Big News! 🎉

We’re honored to share that A Red Road to the West Bank has been awarded a 2025 Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant, presented by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and @anarchistagency

This support will help us continue developing our documentary, which connects the struggles of Indigenous peoples in North America and Palestine against settler colonialism, displacement, and erasure.

Co-directed by Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas, a Kanien’kehá:ka activist and filmmaker, and Franklin López, Puerto Rican filmmaker and founder of subMedia, this project is both a film and an organizing tool — a resource for solidarity, resistance, and education.

We are also deeply honored to share this recognition alongside so many incredible projects, including Mainline’s The Process is the Punishment podcast on the ATL 61 RICO trials, The Dugout, a Black anarchist podcast reshaping radical history, and All Damn Night, a documentary chronicling resistance to Florida’s abortion ban.

After many grant rejections, it feels powerful to know we can always count on anarchists to have our backs. Our first official grant comes from two incredible anarchist organizations — and that means a lot.

That said, we are still in great need of funding to finish this important project. If you’d like to support us directly, you can donate here: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

We’re grateful to the IAS and Agency for recognizing the urgency of this work, and to all of you who have stood with us on this journey so far.

#ARedRoadToTheWestBank #AnarchistMedia #Solidarity

📽 Film Screening + Q&A – A Red Road to the West Bank (Rough Cuts) 🎬

Tomorrow night! Join us — Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas and Franklin López — at the Black Oak Anarchist Social Center in Hamilton for a special screening of rough cut footage from our upcoming documentary A Red Road to the West Bank.

This film connects Indigenous struggles in Turtle Island and Palestine, showing that colonization is not history — it’s an ongoing system that must be dismantled.

📅 Tuesday, August 12th
🕗 8:00 p.m.
📍 Black Oak Anarchist Social Center, Hamilton
🔗https://blackoak.noblogs.org/
💰 Pass the Hat / Pay What You Can – All funds go toward finishing the film.
🧣 Keffiyehs for sale – Proceeds help raise funds for the project.

Come watch, ask questions, pick up a keffiyeh, and help bring this story to life.

#ARedRoadToTheWestBank #IndigenousSolidarity #FreePalestine #Decolonize #LandBack #SupportIndieFilm #HamiltonEvents

📣 Good news for our U.S.-based supporters: Amplifier Films now has a fiscal sponsor. If you're able to make a large, tax-deductible donation, you can now do so through our U.S. sponsor.

Your support will directly help us complete Defenders of the Forest, A Red Road to the West Bank, and continue our work on urgent, frontline documentary projects amplifying land defense and resistance movements.

👉 For details, contact us through our contact page: https://amplifierfilms.ca/contact

#AmplifierFilms #DefendersOfTheForest #ARedRoadToTheWestBank #FiscalSponsor #Donate #FrontlineDocumentary #LandBack #IndigenousResistance

🚫 So we just caught another “thanks but no thanks” from a grant we applied to for our next film A Red Road to the West Bank—a journey into Indigenous resistance from Turtle Island to Palestine.

But fuck it. We’re not waiting around for institutions to decide if our stories are worth telling. We got a fresh batch of keffiyehs, straight from Palestinians in Syria via a homie in the West Bank, and this is how we’re gonna fund this film—through real-deal solidarity, not nonprofit begging bowls.

We’ve got black & white (classics), red, green, blue, and yo—RAINBOW keffiyehs. Only 9 of those exist, so if you want one, move fast.

💥 Go to https://amplifierfilms.ca, click the Keffiyehs link, drop a donation for A Red Road to the West Bank, and tell us which color you want in the notes. If we’ve still got it, it’s yours.

Half the cash goes to support the Palestinian vendor and his fam. The other half helps us get this radical-ass film made.

#NoGrantsNoGodsNoMasters
#ARedRoadToTheWestBank
#FuckColonialism
#KeffiyehNotCapitalism
#AmplifierFilms

What does a kid hurling himself into the Mediterranean in occupied Palestine have in common with a Mohawk kid diving into the river at Kanehsatà:ke?

Everything.

Joy stolen between airstrikes.
Freedom found between raids.
Laughter echoing off the water while the land beneath is colonized.

This clip is from our next film, A Red Road to the West Bank — a journey of solidarity between Indigenous struggle and Palestinian resistance. Between memory and the now. Between all of us who refuse to be erased.

🎥 Watch it.
https://kolektiva.media/w/fFqz2GJRATXsfb4KTJqXBK

🔥 Share it.
✊🏽 Help us finish it: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

#ARedRoadToTheWestBank #FreePalestine #LandBack #AntiColonial #Kanehsatake #Acre #NoJusticeNoPeace #IndigenousResistance #AmplifierFilms

What connects a Mohawk kid diving into the river at Kanehsatake with Palestinian boys leaping into the Mediterranean in Acre?

Joy.
Freedom.
Resistance.

This short scene from our upcoming film A Red Road to the West Bank draws a line between two colonized lands, two childhoods, and one shared spirit: claiming moments of life, even when the world tries to take them away.

📽️ Watch the clip.
https://kolektiva.media/w/fFqz2GJRATXsfb4KTJqXBK

🛠️ Help us finish the film: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

#ARedRoadToTheWestBank #Palestine #Kanehsatake #MohawkTerritory #Acre #AntiColonial #AmplifierFilms #Resistance #ChildhoodUnderOccupation #IndigenousSolidarity

Wow, what an episode! I could listen to these two for hours!

The Final Straw Radio: A Red Road To The West Bank (with Clifton Ariwakhete Nicholas and Franklin Lopez)
https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/11/a-red-road-to-the-west-bank-with-clifton-ariwakhete-nicholas-and-franklin-lopez/

#TFSR #TheFinalStrawRadio #aredroadtothewestbank

📸 Another person just got their keffiyeh in the mail and sent us a photo—thank you!

If you’ve received yours, we’d love to see it—snap a pic and tag us or send it our way. It means the world to us to see these symbols of resistance traveling across Turtle Island and beyond.

Thanks to everyone's incredible generosity, we've now reached 70% of our development fundraising goal for A Red Road to the West Bank! 🙏🏽

And good news—we still have plenty of keffiyehs left, and yes, we ship worldwide! 🌎

Want one?
Donate and claim yours here:
👉 https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

Let’s keep this solidarity rolling.
✊🏽🧣

#ARedRoadToTheWestBank #KeffiyehSolidarity #IndigenousResistance #FromTurtleIslandToPalestine #AmplifierFilms #Decolonize #Fundraiser #FreePalestine