No Justice on Stolen Land

2015 wrapped up with a bang, with dozens of militant actions carried out by anarchists under the banner of “Black December.” In Turkey, aspiring Fuhrer, Tayipp Erdogan, is attempting to wipe out the Kurds, but is faced with fierce resistance from the PKK and its allies. On the music break, a Savage Fam drops an anti-colonial hip-hop classic with “War Mask”. We follow up with news from Canada, as the country elects a new prime minister who’s cozying up to indigenous peeps, followed up by an exclusive interview with Ant-Loc of Savage Fam.

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It's the End of the World as we know it

and I feel fine

was made possible by contributions

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Spank you very much!

There's a militant group operating

on the reservation.

Call themselves A.R.M.

Aboriginal Rights Movement.

Extremely violent.

They say they've gone there the defend

the traditional Natives against

the pro-government Natives.

It's turned into a civil conflict -

Indian against Indian.

Whole place is a tinderbox.

Gooooooooood morning slaves,

and welcome to another sedition of

It's the End of the World as We Know it

and I Feel fine

the show where hackey-sack

is a full-contact sport.

I am your host the Stimulator,

and if you're like me,

you love partying with your homies

on New Years,

and fuckin hate the motherfuckin

Prison-Industrial-Complex.

"I can't go to jail...

I'll die in there!"

Well… for several years now,

anarchists and other trouble-makers

have been combining their love for one,

with their hatred of the other,

ringing in the new year

by showing solidarity with those forced

to spend the holiday locked up behind bars.

And New Years Eve 2015, was no exception,

with noise demos

and impromptu firework displays

taking place outside jails

and penitentiaries

in dozens of cities around the world.

This year, many of those

New Year celebrations were carried out

under the insurrectionary banner of

BLACK DECEMBER

as peeps answered a call made in November

by imprisoned Greek anarchists Nikos Romanos

and Panagiotis Argirou,

urging comrades around the world

to step up their game by increasing

the anarchist offensive against

the world of Power.

By the time the smoke had cleared on 2015

over 100 separate solidarity actions,

demonstrations, events,

and clandestine attacks

had been carried out

in 20 different countries,

all under the banner of Black December.

Several got in just under the wire

on December 31st,

including a sledgehammer attack

on a weapon manufacturer,

BAE Systems, in Melbourne, Australia;

a Molotov attack on a Porsche dealership

in Montevideo, Uruguay;

and two separate attacks in Germany:

the torching of several Federal

Customs Administration vehicles in Leipzig

and a series of coordinated arson

and sabotage attacks

carried out against the sprawling,

CO2-belching,

open-pit brown coal mine

in the Hambach Forest.

Meanwhile, the past month has seen

an intense escalation of repression in

Kurdish regions of southeastern Turkey.

including the imposition of

round-the-clock curfews

in Kurdish districts in the cities of

Cizre, Silopi, Nusaybin and Diyarbakir

and a full-fledged onslaught

by the Turkish fucking military.

"We have left our neighbourhood

and we are leaving town.

They are shelling us with mortars

and attacking with tanks,

so we are going to another region."

As those who watched my previous report

on the Kurdish insurrection in Turkey

will know, back in August

Turkey's aspiring Führer, Tayipp Erdogan,

took a shit on the country's peace process

and restarted a nearly 40 year-old

civil war with the PKK,

or Kurdistan Worker's Party.

In response,

community assemblies in the country's

Kurdish southeast moved to declare

autonomy from the Turkish state

and began preparing to defend themselves,

by digging trenches

and building barricades.

Since then, there have been

51 curfews imposed in this region

including the latest wave,

which began on December 14th.

After sealing off neighbourhoods

with tanks and special forces,

and imposing a media blackout,

Turkish snipers have been shooting

anyone who leaves their house on sight,

while the army pummels the region

with artillery, and patrols the streets

in tanks flanked by helicopter gunships.

"We can't raise our heads.

There are tanks... artillery.

Our children's mental health is damaged.

There's nothing to wear. Nothing to eat.

We want this to end. Enough!

We have been at war since the 1990s."

This latest upsurge in violence

has already claimed the lives of hundreds,

if not thousands of peeps,

mostly Kurdish civilians.

But despite this fucked up level

of state repression, Kurds in Turkey

have continued to resist,

with the YDG-H,

or Kurdish Patriotic Youth Movement

attacking Turkish personnel carriers

with Molotov cocktails

and even engaging Turkish troops

and police in firefights.

