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This episode of

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

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and I feel fine

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was made possible by contributions

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from slaves like you.

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Spank you very much!

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There's a militant group operating

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on the reservation.

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Call themselves A.R.M.

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Aboriginal Rights Movement.

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Extremely violent.

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They say they've gone there the defend

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the traditional Natives against

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the pro-government Natives.

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It's turned into a civil conflict -

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Indian against Indian.

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Whole place is a tinderbox.

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Gooooooooood morning slaves,

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and welcome to another sedition of

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

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and I Feel fine

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the show where hackey-sack

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is a full-contact sport.

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I am your host the Stimulator,

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and if you're like me,

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you love partying with your homies

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on New Years,

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and fuckin hate the motherfuckin

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Prison-Industrial-Complex.

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"I can't go to jail...

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I'll die in there!"

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Well… for several years now,

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anarchists and other trouble-makers

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have been combining their love for one,

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with their hatred of the other,

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ringing in the new year

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by showing solidarity with those forced

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to spend the holiday locked up behind bars.

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And New Years Eve 2015, was no exception,

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with noise demos

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and impromptu firework displays

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taking place outside jails

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and penitentiaries

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in dozens of cities around the world.

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This year, many of those

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New Year celebrations were carried out

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under the insurrectionary banner of

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BLACK DECEMBER

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as peeps answered a call made in November

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by imprisoned Greek anarchists Nikos Romanos

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and Panagiotis Argirou,

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urging comrades around the world

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to step up their game by increasing

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the anarchist offensive against

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the world of Power.

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By the time the smoke had cleared on 2015

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over 100 separate solidarity actions,

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demonstrations, events,

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and clandestine attacks

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had been carried out

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in 20 different countries,

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all under the banner of Black December.

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Several got in just under the wire

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on December 31st,

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including a sledgehammer attack

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on a weapon manufacturer,

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BAE Systems, in Melbourne, Australia;

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a Molotov attack on a Porsche dealership

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in Montevideo, Uruguay;

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and two separate attacks in Germany:

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the torching of several Federal

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Customs Administration vehicles in Leipzig

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and a series of coordinated arson

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and sabotage attacks

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carried out against the sprawling,

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CO2-belching,

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open-pit brown coal mine

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in the Hambach Forest.

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Meanwhile, the past month has seen

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an intense escalation of repression in

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Kurdish regions of southeastern Turkey.

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including the imposition of

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round-the-clock curfews

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in Kurdish districts in the cities of

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Cizre, Silopi, Nusaybin and Diyarbakir

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and a full-fledged onslaught

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by the Turkish fucking military.

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"We have left our neighbourhood

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and we are leaving town.

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They are shelling us with mortars

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and attacking with tanks,

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so we are going to another region."

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As those who watched my previous report

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on the Kurdish insurrection in Turkey

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will know, back in August

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Turkey's aspiring Führer, Tayipp Erdogan,

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took a shit on the country's peace process

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and restarted a nearly 40 year-old

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civil war with the PKK,

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or Kurdistan Worker's Party.

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In response,

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community assemblies in the country's

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Kurdish southeast moved to declare

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autonomy from the Turkish state

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and began preparing to defend themselves,

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by digging trenches

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and building barricades.

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Since then, there have been

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51 curfews imposed in this region

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including the latest wave,

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which began on December 14th.

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After sealing off neighbourhoods

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with tanks and special forces,

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and imposing a media blackout,

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Turkish snipers have been shooting

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anyone who leaves their house on sight,

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while the army pummels the region

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with artillery, and patrols the streets

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in tanks flanked by helicopter gunships.

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"We can't raise our heads.

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There are tanks... artillery.

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Our children's mental health is damaged.

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There's nothing to wear. Nothing to eat.

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We want this to end. Enough!

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We have been at war since the 1990s."

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This latest upsurge in violence

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has already claimed the lives of hundreds,

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if not thousands of peeps,

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mostly Kurdish civilians.

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But despite this fucked up level

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of state repression, Kurds in Turkey

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have continued to resist,

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with the YDG-H,

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or Kurdish Patriotic Youth Movement

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attacking Turkish personnel carriers

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with Molotov cocktails

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and even engaging Turkish troops

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and police in firefights.

