to my channel guys it's your girl Coco Styles and on this channel we talk about beauty and fashion and lifestyle but in today's video I'm just gonna do a quick unboxing I wasn't gonna do it because it's pretty small but I've been wanting it for a while just a small little mirror from Chanel I don't know if it's considered pricey for a pocket mirror however I wanted it so I don't think it was expensive and something else that I got so if you stay to the end of the video you can see the other purchase that I got so I also heard that Chanel does package their stuff like extremely nice we shall see I've seen well I'm sorry we know that they package their stuff really nice but I don't know as far as like the smaller smaller things but I'm just gonna open it up I'm gonna take a big blade and open it up if you're gonna use a knife to open this pick something a little bit smaller because this is rather big and not the safest actually I could actually pull it from here you get it in the box opens up like this let's close this back so we are not cutting off those and then it comes in a Chanel box simple box and of course our seat and stuff in here and it's nothing too extravagant I wish it was but it's not and they just wrap it up in here just like this with the Chanel sticker I'm sure you guys guys have seen this a million times but they do have tissue I mean I'm sorry tissue paper and stuff in here and all that good stuff so it's just the mirror nothing extravagant and I'll pull that out inside of the case let me come a little closer and just a little pocket mirror just a little pocket mirror I actually thought it was a little bit bigger but I'm actually glad it's this small because my toilet your case you don't want to kind of fill that up so that's that I have pretty big hands and it sits right in so yes ladies you can take it on the side if you need to dig in your nose dig in your eye and here it goes it's cute most people won't buy it because it's I think it's 40 bucks but it is double-sided very sleek very sleek I like it quick unboxing guys and a nice little velvet case that has the CCs on it things you should have in your bag in mirror also I purchased now here's the thing the next purchase it's something that most people won't get sorry they give you samples and a little Chanel little sample case what is this I forgot I purchased no I got some smoothing firm serum and some Chanel number five just a sample but this is a cute little bag if you wanted to take it on a trip with you throw some jewelry in here if you want it because it does have a drawstring so that's pretty cute actually you can put your marry in there if you like and last but not least is this now guys okay so this is tissue from Chanel sorry I did want this for some time I should have bought two boxes because they're really small but let me open it up for you guys to see how it looks I should have got two boxes because they were sold out for some time and I heard they're really really thick extremely thick almost like when you go to like a fancy restaurant and like the bathroom napkins are so thick almost like table napkins let's open this up and here it go so it's just the oh it's probably coming out backwards it is so it's just a cotton they caught on extra soft cotton so let's open this up with oh okay great it's a slide out box which is awesome so I can sit it on my vanity if I wanted to actually the slide out box on top only and then the other box is just a regular flip-up box so let's open that up actually don't stick that through there because there is a little insert so just pick this thicker off so your box can close back easily okay open that up make sure you close your knife back and here you go it's a little flap in the front to lift it up see and the napkins well they're a little cotton for your face guys I don't know if you guys can see that can you see I'm gonna lift one up so you can see it that's one look at how thick that is can you guys see that that's one cotton pad so this is equivalent to well actually can you guys see I hope so so that is equivalent to maybe two circle makeup pads from Target this is really thick so instead of using probably three of those to get your makeup off you can probably just use one of these and they have the ccs on it how cute is that I don't know if you can see it's cute I would definitely get another box because wasting those and this is only $20 and it comes with a hundred a hundred pieces of of cotton so if you buy regular cotton flops at $4.99 a bag with a hundred in it and you're using three or four per use opposed to using one then I would say try these out and they're just cute so they are sold out a lot so it's probably not something that you're gonna be able to just like keeping your rotation but I think it's cute so that's that guys simple little thing that I got from Chanel nothing crazy next time I'll be unboxing a bag eventually they charge too much guys actually let's put this back on top the prices went up I don't like the price now of the Chanel bags I don't think a lot of people like the prices but I still think they're very pretty classic bag I mean there's others that I do like that I know I can keep for years so but that's it guys just a quick little unboxing of the mirror and some little treats that they gave me and that's it that is totally totally it guys well let me know guys if you actually do like videos like this me unboxing things and showing you guys some of the things that I purchased I'll definitely do a quick unboxing for you guys I may do them fully dressed if I'm already dressed but if I'm in like pajamas I'll just like a zoom in of the product or whatever and show you guys but um if you say to the end of this video please comment Coco we see you and don't forget to hit that like comment and subscribe button and I will see you guys in the next one all right guys bye


The topic we are going to talk today is respect for student privacy. As we understand that when we talk about the privacy, it is very important to provide the private space in a therapeutic environment. Hence, when we talk that the privacy is given in an academic setting to the student, that has given a different meaning. The rules and requirements regarding the confidentiality in the academic setting cannot be the same as the duty owed to the psychotherapist in a therapeutic setting. So definitely, the way we insure a privacy in psychotherapy, insure a confidentiality, that scenario as it is, with the same structure, it is a little difficult to maintain the student's exam privacy or the student's counseling setup privacy. Whereas student economic records are protected by law which is revealed in the classroom and informed among faculty and student is not uniformly explained by the law. When we are talking about the privacy of the academic record, it is very important to keep in mind that definitely when the grades come, the students will be informed, their results will be told in their classrooms, their parents will be informed, besides that, the record will be kept in the guzzet, even on the website, the overall results can be available in a consolidated form. But when we talk about privacy, what kind of privacy do we have to insure there? In today's lecture, we will talk exclusively about those topics. Where the students' records or their grades, if they are giving them an anxiety feeling that if they have secured bad results or in a subject, their performance is not as good as theirs, then they can have any kind of stress or anxiety because of that. So their self-esteem is not harmful, their self-identity is not revealing to others that these are the students who have 45 grades or they do not have any labeling on them. So in this way, we can display the academic records in a way that they can. Nevertheless, the ethical considerations apply and the careless disclosure that violates a reasonable right to privacy can cause students harm. If you have openly declared that these are the three students who have the least marks in their university, if we label them in this way, then definitely that is going to create a lot of distress in them and probably even very harmful consequences could be seen out of it. So we never display any bad academic record on the notice board or we never tag it by name that these are exclusive students whose GPA is below 2 or below 1.5 or things like that. They are the few important points that should be considered by the instructor to protect the privacy of their students. So in a teacher-student bond, where there are many factors that they are working on, there is an important factor between them which is the respect, regard, privacy and their rights are also included. Now don't share students' faces or names without explicit