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The Unsustainable

from The Unsustainable Sessions by #KleeBenally (2019)

"all my rage bleeds out my throat
into rivers that used to flow
into canyons painting these deserts
so that they will grow. (once again)

is it too late
to rethink this?
on the eve of another apocalypse…
how far are will willing to go
to resist?
how far are will willing to go?

we can’t sustain, we can’t sustain
the unsustainable

are you still waiting and hoping this will all go away?
or for a better cage or more comfortable chains?
while these roots wither and they decay
well, its not broken, it’s made this way…
we can’t sustain, we can’t sustain
the unsustainable

and if the structures don’t change?
and the control remains the same?
they bring terror but they have names
so fuck your votes, your politicians, and reforms
we can’t sustain, we can’t sustain
the unsustainable

end this cycle
destroy what destroys us

we can’t sustain."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Kr22Yb5j0

#KleeBenally #ProtectTheSacred #Sustainable #Unsustainable #Crapitalism #CorporateColonialism #LandBack #NativeAmericanActivists #NativeAmericanMusicians

#AfterTheFire - #KleeBenally

"After The Fire

On the eve of rage at the edge of despair
On the backs of the bruised, we’ve been there…
Will you see this through?

on the edge of this night
So sharp it cuts just like a knife
but these words aren’t just for you…

why cut the hand pulling back the bow
when the arrow is not yet let go
…perhaps this is bigger than you?

Behind the bars of this cage
In clenched teethe biting back our rage
When all the lies can’t hold back the truth…

Chorus:
On the eve of rage at the edge of despair
When we can’t wake from this nightmare
Will you see this through?

when the cameras are gone and tear gas has cleared
When you realize how it can go as quick as it appeared
Will you see this through?

When the likes and shares dwindle down
And there are less feet on the ground
Will you see this through?

when the non-profits set another course
paychecks cashed without remorse
will you see this through?

Break:
After the ashes become clouds…
After the fire has burnt out…
and when they desecrate these sacred grounds…
Will you see this through…?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmPM2Lim5Bk

#StandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanActivists #NativeAmericanMusicians #USPol #FightBack #ProtectTheSacred

#NewMoon and honoring #KleeBenally. #GoneButNotForgotten #HonorTheWarriors

Honoring the #Movements and People who Inspire us. #Warriors, #Writers and #Dreamers -- A Thread Runs Through Them. #CensoredNews 20th Anniversary.

'Know who you are, and never let anyone take your power from you.'

By #BrendaNorrell, Censored News, August 30, 2026

"We're coming up on our 20th anniversary at Censored News, and we are honoring the warriors, leaders, writers and dreamers who make Censored News possible.

When the Mohawks came for the border summit in 2006 and 2007, it was, as they say in the movie Casablanca, the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Along with the Mohawks, leaders, writers and dreamers through the years became a sort of collective which makes Censored News what it is, a service to #IndigenousPeople and #HumanRights.

We lost many of our best, #Lakota Warrior Woman #DebWhitePlume, our longtime friend #KleeBenally, our French translator #ChristinePrat, and many more. But thanks to those who keep sharing their work, we keep Censored News going. This summer our page views increased by millions, thanks to their labors of love.

Today, we celebrate the movements and people who inspire us, as we celebrate our 20 Year Anniversary at Censored News."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/honoring-movements-and-people-who.html

To donate - [email protected] via PayPal. Link to donations page:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/08/donate-to-censored-news.html

#IndigenousNews #ReaderSupportedNews #MicheleCook #OfeliaRivas #FloydWesterman #TohonoOodhamNation #BorderPatrol #Diné #Navajo #IndigenousActivists #LandDefenders #WaterDefenders #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #MniWiconi #Marcos #Mexico #Chiapas #Maori #Aotearoa #IndigenousResistance #NoBorders #LeaveItInTheGround #StandWithStandingRock #StandingRock

Update: Brenda is out of the hospital and updating Censored News again. But she still needs more support!

Switching gears. As many of you know, I've been friends and colleagues with #BrendaNorrell since the 1990s. I know money is tight, but if you can, please donate to help keep #CensoredNews going... Brenda has been a #Truthteller for many years and reports on the people and stories that don't often make #MainstreamMedia or even #IndigenousNewsOutlets (like #KleeBenally's passing and #JusticeForRaymondMattia ).

"Donate to Censored News: Reader Supported News

Hi friends, I'm in the hospital with health problems and will update Censored News when I'm able to. Best, Brenda Norrell, publisher Censored News: Reader-Supported News. Donate via PayPal"

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/08/donate-to-censored-news.html

#IndigenousNews #MutualAid #ReaderSupportedNews #NativeAmericanNews

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance

Klee Benally:
🎵 Hands on the Barbed Wire

#KleeBenally

https://kleebenally.bandcamp.com/track/hands-on-the-barbed-wire

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance

Klee Benally, TELEVANGEL:
🎵 Indigenous and Decolonized Anarchy

#KleeBenally #TELEVANGEL

https://emergencyhearts.bandcamp.com/track/indigenous-and-decolonized-anarchy-emergency-hearts-mix

https://open.spotify.com/track/2u5qkzILDCSeRtB2JcXyWE

🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

Next up in my book pile -- " #NoSpiritualSurrender - Indigenous #Anarchy" by #KleeBenally, (2023) " #PrairieFire - The Politics of Revolutionary #AntiImperialism" by #TheWeatherUnderground (1974), and " #Antifa - The #AntiFascist Handbook" by #MarkBray (2017).

