Because this is an objective blog, after all...

This is a trailer called The Obama Disception. One of my best friends showed me this video and we discussed how the other side of the story should be considered.

She asked me "Do you trust Obama?"
After giving the question some thought, I answered her:
"I have a great attitude and hope about him but time will tell if he comes through or not..."

Though I am VERY enthusiastic about my President, I still am waiting to see if he's going to fulfill his "HOPE" campaign promises. I was compelled to put up this vid, though it's obvious propaganda against Obama, this is an objective blog and I have to keep it real!

Thanks to my friend Queenbe Monyei =)
I miss you bud!!!
http://tiffabee.wordpress.com

-gs1r-


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Eat the Meek
by: NOFX
So Long and Thanks for all the Shoes

SiCKO - by Michael Moore

SiCKO by Michael Moore is a documentary about the US Healthcare system and the INCREDIBLY unjust policies and practices by both the private sector and the government. He explores the reasons for it, comparisons with other countries, and many important interviews from respectable people in their fields related to their health care systems.

An issue that I have passionately in my heart is the US healthcare system. It's one of the most frustrating things for me to know that the strongest nation in the world doesn't have universal healthcare, where almost all of the leading 1st world countries have it! We are the only high-income, 1st-world industrialized nation without universal health care, and that's America's gigantic shame! There are even developing countries that have or are implementing this system, like Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico planning on setting it up by 2011.

I hope you watch this, for it will shake and rattle your mind and heart up, for sure!

This movie changed my life...
-gs1r-


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Give Ya
by: Drake
Comeback Season

Bowling For Columbine - Michael Moore

OK, I know that this documentary has been out for a while now but sometimes when I ask my friends if they've seen it, many still say no! So knowing this I decided to recommend to you this amazing doc, Bowling for Columbine, by Michael Moore.

The film is about gun control in America, the factors contributing to the shocking statistics involved and an exploration of the US mass media as a major perpetrator for gun violence and racism.

This was one of the first documentaries that I've ever seen and since then I've been a fan of socially critical films and their producers. If you haven't seen it, you're in for a thought-provoking doc of real issues and intellectual entertainment =)


-gs1r-


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N.Y.C Everything
by: RZA
Bobby Digital

Che: El Argentino - Steven Soderbergh

I recommend you watch this biopic movie, Che: El Argentino, directed by Steven Soderbergh. It's about the Cuban Revolution, Che's role in it as a medic eventually promoted to Commandante, how the revolution shaped and solidified his view against economic imperialism and how he got his training to be a guerrilla warrior.

Che fought for social and economic injustices in Cuba along with Fidel Castro and the 26th of July Movement to overthrow the US-recognized dictator Fulgencio Batista and the US businesses that were exploiting the land, it's people and it's resources to benefit the US.

This movie really inspired me to be a man of integrity, to keep firmly to my convictions, to live my life with purpose, to live according to what I believe and to never conform to anything I don't believe is right.

This movie is mostly Spanish with English subtitles and is one of two parts, the other being Che:Guerrilla, both running for approx. two hours.


-gs1r-


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Wake Up
by: Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine

I.O.U.S.A - The 30min Version

http://www.iousathemovie.com
"I.O.U.S.A" is a documentary about the United States national debt crisis. This is a free, 30min short version of the documentary (you might be able to rent the fulltime version now). It explains how we got into our debt, what we generally used the money we borrowed for, where we got the money from and who owns the pieces of our entire debt, how much we really owe and how much we're going to owe in the future if we Americans don't change our spending habits.

Much social injustice underpins this debt but a lot of the reason for the cause of it is us, the American people's spending habits (myself included). I hope you find this documentary eye-opening and enlightening, just like I did =)

-gs1r-


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Burndt Jamb
by: Weezer
Maladroit

Who I am and why I started this blog.

My name is Garry Santos (GS1), a Salvadorean-American, a christian and a Los Angeles native from birth. I'm a student at California State University, Northridge and major in Urban Studies and Planning, a discipline I'm very passionate about.

A few years ago I began to go through an intellectual revolution in my mind and being where I really started to understand of motives and reasons of how the world works, reading and studying the mass media, capitalism, business practices, ethics, humanitarian issues in 3rd world countries, crime, hunger, urban infrastructure, racism, ethnocentrism, class and elitism, social stratification; all this and other things summing up a general reality that unfortunately exists in our world... Social Injustice.

This blog is simply to spur a conscienceness of these issues and inspire righteous and impartial judgement within people, as well as an understanding of the importance of respect and love for our fellow neighbors =)




In September 2004, I went to see this movie with some friends, and I after I left the theater I had a change in perception in the existence of capitalism and it's effects on marginalized indigenous peoples of Latin America. I believe this movie is the seed that was planted in my heart and mind that spouted a desire to inform myself and understand social injustices.

I hope you come back so that we can both explore these things and reach symbiotic enlightenment =)


-gs1r-