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Rocio is a 22 year old woman from Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hi I am an 22 year old Mexican-American female from the working class who grew up in South Central Los Angeles and went to an elite west coast boarding school and college in Washington DC. I am an atheist, a progressive, and an anarchist. I am a young woman who believes in peace, human rights, and social justice. I love trance, house, techno and I am a raver and a clubber. I went to college in DC and got a degree in Culture & Politics. I also studied abroad in Tokyo, Japan. Currently expanding my horizons!

Proud Participant in the Occupy movement! I participate in OccupyLA :D

  • The "Liberal" Media and American Foreign Policy...

    Rated Jan 20 1 review alternative news nytexaminer.com

    Ever wonder what\'s up with the New York Times? They seem overall centrists and liberal on social issues but then they tend to be hawkish on foreign policy. This article gets to some reasons why this may be the case.
  • Miss Rocio | Mixcloud - Re-think radio

    Rated Jan 05 1 review dance music, trance, housemusic, edm, electronicmusic mixcloud.com

    Episodes of my radio show where I play electronic dance music including House, Trance, Techno, Progressive, Drum & Bass, Chillout and everything in between!
  • (2011/09/06) Dave Zirin on politics in sports | Citizen...

    Rated Sep 06 2011 1 review sports wearecitizenradio.com

    Interview with Dave Zirin on how American Progressives should take sports more seriously and how they ignore Sports to their own peril.
  • Every Great Social Movement by David Korten

    Rated Aug 27 2011 1 review culture, socialchange, socialmovements yesmagazine.org

    From the page: "Every great social movement begins with a set of ideas validated, internalized, and then shared and amplified through media, grassroots organizations, and thousands, even millions, of conversations. A truth strikes a resonant chord, we hear it acknowledged by others, and we begin to discuss it with friends and associates.The new story spreads out in multiple ever-widening circles that begin to connect and intermingle."
  • A Crumbling Cultural Story by David Korten — Agenda f...

    Rated Aug 27 2011 1 review culture, environment, politics, culture ethnicity, economy yesmagazine.org

    As someone who majored in Culture & Politics this completely on the spot!

    From the page: "Culture is the system of beliefs, values, perceptions, and social relations that encodes the shared learning of a particular human group essential to individual survival and orderly social function. It serves as the interpretive lens through which the human brain processes the massive flow of data from our senses to distinguish the significant from the inconsequential, assign meaning, and shape our behavior: "This plant will kill you. That one is food."

    The cultural lens reflects both the individual learning of personal experience and the shared learning of the tribe, as communicated through its framing cultural stories. These stories, which the tribe's storytellers traditionally passed from generation to generation, shape our collective identity and relationships. "This is who we are, what we value, and how we behave."

    The processes by which culture shapes our perceptions and behavior occur mostly at an unconscious level. It rarely occurs to us to ask whether the reality we perceive through the lens of the culture within which we grew up is the "true" reality. We just take for granted that it is."
  • http://www.zcommunications.org/cars-and-class-by-yves-eng...

    Rated Aug 24 2011 1 review politics zcommunications.org

    So shady debt collectors have started to take their claims to courts that are inaccesible by public transit so that debtors will automatically lose and be unable to even show up to court! Article focuses on how car culture and cities designed for automobiles and not people disproportionally impact the poor negatively.

    "The more cars in a community the worse it is for poor people, especially those in debt. A recent Wall Street Journal article titled "In Debt Collecting, Location Matters" reveals how companies trying to collect overdue bills can "shop around for the best places to bring their claims."

    The article details what debt collectors look for when choosing a small claims court; the ability to pursue as much of a debtor's assets as possible, a sympathetic judge and, get this, a car dominated landscape. The WSJ explains: "Decatur Township [an Indianapolis suburb] has become the preferred courthouse for lawyers who collect soured debt on behalf of medical providers... Ms. Ricker says a lack of public transportation discourages many defendants from showing up in court, resulting in automatic wins for debt collectors."

    Somewhere along the way debt collectors realized that people who can't afford to pay their medical bills are more likely to be carless and thus less able to attend a small claims court far from any bus service."
  • http://www.zcommunications.org/fight-forward-by-michael-a...

    Rated Aug 16 2011 1 review politics zcommunications.org

    Michael Albert has some suggestions on how to relieve unemployment while giving most working people more leisure time!
  • In besieged Mormon colony, Mitt Romney&s Mexican roots -...

    Rated Jul 25 2011 1 review politics washingtonpost.com

    Mitt Romney's Mexican roots! Great-Grandfather fled to Mexico as a Mormon. His father was born in Mexico but during the Mexican Revolution he moved back to the US.
  • The monster behind a media empire | SocialistWorker.org

    Rated Jul 19 2011 1 review politics socialistworker.org

    More background about Rupert Murdoch. Did you know he was born into wealth? His father was a media mogul and he took over the business and turned into an even bigger empire.
  • Attorney: WikiLeaks Julian Assange Endangered by Bail...

    Rated Dec 09 2010 1 review democracynow.org

    "They both maintained a relationship with him after the alleged incidents, which suggests that it would be highly unlikely for someone who had felt they had been molested by a person to maintain friendly contact with that person after the event."
    Umm not really. Its not that uncommon for someone to act "normal" and friendly immediately after with someone who assaulted them if they're still in shock or denial about it. Talk to experts about psychological responses of sexual assault survivors and you'll see that its happened in the past with some survivors. Not ever survivors response is to know what to label it right away, and until they are able to label it they might still be in contact with the person.