Solidarity actions

have also taken place across the region,

with tens of thousands of Kurds

from around the country

traveling to the besieged city of Cizre

to demand an end to the military crackdown

and massive rallies taking place in

parts of Kurdish cities

not currently under strict curfew conditions.

Most importantly,

the Kurds have not backed down

from their declaration of autonomy,

which has since been adopted

by the leaders of the reformist

pro-Kurdish HDP party,

and new community self-defense forces

have been formed, modeled after the

Syrian Kurdish defense forces of the YPG

and YPJ.

♬♬ Let me tell you something now

the Natives is here

we back on the real shit.

Caps will get peeled

quick here's a war mask

for the family, the savage, the fearless.

I got that feeling,

it's about that time that we ghost up,

coast up like we supposed ta,

feed em to the fish

at the bottom of the ocean.

It's that old shit brought back

cock back like you ready to

kill for your fam, kill for your tribe

are you ready to die?

Then show me now,

is you really a savage?

Cuz if you is,

then can you hear them songs

they sung in the past?

The one for the savage native man

ain't afraid to pick that gun up

and blast ya.

And if I ask ya

Would you actually be

ready for that tho?

To protect and defend,

they left us for dead.

It's time to put some lead

in these assholes.

That's how it goes here.

There's consequence to

the actions they make.

And they can't get away

with the slaughter and rape

that was brought to these places

back in the day.

That's all I have to say about that.

Native pride til I'm coastin.

Til the casket drops

I'm blastin shots

Got a strap in my hand

with a full clip, man.

To pray for peace

is like prayin for death

in the way that we living.

It'd be a shame to forgive them

cuz the shit they did

wasn't made for forgiveness.

Dem da bad man

dem wan none of it.

Run up and get done up

Rise above em on that natty shit

Let them know we are so serious

Gun shot warning.

Grab your man and shit

away from us. ♬♬

As regular viewers

of this mothafuckin show may have noticed

me and my subMedia slaves spend a good

chunk of time showcasing stories from the

global motherfuckin Indigenous resistance.

From the Mapuche nation

fighting against the ongoing theft

of their lands by the Chilean state,

to Palestinians resisting illegal settlements

and the Israeli fucking army,

anti-colonial resistance is alive and well

in today's so-called post-colonial world.

In resisting the ongoing colonization

of their traditional territories,

Indigenous land defenders form a primary

global line of defense against

many of the destructive mega-projects

proposed by the gangsta capitalists

of the energy and extractive industries.

Here in Klanada,

Indigenous elders and warriors have been

at the forefront of struggles against

fracking, clear-cut logging,

and the construction of

oil and natural gas pipelines

and the motherfuckin Tar Sands.

For much of the past decade

this resistance has taken place under the

reigns of Klanada's petrol-pimping

Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.

♬♬ West Alberta... county mama

take me home.... ♬♬

An ultra-conservative ideologue,

and former oil industry lobbyist, who

went out of his way to gut domestic and

international ecological regulations,

muzzle his environmental critics,

and callously ignore the demands

of Indigenous peeps,

both at home and abroad.

But back in October of last year,

politricks in Klanada

got a fucking face-lift.

Harper got his pasty ass

tossed to the curb

and the voters elected themselves

a hunky new overlord -

Justin Trudeau!

Despite the fact that Trudeau voted for

the totalitarian police state-inducing

legislation Bill C-51,

and unequivocally supports

existing pipeline proposals, and the

expansion of the motherfuckin Tar Sands,

loads of so-called “progressives”

are swooning.

In part, this is typical lesser-evilism

similar to when

the man your mama calls Obama

took over from the

Bush and Cheney cabal in 2008,

and this is just an expected byproduct

of an electoral system

managed by PR companies

and mediated by corporate and state media.

But another one of the insidious reasons

why peeps have shown JT so much love

lies in his professed plans to reboot

the federal government’s relations

with the country’s First Nations.

This shift in tone was signaled, in part,

by his nomination of the country's

first Indigenous Attorney General,

Jody Wilson-Raybould,

a former regional chief

of the BC Assembly of First Nations who

before joining the federal government,

oversaw several rounds of

treaty negotiations

that attempted to assimilate

the unceded Indigenous territories

of so-called British Columbia

by bringing them under the legal

jurisdiction of their colonial occupier.

