"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

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#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

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

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

Klee Benally talks with Kevin and Natasha Tucker of Primal Anarchy podcast (also black and green press) back in April 2021. Thinking about this part (starting 40:25) and my own positionality, how it impacts my thinking, fears, path forward, etc.:

"I think like, there's a lot of people, where they like sort of concretize concepts, ideas, they want to celebrate that, and sort of make something just of that moment. And that's why I don't like a lot of academics. I think these ideas become proprietary on some levels. They become a position where you stick a flag, and that idea, that, you know, dynamic, is something has always been colonial.

I'm not interested in decolonizing anarchism. I think... anybody who usually says 'let's decolonize anarchism, let's decolonize this.' usually like... you know what you're proposing, right? You know that like, these ideas and understandings are a sort of like an overall contradiction that, you know, is just gonna... is like a hamster wheel or something. I'm not interested in those conversations or proposals.

But I will say, you know, and I think this might be important for your listeners, just to continue a bit of like orientation in relation to my politics and maybe this is useful for this part of the conversation. Um, is that the matriarchs in Dziłíjiin, Black Mesa who are part of the ongoing resistance to forced relocation really have deeply shaped my approach and understanding the dominant social order and its politics. You know, I have a strong affinity with anarchism, but not anarchist identity.

As I mentioned, um, and it's not a position that, you know for me, it's not what white anarchism wasn't doing for me, you know. It's more about the propositions of mutual aid, direct action, voluntary association, um, are familiar with and translatable through it's geneaology-- though, I guess I should be clear, it's just like though anarchism's geneology is nothing I really desire to be tethered to, I further offer that this position of Indigenous anarchism, I guess, is just that there can be no law above nature. Um, and it's the most I think sort of simple way of communicating what Indigenous anarchism is and should be. Um, and I don't know how much there needs to be built around that, um, aside from, just understanding what our orientations from our original teachings are in relation to that. And what the existing, you know, problems that we're facing, how that could be then reconciled as potential solutions to address those problems."

https://primalanarchy.net/podcast/2021/4/18/episode-27-interview-with-klee-benally

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**Edited to add correct spelling of Diné word, Dziłíjiin, for so-called Black Mesa

"While we were on the ground in the fight, we didn't foresee how the divergent strategic impulses were contrary to the point of fracture. We couldn't maintain cohesion because the processes became mutually exclusionary. Everyone talked about respecting diversity of tactics but the non-profits and respectable Indigenous organizers didn't want to include radical autonomous actions they had no control over."

From pages 86-87, No Spiritual Surrender, Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred by Klee Benally, in the chapter that discusses the movement to prevent "treated" sewage water used to make snow for skiing on a peak sacred to the Diné people.

I don't really know shit about fuck, and maybe there's a warning here that we (people who haven't historically learned from, joined the struggle of, or validated the experience of Black and other Indigenous autonomous people) might do well to actually listen to.

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CW: mention of one settler-colonial tool of Indigenous genocide-- the spread of disease

"It is really because of Divine Providence that the Indians have diminished because of the continuity of epidemic diseases, for among such a multitude of different characters there are many restless, haughty, and seditious elements." --Spanish Missionary Father Luis Velarde, 1716

This quote leads off chapter 14 of "In Defense of the Sacred" by Klee Benally. This chapter describes COVID-19's impact on Diné peoples, and the ways some came together to provide care.

1716-2026... nothing, at the root, has changed. Just the diseases and the methods may appear different. The words are obscured under euphemism. Turds painted gold are still turds.

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