I've posted excerpts from Klee's book in the past (which I will re-boost). Both Klee and Mark Bray are in agreement as to who the real enemy is -- the forces of #Colonialism and #WhiteSupremacy.

Bray writes, "The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillar of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy, but also in #ableism, #heteronormativity, #patriarchy, #nationalism, #transphobia, #ClassRule, and many others," (Antifa, page 209), and offers up #Socialism, which is #Antiauthoritarian and #NonHierarchical as a solution.

And indeed, 1974's Prairie Fire, paints a similar picture, offering up a map of North America before and after #Colonization. (And yes, I would love to scan in all the illustrations and tables, but unfortunately, the 1974 copy is well-read and very delicate. It belonged to a coven-mate and fellow activist friend, who left it to me when they passed away -- along with a slew of other radical and pagan books). I did find some archived versions, sans illustrations, online.

#AmReading #Bookstodon #RadicalBooks #PowerStructures

@CosmickTrigger #KleeBenally and #Blackfire live. Thought you might appreciate it.

@CosmickTrigger, #KleeBenally covering #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees! (Note the lyrics changes.)

Have you listened to #KleeBenally @CosmickTrigger ? Sadly, he is no longer with us. But man, he knew how to express hardcore rage through music!

"Free the captives
Fire to the cages
Make sure they can''t build again..."

#KleeBenally, Dec 22, 2017

Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAo1b2JqHwU

#CapitalismIsTheEnemyOfMotherEarth #CapitalismIsTheEnemy #IndigenousAction #FridayNightMusicVideos
#MusicForTheResistance #RestInPowerKleeBenally
#RIPKleeBenally #DetentionCenters #PrivatePrison #PrisonersOfWar #NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand
#Resist #DefundICE #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #NativeAmericanActivists
#NativeAmericanMusicians

#BloodInMyEyes by #KleeBenally

"if this is the season to harvest
we harvest what we have grown
our teethe like daggers
our nails sharpened on stone

our enemies surround us
there is a symmetry in this cycle
the land and the seasons
are weapons of our survival

in this war there are more than two sides
can’t you see the the blood in my eyes?

we’ve gone to war with empty hands before
like thousands of arrows, lightening crashing down
we’ve gone to war with empty hands before
with darkness and mother earth, we stand this sacred ground…

in this war there are more than two sides
can’t you see the the blood in my eyes?"

from The Unsustainable Sessions, released November 26, 2019

Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4EU6LxNT4g

#FridayNightMusicVideos #MusicForTheResistance #CapitalismKills #RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #DefendMotherEarth #Resist #NativeAmericanActivists #NativeAmericanMusicians

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/113742602708673994

The best cover of one of my favorite songs... #CitiesInDust ! By the late #KleeBenally ! So powerful!

@slizzers One of the most revealing and honest books I've read in a looooong time! Thank you for quoting #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender!

Some of my heroes are ghosts... (Word play on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here").

#KarlWallinger #SineadOConnor #KleeBenally #TheRevolutionLivesOn

‘People — Indigenous and non-indigenous — are fighting here, now and against all odds: demonstrating, even if incompletely, that the impossible is possible.’
https://classautonomy.info/no-spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred/

via @AnarchistFederation, @are0h

#KleeBenally

So, I've been thinking a lot about #matriarchy and groups of people. From my own experience, sometimes groups with even the best of intentions can turn into pools of #ToxicMasculinity when males with egos start trying to run things and boss everyone around. I saw that happen with my own coven, when a member of #AIM started having the final say about everything -- often overriding our High Priestess (he was her consort). From what I've read about AIM on a national level (including excerpts from #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender and #MaryCrowDog's #LakotaWoman), it seems to have been pretty commonplace. So much for Iroquois matriarchy, eh? (The coven-mate in question was Mohawk).

Dine' tell Navajo Council 'NO COAL!'

The Monster has returned, and it is even more grotesque than the one before. Dine' remember forced relocation, the loss of water and medicine plants, and the loss of loved ones. Navajos say 'No!; to Trump and Navajo President Nygren's push for coal.

By #BrendaNorrell, @bsnorrell.blogspot.com June 1, 2025

#ForestLake, #NavajoNation -- "Dine' told the #NavajoNationCouncil that the #CoalIndustry has cost them their aquifer water, and their health. Combined with #UraniumMining, they have lost their loved ones to widespread #cancer and #BlackLungDisease killing their people.

"Dine' remembered #ForcedRelocation and the stripping of the #forest by #PeabodyCoal, during a hearing on Friday. The Navajo Council was told to stand up for #FutureGenerations, or step aside.

" 'The Navajo Nation has provided coal to the big cities for decades, while the people of #BlackMesa have nothing to show for it," Dine' from Black Mesa told the Council.

" 'We are supposed to be the Protectors of the Earth.'

"#LouiseBenally [#KleeBenally's aunt] of Big Mountain told the hearing that you can't trust what #Trump is telling you because he'll change whatever he says in the next sentence. Louise said he has no concept of what being a human is.

