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Luis J. Rodriguez Photo Credit: Donna DeCesare 6 Questions P.O.V.'s Borders visitors sent Luis Rodriguez these questions in response to his work and his answers to P.O.V.'s initial 6 Questions . Read on! Question: You say that we have outlived any usefulness that borders may have offered and that we have advanced to a level where we can share the earth's resources with everyone. How do we begin to make this transformation? Where do we start? Has human civilization ever been good at sharing? Has human civilization ever been good at sharing? Always. We did it with far lesser resources or technological tools. We do so today. There are built-in social compacts that keep us from truly losing it even as many of our leaders, the truly powerful and greedy, run roughshod through the economic, political, social, and moral constraints binding on the rest of us. We still have strong impulses to something ancestral and primordial, collective and even genetic, to put others before ourselves, to — as Jesus and most great thinkers and prophets have emphasized over the ages — "treat others as you would like to be treated." Question: You wrote about borders within communities and neighborhoods, specifically in terms of your experiences in South Central and the Eastside of L.A. How has it been different living in Chicago? What are the border issues there? What was behind your migration?

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Luis J. Rodriguez Photo Credit: Donna DeCesare 6 Questions P.O.V. kicked off the discussion by asking Luis 6 initial questions, the same 6 we are asking all the featured guests. P.O.V.: In your work, you consider the notion of 'borders.' What is a border to you? P.O.V.: What's an important border that you've crossed in your life? P.O.V.: If you could erase any border in your world, what would it be? P.O.V.: When and how are borders useful? P.O.V.: This episode of P.O.V.'s Borders concentrates on borders as a physical reality, in terms of people moving from one place to another and having to cross mental and literal borders to do that. What, in your experience, is the most contested border? P.O.V.: Expand our borders. What's a book, movie, piece of music, website, etc. that challenges or engages with the idea of 'borders' that we should know about but perhaps don't? www.tiachucha.com

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25. UCRP: Luis J. Rodriguez luis J. rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Latino writers in the countrywith eight nationally published books in memoir, children's literature and http://www.culturalevents.ucr.edu/season/luis.html

Luis J. Rodriguez October 18 - 8 p.m. - $10 General/UCR Students Free University Theater Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Latino writers in the country with eight nationally published books in memoir, children's literature and poetry. His poetry has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and "Foreword" magazine's Silver Book Award, among others. Luis Rodriguez's most recent books are Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times (Seven Stories Press) and a short story collection, The Republic of East LA : Stories (HarperCollins). Rodriguez is best known for the 1993 memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. An international best seller, the memoir also garnered a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, a Chicago Sun-Times Book Award, and was designated a New York Times Notable Book. Written as a cautionary tale for his then 15-year-old son Ramiro-who had joined a Chicago gang-the memoir is popular among youth and teachers. Despite this, the American Library Association in 1999 called Always Running one of the ten most censored books in the United States.

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B a r r i o L i f e . C o m Excerpt from Chapter 8 by Luis J. Rodriguez picture provided by WordSculptors.com intro from the book: Always Running is the account of Luis J. Rodriguez's growing up in poverty in Los Angeles and his ultimate turning to gang life as a means of preservation. The book chronicles his encounters with racism in school and on the streets, and his struggle to overcome prejudice, drugs, and violence. "And if they murder, it's usually the ones who look like them, the ones closest to who they arethe mirror reflection. THey murder and they're killing themselves, over and over." With these words Luis J. Rodriguez expresses the devastation of life in the inner cities. Rodriguez began Always Running when he was 16, finding solace in the words that spilled out of him. However, he was not motivated to complete it until his own son, Ramiro, joined a gang in Chicago, where they now live. Always Running became for Rodriguez a way to offer the kind of mentoring he never received as a youth. It is a tale of survival, presenting a picture of the futility of gang warfare while providing understanding and hope.

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B a r r i o L i f e . C o m Excerpt from Chapter 10 by Luis J. Rodriguez "You see Lomas is so tiny, nameless, it doesn't even warrant a dot," Chente explained. "The vatos defend a land which doesn't even belong to them. All the death for what?" I thought about the globe: Chente was right. A bigger world awaited me. But I also knew: Once you're in Las Lomas, you never get out unless you're dead. "I glimpse in the distance certain roads, clearings silent in the morning after the night's demons have fled: the future, the ageless future, where there is always time to create." Maurice Sachs Alone at a bus stop in the first hours of a day, I wrapped myself in a long, black trench coat no longer used for jambas or jales . " !Que jodida! it's cold," I stammered out loud, to no one in particular. Trucks rumbled by and an occasional lowrider, sweet salsa sounds radiating from outside speakers; I jumped to the beat inside the trench coat as a breeze played havoc with my insides. I reflected on writing and art, on class struggle, on family and a woman's touch what mattered to me then.