parental consent. This does not only go in terms of labeling them as a bad student, but in fact this is equally important if you are going to portray them as a high achiever. You can't just post their pictures and you can't just post their names on the notice board, on the website, on any social media or any newspaper without the consent of the parents and the student itself. Like if any of your students are going to take any topers or any distinction, even if you give them the news or inform them on social media, then the consent of the parents is definitely going to display their pictures. Similarly, this situation gets even more damaging. If there are any fee-defaulters or students who have performed badly in that semester, then make a list of their names with a list of their pictures and upload them on the web page, that these are the fee-defaulters and these are the students who have not performed adequately in the semester. So this could not be allowed by the ethical guidelines that you could do any such act which is going to defame the student and can create any kind of psychological distress and especially the self, you know, the loss of self-esteem because such serious consequences can happen at times someone can even take the life of himself or herself. So in the tender age of the students, they take very minutely care of these things and we never publicise them in such a way that they are either good publicity or they are bad publicity but good publicity is also consented and bad publicity is not allowed so that you can name someone badly. Then don't make any grades, assessment or any other part of the student's educational record public. A student's academic portfolio can never be publicised by his wife that anyone could access and then can further label them that he is the student whose life has never been good marks in general knowledge because you never know that this data can be used at any stage in life in the future. Let's say that there is an individual whose data is public and they say that marks in English have never been good in life and later by virtue of chance they become the teacher of English. So against that, this propaganda can be used from time to time that people don't like. So in such a situation, the number of someone's dates and information is not allowed to be publicised. This is the core part of Family Ethical Regulations and Act through which we can't public this. And the rules of Family Regulation Act say that you don't have to open every privacy, every name and every profile. If in doubt about something that might count, don't share. Pay particular attention to how you reply to publicly posted student work. If you have posted a student work with queries or comments, the way you reply is also very technical. I have gone through an incident in which a school uploaded the music performance of its students. It was a small school where under age 10 students were singing competition. In that singing competition, a student performed a duet song in English and the school posted it and gave parents consent that people would give good comments and would appreciate the extra-curricular activities of their students. But what happened was that the singing was very extraordinary and people started commenting that this is not an original performance and this is just lip-singing and these acts shouldn't be promoted to school and the school is not portraying the right picture and it is portraying the wrong picture of the school. The students of parents were very distressed that our students' achievements or their performance were wrongly understood by the public. They reported their defences to the school and there was a long debate on that. Some parents listened to the students' performance and appreciated them and cut short to that incident that in return the school has to remove that video because they were unable to publicly handle the comments which were being given by the public. So sometimes a very simple act would be turned up into a very trivial thing so we need to be very careful but need to be uploaded and but not. So don't use students' name without naming files. If you have kept students' records in school, university you cannot label them as the students graduated, the students who did not graduated, the students who got less than 45 percent marks or the star students and after that we tagged the names of the files. The files should be only with the broader caption and the inside the file could be the portfolio of the students so they should not be seen publicly. Then do be mindful to how commercialize your classroom. Because this is the digital age everything has been digitalized some teachers are doing live recordings of their classroom they are also uploading live student activities, schools they are uploading on pages. So what to do in this scenario social media can be a great way to offer feedback to developers of educational products but teachers should consider the most about products that include students can make them non-consensual spokespeople. Now if you have uploaded every type of activity and there is an open forum where people are watching it at times it becomes very difficult for you to manage that scenario because some such things can happen that people cannot understand some such class activities some such educational products whose understanding probably is not the audience of the students and they can turn out to be a bad decision rather it could be a good decision for you to upload these things that you are promoting your school promoting your educational sector so by saying this it needs to be very critical that how to maintain the privacy of your students and also how to maintain the decorum of an educational institute.


Um, Louisiana has figured the prison thing out, if you ask me. See, when you isolate people and put them in a certain group, you almost kind of validate their gang. See, Louisiana don't do that. By the stick, all y'all. And it's done. And guess what? You gonna have to get along with each other. All y'all killers. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. And what's the feeling? You seem to be very humble and laid back type of person. But I know that, you know, I've heard a lot of stories from people who've been in prison. I know there's a lot of violence and gangs and all of that. How were you able to survive during all of that and not being able to, were you involved in any of those? Because from what I hear when you go, it's almost like you have to check in, you have to almost pick a side, all of that sort of things. Did that affect you when you went to prison? No. And how come? Prison is a weird place. Yeah, that is a true statement, America. Prison is a weird place. Alright, so you have different prisons all over the country. And in Louisiana, we don't really, gangs aren't really big in Louisiana prisons. Louisiana has figured the prison thing out, if you ask me. See, when you isolate people and put them in a certain group, you almost kind of validate their gang. See, Louisiana don't do that. You about to stick all y'all in this dorm. And guess what? You gonna have to get along with each other. All y'all killers. So guess what? There is a unspoken code of respect because everybody know the potential danger of the next man. Okay, it makes a lot of sense. We're in an open dorm. No cells. 50 man tank. 120 man warehouse with just beds in it. So you're not about to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And go to your cell. And go to sleep.  You threaten someone, tell them you're gonna do them this and that.  And then you wake up in the middle of the night and he's standing over your bed. It was like, that's why I say Louisiana, this prison thing. They gotta figure it out. They figured it out.  You had violence. But if you mind your business and you did the right things in prison, I learned early on that you were able, I was able to evade much of the foolishness. Because the foolishness in prison centered around three things. Gambling. Drugs. I'm gonna try to say this in the most political way. Try to find the right. He failed me. I know exactly what it is. The other thing. I was just saying that. The other thing. So those three things are what most of the violence centers around in prison. And if you are not involved in one of those three things, it's a good chance that your prison state will be as bearable as possible. Because I don't want to say smooth. I don't want to say good because nothing is good about prison. You can run into any situation. And you can run into any situation. You'll have your bumps in the road. But if you can avoid those things, it'll be bearable. That ain't mind your business. Simply say it. That's basically it. Mind your business.