" 'Keep your prayers and your language, those are the things that really matter for us #IndigenousPeople,' said Louise. She and her family spent their lives resisting forced relocation brought by Peabody Coal's mining on Black Mesa.

" 'Everyone was opposed to another #CoalMining, it's not good for anything, and it is causing #GreenhouseGases to continue to rise,' Louise told Censored News.

" 'Doctor Nygren doesn't know that. He needs a hogan level of education.'

" '#ClimateChange is so, important to every living thing, we need to be finding solutions not making things worse.' "

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/live-navajo-hearing-on-revitalizing.html

#EO14241 #Diné #Dineh #Dineteh #NavajoNation #WaterIsLife #DirtyCoal #TrumpSucks #AirIsLife #NoCoalMining
#BigCoal #USPol #NativeAmericanNews #CorporateColonialism #RememberKleeBenally
#BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople

Now Showing Online! #BigMountain Film Featured at Tokyo Global Film Festival

By NaBahii Keediniihii, via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com, May 28, 2:33 PM

"Greetings All.

I hope your late Spring is going well.

The ONLY film festival so far that
selected the Big Mountain Film is Tokyo Liff Off Global Film Festival.

Big Mountain feature documentary will end streaming on June 1st which is night time Saturday in the U.S., 5/31.

https://liftoff.network/tokyo-lift-off-film-festival-2025/

Sorry that you have to purchase a Ticket (cost is $12), in order to Vote. GO DOWN TO THE 'FEATURES' Category. Find the title: "BIG MOUNTAIN LEGACY, LAST STORIES OF DÍNEH." More Votes = More Exposure about Big Mountain Legacy!!

Let's hope that other Film Fests judge to select this Big Mountain Legacy film.

What more can I say, this documentary is not about myself. Understand that I am only the MessenJah.

Thank you, again.

Sincerely,

Kat Bahe"

Watch the film trailer
https://vimeo.com/848932137

Big Mountain Legacy Film: SYNOPSIS / Re-enactments / A Dream of a Man
Director: Bahe (Naabaahii) Katenay (Keediniihii), October 2023 (75 minute featured documentary)

Background:

"In the 1970s, Dineh (Navajo) families around Big Mountain were notified that their communities would be uprooted and that they may never see their ancestral homelands ever again. Now 50 years later, less than 20 home sites remain and the once strong #resistance leaders like #PaulineWhitesinger, #HaastinNiizBegay, #JohnKatenay, and #RobertaBlackgoat (#KleeBenally's grandmother) have all passed on.

How should the future remember the legacies of such wise teachers? What gave their community the will to defy U.S.

Congressional Legislations that were nothing but anti-Indian which was forcing them to give up hundreds of years of cultural existence?

The Congress of the United States passed Public Law 93-531 in 1974 and it was signed by the President. It is an Executive Order, a declaration to exterminate, a declaration of war. The justification for this law was to “resolve” a supposed “land-dispute” among the Hopis and Dineh, and the lands were divided.

The 2023 Video Documentary:
The original impetus for resisting the federal mandate was the sacredness of the lands, ancestral ties and natural features which were dwelling places of Deities. The elder interviewees knew the future will not be the same way as they had lived and the same childhood experience. The video put aside much of the effective resistance against the most powerful, #capitalistic country in the world, instead the video presents stories about their ancestors’ teachings. A Dineh ritual existence which was basically daily living, ceremonies and nutrition. An indigenous atmosphere long before the Europeans’ arrival with its brutal conquest. The video narrowly touches on a 400-year history of cultural survival and maintaining identity. And how that history overlaps with so-called modern America.

One grandmother’s story become an intense chapter, and it is about her direct clan ancestry facing near annihilation as one little girl survives which resulted in re-establishing a Clan at Big Mountain.

"This story comes from a massacre site with two mass graves. Then stories about decades of intense state of fear and which lead into the US’s late 1800s war policy of random killing, starvation and captivity. The modern times the 1920s and 30s when these story tellers were born, a different state of fear had re-emerged, and then again at their elderhood in the late 1900s. All the stories in this documentary program are messages for the future because, as these elders have predicted, the lands maybe empty of indigenous culture which once thrived for centuries."

Continue reading at: Sheep Dog Nation Media
https://sheepdognationmediarockswisdom.blogspot.com/

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/now-showing-online-big-mountain-film.html

#BigMountainResistance #Activism
#Dineh #Dineteh #Hopi #JohnMcCain #PeabodyCoal #BigCoal #PeabodyEnergy #Resistance #WaterIsLife #CorporateColonialism #HumanRights #LandDefenders #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #DirectAction #DefendTheSacred #IndigenousAction

via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com

#NavajoNation Targeted Again for Sacrifice Zone: '#Energy Companies Preying on the People'

#Diné ask: Why is the Navajo Nation allowing energy companies to prey on communities and individuals?

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 23, 2024

"Dine' on the Navajo Nation are now targeted with a push to revitalize dirty coal energy, and a hydropower project that would pump precious water from their aquifer. Dine' question why the Navajo Nation government is allowing energy companies to prey on the communities and individuals.

