this part of the conversation the group turns toward the preservation of Xicano studies and the role it plays in educating our community for self determination. 

In this segment of The Reality Dysfunction we talk with Sean Arce, Lupe Carrasco Cardona and Elias Serna. Three leaders in the struggle for Xicano Studies in California K12 schools. Arce was also a leader in the struggle for Mexican American Studies in Tucson after the state of Arizona passed HB 2281 outlawing the teaching of MAS in public schools. Please listen to the first part of this conversation as these three layout the recent history of struggle for Xicano studies and the issues surrounding the fight in Califas. 

The Reality Dysfunction presents the first in a series of collaborations between TRD and the Rene Nunez Political Action Committee of the National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies. This first discussion is a presentation moderated by Professor Karleen Pendleton Jimenez (Trent University) the national chair of NACCS. The information on environmental justice is presented by Professor Devon Pena (University of Washington) with Professors Reynaldo Macias (University of California Los Angeles), Manuel Hernandez (Arizona State Univesity) and Raoul Contreras (Indiana University Northwest) responding and discussing. This segment was originally produced by Professor Ernesto Mireles and the Youtube  video can be found here. We hope you enjoy this intellectual and provocative conversation. This exciting collaboration is part of an ongoing effort by War of the Flea Media to bring a Chicana/o/x Studies perspective to the mainstream.  Please leave a comment and hit that follow button.   

The question of normalization is important in terms of how we want to see ourselves on the big screen and the little screen. That question, as several of our crew puts forward, is, do we mean normalize brownness within white society, an action, which has a multitude of implications around assimilation and the perpetuation of a colonialism or normalized within a pro-indigenous decolonial frame where Xicanos and other Latinos take creative control of the storytelling process and make stories by us for us.   According to Dan Soza here are the top ten brown shows on Netflix: Como Caido del Cielo I’m no longer here 1994 Lorena -light footed woman Rosario Tijeras You’ve got this Si mi amor Los tigres del Norte at Folsom prison Narcos Mr Iglesias You be the judge. Leave a comment and let us know what you think.  

The Reality Dysfunction presents the classic lecture of the 1990s by Daniel Osuna the intenational secretary for the Raza Unida Party. This recording october 19, 1992 at Michigan State Univeristy. Produced by Beatrice Peters (Tsimphean/Nicola Anishinawbe) and Brian Sorbo. The video was produced at WELM Public Access Television. Music is by Antawara. The video which can be found here https://youtu.be/ucZLOzhxL5Y.   The copyright is El Partido Nacional de la Raza Undia.  

The Reality Dysfunction is pleased to invite you to listen to a special presentation by Dr. Rogelio Saenz, a professor of demography at UT San Antonio, who has done remarkable work reporting on data that reveals the inordinate impact on Mexican Americans from the coronavirus pandemic. "More than 100,000 Americans have officially died of coronavirus complications. Researchers believe that number could be higher. AMP Research Labs show that the numbers of COVID-19-related fatalities among Black Americans is 2.4 times higher than that of white Americans. The same research shows the number of Latino fatalities is slightly greater than that of whites. Dr. Saenz examined COBID-19 data dashboards of 38 states and said these questions surrounding race result in scattered and incomplete information about Latinos. "So Latinos, a high proportion identify racially as white, so their infections and their deaths are included in the white population," said Dr. Saenz. "So, that becomes extremely difficult to compare, for exa

This special segment of The Reality Dysfunction is a speech given by Cesar Chavez on 88/88/88 at Harvard University about the Delano Grape Strike as context for the second grape boycott that took place in the 1980s through the 1990s. From the vault of Pacifica Radio.

This special segment of The Reality Dysfunction is a talked given by Apaxu Maiz author of Xicano: a autobiography and Aztlan: birthright or right for birth. This talk was given at Michigan State Univeristy in the winter of 1996 We apologize for the sound. A lot of work went into cleaning up the audio to bring you this important lecture on its 25th anniversary. 

In this segment of The Reality Dysfunction the crew takes on the challenges of navigating post election fallout especially concerning the emerging narratives of the conservative "Latinos" voted for Trump when it's clear Xicanos and Puerto Ricans enmass and across the country voted against Trump. What gives? Clearly, its time to revisit the term Latino and make some decisions about who we want to be affiliated with. 

This is a recording of Leif Khan aka the Desert Rat signing his original The Ballad of Emiliano Zapata at an open mic session during Tucson Freedom Summer in 2012. We hope you enjoy it.