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Megathread for 27On February 27th-29th, 1973 the Independent Oglala Nation was declared by AIM, OSCRO and Traditional Chiefs
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Is this how you thought the actual Wounded Knee post would be presented? Stroke of genius really, at any rate this is a history I have grown up hearing. I've known the broad strokes for so long it felt like I was an expert when I started the Bands of Turtle Island podcast when I was like 19 maybe just turned 20. I impressed people so much a producer from Jacobin reached out and offered 15k to tell this exact story, and we all know how much Jacobin sucks but it was a great little podcast called "People's History" named of Zinn's book. So I demanded artistic and editorial control. This was paid by 3 entities and paid to multiple people I received 10k which what I received for labor went back into the podcast to make it better. I visited 53 reservation communities and 18 urban organizers from a wide variety of parties/orgs to better understand the conditions of the US. Because of this I learned just how little I knew, and realized there is a missing piece to a larger question of why momentum of the movement slowed to a crawl and is properly better suited for a long form piece that doesnt need pictures to save characters. On February 27th, 1973 (51 Years Ago) my family helped lead the famous Wounded Knee Re-Occupation. There countless people came and went while a core 300 occupied the town for 71 days and declared the Independent Oglala Nation backed by the traditional chief Frank Fool's Crow and Matthew King who commanded considerable political sway among traditional communities on Pine Ridge (often "coincidentally" also the poorest) who were being harrassed and assaulted by Dick Wilson to coerce them into agreeing to sell off a tenth of the reservation to Uranium mines like Union Carbide.
They chose Wounded Knee because of the symbolism in protesting there, it didn't turn into a re-occupation effort until AFTER Richard "Dick" Wilson set up road blocks, and used arms supplied by the US government to blockade. In Dicks mind AIM was coming to kill him, when they drove by the Tribal council building instead he chased them to Wounded Knee to instigate a fight while claiming the American Indian Movement was. In fact one of their supporters had survived the 1890 massacre, and is pictured above.
My elders call this period the Reign of Terror. Dick Wilson killed the equivalent amount of people to Pinochet's first 3 years. My uncle Leo saw his uncle burned alive as the Dick Wilson and his GOON (Guardians of the Oglala Nation) Squad tried to firebomb Fool's Crow who wasn't in his home at the time. OSCRO was even able to successfully collect the signatures needed to impeach, only Dick Wilson oversaw his own impeachment trial. Of course he was innocent.
Their argument was premised on the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty which by precedent set by the Marshall Trilogy in the Supreme Court, was the supreme law of the land equal to the constitution. This led to it be conceived as a Civil Rights issue by the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (which is ironic considering Sioux is a slur), who would be the ones to ask AIM to come protect them as they collected signatures. After the impeachment failed, what recourse were we left with a literal dictator murdering his political opponents?
The reason this history is so mystified and hidden is because it lays bare so succinctly, the continuation of COINTELPRO after it was made public. The solution was a new far more encompassing program that was essentially a domestic Phoenix program called Garden plot at least at the time of the re-occupation. What its become now is anyone's guess but Newsweek uses the limited hangout phrase 'Signature Reduction' which stems from the Douglass Durham infiltration imo and is the premise of the book I am writing.
During the period of 1965-1973 are 71 Red Power actions, one of which is led by Herb Powell and is the first example of a landback protest. This resulted in a lighthouse being returned and utilized as a Survival School and Indigenous spirituality led rehab center to combat the AA/NA Christianity underpinnings that often drove away Indigenous people. Akewsasne Notes are some of the most comprehensive resources available of the period beside archive footage and are archived online. Madonna is my aunt, sister to David Swallow Jr and Russell Means and you can learn so much about her in Warrior Women (just wait we will make it accessible)
Madonna's daughter Marcella actually incredibly went to Cuba for the 11th World Youth Festival in 1978, she went and met the youth movement of the PLO around the same period too, my mom wrote the Denver youth program charter, this has always been one generation building of the other. Madonna calls it "a movement of families" I argue what we need is a family of movements united under one.