We're sitting just above the village of Charlotte Pass in Casiosco National Park and this is a place that I've been working, doing research and teaching in for about the past 20 years. What's really caught my attention at the moment is thinking about the mountains in a changing climate and the plants and animals that are found here, many of them are not found anywhere else, they're not found at lower elevations, many of them require snow to complete their life cycle. So one of the things that I think we don't realize is how much the microenvironment, the space around a plant can change over the course of a day or even minutes. The temperature for example of a leaf, as the sunrises will go from negative 2 to 25 degrees, so it goes from really cold and frozen to really quite warm and then if the sun shines on it it'll get much hotter than the temperature of the air or anything else around it. And to me that's really fascinating, that you've got an organism that can alter its temperature so dramatically over such a short period of time, if you think about us we don't change temperature whereas these things are capable of doing that repeatedly over really quick time scales. So in 2020 there are several things that happened that have caused us to stop, reevaluate and think carefully about what we need to do next and how we want to go forward. It began with the bushfires and the bushfires meant that my team had to really rethink what they were going to do because we couldn't get into our field sites for quite a long time and some of the places that we were working or planning to work were fire affected. Then there was a hailstorm in Canberra that took out all of our glass houses and with it experiments that we've been working on for three years that were within a few months of completion and all of that was before the pandemic. I think for me 2020 was about really pairing things back, really thinking about priorities and thinking about what are the important things to keep going and to maintain. I was particularly struck by the impact that this event will have on the coming generation and really thinking about how it changes the way we need to train and educate and prepare the next generation for future unexpected events. I think 2020 has demonstrated to all of us that really extreme things can come out of the blue and that one of the few things you can predict is that there's going to be a lot of unpredictable stuff happening over the coming years and so to me it's been about thinking what is the baseline, what is the information that we need to be monitoring so we can detect change and think about how we're going to manage and respond and try to maintain the values of these spectacular landscapes. And on the more personal side it's really about thinking about how do we make sure that the next generation has the tools that they need to come up with creative solutions for unpredictable problems.


What up world my name is Sonny bamboo. This is don't fly USA. This is a 3c ATL. What up?  We in the support a 3c All the support artists on the battle rapper salute y'all shout out my nigga Sonny bamboo.    I'm like bro. You're gonna get on the diet. He's like, huh?  I say you want to compare me to a Mexican, right? Like we Molaons or you Reggie and I'm piff. That's how I know that you weed whacker I Said yo He's a legend. All right, but I'm here to slay the best I'll be rolling down your block in the coupe and I'll let that 8k stretch with one arm out the whip They don't know if we need a dancer. I'm about to do the name.  He's so Juan. Yeah He doesn't really get it bro.    I really didn't care Bro, I had a battle last week. I got a battle next week. So You asked me homie this battle to me seems fair.  I'm close to the edge, but I ain't Christian hold on I ain't finished. I'll slack them just like I hate bitches You said you build the bridge that helped me get across you right, but I'm the dude that gave that bridge a weight limit I said but trust me I'm that nigga.  I don't need you to correspond. I said you got your back up like core respond Well, I have him on the floor with paramedics hoping that core respond. I said sidebar. I Said yo you probably watch big mama's house.       That was a proper help.   I wasn't ducking nigga I said why should I lay down for it?   I don't know which bonapick I got something that a straight in his hair out.  I said this is a part of the round Why ain't gonna talk about how let that let bus?


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Hi there, it's Sandy Alnok and today I'm going to be talking about inks for no-line coloring. I first want to let you know the new Colorado Craft Company release is out. I got to make samples for all of their different stamps they've got out this month. They're on both the Ellen Hudson website, the Colorado Craft Company website, and my website. You can click in the links down below to go check them out. I'm going to just be working with dear friend Robin in this video and generally I use the ink on three fade-out ink, but I'm going to test that one against a distress ink later on in this video with watercolor, but I'm going to start out first with the Copic version.  The reason for that is if you use pigment inks, they will smear all over the place. You might be successful with pigment inks if you let them dry enough. I don't really know. I have never been patient enough to do that, so you can use a dye ink, but what I like is the fade-out ink from ink on three. They call it a no-line fade-out ink, and it's just a very, very pale color. The whole idea behind no-line coloring is to make it feel like those are pencil lines, so they kind of fade into the coloring itself, and you don't end up with that harsh black line. One of the other things I love about doing no-line coloring is that it allows me to change things up. I could take this robin and turn it into another bird if I wanted, just by making it puffier around the middle or making the tail longer or the beak longer. I can do all kinds of things to it because the ink is so light that I have the ability to work around that and change it up to something else. I'm coloring it as a robin in this instance because I'm looking at a picture of a robin. I went to look one up when I saw the name of the stamp set, and that's one way that you can start to learn how to see colors is to go find a picture of the real thing on the interwebs and find out how that thing is actually, what colors are actually there. The grays on this robin actually started out with a blue violet color at the beginning. It was a BB23 instead of a gray because I saw a light sheen of purple. The more you try this kind of a thing, the more you'll train yourself to be able to see color a little differently. On the belly of him, I saw yellow coming through in the sunshine in the photograph that I was working from, so I put a coat of yellow down first and then started adding other colors to it, allowing a little bit of that yellow to come through the way it did in the picture. The sun hits some of those feathers, it just highlights just a few of them and gives them a nice texture. That's stuff that may or may not be in the stamp.  