"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
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Antonio Lopez
About Me
- Bio
Antonio Lopez was co-founder of the seminal LA punk zine, Ink Disease. From there he traversed zine culture, professional journalism and media literacy education. He has written for Mondo 2000, High Times, Punk Planet, Tricycle, In these Times, Brooklyn Rail, and scores of zines, newspapers and magazines. He's essays about media and culture have been featured in numerous book anthologies, most recently in the MacArthur Foundation's book series, Digital Learning in the 21st Century. His book on media education and sustainability, Mediacology, was published in 2008.
Antonio was a content provider for a groundbreaking Spanish language media and health CDROM produced by the New Mexico Media Literacy Project, Medios y Remedios, and created a multicultural media literacy curriculum, Merchants of Culture. He teaches and trains instructors in outreach, media production and media literacy, specializing in rural communities.
Antonio received professional training at the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco and is a product of Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley. He received an MA in Media Studies from the New School and holds a PhD from the School of Punk Rock. He is also co-creator of the music experience, My Country of Illusion. Currently he resides in Rome, Italy and cyberspace.
- Skills and talents
- I can teach people how to change their relationship with media and to how our beliefs are influenced by media consumption. I also have done extensive work doing grassroots media projects to help people become empowered through making media and art.
- What I'm Reading
- Spell of the Sensuous, Mediacology, Secret History of the American Empire, The Ethics of Climate Change, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain, Here Comes Everybody, Remix
- What I'm Listening To
- TV on the Radio, Hector Buitrago, The Herd, Aterciopelados, Deerhoof, School of Seven Bells, The Clash, Public Enemy, Ozomatli, Antibalas, Spearhead, Blur, Radiohead, The Adolescents, Sex Pistols...
- Movies I've Seen Recently
- Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Slumdog Millionaire, The 11the Hour, The Corporation, Donnie Darko, Blade Runner...
Education
- High school
- Verde Valley School
- College
- UC Berkeley/Oberlin
- Graduate school
- New School for Social Research
- Additional study
- PhD candidate Prescott College
Work
- Employer
- Self