A lot of people are unaware of Marlon Brandos extensive efforts to bring attention to Indigenous rights issues. From attempting to platform an Indigenous person during the Oscars, to giving an RV to the American Indian Movement that the feds would pull over in Wichita, it is no wonder we find him at the Fish-ins during 1964. The title image shows Brando with Puyallup tribal leader Bob Satiacum, Brando is holding one of 2 steelhead salmon he caught during the protest.
It’s important to note the real impetus of these protest not only being the Puyallup but the Nisqually people as well which, the right hand map shows in reference to Puyallup. Puyallup being in the middle of Tocoma, Nisqually is right outside the western city limits. All of this history of course is underpinned by settler-colonialism that we can’t help but see being repeated (only with modern technology) in Palestine.
Of course we all know Lewis and Clark to be foundational to western expansion, their expedition having ended in the PNW, it makes sense why when Ft. Lewis was built they would name it after Meriwether. This is why we can’t colonial occupation and land grabs to something “hundreds of years ago” considering Bill Frank was born only 25 years after their treaty was signed and lived to be 101. Our elders and leaders have a living memory of this time because it really wasn’t that long ago
In total I have heard elders say 400 times the franks had been arrested, 40 were the times they were charged with a crime instead of only having property seized
And if you are ever lucky enough to meet the people who grew up learning from the Frank’s, you will see why I felt the need to inform people more about this topic. You see February 12th marked 50 years since the courts ruled in favor of the organizers
Yet the salmon are not safe, and in fact are on the brink of extinction. When I went to the Pacific Northwest I went to Frank’s Landing, I visited the Puyallup, and then I went North to Lummi. There I would have an interview with Children of the Setting Suns production crew, and would meet with Jewel James. There I learned about the effort to establish an International governing body to protect the salmon from over-exploitation called the Salmon Peoples Project, which would seek to connect people who rely on salmon for their way of life, to fight on behalf of the Salmon.
Solidarity on an International level has always been at the root of Red Power, and is why I think people should learn to put down their hubris, and humble themselves to hear about the kinship between our nations and the other-than-human nations that are often hard for settlers to understand.
There’s a great song by the AIM activist Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman (a grandpa of mine) called “They Didn’t Listen” which is painfully relevant today, as is his song “Where were you when” when I mention humbling oneself to hear another world. While in Lummi I learned their traditional river only saw 3 salmon return, and I was honored with a can of smoked salmon of one of them, and feasted with them after being invited to an incredible ceremony to celebrate the end of a totem journey.
This is despite the best conservation efforts of settler society, and the elders there believe this year there will be no salmon if the dams are not removed. There has been incredible efforts to do this, but the question remains what will happen? Have their predictions changed since 2019 and 2021 when I last heard them? We will see.
I can only talk so much about this specific story out of respect for the people who I was a guest to, but you can read about it https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/indigenous-carvers-totem-pole-to-journey-across-pacific-northwest-to-bolster-dam-removal-movement/ where I am actually behind the camera as the photo of the 3 of them is takem (Jewel being to the right). They were actually laughing and smiling right before the camera took the photo and had to take considerable effort to stop smiling. The totem pole shown above is my photo of the same one shown in the paper, and neither of us took a photo of the other side. On the other side was a red women waiting to be reborn through the salmon, this symbolized Indigenous resurgence through traditional food systems brought into the future and updated. It was an honor to have met these people and shared our stories, to hear how they valued the salmon like we value buffalo. I look forward to visiting again this year and to hear about the dams they are tearing down, and what theyre carving next.
Most recently was a totem pole https://around.uoregon.edu/content/totem-pole-journey-will-make-stop-uo-campus that was an orca being ridden by an Indigenous woman in reference to the same orca from 2018 that inspired the journey I saw the end of. They call orcas the people under the sea, and I think when we see literal organized attacks on yachts, we should consider what that means for organizing given stories of crows collecting change for people when trained to. Theres a lot you can do thinking outside the box, to me this is how we invent the future
So if you learned something and want to help us out we are currently raising $1000 for an Anishinaabe families electric bill that got away from them with rising prices, and ultra cold, cold spells and weirdly warm spells making bills extremely unpredictable. As well, the utility is owned by enbridge who is being required to remove Line 5 from Bad River lands where this family lives, to us we believe there might be a case of mass retaliation through raising prices. We have 711/1000 we are also looking for help paying the storage costs of an elder and community leaders ceremonial items he has had to store to house 15 people during the winter. We have 87.50/200 needed to pay that bill.
You can of course support these people monthly and our organizers via the patreon or liberapay (found on https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork) and hear the CLN podcast as soon as the episode is ready verse on the 20th of every month for the public feed. All content is eventually made free and we encourage that you steal and distribute it, who knows maybe a pirate RSS feed might appear to get patreon content for free at the same time. At any rate supporting us monthly will go towards paying $500 a month stipends for International organizers of a variety of orgs, that were they given that extra support could dedicate far more time to incredible work. We are increasing our first year goal to 3k/month as we have identified several candidates that we believe could do incredible work, if supported how people support podcasters doing the bare minimum. The podcast is a byproduct of easily produced theoretical and relevant discussions to the current moment and organizing our networks are doing. We are hoping to start writing more when the website launches and ask forgiveness for the delays in thats launch, as well as the delay in the audio documentary (we are doing some rewrites due to time constraints of the second narrator we wrote in and we are making all of the music ourselves now) anyway I promise it is worth the wait and things just take time to do right and not cheat people for the years of support theyve given me in pursuing this research. Its been a real honor and turned into the Chunka Luta Network so it really is just something else worth documenting the best I can the first time. However you can see rough drafts on patreon before publication lmao. Anyway thanks for reading all of this if you did
Clueless white guy surrenders in perfect Vietnamese.
