John Brown Type Beats<p>"Hope is not a tactic, it's a marketing scheme for the biomachinery of civilization. It is spoon-fed little by little to keep us going (progress), to keep enduring (resilience), to keep producing, to keep consuming. Hope preserves institutions of domination and exploitation from those who aren't distracted by its religions.</p><p>Hope maintains the imaginary confines of our servitude like an electric fence; we don't even know if it's on all the time. We become preoccupied by the fabulous sales pitch, "You too can become the master." Hope is progressive reform handed down from above, one link at a time it is the loosening of chains to make those enslaved believe that freedom is comfort in slavery."</p><p>- Klee Benally, "No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred", page 369</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hope</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> Dishonors Legacy of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>: Agrees to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uranium</span></a> Transport Through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Navajo</span></a> Communities</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, February 3, 2025</p><p>"The Navajo Nation dishonored the memory and legacy of Klee Benally by agreeing to allow radioactive uranium trucks to travel through the Navajo Nation. It was what Klee spent the last years of his life fighting against.</p><p>"The deadly trucks from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPlain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinyonPlain</span></a> uranium mine in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a> will pass through the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a>'s homeland, and then past the homes of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dine</span></a>' and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hopi</span></a> in Arizona before reaching the dumping ground: The Energy Fuels <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMill</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaUte</span></a> Community in Southern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a>. </p><p>"Klee is being honored with a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearFreeFutures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearFreeFutures</span></a> Award in New York in March.<br> <br>"Nuclear Free Futures said, in announcing the award, 'Klee Benally was a Navajo activist and musician and member of the Navajo <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/T%C3%B3dichiinii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tódichiinii</span></a> Clan and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nakai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nakai</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a> Clan. In addition to a<br>musical career with his siblings in the band <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackfire</span></a>, </p><p>"'Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialist</span></a> legacy of uranium mines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a>: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a> in Defense of the Sacred.'</p><p>"The award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.</p><p>"Klee, co-founder of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a>!, warned of the danger to the water and rivers from the uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and the planned deadly transport of radioactive ore, before he passed in<br>December 2023: 'There is possible radioactive contamination to land, water, and air from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanyonMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanyonMine</span></a>, White<br>Mesa Mill, and transport of uranium would impact northern Arizona, southeast Utah, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColoradoRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColoradoRiver</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoenkopiWash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MoenkopiWash</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanJuanRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanJuanRiver</span></a>, and the lands and cultural resources of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a>, Hopi, Navajo, Ute, and Paiute peoples.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/navajo-nation-dishonors-legacy-of-klee.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/navajo-nation-dishonors-legacy-of-klee.html</span></a><br> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaUte</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BuuNygren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuuNygren</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RestInPowerKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumTransport</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearFreeWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearFreeWorld</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMoreTransportationOfUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMoreTransportationOfUranium</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UteNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UteNation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Navajo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InformedConsent</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>And last, but not least, not a music video, but a plug for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p>"No Spiritual Surrender: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a> in Defense of the Sacred is a searing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiColonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonial</span></a> analysis rooted in frontline experience. Klee Benally (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a>) unrelentingly agitates against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> politics towards <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAutonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAutonomy</span></a> and total liberation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nahasdz%C3%A1%C3%A1n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nahasdzáán</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>)."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wWXP7_KmY&pp=ygUSa2xlZSBiZW5hbGx5IGNvdmVy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=m6wWXP7_Km</span><span class="invisible">Y&pp=ygUSa2xlZSBiZW5hbGx5IGNvdmVy</span></a></p><p>Available now from Detritus Books<br>detritusbooks.com</p><p>406 pages | $20<br>Nonfiction | Paperback<br>Available in select bookshops.