"#LouiseBenally of #BigMountain [#KleeBenally's aunt] said the bottom line is greed. 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'

"The new stampede of parasitic energy companies to the Navajo Nation comes at the same time that #radioactive #uranium trucks, covered only with tarps, are traveling across the Navajo Nation, from the #GrandCanyon uranium mine to the mill in the #WhiteMesaUte community in Utah.

"At the same time, more than 500 #UraniumMines, and scattered radioactive debris, remain on the Navajo Nation, and was never cleaned up by the U.S. government. Dirty coal mines and power plants left the legacy of death and #ForcedRelocation.

Navajo Council Plans Meeting on Revitalizing Coal Industry

"Citing #Trump's push for new #CoalMining, the #NavajoNationCouncil plans to hold a public hearing on
revitalizing the coal industry.

"The Navajo Nation Council announced the public hearing, stating that on April 8 President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled, 'Reinvigorating America’s #BeautifulCleanCoal Industry
and Amending Executive Order 14241' aimed at reversing past federal policies, to boost the coal industry and to strengthen the country’s national energy security, according to the White House.

"The public hearing is scheduled in Forest Lake Chapter on Friday, May 30. Louise Benally and her family spent their lives battling #PeabodyCoal and resisting forced relocation at Big Mountain on #BlackMesa. She said what Trump is doing is another chapter in the assault on the land and people.

" 'Pl 93-531 is a law created by #BarryGoldwater to target our rights to water and land base to be taken away. He developed that law so, with what Trump is trying to do is no different.'

" 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'

" 'The American political system is not our government as traditional people which is where all our modern day problems come from in the form of an endless greed to keep eating up the earth and the natural resources.'

"Louise questioned Navajo Nation President #BuuNygren's support of Trump and coal mining in Washington, and Nygren's agreement for uranium trucks to cross the Navajo Nation. 'The Navajo Nation government is at a crossroads. Buu has been taken by Trump, and the people he is supposed to be responsible for are in question.'

" 'He has been taken into the bag of greed -- uranium and coal yet, there is no water. We want accountability.' "

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/navajo-nation-targeted-again-for.html

#Diné #Dineh #BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople
#WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #EnergyFuels
#Dineteh #NukingTheNavajo
#Havasupai #UraniumMines
#EnvironmentalRacism #WhiteMesaMill #NukingTheNavajo #NukingTheUte #Ute #Paiute #Hopi #BidiiRoots #DineCARE #Havasupai #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #AirIsLife #UraniumMine #UraniumTransport #RadioactiveDust #RememberKleeBenally #BigCoal #DishonoringTheMemoryOfKleeBenally
#HaulNo #NoMiningWithoutConsent

@rmblaber1956 @breadandcircuses @greenpeace @ExtinctionR @ScottishGreens #KleeBenally had a lot to say about #Greenwashing. Seems he was right...!

#NavajoNation Dishonors Legacy of #KleeBenally: Agrees to #Uranium Transport Through #Navajo Communities

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, February 3, 2025

"The Navajo Nation dishonored the memory and legacy of Klee Benally by agreeing to allow radioactive uranium trucks to travel through the Navajo Nation. It was what Klee spent the last years of his life fighting against.

"The deadly trucks from the #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain uranium mine in the #GrandCanyon will pass through the #Havasupai's homeland, and then past the homes of #Paiute, #Dine' and #Hopi in Arizona before reaching the dumping ground: The Energy Fuels #UraniumMill in the #WhiteMesaUte Community in Southern #Utah.

"Klee is being honored with a #NuclearFreeFutures Award in New York in March.

"Nuclear Free Futures said, in announcing the award, 'Klee Benally was a Navajo activist and musician and member of the Navajo #Tódichiinii Clan and the #Nakai #Diné Clan. In addition to a
musical career with his siblings in the band #Blackfire,

"'Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of uranium mines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, '#NoSpiritualSurrender: #IndigenousAnarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'

"The award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.

"Klee, co-founder of #HaulNo!, warned of the danger to the water and rivers from the uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and the planned deadly transport of radioactive ore, before he passed in
December 2023: 'There is possible radioactive contamination to land, water, and air from the #CanyonMine, White
Mesa Mill, and transport of uranium would impact northern Arizona, southeast Utah, the #ColoradoRiver, #MoenkopiWash, the #SanJuanRiver, and the lands and cultural resources of the #Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, Ute, and Paiute peoples.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/navajo-nation-dishonors-legacy-of-klee.html
#WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

Fundraiser for #KleeBenally [updated February 2025]:

- Donations for #HaulNo!

"Klee was deeply involved in Haul No! to stimulate actions of #resistance against #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain / #CanyonMine #UraniumMine, Energy Fuels’ #WhiteMesaMill, and related transport."

https://haulno.com/donate/

#IndigenousResistance #MutualAid
#LandBack #RestInPowerKleeBenally
#IndigenousAction #Fundraisers #UraniumMining #NuclearColonialism #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #Dine

Over the Edge/In Reverence - #KleeBenally

Premiered Nov 22, 2019

"I'm not sure if you got my letter
I could resend it but it just said,
let’s push it over the edge, again and again…
sometimes it's best not to make plans
there’s an art to crashing in
let’s push it over the edge again
we invoke this
disavow this
pledge no allegiance
did you see the future came and went
it was everything we made it
pushed it over the edge again and again
caught up in the moment
forgot where it began
let’s push it over the edge again
we invoke this
disavow this
pledge no allegiance
actions are our prayers
when we live our lives
in reverence
(and this feels just like, coming home)
disharmonious
the discordance
in the shadow of irreverence
what else can
bring justice when
nothing will grow and
what else can
bring justice when
the bullets are lodged so deep in
we invoke this
disavow this
pledge no allegiance
actions are our prayers
when we live our lives
in reverence"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoxxSr5jfMY
#RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousMusicians

I can't believe it's been a year. #RestInPowerKleeBenally!

