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It's the End of the World as we know it
and I feel fine
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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
this sedition of It’s The End of the World
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.