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RestInPowerKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> # <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendMotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendMotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> Honored as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearFree</span></a> Futures Awardee 2025</p><p>via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>: "Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialist</span></a> legacy of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a> and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a>. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, 'No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'" [Order Klee's book at the link at the end of the post.]</p><p>In addition to Klee, those honored by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeyondNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeyondNuclear</span></a> include the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@uraniumfestival" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>uraniumfestival</span></a></span> founders <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/M%C3%A1rciaGomesDeOliveira" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MárciaGomesDeOliveira</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorbertSuchanek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorbertSuchanek</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SPUdayakumar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SPUdayakumar</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwickMadzimure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdwickMadzimure</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JoannaMacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoannaMacy</span></a>. Klee's award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/klee-benally-honored-as-nuclear-free.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/klee-benally-honored-as-nuclear-free.html</span></a></p><p>Order Klee's book here:<br><a href="https://detritusbooks.com/products/no-spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">detritusbooks.com/products/no-</span><span class="invisible">spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearFreeFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearFreeFuture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumFilmFestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumFilmFestival</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] Recently, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabigoonLakeOjibwayNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WabigoonLakeOjibwayNation</span></a> decided they wanted to store <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> on tribal lands -- and adjacent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> have concerns over their decision. I swear, if this had happened before <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> wrote his book <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a>, Klee would have included it as yet another example of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TribalGovernments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TribalGovernments</span></a> NOT looking out for the land and the people!</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From Chapter 14 of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndgenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndgenousAnarchy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InDefenseOfTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InDefenseOfTheSacred</span></a>:</p><p>"Although the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoTribalCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoTribalCouncil</span></a> established a mass scale farming initiative called '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustry</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NAPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NAPI</span></a>),' the farm has stated on its website that it plants genetic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HybridCorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HybridCorn</span></a> seed purchased from '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PioneerSeedCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PioneerSeedCompany</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Syngenta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syngenta</span></a> Inc., and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Monsanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monsanto</span></a> companies.' In 2014, in an attempt to 'curb' the diabetes epidemic, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNationCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNationCouncil</span></a> created a law that raised the sales tax for cheap junk foods sold on Navajo Nation and another removing sales tax from fresh fruits and vegetables. Economic pressure on those already struggling while not addressing the root causes and environmental degradation is par for the course for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> government and Navajo politicians.</p><p>"Instead of directly feeding ourselves and communities, we have become dependent on businesses and corporations that are more concerned with profits than our health and well-being. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BoardingSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardingSchools</span></a> were replete with capitalist indoctrination to forcibly assimilate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a> children into colonial society. The curriculum was designed with a clear lesson: To feed our families we needed jobs. To have jobs we needed to be trained. To be trained we needed to obey. To not have a job means you’re poor. To employ other workers is to build wealth. To build wealth means success."</p><p>Page 302, KleeBenally, NoSpiritualSurrender.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodInsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodInsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GMOs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GMOs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigAg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigAg</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Decolonize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonize</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalFoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalFoods</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CapitalismMustDie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalismMustDie</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Alrighty then. Now that I got that last <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> story out of the way, time to work on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> posts. And than afterwards, I'll be posting another passage from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s book <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> with related news articles. But for the next few hours, it's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunk</span></a> time!</p>
