War Of The Flea Podcast

  • Autor: Vários
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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.

Episodios

  • #123 - Reclaiming The Past Through Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer

    18/06/2025 Duración: 56min

    In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction, Dr. Ernesto Mireles is joined by Scott Russell Duncan, Colton Campbell and Alex Garcia fellow thinkers and insurgent storytellers to dive deep into Alex Rivera’s prophetic 2008 film Sleep Dealer. What begins as a conversation about drones, borders, and labor quickly becomes a powerful indictment of settler colonialism, digital commodification, and the war on memory. We explore the film’s dystopian vision of disconnected laborers—plugged into machines across borders—as a mirror of today’s racialized gig economy. Through Xicanx Gothic, racialized horror, and speculative fiction, the panel traces how Sleep Dealer flips the narrative from assimilation to ancestral return. From the sacred milpa to neural implants, from water theft to resistance, this episode asks: What happens when we name the machine—and choose to plant instead of plug in? If you’ve ever questioned the cost of survival in a system built to erase you, or wondered what decolonial science fiction might sou

  • #122 - Adan and Pauline interview two first gen NAU professors

    19/03/2025 Duración: 48min
  • #121 - First Gen reveals all

    17/03/2025 Duración: 28min

    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."

    26/01/2025 Duración: 26min

    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!

    21/01/2025 Duración: 27min

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

  • #118 - Perspectiva Chicana

    06/12/2024 Duración: 19min

    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

    06/12/2024 Duración: 35min

    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

    26/11/2024 Duración: 25min

    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.

    11/11/2024 Duración: 29min

    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

    09/11/2024 Duración: 34min

    In this episode Dr. Ernesto, talks with Ren Manning the co-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

    04/11/2024 Duración: 11min

    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

    22/10/2024 Duración: 01h11min

    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

    17/08/2024 Duración: 55min

    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."

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

    21/05/2024 Duración: 12min

    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

    21/05/2024 Duración: 10min

    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

    21/05/2024 Duración: 18min

    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.

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

    30/04/2024 Duración: 21min

    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

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

    30/04/2024 Duración: 13min

    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

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

    30/04/2024 Duración: 16min

    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

  • #104 - Why we need a party

    24/04/2024 Duración: 08min

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

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