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A bilingual-bicultural Southwesterner by birth (Texas), as an adult I've lived in California, Washington DC, eleven years in New Mexico, and now New York. I've been involved with political or community organizing in some form or another since I was a teenager, from advocating for summer jobs for youth, unionizing farmworkers, peace activism, anti-nuclear work, to immigrant rights advocacy and tenant association building.
Now, at age 52, my main interests are: working with community groups resisting gentrification of working class neighborhoods in New York City, understanding radical political economy (in particular whether the "Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall" can explain capitalist economic crisis) and the practice of Re-evaluation Co-counseling as it applies to those who were raised poor and to people of color.
I have identified personal organization as my number one challenge, the thing I have to "get under control" in order to succeed in my personal and collaborative projects. I've recently been interested in tracing the tribal roots of my family, figuring out which Indigenous people in Mexico might be our ancestors (the fierce Chichimeca-Guachichil of the Aguascalientes-Zacatecas region appear to be the most likely group).