Javier Cruz:  

Javier is from Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. Javier's schools include Kofa High School, Gila Vista Junior High School. Music Javier likes includes The original Ace Of Base, Thalia, Z-Meyer Productions. Books Javier likes include Juventud en extasis, Guns, Germs. Movies Javier likes include Road Trip, There's Something About Mary, Dude. TV shows Javier likes include Three's Company, Ruben Luengas En Contexto, The X-Files. One of Javier's favorite quotes is:""My history... describes the inspiring struggle of those who have fought slavery and racism (Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses), of the labor organizers who have led strikes for the rights of working people (Big Bill Haywood, Mother Jones, César Chávez), of the socialists and others who have protested war and militarism (Eugene V. Debs, Helen Keller, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, Cindy Sheehan). My hero is not Theodore Roosevelt, who loved war and congratulated a general after a massacre of Filipino villagers at the turn of the century, but Mark Twain, who denounced the massacre and satirized imperialism. I want young people to understand that ours is a beautiful country, but it has been taken over by men who have no respect for human rights or constitutional liberties. Our people are basically decent and caring, and our highest ideals are expressed in the Declaration of Independence, which says that all of us have an equal right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The history of our country, I point out in my book, is a striving, against corporate robber barons and war makers, to make those ideals a reality — and all of us, of whatever age, can find immense satisfaction in becoming part of that." Howard Zinn, U.S. Historian and Activist "A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant--and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it...Expand for more