My Official classes are:

• Poli 16 – Grassroots Democracy: Social Movements Since the 1960
• ICS 17 – Critical Consciousness and Social Change
• GEO 1 – Introduction to Geography

    Some more good news! THEY FINALLY HAVE WIFI AT DEANZA!!! Woohoo! I don't need to go down to whole foods to use their free WiFi anymore! [I'll still probably go to get a bite ;P]

    This weeks been hard for me because I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. I think I realized that I really want to be an intellectual and an academic. I remember hearing my teacher tell us that she's an intellectual and we all laughed. She just gave us a funny look like, "that wasn't a joke…" She went on to explain what an intellectual is. Ever since then I've felt that maybe that is the route I want to go. I'm also really inspired by my cousin Juan, err… Dr. Juan Sanchez. He's the first Dr. in our family, and I can see that he is truely passionate. I think that I may have some of that passion for school. The thought of joining the honors program has crossed my mind for a while, and I'm contemplating whether I should join…

    The Films Description:

Before dawn on New Year's Day, 1994, armed Mayan Indians in the Mexican
state of Chiapas declared war on the government, seizing eight towns
and sending shock waves through Mexico's political establishment.
Calling themselves the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, these
crudely armed peasants set in motion events that ripped away a modern
face of prosperity and stability to reveal "the other Mexico." Visually
interweaving the Mayan past and the Mexican Revolution with
contemporary reality, this documentary portrays an epic confrontation
pitting impoverished peasants against large landowners and government
forces in Mexico's poorest state. The video features interviews with
Subcommandante Marcos, the ski-masked "poet-warrior," as well as with
others in the Zapatista movement. Other protagonists include Bishop
Samuel Ruiz, Mexico's outspoken defender of indigeneous rights;
peasants on estates they have occupied; angry ranchers forced from
their land; conservative Catholics who charge the Bishop with inciting
revolution; government officials and army officers; and the notorious
guardias blancas, the landowners' private armies. 

    I highly recommend this movie… but it's impossible to find. I have a copy of it, and am willing to lend it out.