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Solidarity actions

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have also taken place across the region,

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with tens of thousands of Kurds

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from around the country

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traveling to the besieged city of Cizre

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to demand an end to the military crackdown

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and massive rallies taking place in

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parts of Kurdish cities

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not currently under strict curfew conditions.

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the Kurds have not backed down

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from their declaration of autonomy,

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which has since been adopted

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by the leaders of the reformist

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pro-Kurdish HDP party,

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and new community self-defense forces

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have been formed, modeled after the

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Syrian Kurdish defense forces of the YPG

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and YPJ.

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♬♬ Let me tell you something now

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the Natives is here

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we back on the real shit.

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Caps will get peeled

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quick here's a war mask

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for the family, the savage, the fearless.

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I got that feeling,

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it's about that time that we ghost up,

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coast up like we supposed ta,

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feed em to the fish

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at the bottom of the ocean.

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It's that old shit brought back

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cock back like you ready to

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kill for your fam, kill for your tribe

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are you ready to die?

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Then show me now,

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is you really a savage?

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Cuz if you is,

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then can you hear them songs

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they sung in the past?

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The one for the savage native man

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ain't afraid to pick that gun up

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and blast ya.

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And if I ask ya

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Would you actually be

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ready for that tho?

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To protect and defend,

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they left us for dead.

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It's time to put some lead

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in these assholes.

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That's how it goes here.

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There's consequence to

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the actions they make.

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And they can't get away

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with the slaughter and rape

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that was brought to these places

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back in the day.

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That's all I have to say about that.

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Native pride til I'm coastin.

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Til the casket drops

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I'm blastin shots

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Got a strap in my hand

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with a full clip, man.

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To pray for peace

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is like prayin for death

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in the way that we living.

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It'd be a shame to forgive them

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cuz the shit they did

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wasn't made for forgiveness.

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Dem da bad man

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dem wan none of it.

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Run up and get done up

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Rise above em on that natty shit

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Let them know we are so serious

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Gun shot warning.

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Grab your man and shit

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away from us. ♬♬

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As regular viewers

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of this mothafuckin show may have noticed

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me and my subMedia slaves spend a good

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chunk of time showcasing stories from the

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global motherfuckin Indigenous resistance.

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From the Mapuche nation

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fighting against the ongoing theft

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of their lands by the Chilean state,

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to Palestinians resisting illegal settlements

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and the Israeli fucking army,

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anti-colonial resistance is alive and well

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

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In resisting the ongoing colonization

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of their traditional territories,

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Indigenous land defenders form a primary

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global line of defense against

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many of the destructive mega-projects

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proposed by the gangsta capitalists

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of the energy and extractive industries.

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Here in Klanada,

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Indigenous elders and warriors have been

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at the forefront of struggles against

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fracking, clear-cut logging,

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and the construction of

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oil and natural gas pipelines

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and the motherfuckin Tar Sands.

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For much of the past decade

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this resistance has taken place under the

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reigns of Klanada's petrol-pimping

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Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.

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♬♬ West Alberta... county mama

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take me home.... ♬♬

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An ultra-conservative ideologue,

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and former oil industry lobbyist, who

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went out of his way to gut domestic and

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international ecological regulations,

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muzzle his environmental critics,

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and callously ignore the demands

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of Indigenous peeps,

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both at home and abroad.

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But back in October of last year,

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politricks in Klanada

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got a fucking face-lift.

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Harper got his pasty ass

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tossed to the curb

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and the voters elected themselves

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a hunky new overlord -

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Justin Trudeau!

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Despite the fact that Trudeau voted for

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the totalitarian police state-inducing

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legislation Bill C-51,

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and unequivocally supports

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existing pipeline proposals, and the

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expansion of the motherfuckin Tar Sands,

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loads of so-called “progressives”

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are swooning.

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In part, this is typical lesser-evilism

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similar to when

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the man your mama calls Obama

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took over from the

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Bush and Cheney cabal in 2008,

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and this is just an expected byproduct

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of an electoral system

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managed by PR companies

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and mediated by corporate and state media.

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But another one of the insidious reasons

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why peeps have shown JT so much love

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lies in his professed plans to reboot

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the federal government’s relations

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with the country’s First Nations.

