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News With Nezua | Ghosts and Revolution (Role Models in Action)

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Haiti, Pundits, Presidents, Revolution, Earthquake, and ghosts in the machine.

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News With Nezua | Mother Nature is a Painter

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

VISUAL AND AUDITORY MEDITATIONS on hue, shape, purpose…being an artist. And featuring the work of Chicano artist Luis Gutierrez, of Arizona, USA.

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A Global Poetic Positioning System

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

ART, ACTIVISM, AND TECHNOLOGY MAESTROS will wield the paintbrushes that splash a poetic hue of dawn over the cracking and flaking façades of injustice that today, stand, smoking, hulking, and hovering over la tierra y nuestra primavera!

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News With Nezua | Making Sense of Sinsemilla

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

MAKING SENSE OF SINSEMILLA. This week’s News With Nezua looks back on the history of Marijuana, the racism involved with its prohibition, and how that prohibition still plays out as oppression on people of color.

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Hard Times Come Home

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

FOR A SHORT, SUNNY, MOMENT when talk this year turned toward recession (and even while documenting signs of it in my own area), I hoped I might be insulated from the effects. At least to the extent that I could continue my way of living: writing and doing artwork for money and having enough time in all of that to stay sane. I thought to myself that my clientele is an upper-middle class, well-educated, tech-savvy group and that people always need art and website graphics for their business, even in a recession. Even as business began to drop off, I reasoned that it was fine.

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Aliens Declare Humanness in New Shepard Fairey Art

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW WORK by Shepard Fairey? You know, he’s the cat what did the famous and iconic Obama HOPE poster. I guess the high of being Everyone’s Favorite Poster Guy has worn off and someone’s looking for another hit….

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Exit of the Rich Boy Vaseline Gloves Silver Spoon Frog Killer.

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

ONE OF THE THINGS that hit me in a “real” place about bush—aside from my protesting him and getting locked up over it—was watching him gut programs like the one that helped local teenage girls who were pregnant and needed housing. A fire lit in me that day that threatened to eat my heart alive.