Is this how you thought the actual Wounded Knee post would be presented? Stroke of genius really, at any rate this is a history I have grown up hearing. I've known the broad strokes for so long it felt like I was an expert when I started the Bands of Turtle Island podcast when I was like 19 maybe just turned 20. I impressed people so much a producer from Jacobin reached out and offered 15k to tell this exact story, and we all know how much Jacobin sucks but it was a great little podcast called "People's History" named of Zinn's book. So I demanded artistic and editorial control. This was paid by 3 entities and paid to multiple people I received 10k which what I received for labor went back into the podcast to make it better. I visited 53 reservation communities and 18 urban organizers from a wide variety of parties/orgs to better understand the conditions of the US. Because of this I learned just how little I knew, and realized there is a missing piece to a larger question of why momentum of the movement slowed to a crawl and is properly better suited for a long form piece that doesnt need pictures to save characters. On February 27th, 1973 (51 Years Ago) my family helped lead the famous Wounded Knee Re-Occupation. There countless people came and went while a core 300 occupied the town for 71 days and declared the Independent Oglala Nation backed by the traditional chief Frank Fool's Crow and Matthew King who commanded considerable political sway among traditional communities on Pine Ridge (often "coincidentally" also the poorest) who were being harrassed and assaulted by Dick Wilson to coerce them into agreeing to sell off a tenth of the reservation to Uranium mines like Union Carbide.
They chose Wounded Knee because of the symbolism in protesting there, it didn't turn into a re-occupation effort until AFTER Richard "Dick" Wilson set up road blocks, and used arms supplied by the US government to blockade. In Dicks mind AIM was coming to kill him, when they drove by the Tribal council building instead he chased them to Wounded Knee to instigate a fight while claiming the American Indian Movement was. In fact one of their supporters had survived the 1890 massacre, and is pictured above.
My elders call this period the Reign of Terror. Dick Wilson killed the equivalent amount of people to Pinochet's first 3 years. My uncle Leo saw his uncle burned alive as the Dick Wilson and his GOON (Guardians of the Oglala Nation) Squad tried to firebomb Fool's Crow who wasn't in his home at the time. OSCRO was even able to successfully collect the signatures needed to impeach, only Dick Wilson oversaw his own impeachment trial. Of course he was innocent.
Their argument was premised on the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty which by precedent set by the Marshall Trilogy in the Supreme Court, was the supreme law of the land equal to the constitution. This led to it be conceived as a Civil Rights issue by the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (which is ironic considering Sioux is a slur), who would be the ones to ask AIM to come protect them as they collected signatures. After the impeachment failed, what recourse were we left with a literal dictator murdering his political opponents?
The reason this history is so mystified and hidden is because it lays bare so succinctly, the continuation of COINTELPRO after it was made public. The solution was a new far more encompassing program that was essentially a domestic Phoenix program called Garden plot at least at the time of the re-occupation. What its become now is anyone's guess but Newsweek uses the limited hangout phrase 'Signature Reduction' which stems from the Douglass Durham infiltration imo and is the premise of the book I am writing.
During the period of 1965-1973 are 71 Red Power actions, one of which is led by Herb Powell and is the first example of a landback protest. This resulted in a lighthouse being returned and utilized as a Survival School and Indigenous spirituality led rehab center to combat the AA/NA Christianity underpinnings that often drove away Indigenous people. Akewsasne Notes are some of the most comprehensive resources available of the period beside archive footage and are archived online. Madonna is my aunt, sister to David Swallow Jr and Russell Means and you can learn so much about her in Warrior Women (just wait we will make it accessible)
Madonna's daughter Marcella actually incredibly went to Cuba for the 11th World Youth Festival in 1978, she went and met the youth movement of the PLO around the same period too, my mom wrote the Denver youth program charter, this has always been one generation building of the other. Madonna calls it "a movement of families" I argue what we need is a family of movements united under one.
It's no exaggeration either! David's grandpa rode with Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, Fool's Crow was 88 in 1974 (John Denver sang at his birthday oddly and we have the footage and me the people who filmed it) people think these things are so far away but literally up until the 90s you had to speak Lakota on my rez. Now the language is practically gone. Is it any wonder the ghost dance which caused so much fear they murdered a childs mother while still breastfeeding, while under a truce flag, caused just as much fear in the state agents hoping to kill more Indians?
This year we were the ones who funded the gas, water and part of the food being provided, we are housing the victims of this violence after decades of continuously being tossed around. The photo under this one was taken by my former boss Nick Estes, in it you see a Palestinian Flag next to the AIM Flag and next to an upside down American Flag. When the flag is upside down it means you are under duress during war, this is a war. Its still be raged, just in the 90s under Clinton the ATF, FBI and more raided our Sundance accusing David of forming a militia and having bazookas. They found only a Buffalo gun. They are so afraid of us picking up the rifle again, and this spring David will be going to the senate and demanding the BIA and Tribal Council dissolve operations on our reservation. He will be demanding the reinstatement of the 1868 land claims, as a starting point to honest relations and building a future. This will be denied. There will be turmoil. You need to be ready.