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This shift in tone was signaled, in part,

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by his nomination of the country's

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first Indigenous Attorney General,

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Jody Wilson-Raybould,

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a former regional chief

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of the BC Assembly of First Nations who

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before joining the federal government,

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oversaw several rounds of

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treaty negotiations

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that attempted to assimilate

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the unceded Indigenous territories

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of so-called British Columbia

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by bringing them under the legal

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jurisdiction of their colonial occupier.

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As the head honcho of the

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country's justice department,

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she is now in charge of dealing with

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troublesome Native groups who continue

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to maintain their territorial sovereignty,

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such as the Unist'ot'en clan

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blocking pipelines in unceded

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Wet'suwet'en lands.

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As western corporations

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and their political pets

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get increasingly wise to the threat posed

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by the current upsurge

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in Native-led resistance,

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attempts to co-opt their struggles

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will no doubt increase.

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But grassroots Indigenous activists

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and land defenders live lifestyles

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very different from the sellout leaders

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that the state handpicks

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as negotiating partners.

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These differences have incredibly

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high stakes.

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Particularly when it comes to negotiating

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treaties and signing infrastructural

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development projects.

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To learn more about some of the real life

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shit affecting grassroots Indigenous peeps

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in Turtle Island, I recently caught up

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with Ant-Loc, MC for one of my favourite

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hip hop groups, Savage Fam.

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My name don't matter in this situation.

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We represent Savage Fam:

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Standing Against Violent Adversaries

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and Genocidal Environments

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Forever Always Movement.

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The voice of the voiceless.

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The people that nobody speaks for.

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The people that aren't allowed to speak

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for themselves.

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I'm from the Lower Elwha Klallam people

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in illegally occupied Washington State.

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North-west portion of the

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United Snakes of America.

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To most peeps out there, Savage Fam

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is a hip hop group.

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

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Can you explain?

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Some people consider us, you know,

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music or hip hop artists, or rap artists

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or whatever the fuck that is, but I feel

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like Savage Fam was a coming together

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of a lot of people that were tired of

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having to face the sicknesses, the death,

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the destruction that was going on on our

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communities. And I think that some of us

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grabbed on the portion of music, hip hop

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because it was something that was listened

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to in our communities. But realistically

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the way we always address it - I know when

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we are sitting behind closed doors, and

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we're conversing with ourselves,

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the fact is that Savage Fam is a voice..

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

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It's a way of being that existed

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even before we gave it a name.

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Like the way it's broken down:

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Standing Against Violent Adversaries

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and Genocidal Environments - what that

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suggests is that, not only do we function

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with addressing the issues in terms

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through music, we also confront the system

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- we have confronted the system,

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we have been arrested... got down doing

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what was necessary to hold it down for

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our people.

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We've crossed the country helping out

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our people in every way possible....

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not just through music. But music was the

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way that people got to know us, Savage Fam

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When I first saw y'all perform,

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y'all had more rappers on stage

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than the Wu Tang Clan.

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How many peeps are in Savage Fam?

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Many people, like, grabbed onto this shit

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and we never wanted to turn anyone away

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in terms of being a part of this shit.

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In terms of being like "Well I got nobody

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else. I have fuckin nothing remaining

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of my identity. I have nothing remaining

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of any of this shit, because this shit

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has been stripped from me by every

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possible means there is. And you're

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the only fucking thing we have...

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is this shit. I seen in this video

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where y'all were getting arrested

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at fuckin Columbus Day in Denver.

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I seen this shit when y'all came over

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to the spot and droppred some clothes off.

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Y'all came up to the spot when the girl

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killed herself just to come show support."

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People were like "Fuck that, we wanna

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

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

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have. You make us feel strong.

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You make us feel this, or you make us

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actually only fuckin feel like somebody

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gives a fuck about us."

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Like, that simple. Like "you actually

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fuckin care about some shit that

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we're going through, and we can tell you

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really been through it."

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So Savage Fam spans all the fuck over.

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You might find a motherfucker in

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Nova Scotia... you might find some

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motherfucker in South America.

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A lot of the lyrics y'all drop are about

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the motherfuckin police.

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Why do y'all hate them so much?

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And what is their role

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in the colonial process?

