Patricia Flores (Original, English)

Si Yo Fuera una Canción (If I Were a Song)

Patricia, known as PJ, is a human dynamo dedicated to making life better for all, and especially the marginalized and underserved, in her beloved Santa Ana. She shares thoughtful perspectives on how love powers both activism and art, and along the way we get a few tips on how to subvert the capitalist System from within!

Patricia, conocida como PJ, es un dínamo humano dedicado a mejorar la vida para todxs, sobre todo lxs marginalizadxs y arrinconadxs de su querida Santa Ana. Comparte sus reflecciones sobre el amor como fuente del activismo y del arte; y en camino ¡recibimos unos consejitos sobre cómo subvertir el Sistema capitalista desde adentro!

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LINKS

ORANGE COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (OCEJ) – PATRICIA’S WORKPLACE

https://www.ocej.org/

URBAN LEAD CONTAMINATION & ITS REMEDIATION

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/document/huddoc?id=DOC_12460.pdf

http://urban-homesteading.org/remediating-lead-in-the-soil/

THE BLACK PANTHERS & PUBLIC HEALTH ACTIVISM

Morabia, Alfredo. “Unveiling the Black Panther Party Legacy to Public Health.” US National

Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. (2016)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024399/

Johnson, Annysa. “Milwaukee Black Panthers launch lead awareness campaign.” Milwaukee

Journal Sentinel, Nov 3, 2018

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2018/11/03/milwaukee-black-panthers-plan-lead-

awareness-campaign-hop-protest/1872239002/

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CRUISING ON BRISTOL STREET IN SANTA ANA

Wikipedia “Lowrider” (en español) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowrider

“Cruising Makes a Comeback,” LA Times 2001

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-10-me-8728-story.html

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/no-easter-night-car-cruising-in-santa-ana-this-year-police-warn/2343142/ (2020, COVID related)

A Police guide from 2005 about how to control the “problem of cruising”

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.399.9266&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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THE 5 PER CENT NATION (NATION OF GODS AND EARTHS (NGE/NOGE))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Percent_Nation

Swedenburg, Ted. “Islam in the Mix: Lessons of the Five Percent” -- a paper given in 1996 at the Univ. of

Arkansas

https://web.archive.org/web/20110814081607/http://comp.uark.edu/~tsweden/5per.html

https://humanities.wustl.edu/news/enter-five-percent-how-wu-tang-clan’s-debut-album-maps-

complex-doctrine-five-percent-nation

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