Loser Laowai in China is a youtube channel produced by Randall Flagg. He’s been living in China for almost ten years. His youtube profile describes it as a story about a foreigner living in Shanghai and “information on the culture, living, working, coping and the social issues that come with the second largest economy in the world,” but Dude. Is. A. Character. “He’s alive. He’s alive!” A lot of the videos are of him talking to the camera, but don’t …
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On Tuesday December 9th, 2014 at the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) building on 555 Franklin street in San Francisco, I got to witness, along other folks in the community, the school board’s approval of implementing Ethnic Studies programs in all SFUSD schools. At this rally and meeting for the resolution over having Ethnic Studies in SFUSD, school members of various communities (college students, high school students, educators, union members, parents, various ethnicities and orientations represented) came together to …
This past Saturday on December 6th, 2014 I had the opportunity to attend the local All Tribes San Francisco Chapter of the Universal Zulu Nation’s community event “Meeting Of The Minds.” It was a six hour session of sharing, learning, building with Hip-Hop heads, community organizers, activists talking about what’s going on in the community here in San Francisco, and making connection to the national, global social-political-economic conditions going on right now. When I came through the doors of the …
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