Here I can change it up if I wanted. This particular bird had a little white feather in the middle of this tummy. I don't know what was up with that, whether it was just a stray or if that was just a marking for this particular bird, but I thought it was cute, so I left it in there. With no-line coloring, the whole idea is to try to make the lines disappear. One of the things you could do when you're doing no-line coloring is just color part of the image. You could color just the bird and his legs and leave the tree in that really soft color, but I wanted it to feel like a spring tree, so I started working with putting in a little bit of greens into the bark as well as into all those buds. I don't know which particular type of tree this was intended to be, so I just looked up Tree with Buds in order to see what was out there on the interwebs. When you're looking for color inspiration, that's always a great place to start to see what it looks like in real life. For each of my tree branches, I'm going to be using either a brown or a gray as the base and adding some green into the brown or gray to make it match a little bit better with the buds and give it that spring feel, so there's a little bit of green showing through in some of the branches. So that's the Copic one. Let's look at watercolor next. And I've got the stamping of Distress versus No Line Fade Out Ink. Distress on the left. You can see it stamped kind of unevenly. This is rough watercolor paper, so it's challenging to stamp on it anyway. But let's first test the No Line Fade Out Ink. This is a little test that I've been wanting to run for a while because I've been using a lot of different inks with watercolor to do some No Line Fade Out kind of look anyway. And this ink has been one of the ones that I use a lot for that. I didn't really test out exactly the detail of what I'm looking for in this particular project. I wanted to see whether or not those lines really do melt out at all. Because usually when I start watercoloring, I get all kinds of crazy wacky and I start getting splish splashy. And by that time, I don't even notice whether the lines are still there or not. I don't pay any attention. I don't really care because I've only used the stamp as a guideline. But for some people, they want the lines to stay. Some people, they want them to go. And it really depends on the effect you're looking for. Because when I've done some stamping with distress inks or distress oxides, I get crazy splashy. And I let some of those lines completely wash out. This ink would not be able to do that. If you want an edge to completely disappear and not be shown at all, this ink would not do that. Because it remains right where it is. I was fascinated to see how under that yellow tummy, the lines are still there. They are still as crisp as when I stamped them. So they didn't lose any integrity like a distress oxide ink or a distress ink would or a lot of other types of pigment inks that you might want to use. So it's up to you what kind of edge you want for each one of those lines. If you want it to remain, this is definitely the ink to use. It's also a nice soft color. It's really hard to get an ink that you can use for your no-lying type of watercolor paintings that's light enough like this. They seem to, at least the ones that I've bought, seem to be on the darker side. And it's really hard to do second generation stamping on watercolor paper. What I mean by second generation is you stamp first on a piece of scratch paper. And then once there's less ink left on the stamp, you stamp it right away onto your finished paper. Well, it's already difficult to stamp on the lumpy paper. So I have not had success with second generation stamping on my watercolor papers. But the fact that this one stamps so clearly, that's probably going to become one of my go-tos unless I'm doing my splash splashy, crazy, wild, loose watercolors, then for those, I may still use some Distress Inks because as I said, sometimes there's times when I want the whole edge to just wash out and disappear and blend into the background, this one would leave a line there. And I wouldn't want that necessarily. Let's take a really quick look at the Distress Inks. Talk about that a little bit. One of the things you'll see right away is that since they do melt out with water, they do mix into the color that you've got. So my yellowish color is a little bit on the green side. And when it was all finished, I noticed the Distress Ink on the left was muddier than the No Line fade out on the right. The lines remained cleaner. They got a little mushy on the Distress Side, but they stayed crisper on the fade out ink. So I kind of like the fade out look better, I think, for the type of stamp that this is. But it really depends, as I said, on what kind of a look you want to get overall with your No Line coloring. There's a ton of different ways you can go with it. I'll show you a quick sample here of a card that I made using the No Line fade out ink and colored pencil. So you can use any ink you want with colored pencil. It doesn't matter. As long as even pigment inks are dry, they will work with your colored pencil. So I didn't test anything here because I know that they'll all work. If you're interested in more on No Line coloring, I have a ginormous blog post and I do mean ginormous with all of my Copic watercolor and colored pencil No Line videos. Or at least as many as I could find and put them all into one place. I'll keep adding to it over time. So hopefully that will become a really good resource where you can find all the information you want on a lot of different styles of No Line coloring. And that is about it for me. I'm going to go now. I will see you again very soon. Take care and go make something beautiful and give it away. Make somebody's day. I'll see you guys later. Bye bye.


Welcome back to another video in my San Diego Bookstore series. Today I'm going to be talking with Jack Rahn of the Groundwork Books or Groundwork Book Collective, which is a radical left-wing bookstore on the campus of UCSD. For those outside the Pale of California, that's the University of California at San Diego, which is in La Jolla, which is also where I took this photo. You can see it's a hideous and dreary place, but someone has to live there. Apparently that's not me. As is often the case with the interviews in this bookstore series, I expect it will also be of interest to the viewers of my regular videos, whether or not they have any particular interest in the San Diego Bookstore scene. In particular, I was surprised to find that my interviewees, the fan of Kevin Carson and Sean Wilbur, since I've been under the misimpression that this was a fairly strictly Marxist bookstore. It turns out, not quite so strict. Anyway, here we go. Hi, Jack. Hello. Hi there, Roderick. Good to see you. Good to see you. Yes, I will be the representative for Groundbooks Collective today. Okay, really? So, this is a bookstore on the campus of UCSD. Is this the right address for you? Groundwork Books 323 UCSD Student Center 9500 Gellman Drive? Yes, that is correct. Okay, great. All right, so I need you to tell me a little bit about the bookstore, the kind of books you offer, how it's organized. I know it's organized as a collective. The history of the bookstore and your history with it or whatever.  So a lot of our members are undergraduates, graduate students at University of California, San Diego. We strive to have no hierarchy within the sort of workplace. Everyone is very much, you know, equal to one another. No one is like barking orders. There is no sort of like bureaucracy or vertical power structures in the store. Let's see.  Many of our books relate to anarchist and Marxist theory. We have plenty of right actually right behind me is a sort of glimpse of the bookstore. There are lots of books on like philosophy, labor struggle, social activism, that sort of thing. And in terms of the history of the store, it's, it is, it is quite interesting. So we were founded and I believe 1973 1974 in the wake. I would actually have been in San Diego at the time it was founded, although I would have been a little kid. Yeah, so it was founded by many of the new left activists within the UCSD campus. I believe, especially after the wake of like many of the anti Vietnam War protests. Some members from that sort of milieu cohort got together and decided to create a bookstore. And the name of our bookstore, I believe comes from the fact that the way it was organized as a horizontal worker cooperative was supposed to be sort of a lay the groundwork of a new society of a more anti capitalist post capitalist sort of a way of organizing the economy way of organizing society. That sort of thing. And since then, based on cost. I'm sorry, what was that never get people assuming it's based on cost groundwork. Yes, we've had a few people joke about a yes groundwork so the metaphysics of ethics and cons we could yes jokes about us being a Kantian bookstore that sort of thing has emerged. But yeah for the most part is just, you know, contemporary left wing politics or the sort of better rock of the store. Since it was founded in the 70s, and then, since then grant books collective has sort of had. Aside from trying to organize ourselves into an effective worker cooperative we've also been, you know, very involved with many, many, many