Jose Palafox
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Jose Palafox is a writer, filmmaker, activist, and hardcore punk musician.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal History
He was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and grew up in San Diego, California.
[edit] Musical history
He played drums in the 1990s political hardcore punk band Struggle, who released records on Ebullition Records, as well as in the Swing Kids on Three One G Records, to which he introduced a unique jazz-influenced drumming style. The band helped to define what has come to be called the 'San Diego sound', though many of the bands this label describes reject it. He later played in Bread and Circuits and Yaphet Kotto. In 2005, he and Mike Kirsch started a new project called "Baader Brains," a tribute to the 1970s German urban guerrilla group, the Red Army Faction (RAF) and also to the Baader Meinhof Group.
[edit] Professional and Academic History
His film and writing have focussed on issues of migration, specifically relating to the US-Mexico border and its militarization. In 2001, he was the associate producer of the 28 minute documentary New World Border.
He has published articles in Covert Action Quarterly, ColorLines, Z Magazine, Borderlines, SF Bay Guardian, and Maximum RocknRoll.
He has taught in Chicano/Latino Studies and Sociology at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Mills College, UC Santa Cruz and University of San Francisco.
