A meditation on a Wednesday Day and Night.
Life at times seems static. It seems full of life. It feels like 20 emails per hour while texting at 60 words per minute. Its fast. All I want to do is take it slow.
I know this is the collective's space, but what each individual is going through runs parallel to the org, if only to a certain extent.
Border Stompers is becoming a huge part of my life. Its growing in me. I love it. I feel a little bit more relax now that more people are the taking the initiative to propose new projects. Now that more than 3 people now about us!!!! jajaja...
We recently designed a poster for Cuauhtemoc Cardena's lecture tomorrow at UCSC. We have no political, social, or economic ties to Mr. Cardenas, yet, as a multi-media collective we were asked by the Chicano Latino Research Center to design something in light of the event.
After a long process of several drafts one of creative designers finally hit the spot with a profession design. I'm sure he could go on about the aesthetics of the poster, but that would be ooootra historia.
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There are so many things happening on campus at this point. I see it in my classes. I feel it through my friends.
As students we are stretching ourselves out of our proportions. How can we deal with all this stress? I have seen people drop out of this institution because they got pushed to the point where they couldn't concentrate anymore. How do you balance organizing with academic work?
Why is it so hard to mix the two? I know of other orgs that are struggling to receive credit for their work. We are struggling to organize a class to create a space for organizing/filming/editing a documentary on foreclosures in Watsonville. It's be a long hard journey, because when it comes down to organizing, as much as we can read about it in academia, the actual process es OTRO ROLLO! por no decir como una amiga en el DF decia, OTRO PEDO WEY!
After much talk with an LALS professor, we are coming to a quasi agreement. The question is, as a collective how to hold each other accountable to the project, how do we negotiate roles, (why are roles necessary?), how do we prevent total disaster and deceiving everyone that has trusted us thus far?
Creo que no es tan facil organizar a una colectiva. Creo que ninguno de nosotros sabe realmente el significado de trabajo en equipo, y todos estamos aprendiendo a la misma vez, poco a poco, lento pero seguro. Y esque, fuimos creados en una sociedad increiblemente individualista. Y se entiende, el individualismo es considerado un pilar de la cultura Americana. Y me gusta pensar que como colectiva tratamos de resistir esa mentalidad, esas impocisiones.
Marcelino wrote something really beautiful a couple of days ago:
Arriva The Border Stompers Collective!!!!!!.........
A coalition of revolutionary students using the camera as a political
tool to enlight the oblivious!!!!!!
In the end I think that is what we are trying to do: use the camera as a political tool.
In the end, we are all learning.
In the end, we are all Border Stompers.