activist projects throughout the years. In the past, I don't have any strict details about like the 70s 80s 90s I know we've had members of the bookstore participate in, you know, anti tuition, or anti tuition increase protests, anti apartheid protests. Let's see, like support for Palestinian justice that sort of thing. I think that briefly covers sort of the quick history and overview of the bookstore, the collective. So you hold events in the store. Yes, so prior to the COVID-19 epidemic. We did host. There's been various events hosted on and off throughout the years I know we've before this was before I arrived at the bookstore I know we used to hold like free. I think it was like vegan brunches every Saturday that's sort of falling towards the wayside. We, let's see, oh some of our biggest events were usually like movie nights so we'd host like free screenings of, you know, whatever movies the collective decided we want to show that week and just post it free for the public. I know we've hosted a number of reading groups is a bookstore after all. At our collective and just invite people to sort of join us in reading discussions over whatever book we choose usually it was some sort of something from literature or like clinical theory that sort of thing. And when again when we were in person on campus. We would usually host. At least once a quarter at our school, try to host a general body meeting where we just invite people to come learn about the collective come check out the collective we usually have presentations showing off. Basically the details I'm explaining here about what the collective is and why. You know, and if anybody was interested they would be able to volunteer at these events. And that's some of the more recent notable things we posted at our bookstore. So how soon do you think that you think that you'll be open like in person stuff in the fall. It doesn't look like that's going to happen. So this past year, because of various, you know, COVID-19 related things, we were open, but we had very limited capacity very limited staffing hours.  Right now the university has told us, as of this at the moment of this recording I guess there should be in person events and I'm a little foggy on the details everything's still a little bit up in the air right now because of the, you know, Delta variant cases are increasing hopefully there will be. If everything goes well, you know the majority of the student body is like vaccinated and all that stuff we should be able to host. In person events probably returned to some of the previous functions we were doing prior to the pandemic but yeah nothing I guess nothing is quite set in stone right now. So how did you personally get interested in this bookstore. So I, when I was in high school, I was very interested in a lot of left wing politics. I've been familiar with the cooperative movement. I thought that was very, you know, this, at least reading about it, like in my area there weren't any cooperatives nearby but like reading about I was very enamored with this idea of like, oh, workplaces there are workplaces out there that have just completely done away with like the more vertical, bureaucratic hierarchical firm structure and our organized more cooperatively, more egalitarian principles. I was always sort of seeking that out and when I attended UCSD, I was sort of looking for, you know, other sort of left wing groups other sort of people interested in these kinds of politics, and I was very fortunate to find that although at the time UCSD didn't have any left wing groups, it did have a fully functioning sort of network of worker cooperatives so you know I was always interested in like political theory books that you know that sort of thing. So, yeah, I checked out growing books collective I met some of the previous members who are graduated by now. The whole place seemed wonderful.  You know, so basically the things that I'd always been interested in but could never could never really find other people to discuss with but yes having this bookstore on campus was, you know, very eye opening. The, the structure also was quite interesting how you I would just go in and you know no one was really particularly like bossing me around or doing anything. Obviously people had to teach me various store functions but um, no, yeah that was just, I guess that's how I became involved with grant books collective. And what's the political atmosphere like on campus. So that's changed. That's that's an interesting question so what I got to UCSD and I think it was fall 2018. There had sort of been so historically the, the common joke, or yeah I guess cynical joke around more political politically active people on campus that UCSD is. You know the other University of California schools very kind of politically inert for a time I know especially like the mid 2010s there was, there were various student, I guess movements on campus like relate to racial justice. It's like this incident called the Compton Cookout. But aside from, I mean that was a really big event but like between then I think around 2016 it was a little bit politically dead. And then there was this massive explosion in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump, where you know this was sort of this for many students on campus is kind of this unprecedented events. Spontaneously sorry what was that for us all. Yes, yes. It was quite shocking. But yes. On the election night of Donald Trump that was in 2016. Like thousands and thousands of students and this campus that have, you know, until very recently been kind of politically inert. Thousands of students just like spontaneously protest like took to the streets essentially started protesting the, you know, victory of Donald Trump, many of them marched to like thousands of students were marching through campus it was like very crowded from what I've heard they, I think they tried to like the highway and then from there the police tried to disperse them. But since that, from my understanding that was like a big sort of catalyst from then on. There were a series of different political groups that tried to become more active so I think an anti fascist coalition that tried to get itself organized on campus. Not quite sure what happened to it, but it formed in response to number one, you know, the rising sort of right wing tensions on every university campus around 2017 so white supremacist group identity Europa had potentially, I'm still not 100% sure but potentially they had members at UCSD and they were harassing various like ethnic studies classes or gender studies classes. So an anti fascist group formed in response to that. When I arrived to campus that was, I think it was kind of that was sort of waning. So like some of the things I got highly involved with in terms of political activism was a lot of the trade union struggles on campus so there's, I believe, six or seven trade unions on campus and two of them had been doing a series of contract negotiations with the university and that had been going nowhere so series of strikes ensued. That was what I was heavily involved with. I think the more recent, I guess, recently, the campus does feel a little bit more, I guess, political engaged and has in the past, two really notable things have been the tragic student wildcat strikes that occurred, I believe, in winter 2020, or yeah, when yeah last year 2020 across the UC campuses over cost of living adjustment disputes, and I know there's been a few especially in the wake of the George Floyd shooting and the various other, you know, energies that have emerged in response to the, you know, series of police brutality cases from the last years of May and June. There's like I know there's been some new abolitionist groups, sort of anti police groups that have formed on campus. So, so yeah the campus one point not very politically active and it's slowly been increasing throughout the years. So, um, what, what's your program of study, what do you, what do you specialize in. So I'm a double major right now I'm studying political science emphasis and political theory and sociocultural anthropology and I'm also minoring in philosophy.  So for political theory.  