John Brown Type Beats<p>"While Indigenous scholars and activists like Vine Deloria Jr. and members of the American Indian Movement have focused on the goal of Indigenous sovereignty "without political and social assimilation," this objective has been limited and ultimately reinforced the Euro-colonial, or more precisely the Westphalian, system, of nation-state sovereignty. "Tribal sovereignty" is not possible while colonial authority exists, and perhaps a more pressing concern is that it is fundamentally a colonial political concept. </p><p>While calls to "honor the treaties" on one hand could be viewed as assertions of Indigenous political authority, on the other, they are a myopic urge to revisit forced negotiations made under duress to benefit the colonial order. The strategy of colonial expansion was not designed to sustain treaties with Peoples that invaders planned to assimilate into their order. The US government had absolutely no problem breaking every treaty it marked its name on. From the colonizer's perspective treaties were always temporary; they were a concession to captivity, an agreement to civilization. They were merely a symbolic and political formality of capitulation. Treaties are dead words o dead pieces of paper that were negotiations of the surrender of our ancestors."</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Treaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Treaties</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a>: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> was an Indigenous activist, author, musician, and environmentalist from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a>.</p><p>Early life</p><p>"Benally was born in Black Mesa, Arizona to Jones and Berta Benally. He was from the Tódích’íi’nii and Wandering People clans. His father, Jones, was a traditional Diné and his mother, Berta is of Russian-Polish Jewish descent. Klee grew up with the traditions of his father. During his childhood, Klee's family was forcibly displaced due to a land dispute that resulted in thousands of Navajo people losing their homes. Benally spent most of his life in Flagstaff, Arizona.</p><p>Activism</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a></p><p>"Klee used his works to advocate for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiColonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonial</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousResistance</span></a>. In his book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a>, Benally argues for#IndigenousAnarchy to achieve total liberation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nahasdz%C3%A1%C3%A1n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nahasdzáán</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>). He also created the game <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BurnTheFort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BurnTheFort</span></a>, where each player takes the role of an Indigenous warrior fighting to stop <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonization</span></a> of their land.</p><p>"In 2014, Benally protested outside the Super Bowl against the use of Washington Football Team's name "Redskin", which some considered offensive to Native Americans. The name was changed in 2022.</p><p>Environmentalism</p><p>"Benally advocated fiercely against the expansion of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArizonaSnowbowlSkiResort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArizonaSnowbowlSkiResort</span></a> and the use of treated wastewater to make snow, arguing that it was destroying the local ecosystem. He also protested against pumice and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> and transport in the area, advocating the clean up of mines from the Cold War Era. Klee typically framed the struggle for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> rights in the context of religious freedom for Indigenous peoples, stating that:</p><p>"'This is a struggle for cultural survival — the struggle to protect sacred spaces.'</p><p>Music</p><p>"In 1989, when Benally was 14 years old he founded the punk rock band Blackfire with his siblings, Jeneda and Clayson. The band mixed traditional <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoChants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoChants</span></a> and music with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtestSongs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestSongs</span></a> about the oppression of Indigenous people. Benally was the band's guitarist. The band's first EP called# Blackfire was released in 1994 and produced by CJ Ramone. In 2002, the band released its first album, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OneNationUnder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OneNationUnder</span></a>.</p><p>Personal life</p><p>"Klee was married to Princess Benally. Klee died at the age of 48, on December 30th, 2023 in a hospital in Phoenix. He is survived by his siblings, wife, and parents."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klee_Benally" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klee_Ben</span><span class="invisible">ally</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RestInPowerKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RIPKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIPKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>, cultural advocate and land defender, dies at 48 </p><p>By Kianna Joe | Dec 31, 2023</p><p>"KINŁÁNÍ-DOOK’O’OOSŁÍÍD</p><p>Klee Benally died Dec. 30, 2023. He was 48.</p><p>"Benally was the son of Jones and Berta Benally. Klee Benally was from Dziłyíjiin, Arizona. He was Bi’éé’ Łichíi’ii and born for Tódích’íi’nii. His maternal grandfather is Polish and Jewish, and his paternal grandfather is Naakaii Dine’é. He lived in Kinłání, where he proudly stood tall with Dook’o’oosłííd.</p><p>"In his last interview with the Navajo Times on Dec. 7, Benally credited his father, a respected and known hataałii, who shared the Diné traditions and culture with him.</p><p>"Klee Benally’s teachings growing up laid a foundation for who he was as a Diné and led to him fighting for the sacred Dook’o’oosłííd.</p><p>"'For Diné people, it represents a part of our cosmology and being,' Benally said on Dec. 7. 