As the head honcho of the

country's justice department,

she is now in charge of dealing with

troublesome Native groups who continue

to maintain their territorial sovereignty,

such as the Unist'ot'en clan

blocking pipelines in unceded

Wet'suwet'en lands.

As western corporations

and their political pets

get increasingly wise to the threat posed

by the current upsurge

in Native-led resistance,

attempts to co-opt their struggles

will no doubt increase.

But grassroots Indigenous activists

and land defenders live lifestyles

very different from the sellout leaders

that the state handpicks

as negotiating partners.

These differences have incredibly

high stakes.

Particularly when it comes to negotiating

treaties and signing infrastructural

development projects.

To learn more about some of the real life

shit affecting grassroots Indigenous peeps

in Turtle Island, I recently caught up

with Ant-Loc, MC for one of my favourite

hip hop groups, Savage Fam.

My name don't matter in this situation.

We represent Savage Fam:

Standing Against Violent Adversaries

and Genocidal Environments

Forever Always Movement.

The voice of the voiceless.

The people that nobody speaks for.

The people that aren't allowed to speak

for themselves.

I'm from the Lower Elwha Klallam people

in illegally occupied Washington State.

North-west portion of the

United Snakes of America.

To most peeps out there, Savage Fam

is a hip hop group.

But to others, it's much more than that.

Can you explain?

Some people consider us, you know,

music or hip hop artists, or rap artists

or whatever the fuck that is, but I feel

like Savage Fam was a coming together

of a lot of people that were tired of

having to face the sicknesses, the death,

the destruction that was going on on our

communities. And I think that some of us

grabbed on the portion of music, hip hop

because it was something that was listened

to in our communities. But realistically

the way we always address it - I know when

we are sitting behind closed doors, and

we're conversing with ourselves,

the fact is that Savage Fam is a voice..

it's an idea, it's a concept.

It's a way of being that existed

even before we gave it a name.

Like the way it's broken down:

Standing Against Violent Adversaries

and Genocidal Environments - what that

suggests is that, not only do we function

with addressing the issues in terms

through music, we also confront the system

- we have confronted the system,

we have been arrested... got down doing

what was necessary to hold it down for

our people.

We've crossed the country helping out

our people in every way possible....

not just through music. But music was the

way that people got to know us, Savage Fam

When I first saw y'all perform,

y'all had more rappers on stage

than the Wu Tang Clan.

How many peeps are in Savage Fam?

Many people, like, grabbed onto this shit

and we never wanted to turn anyone away

in terms of being a part of this shit.

In terms of being like "Well I got nobody

else. I have fuckin nothing remaining

of my identity. I have nothing remaining

of any of this shit, because this shit

has been stripped from me by every

possible means there is. And you're

the only fucking thing we have...

is this shit. I seen in this video

where y'all were getting arrested

at fuckin Columbus Day in Denver.

I seen this shit when y'all came over

to the spot and droppred some clothes off.

Y'all came up to the spot when the girl

killed herself just to come show support."

People were like "Fuck that, we wanna

be a part of this shit, you know what I'm

sayin? Yeah man... fuckin this is all we

have. You make us feel strong.

You make us feel this, or you make us

actually only fuckin feel like somebody

gives a fuck about us."

Like, that simple. Like "you actually

fuckin care about some shit that

we're going through, and we can tell you

really been through it."

So Savage Fam spans all the fuck over.

You might find a motherfucker in

Nova Scotia... you might find some

motherfucker in South America.

A lot of the lyrics y'all drop are about

the motherfuckin police.

Why do y'all hate them so much?

And what is their role

in the colonial process?

Pigs and military, they hold in place

an illegal occupying force.

So like, the system of the United Snakes,

the systems of anything else that exists

here, is held in place by the policing

system and by the military system,

which in a sense, if you look at it, are

very much one and the same.

Because under the US view of the world

might makes right, so the more power

that you exert, the more power that

you show in terms of policing the streets

with guns.. the Feds, the pigs,

what they do, is they continuously

hold down - they make sure that this

occupancy is continuing, and ongoing.

And I think - that's like, from an

Indigenous perspective.

When you look at it from

a human perspective, or any other

perspective, you can see every single day

people being killed by the police.

You can see people being raped

by the police. You can see how corrupt

the system is. How misplaced the idea

of justice is.

Because what they have created is

bullies with badges, bullies with guns.

People that kind of, can get away

pretty much with anything.

Are there any groups or movements

out there that you have affinity with?

Any other movement outside of an anarchist

movement has always been about "how do we

find our place for justice

within the system?

