Jinpa Kangri
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Labor Organizer |
| Location | Boston, MA, United States |
| Introduction | An emergency counselor to Boston's homeless mentally ill for twenty years, I learned a lot around the relationship between poverty and mental illness. In the process I nearly lost my own sanity. The turning point was the day I got the call I had been waiting for my whole life. It was The Eastern Service Workers. I could tell the member at the other end of the line was reading from a script but I did not mind. I just remember saying over and over to myself, "please do not ask for money..." because I did not have any. Instead she asked if I would be interested in lending a hand towards their "Winter Survival" project. It was the day I began to figure out something that had remained elusive to me my entire adult life: The only way a person can fight for the rights of those victimized by poverty without losing her or his own mind is to focus one's own energies towards poverty at its root. That means organizing across economic strata to reverse government policy that wrongly favors big business over the interests of the middle class & working poor (Most poor people work every day.) |
| Interests | writing poetry, arranging flowers, Studying history, Reading philosophy: Plato's Republic, Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Wilhelm Reich's The Mass Psychology of Facism... |
| Favorite movies | Slumdog Millionaire, Redbelt, Spartan, Silence of the Lambs, , The Hurricane, She's Gotta Have It, Godfather Pt. II, Lillies of the Field, The Seven Samurai, Night at the Opera, Modern Times. |
| Favorite music | Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Etta James, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Armatrading, U2,Sinead O'Conner, The Cure, Siouxie Sioux, Nirvana, Hole, Biggie Smalls, Sister Carol, Gnarles Barkley, Santogold |
| Favorite books | Rushdie's Shalamar the Clown, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Rich's Diving Into the Wreck, Ginsberg's Howl, Kerouac's On The Road, Burrough's Naked Lunch, Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death, Hughs' Dream Deferred, Pasternek's Doctor Zhivago, Austen's Northanger Abbey, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Dostievsky's The Idiot, Cervante's Don Quixote, More's Utopia, Augustine's City of God, Plato's republic, Sapho's Collected Works, Aeschalus' Orestes Trilogy, Homer's The Iliad & The Odyssey |