#KleeBenally, Navajo Activist and Artist, Dies at 48

He helped found a punk-rock band when he was 14. That led to a long career as an advocate for Native American and environmental causes.

By Penelope Green
Published Jan. 7, 2024, Updated Jan. 11, 2024

Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/us/klee-benally-dead.html

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/qhvWR

#KleeBenally #NoSpiritualSurrender #NoUraniumMining #NoDAPL #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousResistance

From Chapter 8 of #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender - #IndigenousAnarchy, #InDefenseOfTheSacred:

"In the book #LakotaWoman, #MaryCrowDog and #RichardErdoes
shared this prophetic quote by #AnnaMaeAquash in 1975,

'[The FBI] offered me my freedom and money if I’d testify the way they wanted. I have those two choices now. I chose my kind of freedom, not their kind, even if I have to die. They let me go because they are sure I’ll lead them to Peltier. They’re watching me. I don’t hear them or see them, but I know they’re out there somewhere. I can feel it.' "

Page 181, #KleeBenally, #NoSpiritualSurrender

#FreeLeonardPeltier #AnnaMaePictouAquash
#ACAB #AIM #AmericanIndianMovement
#AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #MMIW #FBI #COINTELPRO

#ACAB Round Dance by #KleeBenally

"Police violence is systemically rooted in #WhiteSupremacy, #heteropatriarchy, #capitalism, and #colonialism.

"According to Eastern Kentucky University professor Victor E. Kappeler, 'New England settlers appointed Indian Constables to police Native Americans (National Constable Association, 1995), the St. Louis police were founded to protect residents from Native Americans in that frontier city, and many southern police departments began as slave patrols. In 1704, the colony of Carolina developed the nation’s first slave patrol. Slave patrols helped to maintain the economic order and to assist the wealthy landowners in recovering and punishing slaves who essentially were considered property.'

"According to the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 'The racial group most likely to be killed by law enforcement is Native Americans, followed by African Americans, Latinos, Whites, and Asian Americans.' This is not to argue Indigenous folks’ oppression is more severe, but to recognize our shared struggles to ensure there is not one more Sarah Lee Circle Bear‬, Corey Kanosh‬, Paul Castaway‬, Allen Locke‬, Mahivist Goodblanket‬, John Williams‬, or Loreal Tsingine (and so many more...) and to situate the ongoing police terrorism all our communities face as originating from the same systems of oppression.
Beyond pleas for a system rooted in genocide and slavery to recognize that our lives matter, our communities and movements can learn from each others’ struggles and build together towards lasting solutions to defend ourselves, neighbors, lands, and to resolve issues we face in more just and healthy ways. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J24ohYamK8Y
#NativeJusticeNow #RestInPowerKleeBenally #FridayNightMusicVideos
#FridayNightMusic
#NativeAmericanMusic #IndigenousActivists #DefendTheSacred #ActivismThroughMusic #CorporateColonialism #ProtectMotherearth

#Unsustainable by #KleeBenally

"All my rage bleeds out my throat
into rivers that used to flow
into canyons painting these deserts
so that they will grow. (once again)

is it too late
to rethink this?
on the eve of another apocalypse…
how far are will willing to go
to resist?
how far are will willing to go?

we can’t sustain, we can’t sustain
the unsustainable

are you still waiting and hoping this will all go away?
or for a better cage or more comfortable chains?
while these roots wither and they decay
well, its not broken, it’s made this way…
we can’t sustain, we can’t sustain
the unsustainable

and if the structures don’t change?
and the control remains the same?
they bring terror but they have names
so fuck your votes, your politicians, and reforms
we can’t sustain, we can’t sustain
the unsustainable

end this cycle
destroy what destroys us

we can’t sustain."

- 2019, Klee Benally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Kr22Yb5j0

#Resistance #DefendTheSacred #Resist #Resistance #RestInPowerKleeBenally #FridayNightMusicVideos
#FridayNightMusic
#NativeAmericanMusic #IndigenousActivists #DefendTheSacred #ActivismThroughMusic #Degrowth #IndigenousAnarchy

Song To The Sun by #KleeBenally

"Our Mother aches
Our claws dig until She breaks
And we bleed for this
How much is in her
I remember songs of the Sun
For those whose breath was stolen..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEBhDVnzG_s

#LeaveItInTheGround #Resistance #Havasupai #DefendTheSacred #Resist #Resistance #IndigenousAction #RestInPowerKleeBenally #FridayNightMusicVideos
#FridayNightMusic
#Genocide #NativeAmericanMusic #IndigenousActivists #DefendTheSacred #ActivismThroughMusic #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #NoUraniumMining #HaulNo