'Each mountain is a part of our creation account set forward for our boundaries, Diné Bikéyah, where we walk around.'</p><p>"Benally described the mountains as leaders that hold and share teachings for Diné.</p><p>"Countless comments from people who knew and followed Benally shared their sudden sadness but described Benally as a 'one-of-a-kind' wise son, brother, uncle, or grandpa.</p><p>"Along with fighting for sacred elements, Benally was an artist in many mediums, writer, musician, and filmmaker.</p><p>"On Thursday, Dec. 21, Benally launched his book, '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a>, Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred,' at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Flagstaff. However, the book was released in November with physical copies only available at Bookmans in Flagstaff or online at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DetritusBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DetritusBooks</span></a> website.</p><p>"The book delves into Benally’s experience fighting for sacred places and why he does it to protect <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nahasdz%C3%A1%C3%A1n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nahasdzáán</span></a>.</p><p>"Benally recounted the many times he had been arrested, along with tying himself to heavy machinery to send a message that he wasn’t going anywhere for the land’s sake.</p><p>"In a post shared on Benally’s Instagram page, he shares his full circle moment having done shows with his band <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackfire</span></a> at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeftBankBooksCollective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeftBankBooksCollective</span></a> bookstore in Seattle, Washington, where he was able to drop a few copies of his book off at.</p><p>"His music with Blackfire was fueled with the same messages he shared in his book, justice for Indigenous people and the land.</p><p>"Blackfire was created in 1989 with Benally and his siblings, Jeneda and Clayson Benally.</p><p>"Benally’s work reflected his dedication and understanding of fighting for land and its Indigenous peoples.</p><p>"Benally was a part of many organizations working to support and fight for land like '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a>!' and '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThePeaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThePeaks</span></a>.'</p><p>"Benally worked endlessly for the community and land, which are grateful to have been protected by a dedicated <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://navajotimes.com/reznews/klee-benally-cultural-advocate-and-land-defender-dies-at-48/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">navajotimes.com/reznews/klee-b</span><span class="invisible">enally-cultural-advocate-and-land-defender-dies-at-48/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RestInPowerKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RIPKlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIPKlee</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RIPKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIPKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>HT <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@antiaall3s" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>antiaall3s</span></a></span> </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNow</span></a> reports on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PegasusSpyware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PegasusSpyware</span></a> in cell phones this week. It is a reminder of how our friend <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>, Dine', was spied on by the Tohono O'odham Nation government as he protested the US Border Patrol, and the Salt River Project, and its role in poisoning Dine' with its coal-fired power plant." </p><p>Spying on Activists -- Diné Klee Benally, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VicamYaqui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VicamYaqui</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zapatistas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zapatistas</span></a> were Targeted </p><p>by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, December 7, 2024</p><p>"In Klee Benally's book [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a>], he describes the surveillance, and the stingrays, portable equipment cops used to track cell phones without a warrant, and more.</p><p>"Facebook was, and is, the favorite of law enforcement for tracking and surveilling with cell phones.</p><p>"The spyware includes Israel's Pegasus which can't be detected..."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/12/spying-on-activists-dine-klee-benally.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/12</span><span class="invisible">/spying-on-activists-dine-klee-benally.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaltRiverProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaltRiverProject</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TohonoOodham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TohonoOodham</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliWarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Activists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The last part of this section (The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> Song of Anguish) of chapter 8 of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s book <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> is something that I can relate to. After my negative experience with an AIM member, I formed an alliance with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RobertaBlackgoat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertaBlackgoat</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorbinHarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorbinHarney</span></a> -- and told their stories (as well as providing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAid</span></a>). And yeah, not all resistance groups are created equal!