RADICAL MEDICINE

MISSION STATEMENT
To bring love to all beings struggling against oppression everywhere!

group & members have presented high voltage works at a vast range of venues including:
The Climate Music Project SF as a CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTION, San Francisco International Arts Festival, Aggregate Studios, Studio 23, Counter Pulse Theater, Unitarian Universalists Freedom Show, Stork Club, Ivy Room, Yerba Buena Gardens First Nation Day, Allan Houser Garden Gallery, High Street Gallery London, Somarts, La Pena, Galeria de la Raza, Submission, International Indian Treaty Council Commemoration, Chiricahua Nde' 100th Year of Freedom, PowPowPow, Komotion International and others

GUESTS 
PATRICIA ST. ONGE OF NAFSI SWEATLODGE COMMUNITY, KATIE NEHLS, JOE WHITTLE OF THE GUARDIAN UK, OPIUM SABBAH; ALFUNE MUSIC...more

CORE MEMBERS
deCoy Gallerina, Miguel Garcia, Mark Pino, Z Zaro, Matt Vend (who is also our South African distributor)

MIGUEL GARCIA: Mescalero Nde' Hybridbeing ~ Two Spirit ~ accomplished musician, composer, performer, actor, teacher, costumer, master flutist, sax player & electronica magician in a variety of genres including goth, punk and jazz.  He has worked with Academy Award winning musician Stephan Thoth and composer Rinde Eckert. Miguel has degrees in music and performing arts and has been nominated for three Shelly Awards. Miguel has performed with Theater Movement International and was sound designer for their production of “Homecoming; Chiricahua Nde’ Oddyssey”. He is a core member, along with Mark Pino & Decoy Gallerina in their Social Justice, electronic, neo-classic goth, punk, experimental band & project RADICAL MEDICINE. Along with deCoy he co-composed and performed RM’s Freedom of the Rain & Red Veins (both dedicated to Standing Rock & all Water & Life Guardians) and other mini radical theater and music pieces. He recently starred in ‘Die Mommy Die’ & has presented at a vast range of venues.

MARK PINO: Mark Pino began playing drums in the mid 1980’s as a pre-teen. First opportunities for playing were presented within a school system.
Mr. Pino began playing in bands as a teenager in the later 1980’s.
He began playing in public (playing out), in the early 1990’s, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
During the time frame of the early 1990’s until 2010, Mr. Pino focused primarily on single projects (bands). Within this scope, he played in several different States within the United States.
In the post 2010 time frame, Mr. Pino has focused on working within diverse projects (bands, one-off performances, happenings, etc) in order to effect deeper understanding and comprehension of music and its attendant complexities, both physical and philosophical.
Mark Pino is grateful to all musicians, poets, and artists with whom he has shared physical and mental spaces.

DECOY GALLERINA(my resume is an acknowledgement to many with whom I have studied, worked & by whom I have been deeply influenced); ​  Rebellious Irish ~ Chiricahua Nde’(Apache) First Nation Hybridbeing ~ Two Spirit ~ cross-platform artivist & direct descendant of  legendary leader Cochise.
Origins: Raised in San Francisco & New Mexico
Training: attended Chiricahua Nde' ceremonies with my grandmother & thereafter,  studied with grandmother Minnie Nicholas: in beadwork/art/writing, music/costuming/dance with mother Caroline Zurega, 15yrs study and research/production in Chiricahua Nde' culture with the tribe's historian & linguist, Leeland Michael Darrow.
Education: Degrees from San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts (Malequias Montoya +), College of Santa Fe, Institute of American Indian Arts (all the teachers there), extensive private training.
Areas: lyricist, performance artist, actress, beadwork, composer, singer, dancer, visual artist, costumer,  interviewer, journal/audio/video editor, maker of radical political music videos, perpetual student
Style: Deep Traditional thru Psychedelic Punk Goth Stomp Experimental
Groups: Theatre Movement International, Founder of Radical Medicine, Curator Komotion Int’l SF, more…
Presentations: San Francisco International Arts Festival, Allan Houser Garden Gallery Santa Fe, High Street Gallery London, deYoung Museum, POWPOWPOW SF, REAL FACES interviews of 500 artivists (youtube), Playwrite/performer of “Homecoming” Chiricahua Nde’ Apache Oddyssey, more... 
Focus: Possitive Evolution/Compassion/Empathy WITHIN/WITHOUT
Influences: our tribe's sacred spirits, the diverse Bay Area culture, Jill Parker, Rene Yanez, BadUnklSista, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Janeen Antione, Black Panthers (I trained with their graphic artist Emery Douglas when I was very young), Idle No More (Pennie Opal Plant), Intertribal Freindship House Oakland, Save Sacred Sites (Corinna Gould), American Indian Movement, International Indian Treaty Council, DIRECTOR RUDRADEEP CHAKRABARTI, Indigenous Rising Media staff, Standing Rock Red Warrior Camp. Tibet, all the Water & Life Guardians world wide, KALX RADIO & YOU!!
 (I'm trying to acknowledge as many as possible who have touched & inspired courage in my creative spirit deeply.)

MATT VEND: RADICAL MEDICINE SOUTH AFRICAN DISTRIBUTOR & CORE MEMBER: Matt Vend and The Tender 10, is the solo project of South African born singer/journalist/songwriter/traveler and nomad Matt “Beard” Vend who has been playing music in bands since 1999, from the “tender” age of 14. His projects include the long running Sibling Rivalry, which managed to gain a loyal and cult like following throughout South Africa and even parts of Thailand being one of the most influential punk bands to come out of Durban in the last decade. The short lived but extremely well received Tubby Wilsons which delved into both Matt and fellow writer and musician Yusuf Laher and The Nader's affection for nostalgic pop and punk music and Durban’s first folk inspired punk/rock ‘n roll band Car Boot Vendors. He is no stranger to the studio and has recorded collectively over 80 songs with the various projects he has been involved with, including guest appearances with Fruits and Veggies (Durban afro/reggae misfits), Misled (Joburg’s finest new school hardcore/punk band) and Blaq Hitler (Durban MC and hip hop producer). He is now finally delving into the production side of making music, and helped record and produce his first solo offering which was released in 2012 with the help from Kurt Peinke who co produced the record. He has done a few shows in and out of Bangkok over the last few years and also embarked on an adventure through Vietnam early 2012, busking and playing shows from Hanoi to Saigon. Although recording is a big part of this musician’s repertoire live is where he shines, with literally hundreds of shows under his belt across South Africa and Thailand appearing on every stage imaginable from street corners and dingy bars to major festivals. 2013 saw him front and write songs for classic rock act The Accidentals as well as the folk duo, The Incidentals collaborating with violinist Hezron Chetty.

 Z ZARO:
Diet Tribe: Post Punk & sonic soundscapes
Tritones: Acoustic Music trio with soicioplotical lyrics: Guitar and Voice, sound collages/soundtracks, group installation and performance using keyboard, sound loops, guitar, voice
Performances with Divorce Party: Tragedy Haunts &The Incident
CEJA: Middle Eastern drum & dance duet
Vivisection Installation/Performance group : Actor, Musician
PERFORMANCES include: ATA, New College, Komotion Int’l, Ivy Room & more
Radical Medicine: Core Member: musician/singer/song writer

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PARTIAL FUNDERS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT OF LIVING ARTIVISTS:
THE CHIRICAHUA WARM-SPRINGS NDE' TRIBE OF NEW MEXICO & PETER J. MCINTYRE
& THANKS TO YOU FOR SUPPORTING LIVING ARTIVISTS; WE KEEP LIFE LOVING!
​LALALALALALALALAAAAAAAAA!!!!