She Was A Mountain by #KleeBenally

"Ya'at'eeh,

In honor and support for ongoing resistance to forced relocation on #BlackMesa. This is for the original #matriarchs who would not be moved such as #KatherineSmith, #RobertaBlackgoat, #PaulineWhitesinger, #MaeTso, #AliceBenally, #RuthBenally, and so many more."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIWMun106ek

#Resist #Resistance #RestInPowerKleeBenally #BigMountainResistance #ForcedRelocation #Genocide #McCainShame #FridayNightMusicVideos
#FridayNightMusic
#NativeAmericanMusic
#IndigenousActivists
#DefendTheSacred
#ActivismThroughMusic

#Blackfire - #Resist (with #KleeBenally)

"Walk upon the screaming grounds, each step takes us on a different past
We try to carry on, but you hold us back
We get used to the pain, 'cause we feel it every day
We get used to the lies, 'cause the truths so far away
Walk upon the screaming grounds, no respect for the dead
You see what you want to see, is nothing sacred?

"The past is just an echo we hear in the pages of books
But how can we let go of something we could never touch
Were given the freedom of speech but you change our words
You turn to help the environment but you can't respect the earth

"Walk upon the screaming grounds, no respect for the dead
You see what you want to see, is nothing sacred?

"You sold your life for another life
You sold your future thought you could survive
You sold your soul for an education
What you got was forced relocation

Walk upon the screaming grounds, no respect for the dead
You see what you want to see, is nothing sacred?

"Decide now which side of the fence you want to be on
Which way do you want to live?
How can we choose one or the other
We must resist
We will build the bridges
We will tear down the fences
We will resist, We will resist!

"Walk upon the screaming grounds, no respect for the dead
You see what you want to see, is nothing sacred?
Is nothing sacred?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwL9EBt7Wo

#FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #Resist #Resistance #KleeBenally #NativeAmericanMusic #IndigenousActivists #DefendTheSacred #PunkRock #ActivismThroughMusic

Going to the #ShiprockFair, #KleeBenally Remembered the #UraniumDump on the Banks of the #SanJuanRiver

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, August 29, 2024

SHIPROCK, #NavajoNation -- "In his book published shortly before his passing, Klee Benally writes of going to the #NorthernNavajoFair and the #UraniumDump in #Shiprock that no one talks about. It is along the San Juan River, the same river that flooded this week, now eight months after Klee's passing.

"'The Northern Navajo Fair at Tsé Bit A'í (#ShiprockNewMexico) has been held for more than one hundred years,' Klee writes in 'No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'

"Klee describes how the fair each fall marks the changing of the seasons and the #harvest. He describes the neon glow of the carnival in the cold, dusty nights, and the #uniper fires that burn.

"All of this revelry is held right on #UraniumBoulevard just a couple miles from a massive 105-acre #Radioactive dump containing 2.5 million tons of #RadioactiveWaste on a site that was a former #UraniumMill (which is just 600 feet from the San Juan River.)'

"The Shiprock Uranium Disposal Cell studies showed that more than 1.8 million liters of #groundwater were contaminated with uranium, #selenium, #radium, #cadmium, #sulfate, and #nitrate.

"Now the #NavajoNation again is targeted by the #Nuclear Industry and #DebHaaland's radioactive agenda is being ignored.

"Speaking in Farmington, Interior Sec. Haaland said the transition to green energy in the #FourCorners region will be led by the #AtomicBomb industry, #LosAlamos National Laboratory, which has already poisoned #Pueblo lands in northern #NewMexico.

"There is no mention of the fact that there is no safe way to store #NuclearWaste.
Now, adding to the layers of deception, the U.S. #EPA is deceiving the public. The EPA doesn't actually clean up the uranium dumps and strewn #RadioactiveTailings from #ColdWar #UraniumMining on the Navajo Nation -- it only announces plans and promises to do it.

"#EricJantz, legal director of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, told the Inter-American Commission on #HumanRights in March that the #EPA has not completed any of the cleanups.

"There are 524 uranium mine sites waiting to be cleaned up on the Navajo Nation. Zero -- none of these -- have been fully cleaned up, Jantz told the international commission.
The truth is people seldom talk about the uranium dump at Shiprock because there is so much strewn radioactive waste, and so many unreclaimed uranium mines, with radioactive waste strewn from Cameron to #MonumentValley, and across the Four Corners region.

"During the 1990s, on assignment for USA Today, I talked with #Dine' in #RedValley and Cove, south of Shiprock, down the mountain from where I lived. In every family, there was cancer. In every family, someone was dying of #cancer, or had already died, from cancer because of the uranium mining.