How do we find our place to exist within

the system, but equal?

How do we find our place within the system

but have our piece of the pie as well?"

And under that, there's no addressing of

the fact that people are - everyone is

illegally occupying Indigenous homelands.

And I think that is a fundamental flaw

in every single movement that needs

to be addressed, first and foremost

before I even listen to anybody about

anything. That's me personally...

because I think that it's very dangerous

to assume as anybody - and I don't care

what P.O.C. organization you come from,

whatever it is, if you're not addressing

first and foremost, that you occupy

Indigenous homelands illegally

- regardless of the circumstances that

got you there - if you do not address that

fact, first and foremost,

then you disrespect and you disregard

the ongoing occupation, and the injustice

that continues because of that ongoing

occupation - that colonization process.

Colonization is simply the process of

coming through forcefully, and pushing

a new worldview, and a new way

of functioning on a group of people or

group of peoples. And so if you're willing

to accept that, just as long as you

can have your piece of equality within

that, then it's problematic for

the Indigenous population.

Do you think people on this continent are

paying more attention to

Indigenous issues?

Yes... but that's only in the context of

like it fits now with environmental issues

where we're seeing drastic environmental

changes. And because of that, we're

afraid of what might happen.

So... the Indigenous population has always

been the people to go to to be like

"Oh, what the fuck should we do,

because our fuckin world is changing, and

it's turning all bad?" because they know

how to take care of the land and shit.

And so everyone's like

"Oh, let's figure out a way

to see what these Natives are doing."

But even then, it's underground.

And it's very very much underground.

So like, right now, we're talking about

a fuckin coal train that's going through

Lummy, and nobody fuckin knows that

even exists because people are so busy

dealin with like, one or two

major projects that are fuckin set up

by the media to be important. But there's

a thousand different projects going on.

There's thousands of different things

that are going on. There's fucking farms

on rivers... there's fuckin ongoing

deforestation and logging.

Until it affects them in their back yard..

then it's like "Let's bring in the

Natives, and let's have a picture of the

Natives and what they're doing,

and let's support them."

Again, this is allyship at its finest,

because this is when people like,

bring Natives to the forefront, and have

them be the voice. And they actually

become the ones who are chased after

and incarcerated, murdered, all those

different things behind closed doors.

And everybody else gets their accolades

and shit. People wanna do the shit

that gets them in front of cameras,

gets them on pictures and shit like that.

And I know we're sittin in front of

cameras right now, but what I'm sayin is

that people wanna do the pretty shit.

People wanna do the fuckin - all the

little shit that's the "major world" shit,

so they can get a little fame and fortune

behind what they're trying to do.

But nobody really knows - people don't

know about the fact that every fucking day

there's kids killing themselves.

People don't know the fact that, fuckin,

there's kids overdosing themselves every

fucking day - which doesn't mean shit to

society at large. But when you have

a population of 500 fuckin people,

some places 30 people, some places 100

people. When you have a population

like that, and you see 10 people die

a fuckin year? That's fucking significant.

But nobody fuckin pays attention

to that shit. Ain't nobody coming

to fuckin any kind of camp to, say,

stop the child molestors from coming

in our community. But if we have some

big shit that affects them, they'll come

fuck with us. But they won't fuck with us

if we're talkin about let's try and

protect our children. Let's try to protect

our women. Let's try - it's not - it won't

go down like that. Because personally,

I don't believe anyone really gives a fuck

unless they got some kind of stake in it.

But we always got a stake in it.

Thanks Ant, and that about does it for

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as we Know it and I Feel Fine.

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With that said,

I want to thank all the slaves who

contributed to the continuation of this

transmission of tribulations

by kicking down some coins

into my virtual tip jar.

So much appreciation to:

Andrew, Lauren, Marisol, Joseph,

Baraton, Taram, Christian, Michael,

Kirk, Steven, Willie, Jerad, Zoe, Jeremy,

Reto, Renzo, Yifan, Alexandra, Andrew,

Amado, Isabelle, Jennifer, Sarah, Gregory,

Premadasi, Freddie, Marten, Max, Jonathan,

Steven, Miguel, Dylan, Shannon, John,

François, and Benjamin.

Huchinango!

Id also like to welcome the newest members

of the taconspiracy:

John and Jennifer.

Ocosingo!

That’s all for now, and remember

the wise words of KRS-one, when he said:

There can never really be justice

on stolen land!

See you next time, suckers.