February 7, 2010 – Surfing
August 25, 2009 – Surfing
Long Island, NY -
May 2, 2009 – Family & Community
My girlfriend Dara and I received a second place award for our entry into the Alaska Fish & Game Department’s Bear Aware Video Contest. Yay-ah!
March 11, 2009 – Activism
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today I participated in the Friends of Brad Will Caravan to D.C.. Our mission was to inform our representatives of the human rights violations and impunity U.S. tax money supports in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean – through the Merida Initiative; and to verbalize our opposition to it as well as encourage theirs.
January 14, 2009 – Travel + Activism
OAXACA CITY, Mexico - Today I filmed members of Section 22 and APPO as they came to demand Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno’s release from prison at the offices of the 5th District Judge. In this clip, his sister Lybia reads the families statement. Background info: On October 16th 2008, Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno was imprisoned for the 2006 murder of American Journalist Brad Will, unjustly, as eye-witness and forensic evidence has proved his innocence. He was scapegoated by the Mexican government in order to appease U.S. demands that the case be prosecuted, as a prerequisite for funding to Mexico under the Merida Initiative. He remains incarcerated at Santa Maria Ixcotel prison, in the City of Oaxaca, to this day.
January 11, 2009 – Travel + Music
OAXACA CITY, Mexico – Last night we celebrated Oaxaca with Raices. The full moon came to play too.
Son de la Barricada!
Salieron de todos lados con palos, gritos y piedras
y a toda la policía la mandaron a la mierda
después vino el contrataque con fuerza de tierra y aire
con gases que los maestros se quitaron con vinagre¿Qué de dónde son, qué de dónde son?
Que son de la barricada
¿Y de dónde, de dónde son?
Que son de la barricada
Poesia anónima.
verso:
La Bamba:
January 7, 2009 – Travel
OAXACA CITY, Mexico.
Protegenos Santisima Virgen de las Barrikadas.
January 5, 2009 – Travel
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASA, Mexico – Today, us big city boys got a good old fashioned butt wooping from the Zapatista basketball squadron. Luckily the match was cut-short (too late!) by el Sub-Comandante Marcos and the EZLN Comandantes, which had to clear the court for their departure from the CIDECI/Uni-Tierra campus. The Zapatista lineup sported beautifully woven blue wool garments, which did not handicap their dominance over our big city squadron.
January 4, 2009 – Travel + Activism
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico – Yesterday, about 400 people from The Festival of Dignified Rage made the two hour march from the events headquarters at CIDECI/Uni-Tierra (on the outskirts of San Critobal de las Casas, Chiapas, MX), to the city’s Zocalo, in solidarity and to show support for the people of Gaza. Once again, the Municipal Palace received a new paint job.
!Lucha, Lucha, Lucha, No Dejen de Luchar!
January 1, 2009 – Travel
CARACOL DE OVENTIK, Mexico – After announcing our arrival at the Office of Good Government, our video crew was allowed to enter the Caracol de Oventik (in Chiapas, Mexico) to participate in the 15th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising and 25th anniversary of the creation of the EZLN (National Zapatista Liberation Army).
We joined thousands of masked campesinos of the Tzotzil and Tzeltal Maya indigenous communities and also hundreds of international Zapatista sympathizers that were present to celebrate the autonomous movement’s accomplishments.
Once the sun set the comandantes spoke, and at midnight the norteño bands began to play in what was a cornucopia of congo lines, coffee drinking, masked faces, and arroz con leche. Those that survived the 6 hours of dancing were greeted by the sun and another day of autonomy where the mountains kiss the sky.
This clip was shot at sunrise (6am):
Picture Gallery:
December 28, 2008 – Travel + Music
MEXICO CITY – Today I filmed this Skinhead Antifascista band at el Festival de la Digna Rabia, D.F.
December 14, 2008 – Travel + Music
SAN FRANCISCO, California – Last night, my homie Carlo and I saw Ozomatli at the Filmore. It was just about the hundreth time I’ve seen OZO!!! ;0 But for the first time with Chali 2na, who just recently reunited with the group after doing his own thing for a couple of years. It rocked!!! Here is a clip of the same show I found online:
October 22, 2008 – Activism
NEW YORK CITY – My footage of members of the organization Friends of Brad Will participating in a 4-day vigil and fast was aired on the headlines of Democracy Now! today. The activist are goint on hunger strike from October 21st until October 24th in front of Senator Hillary Clinton’s offices in New York, as part of an international “Week of Action in Remembrance” of their murdered friend Brad Will. The purpose of the action is to bring attention to the Mexican government’s cover-up of the U.S. journalist’s murder and to show opposition to Senator Clinton’s support for U.S. funding for Mexico’s military operations under Plan Mexico (the “Merida Initiative”) .
Here is a small piece I edited with the footage:
September 11, 2008 – Health & Nutrition
NEW YORK CITY – Yoga at Tompkins Square Park with Swami Paztrami.
The Lion and the Cobra.
August 8, 2008 – Health & Nutrition
SOUTH BRONX, New York.
Viva le Time's Up!
July 12, 2008 – Techie
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May 17, 2008 – Gardening
SOUTH BRONX, New York – Teaching and learning to plant a cherry tree as a collective in the South Bronx. We tried to save as many worms as possible, but the “Worm Patrol!” thing got out of control 
May 11, 2008 – Travel
BIG SUR, California.
May 5, 2008 – Travel + Surfing
MALIBU, California – Never thought I’d do this cause of the crowds, but had to pull off the PCH and ride the ankle slappers because there were only 5 others out. Yay-ah!
March 23, 2008 – Travel + Surfing
SOMEWHERE ELSE IN CENTRAL AMERICA – A small backpack, a few bucks, and trusting in directions got me to a tiny fishing village with good vibes, great waves, and hardcore fooz-ball tournaments.
March 14, 2008 – Activism
KUNA YALA, PANAMA