“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment.”
The brutal end of the Linear Pottery culture, LBK, Europe's first farmers.
https://www.science.org/content/article/headless-bodies-hint-why-europe-s-first-farmers-vanished
#LBK #LinearPotteryCulture #ScienceMagazine #Archaeology #Archeology #Neolithic #Prehistory #ArchaeologicalCultures #Collapse #CulturalCrisis
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January, 2024 - Diné Activist & Musician #KleeBenally Dies at 48; Wrote Book on #IndigenousAnarchy
"The Diné (Navajo) activist and musician Klee Benally has died at the age of 48 in Arizona. Benally, who was from Black Mesa, spent years organizing against uranium mining on Native land and to protect the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff, Arizona. He was also the former lead singer of the Indigenous punk band Blackfire. Benally had just published a new book titled '#NoSpiritualSurrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.' In the book, he writes, 'If history is written by the conquerors, it will be unwritten by those who refuse to be conquered.' Klee Benally spoke to Democracy Now! in 2014 when we did the show from Flagstaff, Arizona.
Klee Benally: “But many of our people don’t have running water; they don’t have electricity. Yet our lands have been exploited. We have coal-fired — three coal-fired power plants that #pollute our air. We have these abandoned #uranium mines and new mines that are threatening the region. We have #fracking, hydraulic fracking, that’s threatening our land, as well. But this isn’t just an issue for here. Wherever there’s an #EnvironmentalCrisis, there’s a #CulturalCrisis, because we are people of the Earth.'"
Full interview:
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/14/a_slow_genocide_of_the_people
The Diné (Navajo) activist and musician Klee Benally has died at the age of 48 in Arizona. Benally, who was from Black Mesa, spent years organizing against uranium mining on Native land and to protect the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff, Arizona. He was also the former lead singer of the Indigenous punk band Blackfire. Benally had just published a new book titled “No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.” In the book, he writes, “If history is written by the conquerors, it will be unwritten by those who refuse to be conquered.” Klee Benally spoke to Democracy Now! in 2014 when we did the show from Flagstaff, Arizona. Klee Benally: “But many of our people don’t have running water; they don’t have electricity. Yet our lands have been exploited. We have coal-fired — three coal-fired power plants that pollute our air. We have these abandoned uranium mines and new mines that are threatening the region. We have fracking, hydraulic fracking, that’s threatening our land, as well. But this isn’t just an issue for here. Wherever there’s an environmental crisis, there’s a cultural crisis, because we are people of the Earth.”
"In a time of national crisis — yes, especially if Donald Trump becomes president again and fulfills our worst fears by weakening democratic checks and balances — the churches will need to step up to meet the moment. Even if we don’t have a democracy in five years, we will still have churches here. But — spoiler alert — I believe this moment finds the churches and their leaders poorly prepared to meet such a challenge."
David Gushee proposes that what many of us see as a deepening political crisis is a cultural crisis, brought on by the inability (or refusal) of many of us to agree on even what is real. As we face this cultural crisis, we need, he thinks, to ascertain the health of leading cultural institutions including churches. On that score, he writes,
https://baptistnews.com/article/we-face-a-cultural-crisis-not-just-a-political-one/
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