1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This episode of It's The End of The World And I Feel Fine 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 was made possible by contributions from slaves like you; spank you very much. 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 ... And I was horrified, y'know? I mean, I'm frightened for my cops. 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Chief Thomas Nestel reacting to this video. 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Watch as the suspect Ernest Hayes, who police say was avoiding arrest, 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 throws Septa police officer Samuel Washington on the ground and pins him under a bench. 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Police say he was wanted in connection with a Septa ticket scam, 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 when officer Washington stopped him, this is what happened. 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The chief says not a single Septa passenger called for help, 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but this lady did take out her phone to record the fight. 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ *MUSIC: It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fiiiiine 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Goooooooood morning, slaves 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and welcome to another sedition of It's The End of The World And I Feel Fine. 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The show that asks the question 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "What would you guys do if you saw a cop getting beat up?" 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "I asked that question of lots of people on the street today, 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 most of them said they would pick up their phones to record the fight." 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ GENTLE PIANO MUSIC PLAYS ALONG WITH SOUNDS OF PUNCHES ] 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ *ADVERTISER VOICE: "Every day, more photos are taken with the iPhone than any other camera." 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] I am your host Stimulator, & it has been a hot second since i've done a fucking show, 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but before we look at the riot porn from Mexico and Brazil, 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'd like to pay tribute to Herman Wallace, 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the badass freedom fighter who was locked up in solitary confinement for 41 fuckin years 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 for co-founding one of the 1st prison chapters of the Black Panthers. 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Even though Wallace was dying of liver cancer, 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the motherfuckin' state would not let this valiant brother out. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That is, until the judge granted him freedom just days before his death. 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Wallace's case is not unique, 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 as dozens of political prisoners 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in the united snakes 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 are denied medical care and humane treatment on a regular fuckin' basis. 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 These folks gave up their freedom to fight for yours, 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so to help these homies out, visit the Anarchist Black Cross Federation website at 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ SCREAMING IN RUSSIAN ] 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Speaking of political prisoners, Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, or Nadia, 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 has gone missing for a few days. 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Russian prison pigs say she is in transit to another jail, 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but her peeps are worried about her safety. 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Pussy Riot is a russian punk band 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that got worldwide notoriety after rocking out a song called "Virgin Mary Put Putin Away" 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 at an orthodox church in moscow. 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The ladies were given harsh prison sentences for expressing their rage at the russian president, 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 who has been treating this territory as his own personal fifedom 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 since taking power over 10 fucking years ago. 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Recently, Greenpeace activists have been locked up by russkie pigs 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 for trying to board an oil platform owned by russian oil giant Gazprom, 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and activists opposing a new anti-gay law 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 get routinely attacked by homophobes and the cops, 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 this is about to get more interesting 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 as the 5 cockrings of death penetrate russian territory next year. 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Buuuuuut Olympic repression is nothing new. 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In the land of tacos right before the 1968 olympics, homocidal mexican soldiers 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 fired upon and murdered hundreds of protesters 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in what is now known as the massacre of Tlatelolco. 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Buuuuuut, like Anonymous, the motherfuckin' mexican resistance says 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 ehhhhh.... pentaco! 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 thousands of peeps rolled up into the streets of mexico city 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to pay tribute to the fallen comrades. 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Anarchists lit up the scene by hurling molotov cocktails, 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and fiercely beat back the mexican pigs. 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Buuuuut, this insurrectionary moment was not limited to mexico city. 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And anarcho homies in Oaxaca showed their fucking cochinos that what happened in '68 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 would never happen again. 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Check this shit out. 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The Oaxacan cops shouldnt be surprised by this awesome demonstration of street power, 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 as memories from the 2006 insurrection 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 reminded them of the time when comrades and teachers kicked them out of their fucking city. 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Speaking of pissed of teachers... 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 educators in brazil invaded the streets of rio to demand higher wages. 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Teachers have been on strike since august 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but the government seems more keen to spend money on other useless shit. 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 " The military has the money to support, to bring, olympiads, and the world comes, 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 where's the money for education and for our health and for everything else? " 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Black Blocs have been deployed on these protests, 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 once again bringing international attention to this tactic of tactics. 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I asked author Chris Hedges if he had been following the Black Bloc during the brazil teachers strike. 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ Hedges ] Y'know, I have been following that, because the brazilian papers have interviewed me, 78 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 um, and, uh, a lot of people in the unions, and a lot of people in brazil 79 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 are quite angry with the Black Bloc. 80 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] Actually Hedges? You're dead fucking wrong. 