I'm still. I like read quite a number of Marxists but I'm not sure if I would ever put that label on myself per se. I think I usually whenever you ask the question I always say like Kevin Carson actually is quite influential on my beliefs. I've been reading him for, you know, years now. I interviewed him on this series of while ago and we work together and stuff. Yes, I'm familiar with. I've never run it for a stateless society yes, I've never actually met him in person but I, and for a while there was this. You know, if there was this theory he didn't really exist that. Okay. A character that we had invented. The way that some people. Some people thought that Wittgenstein is a character that the Vienna circle had invented. Oh, okay. Other than when they first encountered him with a flash. No, yeah, I think I listened to your interview with Carson. No, yeah, I always try to like find interviews with them they seem to be very few and far between. But yeah, Carson's big influence. Probably like some of the ranks and Michelle Foucault I find interesting. David Graver, James Scott those are two anthropologists. I would be a brief summary of the political theorists and anthropologists I find interesting. Yeah, I've been, you know, I had. I've had online interactions with both Scott and Graver in fact I, I had planned to invite Graver to interview, but obviously happen. Yes, yes, I was very unfortunate. And I know, I know some Wilbur has done a lot of translating of football. Oh, yes, Sean Wilbur. Yes, that's who I was forgetting Sean Wilbur I've been reading him for the past year or two or so his writings are pretty I'm really enjoying them as well. And he's really trying to wrestle with the complexity of for dawn because you know, there are all these sort of superficial takes on for dawn and, but you know as soon as you look more closely that dissolves and something else more complicated and I've never asked me to summarize that what's the short version for knowledge and well, there isn't one. Yeah, yeah. He's got, he's very safe concerns. But, you know, I'm trying to pigeonhole and to break your category. So influenced by him adopted some more simplified and stylized version of him, which you can sort of hardly blame them because it's hard to know what it means to be a Prudonian if you're really digging into the actual text but that's what Sean's trying to do. Yeah, yeah. No, it's, it's great to see that he's like really diving deep into this sort of just very like overlooked sort of complex like political philosophy that existed at one point. And, you know, as it's often the case with you with various figures, you know, they, their names are remembered. People don't actually read them or they'll read just just a hand, you know, just a couple of texts or a couple of excerpts. So, you know, Prudon is famous for like a few one-liners. People remember the one-liners and you can't really construct a philosophy for one-on-one liners. Yeah.  I guess right now I'm really looking into anthropology, PhD programs. On the topic of Wilbur and Prudon actually, I know Wilbur's big project is sort of reconstructing a Prudonian social science and, you know, in a similar vein as Marx but for, I guess, a purely anarchist philosophy and then, you know, he's mentioned like, oh, it would be great if people could try to actually apply, once Prudon social science has been sort of, I guess, excavated, actually applying it to social scientific endeavors in the same way Marxism is. So I thought it would be a kind of, I've been thinking about like attempting to do just that sort of taking some of Prudon's theories and actually applying it within a modern social scientific context. I've read plenty of Marxist anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, etc. You know, having a Prudonian and by extension of more anarchist lens of the sort of thing might be, I think it could be very useful for, you know, understanding the world, I guess. That's sort of what I've been thinking of, I guess. Well, I think I should probably go into depth about the actual organization of ground books. I haven't covered that yet so far. So, what I joined ground books collective.  And I had to sort of get used to this very unique way of sort of organizing this, this enterprise, this bookstore. So the way the collective works is a big component of our sort of like, I guess, governance would be, we have like meetings every when we were in person and during, you know, in operating hours, we would have them like weekly or weekly. And the way that usually worked was the collective would come together. All of us or I guess whoever was available. For that time, for that time being the collective would come together every, like once a week for this like sort of meeting. And at the meeting we would do this thing called it. The meeting would be done in the, to call like a stack structure so various, I guess it comes from the Occupy movement. They have various sort of like hand gesture structures about like who's, you know, speaking order that sort of thing. And then usually at the meetings will have a variety of agenda topics that we need to discuss so probably a good example would be this interview.  Is it worth it who's going to do it that sort of thing who's going to take do the work of organizing it and actually going to the interview that sort of thing. And yeah, that's how we, that's like the first sort of part component of our, I guess, governing structure. And the second thing about like, you know, so at our store we don't have any, there's no like job title right there's no like manager there's no clerk that sort of thing everyone is just a, at the store you're either a member of the collective which means that you're like an actual serious dedicated like you've sort of committed to helping the collective and that you have responsibility to helping the collective and volunteers who are more, you know, they've, they're interested in the bookstore they come they help out with, you know, they might come to meetings sometimes, or, you know, they, I guess they're sort of not under no like strict obligation to help out at the bookstore. So in terms of like division of labor, what we have is these as this thing called the residual responsibility and our RSV college for short. And basically that's at, at every meeting they'll be, you know, certain things that need to be done so someone will have to order new books someone will maybe have to reach out to another student organization and other activist group that we're cooperating with that sort of thing. Organizing events. And then the person with the RR, which will usually be someone who volunteers to do it.  And then the person who takes on that residual responsibility it is their sort of task to complete that within the sort of designated time within a timely manner. If it's a time sensitive RR like oh you have to go meet with this group next week then obviously their job is to meet with that group at, you know, that week if it's something like someone has taken our order to restock on books, especially now that might not be, you know, two time sensitive at the moment, but you know, the points of the year might be more time sensitive. So going back to my example earlier.  