Gabriel San Román

Gabriel San Román is a multimedia journalist from Anaheim, California. He worked as co-producer on the daily drive time Uprising morning show on KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles from 2005–2011. In addition to radio, he began authoring articles for the Orange County Weekly in 2006 and has since become a contributing writer. San Román’s interviews, reviews and writings have additionally been published in Truthout, Z Magazine, and Common Dreams as well as numerous other online and print media outlets.

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Praise

“Gabriel San Román’s Days of Dissent offers us a daily guide for the days when our faith in justice wobbles—to remind us that we have always fought our oppressors, and we have never given up. Everyone dreaming of a better future should have this book in their library.”
—Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

“A call to true justice and the persistence of memory.”
—Alicia Kozameh, Chapman University creative writing professor, novelist, poet, and former Argentinian political prisoner

“In the midst of today’s outlandish claims and public lies, Gabriel San Román’s Days of Dissent offers readers a much-needed reality check. By embracing the tenets of a people’s history, he beautifully weaves a tapestry of antiestablishment vignettes across time to remind us that only through nonnegotiable commitments to speak truth to power can democracy survive.”
—Antonia Darder, Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University

“As smart as it is beautifully rendered, Days of Dissent alters our sense of time by channeling the voices of people’s history, giving lie to the biggest of the Big Lies: You can do nothing to alter the course of capitalist history.”
—Roberto Lovato, journalist, creative writing professor and author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

“Somehow dramatic and intimate at the same time, this collection captures stories of resistance, rebellion, and revolutionary thought. Each vignette serves as a daily invitation to rethink history through the lens of dissent, offering a new perspective on the world’s most pivotal—and often overlooked—moments of radical change.”
—Andrej Grubačić, author of Wobblies and Zapatistas

“Days of Dissent brilliantly demands we look past status quo lethargy and unpack the deeply inherent tensions which have long existed in American schools—with their specific erasures of nonwhite peoples and our continuous history of dissent.”
—Jerry Quickley, poet and war correspondent

“Days of Dissent makes learning about people’s history as easy and pleasurable as eating a delicious box of candy. And inside each piece is a nourishing core of historical research and literary craft.”
—Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike! and The Green New Deal from Below

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Praise

“A well-written history and analysis that never forgets what the subject matter is: music for the ages.“
—Gustavo Arellano, editor, OC Weekly, and syndicated columnist for ¡Ask a Mexican!

“Gabriel San Román provides a thoughtful and comprehensive overview of the New Chilean Song Movement. Chile’s music of the 1960s and early 1970s was not only a milestone in Latin American popular culture, its importance transcended the strictly artistic to assume social and political significance. San Román insightfully interweaves the music’s artistic development with Chile’s tumultuous history of those years.“
—James Brennan, professor and chair of history, University of California, Riverside

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Book Events

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Reviews

• Gabriel San Roman Remembers Víctor Jara, the Man and the Movement
• Singing Songs of Struggle: How a Folk Music Movement Helped Elect a Marxist Reformer in Chile
• Newer Songs: Venceremos Reviewed on Red Wedge

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Interviews

• Gabriel San Roman Interviewed
• Gabriel San Roman on From the Vault: The Coup d’Etat in Chile
• Historic Verdict Holds Florida Resident Liable for Victor Jara’s Murder
• Activist Chris Crass On How Whites in OC and Beyond Can Help Black Lives Matter

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Mentions

• Víctor Jara and Revolutionary Fatherhood

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Blog

• Mein Lied ist ein freies Lied: Remembering Victor Jara in German!
• How the New Chilean Song Movement Remembered the Iquique Miners Massacre
• Celebrating Inti-Illimani’s 40th Anniversary in 2007
• In the Name of Violeta Parra
• From the Vault: My Radio Documentary on ’73 Chilean Coup Re-Airs
• Anaheim and the Future of América
• Legendary Labor Singer/Organizer Joe Hill Gets Immortalized in San Pedro
• Three Chilean Ex-Army Officials Charged in the Murder of Iconic Singer Victor Jara
• Ralph Chaplin’s “Solidarity Forever” Turns 100!
• Orange County’s First-Ever Anarchist Bookfair Is Coming in May!