Joaquin Duran:
CLASS OF 1974
Charter Oak High SchoolClass of 1974
Covina, CA
Joaquin's Story
Joaquin is from Bogotá, Colombia. His schools include Charter Oak High School. He later attended Santa Barbara City (History and Political Science), University of California, Santa Barbara (History and Political Science). He works(ed) at Social Observer.
Joaquin's interests include Reading, Good Company, Species. Music he likes includes Boston, Paul McCartney, George Harrison. Books he likes include Bible, The Holy Quran, The Autobiography of Assata Shakur. Movies he likes include Lincoln, Back to the Future Trilogy, Sexy Actresses. TV shows he likes include George Lopez Show Page, Ovation TV, AXS TV Concerts.
One of Joaquin's favorite quotes is:""They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, crushed our spirit, and now they tell us we should be thankful to the Lord for being saved." Pontiac (c. 1718-1769)
"If you must be a sheep be a black one â¥" - Khadija Hasan
"Sometimes offending people is necessary." Anonymous
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage use your own understanding!
Rick Kettlehut
"To hang on to innocence, you must deny history. For history is among other things the record of man's sins and evils, of wars and confrontations of power, all of which are manifestations of man's long struggle towards a larger and deeper consciousness."
Dr. Rollo May, "Power and Innocence," 1972
"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of others, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than even bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change."
Robert F. Kennedy, 1966
"Which way should the stiff upper lip twitch when Satan warred on Lucifer?" Kim Philby
"Among the various shades of political opinion in America, the shadiest of these is the Liberals. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center when it affects them personally..."
-Phil Ochs
"We're Mexi-CANS, not Mexi-cant's"
George Lopez
"There is no debt crisis. There is a revenue crisis. It's in the coffers of the 1 percent."
Occupy LA leader Mario Brito, November 2011
"The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians." Dwayne Andreas, CEO of Archer Daniels Midland
""Beneath the enculturation, beneath the addiction, beneath the psychopathology, .... Our bodies remember freedom." Derrick Jensen, "Endgame" Vol. I, 200...Expand for more
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"When you learn to survive in a hostile environment, ... you learn a little more about the universal puzzle, you learn a little more about yourself, ...." Abbie Hoffman, "Woodstock Nation" 1969
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Yo soy viejo pero no pendejo..." (I'm old but not a fool)
Celestino Mondragon, Nicaraguan peasant and revolutionary circa 1979-1983
"Those who would sacrifice freedom for temporary security deserve neither." Benjamin Franklin 1759
"[George HW Bush's concept of] the New World Order has nothing to do with bettering America. It's more like spreading the pain around...." Craig Hewlett, 1991
"There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos." Jim Hightower 1997
"In all of history there has never been anything more contrary to the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth than capitalism." Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann 2009
"The right chooses to talk about the past because it prefers dead people; a quiet world, a quiet time. The powerful who legitimize their privileges by heredity cultivate nostalgia. History is studied as if we were visiting a museum; but this collection of mummies is a swindle." Eduardo Galeano, "Open Veins of Latin America" 1971.
"The international division of labor was not organized by the Holy Ghost but by men -- more preceisely, as aresult of the world development of capitalism." Eduardo Galeano, "Open Veins of Latin America" 1971 ;-)
"In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with thebrand of a class." Mao Tse Tung 1937
" More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason."
George Carlin
"... [A]ny effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical."
Saul Alinsky 1971
"Law is a very good thing for men with property and a very bad thing for men without property."
Jean Jacques Rousseau, "The Social Contract"
"Law is a very good thing for men with property and a very bad thing for men without property."
Jean Jacques Rousseau, "The Social Contract"
"In the politics of life we are concerned with the slaves and the Caesars, not the vestal virgins."
Saul Alinsky, 1972
"When the rich rob the poor it's called business, when the poor fight back it's called violence."
Street protest sign".
More about Joaquin:"I have one son Brandon (11).
I was born in Bogotá, Colombia, spent my first 8 years there until we moved to the US, to Covina, California. Lived in So Cal until I moved up to Wenatchee, Washington to participate in the Bethesda community. Returned to Calif. three years later, was naturalized into US citizenship. I'm a late bloomer - which has the advantage of keeping one young in spirit and body ...;-)".
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