</p><p>"AIM has been extraordinarily gloried but they weren’t the only radical <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> organizations operating then; communities with forces such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JanetMcCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JanetMcCloud</span></a> fighting for fishing rights in so-called Washington, Corbin Harney resisting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearColonialism</span></a> in so-called Nevada, grandmothers <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KatherineSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KatherineSmith</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PaulineWhitesinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulineWhitesinger</span></a>, and Roberta Blackgoat fighting coal mining and forced relocation on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMesa</span></a>, and so many more have fought for decades to protect sacred lands and waters. Occasionally AIM would be there alongside those struggles and sometimes they would not be welcome. In spite of this, the AIM song still echoes and invokes the spirit of resistance in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tulalip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tulalip</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a> frontlines, and far beyond."</p><p>Page 184, Klee Benally, No Spiritual Surrender </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigMountainResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigMountainResistance</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, the next section takes to task the glorification of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> leaders like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DennisBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DennisBanks</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RussellMeans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussellMeans</span></a>, and some of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicMasculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicMasculinity</span></a> within the group's ranks. I experienced this first hand with a coven-mate (who was a member of AIM) -- he and I would butt heads about a lot of things, and he truly had the attitude that he was always right and that he should be running the show. It got old after a while and I eventually left the groups (both my coven and our political group, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThomasMortonAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasMortonAlliance</span></a>). Ego and emotional / physical abuse used to be a part of a lot of groups -- even Winona LaDuke was caught up in an incident that happened under her watch involving an abuse of power and sexual coercion. So yeah, I agree 100% with Klee's assessment of some of AIM's leadership and the "cult of personality" around certain figures.</p><p>"As Billie Pierre stated in her defense of Graham and Looking Cloud, 'A basic principle of any resistance movement is <br>non-collaboration with our enemy.' </p><p>"The context of extreme State repression and consequential internal paranoia and divisions within movements and how it <br>impacts ongoing struggles today is necessary to study. AIM and their Indigenous feminist counterpart Women of All Red Nations, have lessons unlearned that should be studied, challenged, and confronted outside of settler colonial state narratives that continue to undermine and attack Indigenous resistance. There are also serious reasons many young Indigenous People are wary of AIM, from the toxic misogynistic legacy that has remained unaccounted for, to the imposition of force in frontlines where they have tended to overbear local organizers. Though they’ve maintained leadership with their 'Grand Council' over scattered semi-autonomous chapters, AIM’s contemporary presence has depended on its legacy. It’s largely an institution that dwells on its past achievements. Though those achievements may be great, this doesn’t provide much opening for reflection and necessary transformation to be relevant to young folks who have grown up in what we might consider a 'post-Red Power, post-AIM' world. As AIM has aspired to be 'a catalyst for Indian Sovereignty,' the terms have only grown muddied with the actions of their celebrities. From Russell Means abusing a Diné elder, then attempting to dodge accountability by attacking Navajo Nation tribal sovereignty, to the trails of women used and abused by him, Dennis Banks, and the other personalities that still comprise AIM’s celebrity forces. </p><p>"This anguishing resentment of AIM and their ongoing impositions, is part of what motivated a young Indigenous person <br>to cut down the AIM flag that was flying over a sacred fire at the Winnemucca Community Resistance Camp in so-called <br>Nevada in 2021."<br> <br>Pages 183-184, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanIndianMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanIndianMovement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From Chapter 8 of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndgenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndgenousAnarchy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InDefenseOfTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InDefenseOfTheSacred</span></a>:</p><p>"Darlene “Kamook” Nichols who had been married to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DennisBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DennisBanks</span></a>, received $42,000 from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> to spy on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> and help build the case against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArloLookingCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArloLookingCloud</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnGraham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnGraham</span></a> [in the murder of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaeAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaeAquash</span></a>]. Kamook subsequently married the US Marshal who re-opened the case. </p><p>"The voluntary state-collaboration of John Trudell against Graham and Looking Cloud also became a flashpoint. John <br>Graham’s extradition from so-called Canada would not have been possible without Trudell’s identification of him to the FBI. </p><p>"Though Looking Cloud confessed, he later recanted it stating that he was coerced with drugs given to him by State agents.</p><p>"In 2003 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardPeltier</span></a> issued this statement regarding the John Graham trial,</p><p>" 'When we talk of sovereignty, we must be willing to solve our own problems and not go running to the oppressor for relief…We have been and still are at odds with the most dangerous, well-funded, strongest military and political organization in the history of the world [the US government]. Whatever the result of any trials conducted in the courtrooms of our oppressor—the same ones’ ultimately responsible for Anna Mae’s death—we will continue to advance in our movement towards victory, inspired by her memory and her spirit.' "</p><p>Pages 182-1823, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaePictouAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaePictouAquash</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanIndianMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanIndianMovement</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmnestyForLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmnestyForLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COINTELPRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COINTELPRO</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>I had to put a CW on this excerpt. It should horrify all of us... There was no reason the FBI had to desecrate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaeAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaeAquash</span></a> 's body.