It's no exaggeration either! David's grandpa rode with Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, Fool's Crow was 88 in 1974 (John Denver sang at his birthday oddly and we have the footage and me the people who filmed it) people think these things are so far away but literally up until the 90s you had to speak Lakota on my rez. Now the language is practically gone. Is it any wonder the ghost dance which caused so much fear they murdered a childs mother while still breastfeeding, while under a truce flag, caused just as much fear in the state agents hoping to kill more Indians?
This year we were the ones who funded the gas, water and part of the food being provided, we are housing the victims of this violence after decades of continuously being tossed around. The photo under this one was taken by my former boss Nick Estes, in it you see a Palestinian Flag next to the AIM Flag and next to an upside down American Flag. When the flag is upside down it means you are under duress during war, this is a war. Its still be raged, just in the 90s under Clinton the ATF, FBI and more raided our Sundance accusing David of forming a militia and having bazookas. They found only a Buffalo gun. They are so afraid of us picking up the rifle again, and this spring David will be going to the senate and demanding the BIA and Tribal Council dissolve operations on our reservation. He will be demanding the reinstatement of the 1868 land claims, as a starting point to honest relations and building a future. This will be denied. There will be turmoil. You need to be ready.
If you enjoy these posts, want to support this movement, and in general learn more about us check out our https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork where you can see our other social media to get updates on our public works, read our first year organizing strategy, or find our patreon/liberapay links in order to support this work monthly. Otherwise right now we have a huge ask for $1000 for an electric bill that got away from the Indigenous family, enbridge owns their utility too and I just find it particularly moving to help them fight their electric being shut off by some one poisoning their lands right now as we speak. You can donate to $ZitkatosTinCan on cashapp and @zitkato on venmo we are hoping to fulfill this one by the 8th. We also have ask for that we currently are at 1500/4500 for a trailer to house an elder, unfortunately the trailers we got donated were falling apart and would definitely collapse on the journey to the Rez. This one is in Rapid City and we can haul it with a pick up and just need to winterize it and hook it up to electricity which we are estimating to be 1500+ as you can tell we always have a ton going on this will be the 2rd home we provided this year, and we are sending a permaculture crew to the land this March who will be staying in a Tipi until we build several A Frame Cabins this May-September during our construction caravans. We have been asked to also help develop an ID and passport production system like the Haudenosaunee have, and are looking for ideas and pointers. This is far more than a mutual aid organization, and people should learn just how much we are doing and how much our base already believes in us. I dont know any other party where we are, and we barely have our governing documents together so why not support us and see where we can go
Lastly fuck commas and the English language
Me to the Taco Bell cashier trying to explain that the Triple Double Crunchwrap has been discontinued: "But do you condemn Hamas?"
I think I need to quit my job. I started recently and just got tons of tasks assigned to me and I, familiar with hazing rituals, smiled and said more please. My boss definitely noticed i'm not keeping up and asked me to log my time and send out status updates which is just more things to do.
I don't spend much money and have savings so I can be ok probably. I don't know if my coworkers have that same priviledge and I feel like they are overworked too. I just met all these people recently and I can't help but feel like i'm abandoning them. I also wonder how friends and family will think about it. Everyone I talk to seems to feel the same way - each job having its own unique spin on its method of psychological torture. Deciding to take a break from the capitalist death cult gives me such a weird sense of guilt
There were so so so so many red flags that I just ignored because I wanted out of my last job so badly and what did I get out it? Just more burnt out. I don't really know what to do next. Probably write out a script, zoom call my boss, and say i'm leaving.
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I burnt my tongue on tea
The day before he was arraigned on these charges, Koerber changed the heading on his website from “Capitalist. Mormon. Dad.” to simply “Capitalist."
new tagline just dropped
Outlook and teams need to push security critical updates in a seperate channel and only make those mandatory for access. "You can't check your work email because you didn't downoad the daily 300MB update" is so fucking annoying.
Liberals better be ready to have their bluffs called in November, im not fucking voting anymore
Scenario where the Federation from Starship Troopers discovers the 12 Colonies of Kobol from Battlestar Galactica. The shadowy fascist leadership is like, hell yeah an external enemy to use as a rallying point to paper over the internal contradictions of our shit ass society; then they start a war with them and just get their shit wrecked. Battlestars and Vipers tearing apart their fleet, mobile infantry getting decimated by the Colonial Marines who know how to use actual battlefield tactics. Scene where Bill Adama stares into the eyes of Johnny Rico, trying to find some semblance of their shared humanity before Tigh convinces him to just airlock his stupid ass.
