#IndigenousAnarchy

DoomsdaysCWAnd 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" target="_blank">#KleeBenally</a>'s book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoSpiritualSurrender</a> "No Spiritual Surrender: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousAnarchy</a> in Defense of the Sacred is a searing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiColonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiColonial</a> analysis rooted in frontline experience. Klee Benally (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Diné</a>) unrelentingly agitates against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colonial</a> politics towards <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAutonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousAutonomy</a> and total liberation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nahasdz%C3%A1%C3%A1n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nahasdzáán</a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MotherEarth</a>)."<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wWXP7_KmY&pp=ygUSa2xlZSBiZW5hbGx5IGNvdmVy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wWXP7_KmY&pp=ygUSa2xlZSBiZW5hbGx5IGNvdmVy</a>Available now from Detritus Books detritusbooks.com406 pages | $20 Nonfiction | Paperback Available in select bookshops.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RestInPowerKleeBenally</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HaulNo</a> # <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousAnarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoUraniumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefendTheSacred</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoMiningWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendMotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefendMotherEarth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaveOakFlat</a>

DoomsdaysCWSo, the next section takes to task the glorification of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIM</a> leaders like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DennisBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DennisBanks</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RussellMeans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RussellMeans</a>, and some of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicMasculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToxicMasculinity</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" target="_blank">#ThomasMortonAlliance</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."As Billie Pierre stated in her defense of Graham and Looking Cloud, 'A basic principle of any resistance movement is non-collaboration with our enemy.' "The context of extreme State repression and consequential internal paranoia and divisions within movements and how it 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. "This anguishing resentment of AIM and their ongoing impositions, is part of what motivated a young Indigenous person to cut down the AIM flag that was flying over a sacred fire at the Winnemucca Community Resistance Camp in so-called Nevada in 2021." Pages 183-184, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KleeBenally</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoSpiritualSurrender</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIM</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanIndianMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmericanIndianMovement</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousAnarchy</a>

DoomsdaysCW[Thread] The next installment from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KleeBenally</a> 's book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoSpiritualSurrender</a>.“The proposition of unplugging from a ‘dirty’ power source and plugging into a ‘green’ one does nothing to address the underlying power relations. It reinforces them.“‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenEnergy</a>’ sustaining a Green Economy still demands resource <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colonialism</a>. From sacred <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OakFlat</a> in so-called Arizona where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SanCarlosApache</a> are resisting a massive mine that is estimated to contain enough <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copper</a> ore to produce 275 million electric vehicles [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EVs</a>], to sacred <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThackerPass</a> in so-called Nevada where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shoshone</a> are resisting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LithiumMining</a>, which is necessary for electric vehicle and ‘green’ energy battery production. A single car <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumIon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LithiumIon</a> battery pack contains 18 pounds of lithium. To electrify every vehicle throughout the world, an estimated 10.4 billion tons of lithium is needed, that is approximately 13 times the existing lithium reserves. The Thacker Pass lithium one is mismated to produce 60,000 tons annually. The proposed project spans approximately 28 square miles that would hold an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpenPit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenPit</a> and a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sulfuricacid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sulfuricacid</a> processing plant to extract lithium from mined ore."The operation is estimated to release 152,713 tons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonDioxide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarbonDioxide</a> [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CO2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CO2</a>] annually and 400,000 gallons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#water</a> is required for each ton of lithium meaning it will use 1.7 billion gallons annual. The Thacker Pass sulfuric acid processing plant will convert sulfur to leech lithium from raw ore, turned in from sources such as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlbertaTarSands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlbertaTarSands</a>, which are 1,500 miles away. The tar sands, located in so-called Canada, are known as the world’s most destructive oil operation.”Page 138-139<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousAnarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecosystem</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefendTheSacred</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoLithiumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoMiningWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LithiumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CopperMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greenwashing</a>

DoomsdaysCW[Thread] From Chapter 8 of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KleeBenally</a>'s book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoSpiritualSurrender</a> - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndgenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndgenousAnarchy</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InDefenseOfTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InDefenseOfTheSacred</a>:The AIM Song of Anguish"Though my family was skeptical of, and kept AIM at a distance, I grew up singing the AIM song. I've sung it at actions throughout the world, my grandma Roberta would always want to sing it, her barely audible voice at the drum belying her fierce power, I've sung it with both <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RussellMeans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RussellMeans</a> (confronting the racist <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbusDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ColumbusDay</a> parade in Denver) and with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DennisBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DennisBanks</a> (too many times to recall) and faceless and nameless warriors on many frontlines. Though its provenance is not known, the story I recall that it was spiritual gift to rally AIM warrior during the liberation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WoundedKnee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WoundedKnee</a>. "In analyzing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousPower</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DirectAction</a>, it's vital to examine the context of strategies, tactics, and State repression that comprises the ongoing legality of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousResistance</a>, particularly with the historically vital force of the American Indian Movement (AIM)."Though there are many examples, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeonardPeltier</a>'s false imprisonment for the alleged murder of two <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FBI</a> agents in 1975 and the clouded assassination of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaePictouAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnnaMaePictouAquash</a> are important markers."Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, a strong <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mikmaq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mikmaq</a> warrior with AIM, was found murderd in 1974 in Wanblee on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PineRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PineRidge</a> reservation in 'South Dakota'. Pictou-Aquash is also a symbol of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MMIW</a>], Girls, Trans, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoSpirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TwoSpirit</a> movement today."Accusations of her murder first pointed to the FBI and later, as AIM members revealed how paranoia of infiltrators had gripped the leadership intensely, rumors surfaced that AIM had her killed. This was a time when bad-jacking (making someone look like a snitch or informant even though they aren't) tactics by feds as part of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COINTELPRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#COINTELPRO</a> was proving to be an effective tactic against revelutionary groups."Pages 179-180, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KleeBenally</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoSpiritualSurrender</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousAnarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecosystem</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefendTheSacred</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeLeonardPeltier</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaePictouAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnnaMaePictouAquash</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnnaMaeAquash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnnaMaeAquash</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ACAB</a>

DoomsdaysCW[Thread] Random excerpts from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KleeBenally</a> 's book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoSpiritualSurrender</a> The Enemy of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MotherEarth</a> "From Mother Earth to our bodies, in a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalist</a> system everything that can be reduced to a commodity will be. As long as it can be sold, bought, or otherwise exploited, nothing is sacred. So long as the lands (and by extension our bodies) are viewed this way we will have conflict, as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> is the enemy of Mother Earth and all that we hold to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sacred</a>."In its base definition, capitalism is an economic and political system based on an unregulated or 'free' market, private property, competition, and limited government intervention. But the definition obscures the reality that capitalism is based upon extreme social <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#exploitation</a> and dispossession, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcologicalDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EcologicalDestruction</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hyperindividualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hyperindividualism</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/materialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#materialism</a>, and its history is rooted in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cishetereopatriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cishetereopatriarchy</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genocide</a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slavery</a>."To be anti-capitalist is not enough, anti-capitalist propositions rooted in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/industrialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#industrialism</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/extractivisim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extractivisim</a> are just as invested in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecocidal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecocidal</a> (therefore anti-Indigenous) economies. Killing the Earth is killing Indigenous existence, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Colonizers</a> must religiously convince themselves and others that the world is already dead to justify their ongoing violence against the Earth and existence. In the face of global ecological ruin, some attempt to further convince themselves that killing the Earth just a little bit less is an appropriate response."Pages 136-137<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousAnarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecosystem</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefendTheSacred</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a>

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