28. People's Tribune 04-01 Presenting Luis J. Rodriguez Google Search site Search web. Click here for the Spanish version / Indíqueaquí para la versión en español Presenting luis J. rodriguez. http://www.lrna.org/league/PT/PT.2001.04/PT.2001.04.9.html

April, 2001 / Online Edition P.O. Box 3524, Chicago, IL 60654 Email: pt@noc.org Previous Index Next Search site Search web Presenting Luis J. Rodriguez Available for bookings for "Hispanic Heritage Month 2001" (mid-September to mid-October) or Cinco de Mayo in May, 2002. Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Latino writers in the country with six nationally published books in memoir, children's literature and poetry. Luis is best known for the 1993 memoir of gang life, "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." An international best seller, the memoir also garnered a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, a Chicago Sun-Times Book Award, and was designated a New York Times Notable Book. Written as a cautionary tale for Luis' then 15-year-old son Ramiro who had joined a Chicago gang the memoir is popular among youth and teachers. Despite this, the American Library Association in 1999 called "Always Running" one of the ten most-censored books in the United States. Efforts to remove his books from public-school libraries and reading lists have occurred in Illinois, Michigan, Texas, and more recently in California, where the battles were quite heated. Yet for all the controversy, Luis has gained the respect of the literary community. In addition to the above honors, he has received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Lannan Fellowship for Poetry, a Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, a National Association for Poetry Therapy Public Service Award, an Illinois Author of the Year Award, and several Illinois Arts Council fellowships.

29. Luis L.a. Times.html HEARTS AND HANDS Creating Community in Violent Times By luis J. rodriguez. Lostcauses, affirms luis J. rodriguez in Hearts and Hands, are. http://www.lrna.org/speakers/luislatimes.html

Sunday, December 23, 2001 L.A. Times When Rage Becomes Poetry HEARTS AND HANDS Creating Community in Violent Times By Luis J. Rodriguez Seven Stories Press: 368 pp., $24.95 ARTISTS IN TROUBLE New Stories By Aram Saroyan Black Sparrow Press: 238 pp., $30 cloth; $16.50 paper By JONATHAN KIRSCH "Lost causes," affirms Luis J. Rodriguez in "Hearts and Hands," "are the only ones worth fighting for." The cause that Rodriguez finds so compelling begins with what he calls "a cultural malaise of isolation and meaninglessness." The real victims of that malaise, he insists, are the young people of America. And their anomie is expressed in acts of seemingly senseless violence, not only in the barrio and urban areas but in the suburbs of Littleton, Colo., and Santee, Calif., too. "It's time," he insists in "Hearts and Hands," "to make sense of the senselessness." Rodriguez is a poet, a publisher and a pundit, among other things, but he is best known for his memoir of growing up on the mean streets of Los Angeles, "Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A."

30. The Republic Of East LA, Luis J. Rodriguez - HarperCollins Title Your browser does not support script, The Republic of EastLA Stories by luis J. rodriguez http://www.harpercollins.com/rd/features-seasonal-hispanicheritagemonth/book/006

Title Author ISBN Imprint Series Your browser does not support script The Republic of East LA Stories by Luis J. Rodriguez Luis J. Rodriguez Republica de East LA, La Paperback From the award-winning author of Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. It is a life brimming with hope and vitality, the depiction of which reaffirms Luis J. Rodriguez as not only one of America's keenest urbanists but as a writer with a perfect blend of humanist empathy and poetic soul. Behind this famed enclave's notorious gang violence its well-documented and stereotyped poverty rates, and the supposed desperation of those who live in East L.A. without any hope of escape, lies one resounding element: real people, with real strength, in very real predicaments. Whether hilariously capturing the voice of a philosophizing limo driver in his late twenties whose dream is to make the most of his rap-metal garage band in "My Ride, My Revolution," or the monologue-styled rant of a tes-ti-fy-ing!

