In the 90s, Oscar Gomez was a rising star in the Chicano student activist movement, but then he was found dead.

What happened to Oscar?

Imperfect Paradise the Forgotten Revolutionary, wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, this is Imperfect Paradise.

I'm Antonia Cédijo.

Today we are bringing you a very special redrop of the 2022 imperfect paradise series The Forgotten Revolutionary,

which was hosted by Adolpho Guzman Lopez, who's here with me right now.

Hello, Antonia.

So Adolvo, we're rebroadcasting this series because something really special has happened,

which is that participant, which is this really incredible studio that's made amazing movies like Spotlight and an inconvenient truth

has decided to option this series. Adolpho do you want to tell us a little bit more about that deal?

Yeah, absolutely.

So, Forgotten Revolutionary has been in our years,

but now it's gonna be on the screen.

It's being simultaneously developed

as a I am we'll probably be out of the decision so my ego and vanity will not have a role

in taking the actor but how are you feeling about this to use overall? Oh I think it's a great opportunity. It's the opportunity to get Oscar Gomez's story out there, the story of a Mexican American activist from the early 90s who died suddenly, unexpectedly, and whose future was dashed. And it's also a story about that 1990s

Chicano student activist generation,

the Prop 187 generation.

Yeah, one of the things that was so exciting

for me about producing this series was that I'm a millennial and I feel like my generation, we learned a lot about the civil rights movement in the 60s, but a lot of like the stuff that happened right before me or my generation's time is like kind of unknown to us and so learning of the movement in the 90s and what Chicanos did to sort of lay out the future of activism I think is so important and it's

history that's largely unknown. It's part Adolfo's memoir, part chronicle of

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