{"id":39268,"date":"2014-03-18T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39268"},"modified":"2014-03-18T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T16:50:59","slug":"from-gangmember-to-governor-best-selling-author-luis-rodriguez-discusses-his-gubernatorial-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/03\/18\/from-gangmember-to-governor-best-selling-author-luis-rodriguez-discusses-his-gubernatorial-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"From Gangmember to Governor? Best Selling Author Luis Rodriguez Discusses his Gubernatorial Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140318Uprising\/2014_03_18_luis_rodriguez.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Luis Rodriguez <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140318Uprising\/2014_03_18_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/luis_rodriguez.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>There is little that Luis J. Rodriguez has not done in his life. The 60-year-old Chicano poet and best-selling author has been a member of a gang, faced felony charges, struggled with drug addiction, worked in various countries as a journalist, painted murals, taught prisoners, organized against war and racism, and run a cultural center and bookstore in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>Now he wants to be governor of California. <\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez gained national fame with his 1993 memoir, \u201cAlways Running, La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.,\u201d about his teenage years in a gang struggling with routine violence and the challenges of being an immigrant. He sold nearly half a million copies of his book and won numerous awards. His latest book is a sequel to Always Running, called, &#8220;It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing.&#8221; Today, he runs the beloved Tia Chucha\u2019s Centro Cultural &#038; Bookstore in Sylmar. <\/p>\n<p>We spend the hour today with Luis Rodriguez to discuss his gubernatorial campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Rodriguez&#8217; campaign for governor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodriguezforgovernor.org\">www.rodriguezforgovernor.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/luis_j_rodriguez_from_gang_member_to_governor_20140307\">Click here<\/a> to read Sonali Kolhatkar&#8217;s Truthdig column about Rodriguez. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is little that Luis J. Rodriguez has not done in his life. The 60-year-old Chicano poet and best-selling author has been a member of a gang, faced felony charges, struggled with drug addiction, worked in various countries as a journalist, painted murals, taught prisoners, organized against war and racism, and run a cultural center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39278,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39268\/revisions\/39278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}