</p><p>"The Vancouver chapter of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYM</span></a> [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeYouthMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeYouthMovement</span></a>] issued this statement regarding Graham and Looking Cloud case: </p><p>'If, as alleged, her killing was ordered by AIM’s leadership (under the pretext she was an informant), those ultimately responsible for her death are US government officials, including the FBI—for it was under their orders that a deadly counter-insurgency campaign was waged against AIM, which included portraying genuine movement members as informants. This strategy was used to create paranoia and division, to turn members against one another (just as the FBI had done against the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackPantherParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackPantherParty</span></a>). Anna Mae was herself the target of an FBI “bad jacket.” FBI agents had threatened to kill her in the year prior to her death. When her body was found, despite being on an FBI wanted list, agents had her hands cut off for fingerprint analysis [!!!]. During the first autopsy, the government coroner determined the cause of death to be exposure, somehow missing the bullet hole in the back of her head.' " </p><p>Pages 181-182, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaePictouAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaePictouAquash</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanIndianMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanIndianMovement</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmnestyForLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmnestyForLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMIW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COINTELPRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COINTELPRO</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From Chapter 8 of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndgenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndgenousAnarchy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InDefenseOfTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InDefenseOfTheSacred</span></a>:</p><p>"In the book <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakotaWoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LakotaWoman</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaryCrowDog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryCrowDog</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RichardErdoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RichardErdoes</span></a> <br>shared this prophetic quote by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaeAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaeAquash</span></a> in 1975, </p><p>'[The FBI] offered me my freedom and money if I’d testify the way they wanted. I have those two choices now. I chose my kind of freedom, not their kind, even if I have to die. They let me go because they are sure I’ll lead them to Peltier. They’re watching me. I don’t hear them or see them, but I know they’re out there somewhere. I can feel it.' "</p><p>Page 181, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaePictouAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaePictouAquash</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanIndianMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanIndianMovement</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmnestyForLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmnestyForLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMIW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COINTELPRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COINTELPRO</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From Chapter 8 of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndgenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndgenousAnarchy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InDefenseOfTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InDefenseOfTheSacred</span></a>: </p><p>[More from Billie Pierre's 2006 article] "Pierre also addressed how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COINTELPRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COINTELPRO</span></a> operated at the time:</p><p>"'This tactic of the FBI’s Counter-intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) undermined valuable members of a group by casting them in suspicious situations. Wherever Pictou-Aquash went, arrests would follow. She’d be released, while other AIM members were slapped with charges and high bail. In September 1975, FBI Agent David Price attempted to force her to sign an affidavit implicating Peltier for the murder of the two FBI agents. She refused to cooperate, and Price promised her that she wouldn’t live to see the year’s end. They quickly arranged for her to be buried as a Jane Doe. After this cover-up came to light, the FBI released a statement announcing that Pictou-Aquash was not a government informant. As intended, this statement insinuated that AIM might have believed Pictou-Aquash to be an informant and murdered her.'"</p><p>Page 181, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaeAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaeAquash</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaePictouAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaePictouAquash</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanIndianMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanIndianMovement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmnestyForLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmnestyForLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMIW</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Link to PDF version of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s book <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> (TY <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://piaille.fr/@Fedi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Fedi</span></a></span> )</p><p><a href="https://files.libcom.org/files/2024-10/no-spiritual-surrender_guts%20(1).pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">files.libcom.org/files/2024-10</span><span class="invisible">/no-spiritual-surrender_guts%20(1).pdf</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From Chapter 8 of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndgenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndgenousAnarchy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InDefenseOfTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InDefenseOfTheSacred</span></a>:</p><p>"In 2003, after multiple grand jury hearings, AIM members John Graham and Arlo Looking Cloud were targeted and controversially named as the killers of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaeAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaeAquash</span></a>. Others such as Thelma Rios and Vine Richard (Dick) Marhsall were also charged in association with her murder.