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“I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one.”

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Luis J. Rodriguez, born in 1954, is a renowned poet whose works delve into the impact of social injustice and poverty on individual lives, known for his unique narrative style and emotional expression. more

“Nothing would more quickly and definitively reduce U.S. income inequality than allowing every worker in all businesses to participate in deciding the range of incomes from one worker to another. They would never do what is now a matter of normality: give one person millions, in some cases billions, while others have barely enough to make a living.”

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Author:Richard D. Wolff

“I moved into the garage at my mom's house, she wouldn't let me into the house, and the garage didn't have any running water. It did have electricity though, but it didn't have any running water, no bathroom. But, you know, it was great for me because I had my books there.”

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Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“I was arrested and put in murder's row. They were trying to get me for some murders I didn't do. They had me in a cell next to Charles Manson; he was going to trial at the time. And it was all a row of black and brown guys and one white guy: Charles Manson.”

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Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“The judge gave me a break. He was like: wow, we've never heard of this. So he gave me time served in the county jail, I didn't even get a felony. I have yet to get a felony, which is so crazy. I think Lindsey Lohan has more felonies than me.”

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Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this terrible devastation, people sitting in prison. I've been saved from prison, from death, and from heroine addiction. What am I going to do with that?”

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Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We’ve lost this knowledge as a culture.”

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Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, teachings, caring, and resources into the emptiness of young peoples' lives.”

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Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“In order to stay out of trouble I worked in industry. You can't even do that nowadays; there were all those factories.”

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Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.”

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Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

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