Sweing a Fetterman tweet and calling the heart and stroke foundation to see whether they have any research projects in the other direction.
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Watching Starship Trooper reactions on Youtube to see which of these reacTORS get it
spoiler
None of them lmao, none of them get it
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Co-workwr suggested I should write down what I want to do for the next 4 years tomorrow cause I take Leap Day off and like...fuck off no. Bad suggestion and a very anti-leap day way of looking at things. That's just New Years without a party and more navel gazing homework, fuck all of that noise. Leap Day is a phantom day that comes up every 4 years cause we couldn't make a half decent calendar. It's a glitch, a nasty little mathematical outlier that shows we're dumb stupid assholes who think we can turn celestial events into Gary Larson calendars. Leap Day is about chaos.
I'm as pro-piracy as they come but anyone who watches CAMRips should go to jail immediately
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can someone please turn on the lights?
I'm really frakking scared of the dark
just finished reading Maus last night
Jesus fucking Christ 
Meeting some comrades next week for a candidacy interview for the WWP! I'm so excited-nervous, never been part of a proper communist party before.
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My faith has been tested, I learned that China owns most of the cobalt mines in Congo. I know the worlds not perfect and everything is very messy but cmon that is some of the worst shit Ive ever seen. Free those people China wtf.
On the other hand, even if I'm on crazy pills and I believe in nonsense, talking to liberals about voting blue and palestine and just pure hypotheticals, there is no way I could ever go back to that. "Scratched liberal bleeds a fascist" is 100000% true.
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"You used to be such a hard worker"
Yeah, but all that "actual work" was such a waste of my god damn time. Guys, work smarter, not harder, okay? Thats like the entire point of this fucking world, alright? I got OWNED in the past by thinking that I knew the best way to make things work and now I'm doing everything differently and my life is amazing, okay?
You're a fool is what I'm trying to say. I'm trying to make it very clear and I'll keep on saying it as long as I can. You are a FOOL
I'm proposing Star Trek day at work where when a customer comes in, front of house sends us a little alert noise, then one of the line cooks says 'incoming subspace message', the chef says 'onscreen' and then the customer appears on a hig TV screen we've installed and places their order. We then go into a different room and discuss step by step what each of us will do to make the order and then have a commercial break. After the chef recaps everything we've done that day we make the food.
Jesus, 2016 was 8 years ago.
Cashew nuts are insane. Eat a small bowl (100g), that's 600 kcal. That's really a lot. And looking at it it's roughly the same for peanuts, pistachios and the like (not chickpeas though); it suddenly makes sense most trail mixes and survival stuff use nuts - they manage both to be extremely calorie-dense and nice to eat.
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During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
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Your boy had jury duty for the first time ever today and was about to be put on a fucking 2+ month murder trial until I basically begged the judge to excuse me because I just got a new job and it would look super bad for me to be gone 3 days per week for that long. I actually really wanted to do it but this is the first time in my life I've not hated my job so I didn't want to risk it.
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For fucks sake, my job’s been having issues with the payroll company and once again has to mail checks and of course i have a 2-3 day wait to get my paycheck when I have to pay my first and deposit the same day.
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I've been using a floor stand for my mic for a long time, but I finally invested in a boom stand (clamp mounted) today.
It is such a breath of fresh air... never in the way, never competes with my desk, chair, and keyboard stand for real estate, requires ZERO screwing and unscrewing adjustments, and swings away from my screen freely.
Why didn't I get one 10 years ago.......
The new show in the genre of a white guy in samurai times Japan seems pretty good despite its premise, it's well executed even if that particular style of TV show feels like it's in its twilight years. But there is an extremely goofy scene where our white guy protagonist sees a set of samurai armor, stares at it in awe for like five seconds, and then says "Shogun", the name of the show, for very little reason.
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What's up with 4:3 aspect ratio in modern films? Snyder Cut, Saltburn. Everything looks tiny on my phone.
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