</p><p>"A 2006 article by Billie Pierre, who was part of Native American Youth Movement (NYM) and a founding member of the radical Indigenous youth project Redwire Magazine, addressed the charges against Looking Cloud and Graham:</p><p>"'In the past few years, the member of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash -- an Americam Indian Movement (AIM) leader from the Mi'kmaq Nation in Nova Scotia, Canada -- has been reduced to that of a helpless woman who was murdered by her own allies. In reality, her murder is part of a ruthless campaign waged by the US government -- a campaign that, far from being ancient history, is still unfolding today. There is no credible evidence linking either man to the crime, and their prosecution seems like nothing more than an attempt to destroy what little remains of AIM... Graham says that the FBI started to visit him in the Yukon during the mid-1990s. On four separate visits, they offered him immunity and a new identity if he testified that any of the other former AIM leaders had ordered Pictou-Aquash's execution. He refused. On their last visit, they stated that this would be his final chance to cooperate; if he would not testify, they would charge him with murder.'"</p><p>Page 180, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaePictouAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaePictouAquash</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaeAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaMaeAquash</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] The next installment from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> 's book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p>“The devastation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearColonialism</span></a>, which permanently destroys <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities throughout the world, is outright ignored by some of the most devout <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> advocates. They claim <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearEnergy</span></a> production is also a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenSolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenSolution</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>. More than 15,000 abandoned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a> are located within the so-called US, mostly in and around Indigenous communities, permanently poisoning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredLands</span></a> and waters with little to no action being taken to clean up their deadly toxic legacy. There are currently 93 operating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearReactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearReactors</span></a> in the so-called US that supply 20% of the country’ electricity. There are 60,000 tons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HighlyRadioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighlyRadioactive</span></a> spent waste store in concrete dams at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.</p><p>“In 1987 the ‘US’ Congress initiated a controversial project to transport and store almost all of the US’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicWaste</span></a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> located about 100 miles northwest of so-called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LasVegas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LasVegas</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a>. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a> Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ObamaAdminstration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObamaAdminstration</span></a> approved a $54 billion taxpayer loan in a guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction, three times what Bush previously promised in 2005. In April 2022, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BidenAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BidenAdministration</span></a> government bailout to ‘rescue’ nuclear power plants at risk for closing. A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonial</span></a> government representative stated, ‘US nuclear power contributes more than half of our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonFree</span></a> electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a> goals.’ </p><p>“They, along with Climate Justice activiists, cite nuclear energy as necessary to combat <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a>, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> have faced. There is nothing clean about energy produced from nuclear colonialism. From its weapons (including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DepletedUranium</span></a>) to its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> and its waste; Indigenous bodies, lands, and waters continue to be sacrificed to heat water with radioactive materials which creates steam that moves generators to change batteries made from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lithium</span></a> extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Teslas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Teslas</span></a> can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.</p><p>“A green economy sustains and advances colonial progress, which means mitigated selective and ongoing destruction of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>.”</p><p>Pages 139-140</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosystem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashng</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RestInPowerKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RIPKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIPKleeBenally</span></a></p>
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