You know, I'm familiar with this work. I think the interview would be fine for Brown books to go to, you know, have. The volunteers take an hour to actually organize interview and, you know, attend it. And yeah that that for the most part probably describes a good chunk of how the collective functions. And then for more sort of, you know, not everything we do has to go through a meeting. Oh, actually, before I get to that I forgot. So the collective as part of our horizontal sort of egalitarian egalitarian governance. You know all major decisions have to go through the same do a consensus process of essentially all members of the collective so you know not volunteers because again they're not. They have responsibilities to the collective but all members of the collective have to consent to certain decisions we take at meetings. So for instance if you want to support a political group. You know, we have to have those usually will have fairly strong debates or unless we're on the same page but like, let's say you know, we want to support this trade union will discuss it will, and then we'll ask for consensus and all members have to consent to, you know, supporting otherwise the collective as a whole will not do so. But yeah and then the way consensus could break down I guess would be, if one member of the collective, you know, it could be, you know, 10 people agree that we should do this one thing but if one member of the collective. Disagrees if they block any sort of proposal and the whole thing is, you know, it doesn't go through essentially. That instance is fairly is extremely rare. I've worked at the bookstore for about coming up on three years now I think I've only. I can only recall maybe like two or three times like a member of the collectives ever blocked. That sort of action we were the whole bookstore was planning on doing. But yeah for the most part we have consensus is pretty once we've had a strong discussion consensus occurs. So that's the sort of more complicated side of running the bookstore. So just the easier part would be, you know, Well, we are a bookstore right so someone has to sit at the counter and, you know, make sales help help customers. That sort of thing isn't like designated to anybody it's mostly like oh, you come to the bookstore someone teaches you how to do. Generally how to sort of do everything make the sales sort of basic information to tell customers like, you know how to open and close the bookstore. That sort of general knowledge everybody has that. And so, you know, everybody just sort of does it. Nobody has to be told to do it they just sort of. That's sort of the expectation of what happens when you volunteer at a bookstore basically. And yeah, so that I guess gives a very brief overview of the internal workings of the collective. Do you encounter any hostility on campus because political organizations of whatever type usually with some kind of pushback from somebody. Yes. So, there's, I guess, broadly two groups that we will have we've had conflicts within the past.  To my knowledge that has not had we've not had any explicit open confrontation with the right wing groups that exist on campus. I know the year in the past few years before I showed up to the bookstore. I think there were two notable events one was. Let me think. So I guess one of them was not. None of this information is confirmed so I can't explicitly say that something like this is what happened but basically at one point, we were the victim of an arson attack. So, what is it a one of our we have like book cards that are on the outside of the store, and one of them was set on fire, and then that just completely burned down and then I think on that same night or you know what I've been told the event that's a little hazy. Someone broke into the store broke the windows attempted to push over a lot of these shows over here. Port gasoline before and attempted to light the bookstore on fire. The bookstore still standing and all these everything you see behind me there it's still all there. So, an arsonist was very incredibly competent to fail at burning down a bookstore. You know, everything in there is a water paper. I know I mean everything in here is very. I mean, I don't know, I guess, I'm still not sure how that happened I've seen photos like people.  Thank the gods for in company them and enemies. Yes, yes, very much so so for that incident we suspect it was right in groups. Again, we can't confirm that for sure but we are a. We're explicitly left wing, you know, bookstore on campus. So I would be surprised if it was just a and also not I think it was the, the reason we think it was politically motivated was because I think like nothing was stolen or like no, you know it wasn't just a robbery like it was a meant to damage the store and not like, you know, sees anything. So that hints to sort of political motivations, and then the other antagonism we have on campus and this has happened for probably a good chunk of our history has been with the actual UCSD administration. You know, historically, the administration has had quite a number of like right leaning or neoliberal very essentially people would be very hostile to having a bookstore on campus to semi left wing ideas, and especially some, and I guess some more recent years as the university is attempted to bring in more like normal businesses that I guess some college campuses have like fast food restaurants or you know that sort of thing businesses that are able to potentially earn the university money or something of that sort. I think us take up an entire chunk of university real estate is also, you know, not conducive for their, I guess, profit making goals. So, in that regard, our bookstore as well as the three other worker co-operatives on campus have had a myriad of hostility from the administration. At the moment, it's, I would say kind of cordial but I know in the past. This was an art bookstore but another student worker cooperative on campus the chai cafe. The university sort of put up this like bogus excuse for trying to bulldoze the entire establishment get it off campus. There was a lot of back and forth between this but eventually the university conceded that like, there was no just reasons to, you know, condemning and destroying this cooperative center on campus and so they signed a lease with them as well as all the other work cooperatives on campus. But yeah. In terms of right wing organizing on campus that's a little. I'm a little murky on that I'm not I know there are right wing elements on campus I can't say to what extent they're organized and to what extent they have. It's less in recent years but for the most part, whenever ground books collective is engaging with another group it will, in some way or another be have to do with the UCSD administration. Most of the customers who drop into your store are the people who know your store is and they're looking for for it, or the or more of them just people are randomly dropping in that knowing what to expect or somewhere in between. So, UCSD is it's an open campus so you know there's lots of visitors every single day. And occasionally one of those visitors will come by our area of the school the Student Center and you know pass by a bookstore they'll see you know from the outside we have like a hanging window saying like our books and I might catch their attention they'll maybe explore inside. One group another obviously big group are the students on campus, you know, various faculty grad students undergrads. A lot of them, actually, because of the size of the student body and the size of the campus. I think every year we meet, you know, dozens hundreds of people who are like, oh I've been at UCSD for, you know, so and so years months weeks and I didn't know this place because it and they discovered for the first time. But you know everyone always leave saying oh I'm glad this place is here this place is cool. So, occasionally there'll be, you know, some people who either from the San Diego area or they're visiting UCSD or something where they're they are familiar with ground books collective and bill explicitly sort of visit the bookstore, you know knowing what it is. I can't. Yeah, I can't say that happens from my memory, not as often as the, you know, wandering I guess tourists or students coming in but um, but yeah that'll happen occasionally and yeah. I can imagine one potential source of possibility is San Diego is a big military town obviously. And some of the stuff you carry might be a bit of odds with that. Yes, actually, I think we have. I think the members of the collective have discussed this before. People asking for like a military discount. No, well, no actually but actually yeah I don't recall too many veterans or active military members ever. Visiting a store and if they have and maybe maybe they're they have but um, I don't know what he has. I mean I've never heard of any. There might have been any one incident but I really can't recall any specific incidences of hostility from the military. I know, oddly enough, you know we've discussed this before like there's been incidences where I think some like some affluent conservative white parent walked into the store one day and asked like what are the stores political beliefs and then they want so they walked in from the front of the store and they like basically walked past a giant like Cameron sickle and a