"One Dine' grandmother in her 80s was living in a stone home built of radioactive rock. We had a Geiger counter with us."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/going-to-shiprock-fair-klee-benally.html

#KleeBenallyRIP #KleeBenallyRestInPower #UraniumMining #NoSpiritualSurrender #IndigenousAnarchy #DefendingTheSacred #IndigenousActivism #HaulNo #CorporateColonialism #WaterIsLife #NoLithiumMining #CorporateColonialism #NoMiningWithoutConsent #CopperMining #Greenwashng #NuclearWeapons #NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons

[Thread] The next installment from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender

“The devastation of #NuclearColonialism, which permanently destroys #Indigenous communities throughout the world, is outright ignored by some of the most devout #ClimateJustice advocates. They claim #NuclearEnergy production is also a #GreenSolution to the #ClimateCrisis. More than 15,000 abandoned #UraniumMines are located within the so-called US, mostly in and around Indigenous communities, permanently poisoning #SacredLands and waters with little to no action being taken to clean up their deadly toxic legacy. There are currently 93 operating #NuclearReactors in the so-called US that supply 20% of the country’s electricity. There are 60,000 tons of #HighlyRadioactive spent waste store in concrete dams at #NuclearPowerPlants throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.

“In 1987 the ‘US’ Congress initiated a controversial project to transport and store almost all of the US’s #ToxicWaste at #YuccaMountain located about 100 miles northwest of so-called #LasVegas, #Nevada. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the #Paiute and #WesternShoshone Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the #ObamaAdminstration approved a $54 billion taxpayer loan in a guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction, three times what Bush previously promised in 2005. In April 2022, the #BidenAdministration government bailout to ‘rescue’ nuclear power plants at risk for closing. A #Colonial government representative stated, ‘US nuclear power contributes more than half of our #CarbonFree electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our #CleanEnergy goals.’

“They, along with Climate Justice activiists, cite nuclear energy as necessary to combat #GlobalWarming, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts #IndigenousPeoples have faced. There is nothing clean about energy produced from nuclear colonialism. From its weapons (including #DepletedUranium) to its #Mining and its waste; Indigenous bodies, lands, and waters continue to be sacrificed to heat water with radioactive materials which creates steam that moves generators to change batteries made from #Lithium extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so #Teslas can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.

“A green economy sustains and advances colonial progress, which means mitigated selective and ongoing destruction of #MotherEarth.”

Pages 139-140

#IndigenousAnarchy
#Ecosystem #HaulNo #DefendTheSacred
#CorporateColonialism #NoDAPL #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife #ClimateDefenders #NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent #NoLithiumMining #CorporateColonialism #NoMiningWithoutConsent #LithiumMining #CopperMining #Greenwashng #NuclearWeapons #RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #StopCanyonMine

Update on Fundraisers for #kleebenally -- via #IndigenousAction

The family of Klee Benally thanks you for the donations!

"The family extends their appreciation for the fierce outpouring of support. We cannot thank you enough. Ahééhéé. If you would like to support some of the work that still continues, please consider a donation to #HaulNo. And we know you really want to go out and do some rabble-rousing. Don’t just do it for Klee, do it for you! Do it for the future. All our lives depend on it.

Donations for Haul No!

Klee was deeply involved in Haul No! to stimulate actions of resistance against #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain / #CanyonMine #UraniumMine, Energy Fuels’ #WhiteMesaMill, and related transport.

Continue the protection and fight for #MotherEarth & #HumanRights that Klee passionately fought for.

To donate:
https://haulno.com/donate/

Source:
https://www.indigenousaction.org/donations-accepted-for-the-family-of-klee-benally/

#RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #IndigenousActivist
#MutualAid #LandBack #Fundraisers #UraniumMining
#NoUraniumMining #NoUraniumProcessing #EnvironmentalRacism #DefendTheSacred #NoMiningWithoutConsent

Another great website is #IndigenousAction - though they haven't been updated in a while (the late #KleeBenally was a driving force behind their website). Hopefully, we will see updates on their website in the future.

#AntiColonial #AntiCapitalist Indigenous agitation and propaganda.

"Indigenous Action (IA/originally Indigenous Action Media) was founded on August 25th, 2001 to provide strategic communications and direct action support for Indigenous sacred lands defense. We are a radical autonomous crew of anti-colonial & anti-capitalist Indigenous media makers, designers, artists, writers & agitators that work together on a project by project basis for liberation for #MotherEarth and all her beings. Over the years we’ve organized hundreds of actions, marches, banner drops, workshops, conferences, benefits, and much more."

https://www.indigenousaction.org

#HaulNo #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #TaalaHooghan

'#SpacesOfException' #Resistance to the #FatTakers, from #NativeLands to #Palestine

"We might be the ones holding the knife -- but it is the state that is the one who is still killing us." Those are the words of #KleeBenally, in 'Spaces of Exception.'

by Brenda Norrell #CensoredNews
February 21, 2024

"In the Navajo language, there is no word for relocation, it means to disappear and never be seen again."

The film, 'Spaces of Exception,' now being shown around the world, begins on #PineRidge, with the history of the resistance to the 'fat takers,' and travels to the refugee camps of Palestine, before arriving at the land of #AkwesasneMohawk, and the words shared of true sovereignty.

"Then, there are the images of the #OilAndGas, the #fracking, and #coal mining on the #NavajoNation, where #Dine' say the true literacy once known, talking with the #NaturalWorld, is being lost. Now, there is the destruction of the burial and sacred places, as #asthma takes over lives.

"On #BlackMesa, before he passed, Klee championed his relatives resisting forced relocation brought by #PeabodyCoal.

"'Their greatest form of resistance is being who they are' 'The autonomy that we have is here.'"