81 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Brazil's teachers union has vowed unconditional support for people engaging in Black Bloc, 82 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 citing many instances in qhich anarchists protected the teachers from the violence of the police. 83 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Alex Trentino, who is the general coordinator of the teachers union stated: 84 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, Hedges, are you finally fuckin ready to throw your support behind Black Bloc? 85 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ HEDGES ] Sure. 86 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ PUSSY RIOT SINGING IN RUSSIAN ] 87 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] A few weeks ago i was camping at a blockade initiated by 88 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 members of the Mi`kmaq Warriors Society 89 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to stop a motherfracking mining company called South Western Energy, or SWINE, 90 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 for exploring their traditional territory for natural gas. 91 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This had been an escalation after many motherfucking months 92 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 of people getting their asses beat, 93 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 by the murderous villains of the Royal Colonial Mounted Poniners. 94 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 or, RCMPigs. 95 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ SCOTT THOMPSON ] You loser! 96 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You pig! 97 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You piece of pork! 98 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Whatre you got in there? 99 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Like some bacon-cured PIG??? 100 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 snortsnortsnort 101 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 im a big pig! i'm a big pig! 102 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 SNORT!SNORT!SNORT!... 103 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] The Warriors held their ground, stopping all motherfracking activity in the area, 104 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 until Roctober 17th 105 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 when over 200 beligerent, steroid filled pork stables 106 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 descended on the camp like jack-booted fascist stormtroopers. 107 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This has to be the scariest shit i ever been through, 108 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but i managed to fake being a badass long enough to avoid shitting in my pants. 109 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ HIGH PITCHED SCREAMING ] 110 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In the end, the real heroes that day were the folks from the community 111 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 who came to support the Warriors and stood their ground until all the pigs were gone. 112 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Oh yeah, and they managed to torch 6 of their fucking pigmobiles. 113 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In the aftermath of the raid, 114 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 there's been much shit-talking about the Warrior Society by the mainstream media. 115 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "*...reluctant to crack down on organized indian crime, 116 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "as opposed to... organized hells angels crime or mafia crime." 117 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "So, it's not just a social guilt, it's our politicians' fear." 118 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "Oh, they remember the Oka standoff where heavily armed Oka Mohawk warriors" 119 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "stared down the canadian forces and a quebec policeman was murdered." 120 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] But in the end, those chode rockers don't really know shit about the Warriors. 121 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 " Warriors... come out to playayyy" 122 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] No nanananana not those Warriors. 123 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 These Warriors: 124 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ FROM FILM ] The warriors act immediately, 125 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 they use a front end loader abandoned by the Sûreté du Québec to make several barricades; 126 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 this time, on the main highway, the 344." 127 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] In 1990 the Warrior's Socirty gained international notoriety 128 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 for beating back both the canadian army and the pigs, 129 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 from the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, in what is now known as the Oka Crisis. 130 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 To find out more about the Warrior Society, 131 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 i spoke with Clifton Nicholas of Kanesatake. 132 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Hey Clifton, how the fuck are you? 133 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ CLIFTON ] Im fuckin great, man. 134 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] Soooo... just what the fuck is the Warrior Society? 135 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ CLIFTON ] I have to state, I do not represent the Warrior Society, 136 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I do not speak on their behalf, 137 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 uh, and I don't even say "they" 138 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 because everybody has this misnomer that the Warrior Society is an organization, it's not. 139 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's a movement. 140 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's like... of course in the media they try to paint a picture like the Warrior movement 141 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 is like organized crime or some kind of almost like a biker gang, 142 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 when we're not, it has nothing to do with that. 143 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There are people who confuse... between beign a gangster and being a warrior. 144 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There's a very big difference between the two. 145 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There's a line that divides the two. 146 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The warrior society is a movement 147 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that came to, in the late 60's, early 70's, 148 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 kinda coincides with the start of the American Indian Movement, 149 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and also the rights movements that were going on during 1960's, 150 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the Civil Rights movement and so on. 151 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And the warrior movement just simply a rekindling of the duties and responsibilities 152 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 of men and women in traditional societies, and the roles & duties in defense of their people. 153 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and it's part of the Longhouse, the Longhouse people, 154 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the Great Law, Gayanashagowa, all governs the actions of this movement. 155 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There are some, I feel that they take the movement, they try and separate it from the Longhouse, 156 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and try to separate it from that, try to have it, something that's gonna be self-regulating, 157 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it doesn't work that way. 158 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The warrior movement is part of the Longhouse, 159 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the Longhouse controls the warrior movement. 160 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And the warriors, there's no membership criteria, 161 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 except being Ongweoweh, meaning native, being Indigenous, 162 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and having Gayanashagowa in your heart. 