Thursday, September 14, 2006
Mitakuye Oyasin 9-14-06
Just had a great "Mitakuye Oyasin" show. Unfortunately David wasn't there, because he is a fan of the great Arigon Starr as well.
I read a rant about the vigil and 911 and which I'll post after I clean it up in the next couple of days. Basically I think it is bullshit in memorializing one act of terror and not even attempting to honor those who have suffered under constant terror, terror bombings in other nations that have happened since 911 (some 74,000 killed in acts of terror since, can you name any others than 911?). Terror exists in our homes, neighborhoods, states, nations, world. Let's end it instead of memorialize it.
Anyway, I interviewed Ofelia Rivas in the first half. Ofelia is T'hono O'dham (pronounced Tonno Ottum). The T'hono O'dham are facing a horrific occupation as the their reservation crosses the U.S. border with Mexico. The U.S., as many of you know, is building their own version of the Berlin wall between us and the "illegal immigrants" like the Israeli's are building their Berlin Wall between them and the Palestinians. Both of these walls are cutting into the borders of other nations. These nations just give themselves the right to commit this form of genocide. Some of their story and upcoming protests can be read on http://www.greenaction.org/. Do what you can to help. Because of the little bit of media they've been getting, the unwarranted house raids have currently ended, but things are still not pretty for them. There is a wall being built and separating their communities and disrupting sacred ceremonies. This action has a name. It is called "genocide." Article 2 section C, UN convention on genocide: imposing conditions upon life to bring about the destruction of a people in whole or in part. It sounds a lot like Palestine on the reservation.
The second half of the show was surprise guest Arigon Starr. She is a great song writer and her show is currently on and off the road depending on when you can catch her. It is called "The Red Road." It is about an Indian trucker and the life around a truck stop in Oklahoma city. Fun stuff, folks. We had a really great time. I have it recorded and can probably make you copies of it if you are interested in hearing it. Otherwise, you might be able to pick up her cd at CD-baby, her website www.arigonstarr.com, or Amazon. She is so hilarious. Inside the cover it is pictures of her as the various characters in her play. John Tally, host of "Indian World," sister program to "Mitakuye Oyasin" which airs on opposite Thursdays, and I were both laughing our asses off.
The show was basically a show of sweet and sour. Arigon is awesome. You should pick up her CD's and sing along and laugh. She is so funny!
And you should do what you can to help the T'hono O'dham peoples and the suffering the U.S. government wishes to impose upon them in order to protect us from undocumented peoples who come to this nation to work. Notice, folks, how there is NO Berlin Wall going up between the U.S. and Canada. Is it because Canada is mostly a white and white identified nation. Alleged terrorists can get through that border much easier than the Mexican border. But it is a darky and darky identified non-English speaking nation to the South, and if you are a darky or darky sympathizer, you know that this is still, indeed, a racist nation, and that this FUCKING Berlin Wall on the Mexican border is an act of racism as well as genocide.
And let's not forget, the U.S. IS an occupied territory. This nation came about by committing genocide against Indians and continuing that work with it's kinder gentler forms because the U.S. knows what they did and ARE doing is WRONG as well as ILLEGAL! But the government will make it legal by simply saying that it is. They are, afterall, the masters that write the laws. That is why the can legally/illegally impose themselves on the sovereign nation of the T'hono O'dham and build this wall between this white identified English speaking nation and the darky non-English speaking nation to the South.
And then there was the sweet and funny Arigon. Get that CD. Maybe she can make a video of it all. We should all help her out as well.
Folks, like Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance at your Revolution, I aint gonna come." We need the bread like Ofelia, and the roses like Arigon. And both are a bit of bread and roses. And we need the sweet. We need the dance. We need that to energize ourselves in changing this world for the better. We can't do this with a constant vigilance because it will burn us out. We need to dance. We need to celebrate big and small and struggle big and small and it is ALL important.
So there you go folks!
more later, REVOLUTION NOW!
I read a rant about the vigil and 911 and which I'll post after I clean it up in the next couple of days. Basically I think it is bullshit in memorializing one act of terror and not even attempting to honor those who have suffered under constant terror, terror bombings in other nations that have happened since 911 (some 74,000 killed in acts of terror since, can you name any others than 911?). Terror exists in our homes, neighborhoods, states, nations, world. Let's end it instead of memorialize it.
Anyway, I interviewed Ofelia Rivas in the first half. Ofelia is T'hono O'dham (pronounced Tonno Ottum). The T'hono O'dham are facing a horrific occupation as the their reservation crosses the U.S. border with Mexico. The U.S., as many of you know, is building their own version of the Berlin wall between us and the "illegal immigrants" like the Israeli's are building their Berlin Wall between them and the Palestinians. Both of these walls are cutting into the borders of other nations. These nations just give themselves the right to commit this form of genocide. Some of their story and upcoming protests can be read on http://www.greenaction.org/. Do what you can to help. Because of the little bit of media they've been getting, the unwarranted house raids have currently ended, but things are still not pretty for them. There is a wall being built and separating their communities and disrupting sacred ceremonies. This action has a name. It is called "genocide." Article 2 section C, UN convention on genocide: imposing conditions upon life to bring about the destruction of a people in whole or in part. It sounds a lot like Palestine on the reservation.
The second half of the show was surprise guest Arigon Starr. She is a great song writer and her show is currently on and off the road depending on when you can catch her. It is called "The Red Road." It is about an Indian trucker and the life around a truck stop in Oklahoma city. Fun stuff, folks. We had a really great time. I have it recorded and can probably make you copies of it if you are interested in hearing it. Otherwise, you might be able to pick up her cd at CD-baby, her website www.arigonstarr.com, or Amazon. She is so hilarious. Inside the cover it is pictures of her as the various characters in her play. John Tally, host of "Indian World," sister program to "Mitakuye Oyasin" which airs on opposite Thursdays, and I were both laughing our asses off.
The show was basically a show of sweet and sour. Arigon is awesome. You should pick up her CD's and sing along and laugh. She is so funny!
And you should do what you can to help the T'hono O'dham peoples and the suffering the U.S. government wishes to impose upon them in order to protect us from undocumented peoples who come to this nation to work. Notice, folks, how there is NO Berlin Wall going up between the U.S. and Canada. Is it because Canada is mostly a white and white identified nation. Alleged terrorists can get through that border much easier than the Mexican border. But it is a darky and darky identified non-English speaking nation to the South, and if you are a darky or darky sympathizer, you know that this is still, indeed, a racist nation, and that this FUCKING Berlin Wall on the Mexican border is an act of racism as well as genocide.
And let's not forget, the U.S. IS an occupied territory. This nation came about by committing genocide against Indians and continuing that work with it's kinder gentler forms because the U.S. knows what they did and ARE doing is WRONG as well as ILLEGAL! But the government will make it legal by simply saying that it is. They are, afterall, the masters that write the laws. That is why the can legally/illegally impose themselves on the sovereign nation of the T'hono O'dham and build this wall between this white identified English speaking nation and the darky non-English speaking nation to the South.
And then there was the sweet and funny Arigon. Get that CD. Maybe she can make a video of it all. We should all help her out as well.
Folks, like Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance at your Revolution, I aint gonna come." We need the bread like Ofelia, and the roses like Arigon. And both are a bit of bread and roses. And we need the sweet. We need the dance. We need that to energize ourselves in changing this world for the better. We can't do this with a constant vigilance because it will burn us out. We need to dance. We need to celebrate big and small and struggle big and small and it is ALL important.
So there you go folks!
more later, REVOLUTION NOW!
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