"'Places of Exception,' begins with scenes from #WoundedKnee 1973, and Palestine refugee camps, and the words, 'Places defined by their historical and spiritual resistance.'

"'The buffalo owns us, we don't own the buffalo,' says #AlexWhitePlume, #OglalaLakota on Pine Ridge, sharing the importance of language, and the stories carried by the words, and the impacts of #genocide.

"'The buffalo shares the same story we share.'

"The film series, 'The Native and the Refugee' began on Pine Ridge with, 'We Love Being Lakota.' The latest film, 'Spaces of Exception,' concludes with the image of the flags at #OcetiSakowin #WaterProtectors Camp on #StandingRock.

"Among those in the series of films are #DebraWhitePlume, who talks about the 'Fat Takers,' and #OlowanSaraMartinez, Oglala Lakota of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, now in the Spirit World. Their bold stance as defenders of the water and people was manifest at the #RedWarriorCamp at Standing Rock, during the resistance to the #DakotaAccessPipeline in North Dakota.

"Spaces of Exception comes out of the long-term multimedia project 'The Native and the Refugee', profiling Native lands in the United States alongside #Palestinian refugee camps, and is directed by #MattPeterson and #MalekRasamny."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/spaces-of-exception-resistance-to-fat.html

Spaces of Exception comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee. The project has resulted in more than a dozen short films, a book, radio program, writings and numerous lectures and workshops. The Native and the Refugee project has been presented in Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, England, France, Guatemala, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Portugal, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, within the refugee camps and reservations were the film was shot, and at venues including cinemas, museums, and universities.

https://thenativeandtherefugee.com/

#WaterProtectors #WaterIsLife #HumanRights #LandDefenders #Activism #StandWithStandingRock #BigMountainResistance #BigOilAndGas

Celebrating Water -- '#RumbleOnTheMountain' Powerful Music to Halt #UraniumMining in #GrandCanyon

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, February 3, 2024

#FlaggstaffArizona -- In a beautiful tribute, #EdKabotie, #Hopi, performed "The Trail," honoring those who have passed, making their journey among the stars, during the seven-hour Rumble on the Mountain at the Orpheum Theater on Saturday.
Kabotie remembered Dine' artist #BajeWhitethorneSenior, #RainyOrtiz, daughter of Simon Ortiz and Joy Harjo, and Dine' #KleeBenally. Kabotie said Icy Whisper, the band, had a death in the family and was not able to be at Rumble.

"During the extraordinary lineup of stars during the 10th Rumble on the Mountain, Kabotie spoke of war, a war of the paradigms and philosophies, and of industrial #mining which has no respect for the people or value of the land.

"Kabotie and Tha Yoties performed 'War' in honor of #Havasupai.

"'That little reservation in the Grand Canyon has been teaching us to fight.'"

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/rumble-on-mountain-powerful-music-to.html

#WaterIsLife #NoUraniumMining #UraniumMine #CanyonMine #IndigenousAction #IndigenousActivism #EarthDefenders

Fundraisers for #KleeBenally:

- Donations for family expenses

Family expenses will be utilized for burial expenses.
Zelle: Princess Benally, [email protected]

- Donations for #TaalaHooghan expenses

Property related costs and utilities are due at Táala Hooghan. Donate here to help offest those costs.
PayPal: Princess Benally, [email protected]

- Donations for #HaulNo!

Klee was deeply involved in Haul No! to stimulate actions of resistance against #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain / #CanyonMine #UraniumMine, Energy Fuels’ #WhiteMesaMill, and related transport.

https://haulno.com/donate/

https://www.indigenousaction.org/donations-accepted-for-the-family-of-klee-benally/

#IndigenousActivist #MutualAid #LandBack #SettlerSaturday #IndigenousAction #Fundraisers #UraniumMining

TY to @peterjriley2024 for making me aware of this website.

Donations Accepted for the Family of #KleeBenally

Published 7 hours ago

on January 2, 2024

"The family extends their appreciation for the fierce outpouring of support. We cannot thank you enough. Ahééhéé.

"If you would like to make a donation, we are currently accepting them for a few immediate needs. These donations will ensure that he is returned to the earth through our cultural protocols and that the projects that he was recently working on & volunteering with can be financially eased.

- Donations for family expenses

Family expenses will be utilized for burial expenses.

- Donations for #TaalaHooghan expenses

Property related costs and utilities are due at Táala Hooghan. Donate here to help offest those costs.

- Donations for #HaulNo!

Klee was deeply involved in Haul No! to stimulate actions of resistance against #EnergyFuels’ #PinyonPlain / #CanyonMine #UraniumMine, Energy Fuels’ #WhiteMesaMill, and related transport.

- Cash donations can also be accepted in person.

"#IndigenousAction will continue the protection and fight for #MotherEarth & #HumanRights that Klee passionately fought for."

https://www.indigenousaction.org/donations-accepted-for-the-family-of-klee-benally/

#UraniumMining #FirstNations
#IndigenousAnarchist #KleeBenally #MutualAid #Dineh #IndigenousActivist #NativeAmericanActivist #FirstNations #Resistance #ClimateJustice #BigMountain #ClimateWarrior #LandDefender #MutualAid