163 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Theres the warrior flag that you see from 1990 with the Mohawk on it. 164 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's one flag, 165 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but the original Mohawk flag has a man and a woman, this is what it's supposed to be right? 166 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's not a male-dominated movement. 167 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It' the women who have a big part to play in this movement. 168 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And you hear the media talk about "well the warriors are hiding behind the women." 169 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 First of all, you don't tell a Mohawk woman what to do, y'know, she won't take it from you. 170 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 She'll do what she wants to do. 171 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And that's what... we've known that, we had that wisdom to say that women have their place, 172 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and they have a right to do what they're doing, and have a right to take part in everything. 173 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So then in 1990 when you seen the warriors there, and the women were approaching the police, 174 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 tellin them y'know that they have to move, you have to go, 175 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 what theyre doing is... they're not... the men are not hiding behind the women. 176 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The women are actually protecting our adversaries, they're protecting them from us. 177 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's their duty and their role, to first put that olive branch, right? 178 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Bring out that laurel, here, lets discuss this, let's negotiate, 179 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and they refused to negotiate with us, 180 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so then, y'know, the final step is the women, the women pull back and the men take over. 181 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And this is the thing, it's a big decision to make. 182 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In the traditional world, the way we look at it as Kanien’kehá:ka people, which is Mohawk, 183 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Kanien’kehá:ka people, it's the women who are in charge of warfare, 184 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it's the women who call the shots, it's the women who decide that men will go to war, 185 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 not men, it's not a male decision. 186 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Women will say to the men "now you can go to war, i'll bury the fire, put out the flames, 187 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I put out the hearth, you can't come home to the hearth, there's nothign here, 188 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "you have to go out and fight" 189 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's a woman's decision. 190 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] And can you explain what the Longhouse is? 191 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ CLIFTON ] OK the Longhouse is, it's basically what we call ourselves, 192 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 um, it's based on a traditional dwelling that we used to live in, 193 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 which is an elongated family dwelling. 194 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 ... a matrilocal dwelling, where the clan would live. 195 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In our society, our lineage and descent goes through the women, 196 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so it would be the woman's, the matriarch's house, 197 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 which is long, with many fires for different families, 198 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So you have a nuclear family of a mother, a father or husband, and their child, 199 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 they'd be a family, and each of these families would share a hearth with another one. 200 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So it'd be an elongated house. 201 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So the Confederacy of Iroquois Nations 202 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we would call it our Haudenosaunee in Mohawk, or Onandaga as Haudenosaunee, 203 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 which literally means The People of The Longhouse. 204 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And this is a symbol of what we use as a symbol of our people. 205 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you look on the spiritual and political end of it, 206 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the Longhouse is the structure that was used to meet and have ceremonies in. 207 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So our political structures would be in the Longhouse, 208 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and our religious ceremonies would be in the Longhouse. 209 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So you hear the pan term "Longhouse", Longhouse people, 210 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you hear Iroquois people saying this often. 211 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] I've heard peeps say that there's similarities 212 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 between anarchists and some traditional cultures, what the fuck? 213 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Yeah, as anarchists I think it's a natural thing, 214 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 for Haudenosaunee people to be anarchists. 215 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I always liked the, one of the quotes, I don't know what his name was, 216 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 maybe you could find it and research, he's a Jesuit, 217 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 who wrote about Haudenosaunee people, and Mohawks in particular, 218 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and I love what he said when he said 219 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "Each and every one of them are sovereign unto themselves, 220 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 they follow no one and they take orders from no one." 221 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So that, to me, speaks volumes about being an anarchist, 222 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you are sovereign unto yourself, 223 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you know, you have no king, you have no masters. 224 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Our people, historically, did what they wanted, when they wanted and how they wanted, 225 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 both the men and the women. 226 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ STIMULATOR ] Thanks Clifton. 227 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And that about does it for this edition of It's The End of The World As We Know It & I Feel Fine. 228 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I want to say big ups to all who supported my work in the past 2 months 229 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 while I've been producing other videos to support Indigenous struggles in Turtle Island. 230 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It just fills my fucking heart with hot sauce 231 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 knowing that you all care more than just about riot porn and burning cops. 232 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So with that said, here's a long fucking list of thanks: 233 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [ APOLOGIES FOR ANY MIS-SPELLING ] Adrian, Tim, Benjamin, Kurt, Andreas, Paul, 234 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Daniel, Alyssa, MG, Chris, Valentine, Miguel, Tomas, Max, NGSSports Designs, 235 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Gregory, Nicole, Dana, Christian, Kyle, ___ ... [ CANT KEEP UP, SORRY ] 236 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Extra super fucking hot guacamole thanks to the newest members of the Taconspiracy... 237 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I also wanna let you motherfuckers know that some media will be presenting films at