GOOOD Post!
Saw someone on a Dutch socialist sub say that he often drink beers with chuds and has a good time, but that he just avoids talking about politics with them, because it can become uncomfortable when they rant about rainbow flags, trans people, and climate change. And he ended the sentence with “haha”. It must be nice to enjoy the privilege of being part of a majority, so your existence isn’t called into question or mocked, and you can just pretend that politics is like supporting a different sports club. Fuuuuuuck off.
Liberal of the first type.
I don’t know how anyone could enjoy hanging out with bigots who hate their friends. Cowardly shit
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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night
Did the other mega fill up. Was there drama I missed what happ?
No lol I just was unsatisfied with the info so made an expansion because idk what else I’m gonna with all I know besides expand when the opportunity arises
Never Stop Posting!
ok i pull up
Do people often use Mastodon?
I don’t mean the liberalness I found there last time because I can just convince people to, well, not be liberals.
But I stopped going there.
Do people go there still?
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There are no conservatives in Valhalla because theyre all too afraid of walking across the rainbow bridge.
Death in battle
Walking with the pride parade to all the way to Valhalla
We respect people’s pronouns here in the great hall.
The absolute worst murderers and brigands in the world are in Valhalla bc Frejya knows Odin doesn’t have standards so she sends the trash to him and keeps the cool people for Folkvangr.
Fantasizing about growing out my hair, secretly starting voice training and HRT, then one day shaving my beard, getting a cute outfit and makeup, inventing a new persona, going to work and seeing how many people I can introduce myself to incognito.
still cis tho
Man, incredibly cool of the Victoria 3 devs to add a second game that randomly opens called “Paradox Crash Reporter”, too bad it closes down the other program.
hello fellow people of NATO how are we doing
(this comment chain is a safe space for people of NATO)
really fed up with Treat X, I want Treat Y now and if you don’t give it to me now I will make a big fuss
if they don’t give you Treat Y that is problematic as fuck. don’t stand for it.
Went and saw Dune 2: Dune 2 Much in theaters and there was a trailer for Kevin Costner’s new film Horizon: an American Saga, and I thought to myself “hooooly shit, Kevin Costner remade Birth of a Nation” lmao. Im not joking when I say it was the most fascist 2 minutes I think Ive ever seen on the big screen, it was fucking nuts. Im talking blonde-haired-blue-eyed-white-woman-spinning-in-a-dress-in-an-open-field-of-yellow-flowers-underneath-a-bright-blue-sky-before-snap-cut-to-savage-native-horde-burning-down-homes level fascist here. In 2024, shit was nuts.
Oh yeah I saw that shit too, creepy af
Horizon: an American Saga
The trailer is so abysmal, lmao. I think it was only white people talkin on screen.
I know it’s the opposite of what they intended, but it made the Indigenous people look bad ass: Not even saying a word, just merking settlers and terrorizing them
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Attempting to play Victoria 3 post 1890
New patch soon can i balkanize america into 7 provinces again as mexico
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Three little hops and a bow
How did USB sticks become lost technology
I… are they? I just picked one up a few weeks ago with, like, a silly amount of storage.
I had to go to 4 different electronics stores to find one, and the one that I found them at had them tucked away in a corner and none of the staff aware of where they were.
Ahh. I am spoiled by being within reasonable driving distance of a microcenter and did not know.
I thought they always had that problem
Prevalence of online/cloud storage.
Why am i seeing this shit on ostensibly leftist subs
also is this guy implying the Jews killed Lenin?
What in the anti-semitic fuck is going on at reddit?
A Reddit link was detected in your comment. Here are links to the same location on alternative frontends that protect your privacy.
I’m gonna turn into the joker the next time I hear about finnster
I’m gonna get banned for this but I havent ever watched or listened to any of the podcasts that are the backbone of this website. I don’t know who finnster is other than that she is a internet personality. I have never listened to citations needed or cumtown or well theres your problem or that other one that everyone always talks about.
Why people ever watch video game streams is beyond me. Why people care about professional gamers political opinions is just baffling.
youre so blessed because finnster is not even a podcaster. unfortunately i have the curse (transgender woman on the internet) and am thus obligated to learn about these things
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are the 'phobes getting uppity again?
i dont want to hear about her because her brand is built on the epic transmisogynistic stereotype “awa he looks like a girl but he’s a man!?!?!?!?!”
ohh you used she/her and when I googled I found a coming out video by a passing trans person, so it took me a bit to remember who she was.
lol huge respect, good on you for not knowing who f1nnster is
my wife had mentioned her once so I was aware but I’d forgotten - not sure if that counts
that does count :)
I’m being bullied at work, by my union representatives, because they think I was hired unfairly. And it’s a small workplace so weird lines are being drawn where it’s me and management defending my job against my colleagues. I am way too old for this shit.
they really be thinking tha promoting inside is better than getting additional hands?
I take no issue with the contract saying that qualified internal candidates should get jobs and promotions that they apply for. I don’t believe this case to be a breach of contract, but that’s for the union and management to hash out among themselves and that’s okay. I take a lot of issue with using that grievance to gossip about your new coworker who just wants to do the job she was hired for.