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32. Bookselling This Week: Author Luis J. Rodriguez Opens Community Author luis J. rodriguez Opens Community Bookstore in LA. January 08, 2002. Bookssaved my life, said author luis J. rodriguez in a recent interview. http://news.bookweb.org/features/88.html

Bookstore in L.A. Search Advanced Search Author Luis J. Rodriguez Opens Community Bookstore in L.A. January 08, 2002 "Books saved my life," said author Luis J. Rodriguez in a recent interview. The 47-year-old author is a former Los Angeles gang member whose love and talent for poetry and prose convinced a judge to give Rodriguez a crucial break 26 years ago when he placed him, not back in prison, but on the road to a writer's life. Eventually a newspaper job took Rodriguez to Chicago. There, he started his own poetry publishing house and wrote the award-winning 1994 memoir, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (Touchstone Books). In 2000, Rodriguez and his L.A.-born wife moved back to Southern California to live near her family in the San Fernando Valley. But the author found something crucial missing there. "As soon as we came out here," said Rodriguez, "people were expressing that in this part of the Valleythis is the northern most section, which has some 400,000 people, 80 percent Latino populationthere were no bookstores, no movie houses, no real culture centers." Even in the very poor community where he'd lived in Chicago, Rodriguez said, "We still had places where people could do poetry and music and go to workshops. I thought it was strange that in the entertainment capital of the world, there was a whole community here that didn't have anything like that.

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Always Running: LA Vida Loca - Gang Days in L.A. By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts of street crime claimed friends and family members. Before long Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words, and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. Achieving success as an award-winning Chicano poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more until his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.

36. Luis J. Rodriguez - Video / The Valley Library - Oregon State University The Valley Library Information Services Oregon State University.luis J. rodriguez. color / 60 min / PS3568 .O34879 A6 1993. luis http://osulibrary.orst.edu/video/lit9.htm

The Valley Library Information Services - Oregon State University Luis J. Rodriguez color / 60 min / Luis J. Rodriguez is a poet, journalist and publisher who grew up in Watts and East Los Angeles. His writings give voice and dignity to those whose lives are scarred by violence, racism and poverty. Mr. Rodriguez reads from his books of poetry, The Concrete River and Poems Across the Pavement , and from his memoirs, Always Running, La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. He read on December 8, 1992, in Los Angeles and talked with Michael Silverblatt. Back Subject Guide osu.orst.edu Revised January 1998 Questions: Circulation

37. Luis J. Rodriguez: Cloth Of Muscle And Hair memory when something, anything, pushes out the soft white sheathof innocence. luis J. Rodríguez Trochemoche (HelterSkelter). http://www.breakoutofthebox.com/rabbit.htm

Out of the Box Coaching and BREAKTHROUGHS WITH THE ENNEAGRAM , Mary R. Bast, Ph.D. Cloth of Muscle and Hair Pink, oily bodies hang on a line like cloth of muscle and hair. Flayed in rapid order with a delicate slice of pelt, they are held by their feet, their skin pulled from the flesh, down toward the damp ground. The five-year-old girl wept, having held these same rabbits only a day before, gathering them close, fur to face, stroking them and sensing their pulse beneath her fingers. My Greek neighbor had done this for years, raising rabbits to die, and displaying them on a nylon wire to sell to other neighbors. The girl's tears failed to spark in him a gnawing nightmare of wet body parts lurching through late night foam, creeping up the back while wailing out our mortality, proving we are no less flayable, with emotions ripped from the muscles of psyche. Nothing stirred the panic from my neighbor's hand even as the girl ran into the house

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Canton Upcoming Events About Tia Chucha's Virtual Tour ... E-Mail Maria Trinidad Rodriguez trini@tiachucha.com Maria, known as "Trini," is a long-time resident of the Northeast San Fernando Valley, having grown up in Pacoima and graduated from San Fernando High School, and California State University, Northridge. She became a reading specialist and bilingual teacher, having taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District for around eight years. In 1983, she moved to Chicago to work as an editor and writer for the Tribuno del Pueblo. She later served as a court interpreter. In 1988, she married Luis J. Rodriguez. Soon after she helped organize and manage his writing and lecturing work. In late June 2002, Trini, Luis, and their two sons, Ruben and Luis, returned to the Northeast San Fernando Valley, where in February of 2001 they bought a house in the city of San Fernando. Enrique Sanchez enrique@tiachucha.com

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