http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/127645.shtml On July 11, 2005 Emily Hicks, Professor of Chican@ Studies and English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University appeared on Veer Towards Queer on radioActive sanDiego. She talked about the military-industrial-academic complex, the mechanics of the corporate university, Free and Open Source Software software, creating community with music, the existence of bisexuality, a proposed Free and Open Source Software lab for chicanas, and the ideology of borders and breaking them down. From the Interview: Emily Hicks Who is going to be the actor, the subject of history, and I don't think it is a male factory worker anymore. I think immigrants, people without papers, people all over the world who do not have the last name that matches the dominant culture, that matches the passport. Those are the people who are going to be fighting the state for all of us. As anarchists, concerned with overthrowing the state, we can see that whoever is trying to cross the border, whoever doesn't have papers, whatever musician is sitting on the cement embankment three months, trying to get across, can't get across and has no ID, except for a flyer that he had from a gig in Mexico City, an alternative art space. Those people are not just US-Mexico border people, its not just this border, those people are speaking for, embodying the contradictions of people all over the world, that would be eastern Europe, that would be in any part of the world right now where people are without papers, and their papers were taken from them, and they aren't ever going to get to go back home. The theoretical term for that is those people are de-territorialized, that is what Deleuze and Guattari call it.... It's now the person who is de-territorialized, speaking with an accent, speaking without rights. And whatever those people are up to, that's our leader, that's who we should be looking to... A few more quotes from the interview. Emily Hicks: It's very hard for youth today, committed to activism - the ones who do manage to become activists, against all odds and against the university - to see the kind of brutality they are facing in the city. The hardest thing for them when they go to school is to find teachers to listen to them. The hardest thing for teachers who are activists to keep from getting fired and to keep from being depressed ourselves... You will be amazed how when you are part of all the wonderful activities around the world right now, you don't have quite enough time to as depressed as you would otherwise. The right is always going to come to the left...Some of the best philosophy I've ever learned... clubs, raves, sitting on a mattress, that's where ideas come from, from the street, from anarchist collectives, from Marxist-Leninist collectives, from feminist collectives, from Chicana-Lesbian collectives, any kind of collective where people are starting with somebody and they read it out loud and the next person says 'what do you think?' and it goes around the circle and everyone talks about it. That's where ideas come from. Is the university supporting that? No... Emily Hicks Veer Towards Queer Interview Part One 0:00 Veer Towards Queer Intro 5:00 Events in San Diego and the World 12:45 Emily Hicks Intro 17:14 Emily Hicks Performance Piece 29:30 Problems We Are Facing 31:40 Military-Industrial-Academic Complex 37:10 Denial of Tenure to Pat Washington 41:20 What's Behind the Mechanics of the Corporate University? Bill Gates and Free and Open source Software 46:30 Overcome Alienation from Equipment/Technology 48:10 Power Structures in the University 51:25 The Right Coming to the Left for Ideas Emily Hicks Veer Towards Queer Interview Part Two 0:00 Creating Community with Music 9:05 Bisexuality Doesn't Exist: The Study 17:00 The Altar in the Trailer 18:45 Free and Open Source Software Lab for Chicanas 25:50 Free and Open Source Software Software: For Geeks Only? For Anarchists! 40:00 The Ideology of The Border 45:20 Elites and The Border 49:00 Vision of the Free and Open Source Software Lab for Chicanas Hear the Interview Audio on http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/127645.shtml -- Anivar Aravind moving Republic Peringavu.P.O Thrissur-18 Kerala http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/about --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