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Pigs and military, they hold in place

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an illegal occupying force.

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So like, the system of the United Snakes,

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the systems of anything else that exists

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here, is held in place by the policing

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system and by the military system,

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

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very much one and the same.

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Because under the US view of the world

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might makes right, so the more power

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that you exert, the more power that

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you show in terms of policing the streets

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with guns.. the Feds, the pigs,

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what they do, is they continuously

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hold down - they make sure that this

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occupancy is continuing, and ongoing.

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And I think - that's like, from an

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Indigenous perspective.

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When you look at it from

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a human perspective, or any other

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perspective, you can see every single day

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people being killed by the police.

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You can see people being raped

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by the police. You can see how corrupt

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the system is. How misplaced the idea

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of justice is.

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Because what they have created is

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bullies with badges, bullies with guns.

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People that kind of, can get away

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pretty much with anything.

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Are there any groups or movements

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out there that you have affinity with?

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Any other movement outside of an anarchist

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movement has always been about "how do we

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find our place for justice

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within the system?

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How do we find our place to exist within

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the system, but equal?

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How do we find our place within the system

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but have our piece of the pie as well?"

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And under that, there's no addressing of

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the fact that people are - everyone is

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illegally occupying Indigenous homelands.

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And I think that is a fundamental flaw

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in every single movement that needs

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to be addressed, first and foremost

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before I even listen to anybody about

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anything. That's me personally...

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because I think that it's very dangerous

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to assume as anybody - and I don't care

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

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whatever it is, if you're not addressing

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first and foremost, that you occupy

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Indigenous homelands illegally

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- regardless of the circumstances that

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got you there - if you do not address that

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fact, first and foremost,

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then you disrespect and you disregard

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the ongoing occupation, and the injustice

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that continues because of that ongoing

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occupation - that colonization process.

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Colonization is simply the process of

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coming through forcefully, and pushing

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a new worldview, and a new way

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of functioning on a group of people or

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group of peoples. And so if you're willing

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to accept that, just as long as you

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can have your piece of equality within

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that, then it's problematic for

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the Indigenous population.

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Do you think people on this continent are

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paying more attention to

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Indigenous issues?

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

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like it fits now with environmental issues

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where we're seeing drastic environmental

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changes. And because of that, we're

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afraid of what might happen.

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So... the Indigenous population has always

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been the people to go to to be like

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"Oh, what the fuck should we do,

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because our fuckin world is changing, and

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it's turning all bad?" because they know

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how to take care of the land and shit.

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And so everyone's like

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"Oh, let's figure out a way

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to see what these Natives are doing."

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But even then, it's underground.

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And it's very very much underground.

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So like, right now, we're talking about

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a fuckin coal train that's going through

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Lummy, and nobody fuckin knows that

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even exists because people are so busy

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dealin with like, one or two

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major projects that are fuckin set up

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by the media to be important. But there's

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a thousand different projects going on.

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There's thousands of different things

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that are going on. There's fucking farms

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on rivers... there's fuckin ongoing

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deforestation and logging.

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Until it affects them in their back yard..

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

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Natives, and let's have a picture of the

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Natives and what they're doing,

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and let's support them."

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Again, this is allyship at its finest,

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because this is when people like,

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bring Natives to the forefront, and have

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them be the voice. And they actually

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become the ones who are chased after

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and incarcerated, murdered, all those

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different things behind closed doors.

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And everybody else gets their accolades

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and shit. People wanna do the shit

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that gets them in front of cameras,

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gets them on pictures and shit like that.

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And I know we're sittin in front of

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cameras right now, but what I'm sayin is

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that people wanna do the pretty shit.

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People wanna do the fuckin - all the

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

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so they can get a little fame and fortune

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behind what they're trying to do.

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But nobody really knows - people don't

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know about the fact that every fucking day

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there's kids killing themselves.

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People don't know the fact that, fuckin,

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there's kids overdosing themselves every

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fucking day - which doesn't mean shit to

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society at large. But when you have

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a population of 500 fuckin people,

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some places 30 people, some places 100

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people. When you have a population

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like that, and you see 10 people die

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a fuckin year? That's fucking significant.