If you enjoy these posts, want to support this movement, and in general learn more about us check out our https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork where you can see our other social media to get updates on our public works, read our first year organizing strategy, or find our patreon/liberapay links in order to support this work monthly. Otherwise right now we have a huge ask for $1000 for an electric bill that got away from the Indigenous family, enbridge owns their utility too and I just find it particularly moving to help them fight their electric being shut off by some one poisoning their lands right now as we speak. You can donate to $ZitkatosTinCan on cashapp and @zitkato on venmo we are hoping to fulfill this one by the 8th. We also have ask for that we currently are at 1500/4500 for a trailer to house an elder, unfortunately the trailers we got donated were falling apart and would definitely collapse on the journey to the Rez. This one is in Rapid City and we can haul it with a pick up and just need to winterize it and hook it up to electricity which we are estimating to be 1500+ as you can tell we always have a ton going on this will be the 2rd home we provided this year, and we are sending a permaculture crew to the land this March who will be staying in a Tipi until we build several A Frame Cabins this May-September during our construction caravans. We have been asked to also help develop an ID and passport production system like the Haudenosaunee have, and are looking for ideas and pointers. This is far more than a mutual aid organization, and people should learn just how much we are doing and how much our base already believes in us. I dont know any other party where we are, and we barely have our governing documents together so why not support us and see where we can go
Lastly fuck commas and the English language
ooOOoo! a mega thread so sneaky it doesn't even say mega thread in the title.
To carcosa's comment, which was the first top level comment, yes.
Aaron Bushnell's reddit account: https://old.reddit.com/user/acebush1/
Looks like he was a diehard Christian (a WaPo article mentions that he was raised in a Christian "compound") leading into the pandemic, lost a job during COVID, and had to join the military to afford to live. It looks to me like his journey leftward began shortly after that when he started listening to an audiobook about the real MLK, not American school disney MLK. The bend toward anarchism from there came from chafing under the military hierarchy life forced him into. More recently, it looks like the show "Fleabag" made him drastically reevaluate his upbringing and realize he had been abused.
RIP to a real one.
Heads up, a couple of things if you go reading through it: there are some shitheads going back through all his old comments making fun of him, so be prepared to be outraged; also, any comments about him having a wife and kids aren't actually borne out by the user history (believer in relationship anarchy, wishing to find a commie girlfriend to turn anarchist due to lack of anarchist girlfriend) or any actual news source (yet), I think it's just a smear.
Holy shit we are so fucking back. I actually got twitter to return my account by telling them I was targetted by the woke mob lmaooo
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I got a ban for advocating for violence (which I literally did) turned into a 6 hour suspension for saying it was a right wing call to violence lmao
I am a sensitive little guy and get mildly upset when my comments get downvoted, lol. 😭 This is why I mostly just read on social media and rarely post anything
advertisements are psychic warfare and every advertiser should be executed
okay this is my first ever job but today i think i've finally got the hang of being employed in a communist manner:
- arrive late (my manager works remote lmao)
- abuse the office printers to print sewing patterns and RPG character sheets
- time theft by reading
- realise the company are required to buy me new glasses if i want them, take advantage of that
- bonus: go on a walk and "forget" to scan my lunch. you gotta love self checkouts
aw yeah, its reclaim the value of my labour time
The reactions in reddit threats about Aaron Bushells self immolation are a little... I dunno weird? Like the initial ones were all making fun of him or calling him just insane/suicidal or mocking him for caring what happens in Israel. And then lately there's been a lot of "concern" that people think what he did was cool or a good thing, we should just ignore a suicidal man who left behind 2 kids. Sometimes they mention Trump.
I think his protest worked, it's a shame he had to die and make it such a spectacle. And the grinding PR machine just... doesn't know how to counter program against it. Revealed by how they went this really weird inhuman way in the comments of reddit posts, just really weird.
Met an actual himbo today. He giggled in a low pitch voice after almost everything he said, and after all my jokes. His name is literally Chad. So fucking adorable.
Unfortunately for me, he is straight.
I think I ran into another card counter at the casino tonight. I can't be sure but it was kind of funny, because we were playing together for a little while, but right after the shoe's true count hit -2 we both stopped at the same time.
It was a standoff. Without going into it, the shoe being at -2 means that your chances of losing are higher than usual, so we were both waiting and hoping that the other person would play so we could sit back and wait for the odds to be more favorable.
I had actually successfully deployed exactly this strategy an hour earlier, going to the bathroom and fucking around for twenty minutes while I waited for two gamblers to play a different negative shoe for me. Usually I can't do this at the casino near me because it's always packed, but I guess Monday night is the time to show up if you don't want someone smoking right next to you.
I don't know if the dealer realized what exactly was going on, but he accidentally dealt me one hand when I didn't have a bet placed so he was real careful not to make that mistake twice. He started leaning back in his chair and whistling, while the other guy stared at his stack of chips, and I stood up and got on my phone.
After like a half hour of us both waiting for the other person to play, he left. After another half hour of waiting around to see if anyone would sit down at the table, I left. Four hours at that place and I left with exactly the amount I showed up with - GG.
Every day I hope I see the end of amerikkka in my lifetime. Same with iSSrael.
Hexbear in general is ridiculous. It’s a system of rules enforced on people so people look to power posters to get told the rules, when a critical thinker scientifically oriented sophisticated intelligent person will look at the logic and PHYSICS of how to post or comment.
What a banger of a tagline. Analyzing how my fingers tap instead of reading the rules.
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taking the quiz and then transitioning to whatever it says i apparently am
Is it just me or has the right been admitting that they're monsters in droves?
We got a recent republican who got stage 4 cancer who admitted that she and people like her want another holocaust. I've seen a ton more open nazi propaganda met with hordes of praise, and another chud admitting that "when we say no politics we mean no undesirables."
It makes me worry they've won the culture war so much that their original argument of "There is no such thing as racism." isn't needed anymore, and instead its "Racism is totally awesome and only losers disagree!"
Give it a couple years, and they will admit that they're wrong, but they're intentionally wrong because "being the bad guy is cooler, only nerds try to be good."
pathetic and lonely and horny
at 7 months of dry spell i am beginning to deeply miss the warm touch of a woman and also feel very certain that i will very certainly die alone
