An indigenous forest protector named Paulo Paulino Guajajara was shot dead in the Amazon by illegal loggers on Saturday. It is the latest incident in a wave of violence targeting indigenous land protectors since the election of Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro last year. Guajajara was killed when he and another forest protector were ambushed … Continued
Tens of thousands of people, led by indigenous leaders, are expected to again bring Ecuador to a standstill today in massive ongoing anti-government protests. Demonstrators flooded the streets of Quito Tuesday to decry government-imposed austerity measures and a steep hike in fuel prices, despite a severe police crackdown. Civil unrest has been growing since President … Continued
Tens of thousands of people, led by indigenous leaders, are expected to again bring Ecuador to a standstill today in massive ongoing anti-government protests. Demonstrators flooded the streets of Quito Tuesday to decry government-imposed austerity measures and a steep hike in fuel prices, despite a severe police crackdown. Civil unrest has been growing since President … Continued
The struggle at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline brought international attention to the resistance of Native peoples against the destruction of the environment. But that resistance has been going on for centuries. Dina Gilio-Whitaker discusses why ecological struggles have been central to Native struggles — and the complicated relationship between the US environmental … Continued
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NICK ESTES with ROXANNE DUNBAR ORTIZ Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock vs the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous … Continued
If it feels like an uphill battle to organize against climate change in this country, imagine the challenges in Canada where a significant part of the economy is based on fossil fuel extraction and transport. Yet Canada also has multiple inspiring movements, with indigenous people at the forefront, fighting to leave coal, oil and gas … Continued
Caroline welcomes Pennie Opal Plant (We once howled at the White House together, that wild wisdom may enter governance.) Honoring the rising tide of sane reverence, Idle No More, Extinction Rebellion, Rights of Nature, that our laws be in accord with Nature’s Guiding Genius. Pennie Opal Plant is of Yaqui, Mexican, Choctaw, Cherokee and European … Continued
“Better a Trickster than a martyr be” Liberating Trickster Ghost Dance: further animation of authentic guiding prophecy, as anti-dote to toxic mimic evangelical con, welcoming the return of Michael Stuart Ani… Authentic animism dissolving the toxic “wall,” in all realms… protecting La Lomita Chapel, on the border, and all that it represents. Animating the 9000 year … Continued
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Hard Knock Radio presents ThingsTaken Remixed, our annual UnThanksgiving remembrance. Later Poor News Network, explores America’s War on the Poor. image credit @nothingtobegainedhere – WordPress.com
We’re often told that the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians rises out of a unique historical situation. But the dispossession of the Palestinians, rather than being exceptional, has strong echoes in other historical dispossessions. Gary Fields discusses the enclosure of the lands of the English peasantry, Native Americans, and the inhabitants of historic … Continued