bunch of like anarchist like symbols and they asked us like so what are the source political beliefs and we just pointed out like right behind Cameron sickle there is that enough for you and they're like oh okay anyways so what do you guys do here and they just I don't know why these just seem to seem to completely. I don't know ignore it I don't know so we've. Yes we've discussed to what extent like you know are we. I guess internal arguments are we left wing enough are we you know, sometimes you get pushed back with sometimes we get. We would expect to get pushed back from certain groups but sometimes we don't sometimes we'll be like is that good is that bad you know. That sort of thing happens but yeah I can't recall any directs I can't recall any major. political confrontations occurring within this within the yeah store something like that. What kind of political disagreements to you have sort of within the store so I can imagine that. I feel might identify more with the hammer and sickle and identify more with the the anarchy symbol those symbols haven't always gotten along happily. Yes, yes no for sure. From my understanding. Either various different political groups will come in and out of the store so I've heard like at some point in the past there was a more Marxist leaning at some point more sort of new left Maoist other anarchists. So right now our current cohort. We're really really really all over the place. Obviously I mentioned prudone schools of like I guess mutualism. That's what I'm interested in. We have other sort of the more classical modern social anarchists of like people interested in Kropotkin Goldman. That sort of thing that's at the store. I did have, like the last two years. It was like a Maoist at the store there was a person who was a sort of self described left communist of like the strict ultra left for diga. You know sort of strict kind of Marxism. Other people. We do actually every year gets people who are still sort of having, you know, questioning their political beliefs that sort of things that they come in, not having, you know, complicated or strict political theories and then they sort of learn from other members or from the books we have. So, so that's sort of, so yeah we're like all over the place I mean any sort of left wing group you can imagine I'm sure we've had at our store at one point. And yeah that's definitely something we have to contend with sort of. How do we, as these disparate very disparate ideologies disparate group of beliefs how do we, you know, do we cooperate to what extent do we cooperate you know like, you know we've had some very. serious issues like for instance the undergrad, the graduate wildcat strike that was very, you know, regardless of our differences everyone was like yes obviously we're going to support this we have, we had full consensus to support and do lots of active work supporting the wildcat strike to any capacity we could. The political group disagreements might flare up at more petty things so you've mentioned the hammer and sickle and, you know anarchist. Historically they never mesh. We've argued like, oh to what extent do we need certain symbols in the store do we need more pictures of mousing down the wall do you need more pictures of Stalin do we not. Should we have less apatista stuff on stuff like that. You know that's those arguments have occurred. And I know before from my from what I've been told from previous members of the store. You know there was also other anarchist marches split and those arguments did. Sort of have disagreements over organization like okay the store is supposed to be, you know, non hierarchical horizontal. You know, is that producing what we want for the store in in Howard doing those ideals doesn't need to be restructured along more marches lines or, you know, is the store at organizing anarchist way is that good or bad. Is it a mark is it less or more Marxist is this good or bad. These debates certainly do happen as within any sort of left wing circles. I'd say for the most part, when it comes to, again, major political issues. You know racial justice anti imperialism anti militarism social justice. You know everyone can, you know no one's ever disagreed on any of those issues. There are more minute things that might later down the line produce substance bigger issues. Those debates have occurred but. But yeah, I mean no I mean no one's any. You know obviously I've argued with people with different ideologies but I'm never like, I'm never going to talk to you again never gonna work with you again. Over over something that's like theoretical. Oh yeah. My experience, it doesn't seem to be any particular correlation between how big or small the point of disagreement is and the extent in which people take it as a reason to ever talk to you again. Yeah, sometimes they'll, there'll be some really massive theoretical experiment that people have it work together over. There will be some very minor point of the new show but that will be for some people, the, the absolute sticking point and then. Sorry if you're going that way then I got to got to fight you. So as soon as you know it's, you know it's hard to predict and that's what people will pick fights everyone hoping won't. So C process is, you know, it's organized kind of more or less long consensus lines but kind of informally, you know, since we don't meet in person we meet online and not all of us keep up with the male list to any given. So try to do things by consensus but you know someone just doesn't show up. And I haven't been showing up lately because I've been sort of swapped with work. So who knows what they've decided about me and over the last month. Right. But usually consensus, sometimes when we can't get consensus we have to resort to do a majority vote. That is a failure. Lots of names. It's the simple straightforward and often there's, there's a consensus on deciding it by majority vote at least though it's like a. Of course, we've had our. We've had our share of irreconcilable splits to the left, or in some cases been pushed out for using that you know, people when pushed are using not just for mostly mostly it's not just right there are optical reasons for something worse. Right, right. But. So, you know, we, we've got, I can't even remember what the title is now a a while it had those coordinating director. I can't remember if it's still a title user or not. But it's sort of all responsibility and close to zero authority. You know, nagging people to do something so that something to happen. Right.  But some of us have sort of more combative modes of interaction and others of us with the most property. We get along fine of course we are our resources are pretty limited so the range of things that are between decisions is fairly narrow although that's been that the soul, engage a lot of attention sometimes. Yeah, yeah. I'm not sure I have any more questions for you. I just want to help you once we stop off I'll be thinking some that's all these old things always work but it's been really interesting. I wish you the best of luck for the store and for your own personal career. Say hi to the other members for me. Any any last thoughts. Yes, so I do believe whether there's some sort of restriction not ground books collective will let the moment we're close for the summer we will be open in the fall. Our hours will probably be posted on our Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or all three. So if you want to know more about ground books collective you can check it out on again our Facebook or Twitter on our Instagram. Probably just saw you are off our website but the website seem to go nowhere. Right, yes we need to. We, I think we just read get our website so we might have to mess around the hyperlinks again. Yes, I can send you a link to our actual function URL. If you'd like me to use in this video you can send me a link to which ones you want me to use or I could just grab them up here off the Facebook page or whatever if that's all right but any particular photos you'd like me to intersperse here and there. Let me know that. Okay, yeah for sure. Yeah, I'll try to send you anything that is noteworthy. Okay. Thanks a lot. All right, thank you very much for this interview. Thank you. All right. Goodbye.