week 48 2024
This weeks show has @Byron Nicholai, Aysanabee, Ryan LittleEagle, Kyle McKearney, Samian, Maxime Auguste & Matiu, Alliance – Band, Nancy Sanchez, Mykle Wane & Sten Joddi, Darksiderz, LOS INTOCABLES & El Gran Silencio, Callie Bennett & Terry Minor Jr, Joel Wood & Tonia Jo Hall, AJ Harvey, 123 Andrés & El Plan & Las Cafeteras, Breach Of Trust (Marty Ballentyne), David R. Maracle & Donald Quan, Fight the Future, The Tewa, Jean-Christophe Lessard & Soleil Launière, THE BLOODSHOTS, Native Pool Boy, Amanda Rheaume, Adrian Sutherland & Rodrigo Massa, Claire Arena & Eric Jackson & The Willow River Band, Jarrid Lee & Ashley Ghostkeeper, CEMICAN and The Red Hot Organization & Julien Baker & Calvin Lauber Audio & SOAK & Quinn Christopherson.
week 47 2024
The show from last week is now online it has these amazing indigenous artists on it
Eadsé, Christian Wallowing Bull, Ombiigizi, Zachariah Julian, Elizabeth Sheppard, Def-i & Philthydbeats, Jessa Sky, Oblvyn & Alexis Lynn, Aajumaaq & Nukaka Coster-Waldau, Spy Dénommé-Welch with Catherine Magowan of Unsettled Scores, Eric Lavoie, Joseph Mortal & Jodie B, and Kootenay & Co.
Thomas X
Rest In Power, Warrior Klee Benally
Diné activist and musician Klee Jones Benally walked on, on the morning of December 31, 2023. He was only 48 years old.
He was a member of the Navajo Nation and was a long-time passionate advocate for a number of issues affecting Native peoples. He fought tirelessly for the unhoused, against colonialism, against capitalism, for sacred sites, against uranium mining, against police violence… the list goes on.
Klee was an anarchist, indigenous activist, author, documentarian, musician, boardgame designer and much, much more, one friend said Klee was a “molotov cocktail of energy with a wisdom far beyond his years”. Not only advocating for indigenous rights, he supported all who were oppressed by the colonial capitalist system and supported those who also fight for a better tomorrow.
He was also an instrumental figure in Taala Hooghan infoshop, the anti-colonial direct action resource centre in Flagstaff, Arizona.
On Thursday, Dec. 21, Benally launched his book, “No Spiritual Surrender, Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred,” at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Flagstaff. No Spiritual Surrender is a searing anti-colonial analysis rooted in frontline experience. Klee unrelentingly agitated against colonial politics towards Indigenous autonomy and total liberation of Mother Earth. In the book, he writes, “If history is written by the conquerors, it will be unwritten by those who refuse to be conquered.”
His band Blackfire was created in 1989, with his siblings, Jeneda and Clayson Benally and was fuelled with the same messages he shared in his book, justice for Indigenous people and the land. A really talented musician, he did a whole bunch of solo stuff after Blackfire. (links below)
We Want to be Free: An Interview with Klee Benally
Klee Benally – To The Ground
“Everything for everyone, nothing for ourselves.” A quote from Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Blackfire Live 2007
http://kleebenally.com/ Bandcamp – Appropriation The Unsustainable Sessions
Honest Canada?
Support the Wet’Suwet’En Yintah Access & Unistoten Camp
Gwaii Haanas agreement 30 years on
Almost 40 years after the blockades, the Gwaii Haanas agreement still protects one of the only places on the planet where “ocean floor to mountain top” is seen as a single, interconnected ecosystem – part of the Haida philosophy of Gina ’Waadlux̱an KilG̱uhlG̱a, or “talking about everything”.
An end to plunder and pillage: how a First Nations nature reserve became a model for the world
Thirty years ago, when the people of Haida Gwaii blockaded logging roads in British Columbia, few foresaw the result – the remarkable Gwaii Haanas agreement that has reshaped how to manage contested areas
RCMP spent $11million to police CGL pipeline.
RCMP spent a record amount to protect CGL pipeline last year, the force spent $11 million to patrol a remote road in Wet’suwet’en territory.
Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks said the RCMP’s big spending facilitates the ongoing “monitoring and intimidation” of Wet’suwet’en people on their traditional territory.
In March, the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission launched an investigation of the unit following a series of complaints and lawsuits. The Community-Industry Response Group has also been involved in controversial enforcement efforts against logging protesters at Fairy Creek on southern Vancouver Island.
Details here https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/11/RCMP-Spending-on-CGL-Pipeline/
Indigenous Resistence
Her vocal campaign to protect the Munduruku territory in the Amazon rainforest saw her confronting mining giant Anglo American. As a result, Anglo American withdrew 27 research applications to mine inside indigenous territories.The company’s move represents a rare victory of an indigenous community over one of the world’s largest mining companies.
Goldman Prize honours indigenous woman who stopped mining giant
Alessandra Korap Munduruku’s defence of her group’s territory led to a U-turn from Anglo American.
Firefighters with flamethrowers
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2023/1/29/greening-ourselves-to-extinction
“Greening” is designed to profit off of climate fears, not stop climate change. Governments and corporations have teamed up to turn the apocalypse into a money-making opportunity and what they have pushed for in climate action over the past few years are policies that only make the situation worse.