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RASCUACHA TECH offers a guide to digital resistance for communities at the center of a social justice struggle who experience ongoing trauma, low economic resources, media blackout, technological divides, and language barriers. RASCUACHA TECH shares resource-friendly techniques to construct digital resistance movements that document, digitize, and disseminate information to boost online visibility, raise awareness, grow action-oriented networks, and obtain results. This book explores the intersections of technology, social justice, decolonization, and spirituality. PART I: DEFINITIONS Chapter 1: Defining digital resistance Chapter 2: Defining rascuacha tech PART II: REFLECTIONS Chapter 3: Birth of a digital warrior Chapter 4: The spiritual journey Chapter 5: Spiritual elements of the virtual world PART III: INSIDE THE MACHINE Chapter 6: How to construct a digital war front Chapter 7: Traffic and quality control PART IV: THINGS TO CONSIDER Chapter 8: Potential obstacles Chapter 9: Self-care as resistance

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Iris Rodriguez is a digital strategist, multimedia producer, author, musical artist, and poet from San Antonio, Texas. Since 2002 her multimedia community-based projects have addressed numerous issues such as environmental racism/justice, family detention, decolonization, cultural arts, guerrilla media, womynism and public archives. She is the founder and web jefa of Xica Media, a home-based Xicana-powered network of six independent multimedia channels reaching over 120 countries in three languages. She is a graduate of the (former) Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a graduate of the Racial Justice Communications course by the Praxis Project (National Labor College, Washington, D.C.) as well as the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (George Washington University, Washington, D.C.) In 2009 she was awarded the Cesar E. Chavez Si Se Puede Award by People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER.)

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