Tia
Chucha's Cafe Cultural
Co-founded by Luis J. Rodriguez. A bookstore, coffee house,
art gallery, community center, cyber cafe, and meeting place
for the Chicano Arts Renaissance. Visit the website and
join the mailing list.
Tia
Chucha Press
Founded by Luis J. Rodriguez.
BlogTalkRadio:
Featuring Luis J. Rodriguez
"Between the Sheets", Hosted by Stacey Mangiaracina
& Roy Johnston, broadcast an interview with Luis J. Rodriguez
on June 24, 2008. You can listen in at the above link.
Xispas
The online journal for Chicano art, culture, and politics.
This site hopes to spark your imagination with the finest
Chicano poetry, fiction and graphic art coming out of Los
Angeles. Luis J. Rodriguez is editor and lead writer for
Xispas.
Perceval
Press
Perceval Press presents, "Live at Beyond Baroque 2", a live
recording of poetry, stories, and music from a performance
at the famous Venice, California Literary Center. Features
Luis J. Rodriguez and many other talented poets, authors,
singers, journalists, and songwriters.
International
Magazine
A link to an online interview with Luis J. Rodriguez on
the issue of LA-based gangs being deported to Central America
over the past 15 years, creating a crisis in crime and violence
in the poor and relatively resourceless countries of El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
abc.net
Online poetry radio documentary based in Australia about
the World Poetry Festival in Caracas, Venezuela in 2006.
It's was done by Michael Ladd, who also performed at the
poetry festival, for Poetica/ABC Radio National. It features
the various poets who took part, including Luis J. Rodriguez.
C
& C Press
Publishers of Luis J. Rodriguez's hand-made poetry artbooks.
Web
logs on Latino arts and more
Check out www.bestlatinoblogs.com
for a listing of varied Latino websites and blogs - or add
your own! Read Dr. Gabriel Buelna's blog on Latino publicl
affairs, at: gabrielbuelna.blogspot.com
Forgiven:
A Life's Journey from Pain to Peace
Written by Rene Munoz-Ledo, who died of liver cancer after
years of heroin and alcohol addictions. He wrote it after
becoming clean and sober so the lessons of his life could
help others avoid his mistakes. Luis J. Rodriguez mentioned
this book in the new intro to Always Running.
Get
Underground
GetUnderground.com, the website of "creative resistance
designed for the emancipation of the human spirit", has
published an interview with LJR as their Underground Featured
Poet.
Across
the Street Films
Adapted from the book, Always Running, by Luis J.
Rodriguez, director Charles Yi created a film that visually
captures Luis' recurring nightmare growing up as a child.
For
The Students!
A new website in support of the historic 2006 student walkouts
for Immigrant Rights.
Hearts
and Hands Elders
California youth and families today experience undesirable
and intolerable levels of violence in our communities. Something
must be done to build safe and strong communities. The Hearts
and Hands Elders have come together to advocate, mobilize,
and promote a statewide peace movement in California. They
want to help initiate a statewide Truce through Literacy
campaign with events hosted by various community grassroots
leaders and agencies throughout the state.
Mark
Vallen
This Los Angeles realist painter and printmaker creates
socially conscious artworks for our time. He created the
cover art for Luis J. Rodriquez' latest book of poetry,
My Nature is Hunger.
Mary
Helen Ponce
The website of author, Mary Helen Ponce.
James
Lilly - Wheelchair Champion
This is the site for James Lilly, a world-class wheelchair
racer. He was a gang member in Chicago when at age 15 he
was shot and paralyzed. Now he's a regular at wheelchair
racing events around the world, including the grueling Alaska
wheelchair championships. He also speaks to children and
youth in schools and other venues.
Molotov
Mouths
Poetically correct and politically direct since 2001, The
Molotov Mouths Outspoken Word Troupe is a collective of
poets of the political imagination hailing from the San
Francisco Bay Area. Drawing from various literary traditions,
the group's electric performances at once pay respect to
the Latino and Black Arts Movements of the Sixties, and
the Labor Arts Movements of the Thirties.
The
Bowery Poetry Club
Serving the world... Poetry! Located in New York,
right across the street from the world famous CBGB's.
Mosaic
Voice
Voices of peace, youth, and community.
Rock
& Rap Confidential
The international crossroads where music and politics meet.
Rap, Punk, Metal and more.
LRNA.org
League of Revolutionaries for a New America.
Rock
A Mole Productions
Musicians, writers, filmakers, and artists who promote grassroots
cultural events.
Curbstone
Press
Learning through literature that illuminates the issues
of our times.
Seven
Stories
This small publishing house lives by the words of Ralph
Waldo Emerson,
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
Harper
Collins
One of the world's leading English-language publishers with
headquarters in New York. A broad-based publisher with strengths
in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children's
books, cookbooks, mystery, romance, reference, religious
and spiritual books.
Children's
Book Press
Multicultural literature for children
Youth
Struggling for Survival
Hip-hop youth culture - art, music, spoken word for liberation
Powerhouse
Books
An avant-garde publisher of photography, art, and popular
culture titles based in New York City.
Touchstone/Simon
& Schuster
Simon & Schuster book publisher. The official site with
books, book descriptions, and more.