555
00:17:23,045 --> 00:17:24,986
But nobody fuckin pays attention

556
00:17:24,986 --> 00:17:26,387
to that shit. Ain't nobody coming

557
00:17:26,387 --> 00:17:28,378
to fuckin any kind of camp to, say,

558
00:17:28,378 --> 00:17:29,750
stop the child molestors from coming

559
00:17:29,750 --> 00:17:31,254
in our community. But if we have some

560
00:17:31,254 --> 00:17:32,889
big shit that affects them, they'll come

561
00:17:32,889 --> 00:17:34,423
fuck with us. But they won't fuck with us

562
00:17:34,423 --> 00:17:36,394
if we're talkin about let's try and

563
00:17:36,394 --> 00:17:37,694
protect our children. Let's try to protect

564
00:17:37,694 --> 00:17:40,823
our women. Let's try - it's not - it won't

565
00:17:40,823 --> 00:17:42,632
go down like that. Because personally,

566
00:17:42,632 --> 00:17:44,369
I don't believe anyone really gives a fuck

567
00:17:44,369 --> 00:17:46,004
unless they got some kind of stake in it.

568
00:17:46,004 --> 00:17:48,058
But we always got a stake in it.

569
00:17:48,058 --> 00:17:50,444
Thanks Ant, and that about does it for

570
00:17:50,444 --> 00:17:52,607
this sedition of It’s The End of the World

571
00:17:52,607 --> 00:17:54,477
as we Know it and I Feel Fine.

572
00:17:54,477 --> 00:17:56,417
If you want to hear an extended interview

573
00:17:56,417 --> 00:17:57,311
with Ant-Loc,

574
00:17:57,311 --> 00:17:59,180
find out the tracks I played,

575
00:17:59,180 --> 00:18:00,887
subscribe to my email list,

576
00:18:00,887 --> 00:18:01,750
get my podcast,

577
00:18:01,750 --> 00:18:04,178
or just clue me into some new hot shit

578
00:18:04,178 --> 00:18:05,387
political hip hop

579
00:18:05,387 --> 00:18:07,411
just visit my fuckin website:

580
00:18:08,678 --> 00:18:09,766
With that said,

581
00:18:09,766 --> 00:18:11,596
I want to thank all the slaves who

582
00:18:11,596 --> 00:18:13,199
contributed to the continuation of this

583
00:18:13,199 --> 00:18:15,332
transmission of tribulations

584
00:18:15,332 --> 00:18:16,704
by kicking down some coins

585
00:18:16,704 --> 00:18:18,573
into my virtual tip jar.

586
00:18:18,573 --> 00:18:21,072
So much appreciation to:

587
00:18:21,072 --> 00:18:22,677
Andrew, Lauren, Marisol, Joseph,

588
00:18:22,677 --> 00:18:25,014
Baraton, Taram, Christian, Michael,

589
00:18:25,014 --> 00:18:27,950
Kirk, Steven, Willie, Jerad, Zoe, Jeremy,

590
00:18:27,950 --> 00:18:30,286
Reto, Renzo, Yifan, Alexandra, Andrew,

591
00:18:30,286 --> 00:18:32,877
Amado, Isabelle, Jennifer, Sarah, Gregory,

592
00:18:32,877 --> 00:18:35,152
Premadasi, Freddie, Marten, Max, Jonathan,

593
00:18:35,152 --> 00:18:37,550
Steven, Miguel, Dylan, Shannon, John,

594
00:18:37,550 --> 00:18:39,084
François, and Benjamin.

595
00:18:39,084 --> 00:18:40,689
Huchinango!

596
00:18:40,689 --> 00:18:42,995
Id also like to welcome the newest members

597
00:18:42,995 --> 00:18:44,326
of the taconspiracy:

598
00:18:44,326 --> 00:18:46,296
John and Jennifer.

599
00:18:46,296 --> 00:18:47,698
Ocosingo!

600
00:18:47,698 --> 00:18:49,771
That’s all for now, and remember

601
00:18:49,771 --> 00:18:52,270
the wise words of KRS-one, when he said:

602
00:18:52,270 --> 00:18:54,027
There can never really be justice

603
00:18:54,027 --> 00:18:55,884
on stolen land!

604
00:18:55,884 --> 00:18:56,954
See you next time, suckers.