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PDF: Everyone Calls Themselves an Ally…
Originally posted on Warrior Publications:
Everyone Calls Themselves An Ally, Until It’s Time To Do Some Real Ally Shit. A new zine from Ancestral Pride, based in Nuu-chah-nulth territory on the west coast of Vancouver Island. To download the PDF…
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Lone Survivor is Nationalistic War Porn (And That’s a Bad Thing)
Lone Survivor is Nationalistic War Porn (And That’s a Bad Thing) Lone Survivor is a movie that recounts the events of an ill-fated Navy SEAL mission that happened in Afghanistan in 2005. While on their mission in support of Operation … Continue reading
The moral responsibility of Settlers: What kind of society do we want to live in?
Photo: Ossie Michelin Earlier today a large force of heavily armed RCMP officers descended on an anti-fracking blockade organized by members of the Elsipogtog Nation in New Brunswick, Canada. The blockade has been in place to protest shale gas exploration and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Postcolonial, Uncategorized
Tagged Canada, colonialism, Elsipogtog, fracking, North America, The United States, Western Culture
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Filming Sundance: Tradition, technology, and journalism collide.
A few weeks ago I was invited to help at a sundance ceremony that was being organized and run by friends of mine in the Native American community. Sundance is a sacred ceremony common to a number of Native American … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Commentary
Tagged APTN, ceremony, Chief Blacksmith, filming the sundance ceremony, Native American, sacred, sundance
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Cloud Atlas and the most Fundamental Tension in Human History
Every great story has to have a source of tension. Without tension, a “story” is nothing more than the description of scenery. Recently I watched and thoroughly enjoyed Clout Atlas. The reason I fell in love with this movie is … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloud Atlas, exploitation, politics, tension
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“Check your Privilege!”: Bidding penguins to fly.
“Check your privilege!” Recently on Twitter I have seen a lot of people saying, “Check your privilege” to others. Some believe asking someone to check their privilege is just an ad hominem/Marxist fallacy. I do not agree. At the same time, I think … Continue reading
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Tagged check your privilege, introspection, privilege, Twitter
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Who is Leonard Peltier and why should we care?
Leaders of the Oglala Lakota nation have announced that June 26th would be Leonard Peltier day. But who is Leonard Peltier and why should you care? Let’s learn some history… In the early seventies there was a three year period … Continue reading
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Tagged COINTELPRO, FBI, Leonard Peltier, Peltier, Pine Ridge Reservation, political prisoner, presidential pardon, Wounded Knee
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Divide and Conquer: What reactions to mass surveillance tell us about the two-party system.
Divide and Conquer “Divide and Conquer” is a time-honored tradition among oppressive governments and systems since time immemorial. It has been employed countless times to remedy an equally age-old conundrum: how does the ruling class impose its will on the … Continue reading
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Tagged civil liberties, Democratic, Divide and Conquer, domestic surveillance, NSA, Prism, Republican, Two Party system, war on terror
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Crowdsourcing Cultural Awareness: An invitation to partner with me on two projects.
Hello, my name is Kevin Gonzaga and I wanted to briefly inform you about two projects I am simultaneously working on regarding cultural awareness and invite you to consider partnering with me on them by contributing content. The main project… … Continue reading
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Blackface and Bloodstains
Fall, the season of racism. Every October people around the world get dressed up and attend various costumed parties or functions, usually in some connection to Halloween. Inevitably stories and pictures emerge of white people dressing up in racial or … Continue reading →