https://youtu.be/qXnFwpkSu5k?si=zCP1ydhg-wSbYfyc

#anarchism #indigenousanarchism #anarchist #indigenousanarchist #liberation

Sounds really cool!  
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Based in Uganda, East Africa, the musicians IR::Sankara Future Dub Resurgence like to describe their music as “Future Dub.” They take elements of noise, non-metric riddims, experimental electronics, dub reggae and dub poetry, and djembe and nyabinghi drumming together to create the unexpected.

The opening lyrics to “Anarchist Africa” set up the critical, yet self-reflective, mindset of this mini-album.

Sometimes it’s necessary to question
the paradigms that have been implanted in our minds.

So we ask you to be pensive
as opposed to defensive.

Lyrically, these tracks aim to challenge our political and cultural concepts, especially of the African subcontinent and its colonial as well as pre-colonial histories.

Those who seek to reclaim our African glory
so often put
centralised African kingdoms
like Kemet, Mali, Kush
at the center of their story
name-checking kings and queens
to add to the sheen

But Africa was more than those anarchist examples,
more common than we suppose.

In fact, these centralised kingdoms were a minority

“Anarchist Africa” also addresses the history of indigenous people in Africa and how their lives and contributions have been evaluated.

Are we not detracting from African indigenous peoples
who chose instead to humbly respect and flow with the earth
acting as caregivers of this land
on which we stand?

Africa’s anarchist and anti-authoritarian traditions are presented on this track to give a radically different perspective of the continent’s political story.

The track “When Visions Fall From Sky” pays homage to African ancestral practices, emphasizing the mystical experience while challenging the grand narratives and stereotypes that have been made (and used against) African peoples throughout modern history. It utilises bass-heavy voices of dub poetry and jagged, dub-inflected percussion. Together, these elements have the piercing effect of presenting what Sankara Future Dub Resurgence describe as “Our African story” (as opposed to his story):

18th century literacy rates in West Africa in places like Senegal
were two to three times higher
than any place in Europe at the same time

BOOM!

Plantation records in America
were often kept by enslaved African Muslims using African languages written in Arabic script because the slave owners could not read or write

BOOM!

In 1770, before the French and American revolutions,
There was a revolution in Futa Toro, West Africa
That not only abolished slavery, but kings

BOOM!

They can’t take the book from you
If you are the book.

The “BOOM” behind each message represents the power of remembering African knowledge-traditions in light of racist, historical erasure. As photographer and musician Aniruddha Das notes, "seldom is there ANY depiction of African people with books or reading.”

This EP was created physically and virtually with the collaborative forces of IR::Sankara Future Dub Resurgence, Herman "Soy Sos "Pearl, Dhangsha, the Professor Of Dub and others in the Shadows.

Lastly, this EP is incomplete without director Joshua Black Alibet's film visualization of the track “When Visions Fall From Sky.” Filmed on the beautiful Ugandan island of Senene, it uses the natural lighting of the early morning sunrise to create luminous, soft textures. It draws on the subtleties of the colour spectrum in ways that evoke Daughters Of The Dust (1991), a landmark work of African-American cinema in which director Julie Dash handled lighting in ways that caressed its Black protagonists in a beautifully affirming manner. You can watch Alibet’s film here on Vimeo:https://vimeo.com/473864476

(The text on Bandcamp)

@Gilliosa

#Africa #Uganda #FutureDub #IndigenousAnarchism #AnarchistAfrica

@Sofie @CrimethInc

Thank you very much for bringing this up. "Anarchism" is indeed very European-centered.
Notwithstanding the underlying vakues, such as the desire for freedom, mutual aid and horizontal decision-making processes is something innate in the human social mind and appears worldwide through the entire history.
The perception that the only "real" anarchism is the western  can be called at least unfortunate, as there are many interesting ideas in many places.

I would like a lot to have something like #IndigenousAnarchism or #GlobalAnarchism hashtags to know more about antiauthoritarian perspectives from the global south.
But I feel that this requires a lot of delicacy to no perpetuate colonist mindsets (see, I didn't even ask whether these people *want* to be under the anarchism umbrella or whether it is maybe the western anarchists that should open up their minds...).

Complex issue, but to learn more about social movements and their thinkers from the whole world has a lot of potential. There is a lot of pain for the westerners when trying to heal our deeply colonial mindsets. But I am sure it is worth it. 

"When I speak of liberation, it is not to foment yet another social justice project, it is an inclusive and fervent agitation against domination and exploitation of existence, for the liberation of Mother Earth is liberation of all existence."—Klee Benally

We're excited to have copies of "No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred," an essay collection by Diné artist and Indigenous Action Media founder Klee Benally. Grounded in his experiences as an agitator and media maker, informed by family histories and cultural teachings, Benally offers a searing rebuke to settler colonialism, including its progressive and Left-wing manifestations. This is a wide-ranging volume that beautifully weaves together movement history, memoir, hard-won lessons, and (anti-)political provocations!

We encourage you to find "No Spiritual Surrender" on our website at https://firestorm.coop/products/20830-no-spiritual-surrender.html.

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 #Introduction #Intro

TL:DR: I'm mostly posting this intro to connect with other Black and BIPOC Anarchists or Anti-authoritarians. Hit me up!  

Hey, everyone

My partner and I are currently working on a docuseries, @Elememts_of_MA, about the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of mutual aid-based organizing. The project isn't exclusively profiling anarchist groups, but it is deeply anti-authoritarian - we're especially staying away from charismatic leaders and celeb "activist" types.

The whole thing is independent - no producers; everything is out of pocket. We've been living out of a van we converted so we could make this happen; which has been amazing. We've been on the road since May Day this year, and have already filmed some solid interviews as far north as Montreal and as far south as Puerto Rico.

However, I'm personally struggling to find Black organizations or collectives that aren't MLM, AADOS, authoritarian, Black Capitalist, nonprofit style groups. Reading and theory groups or media collectives are rad, but I'm really looking for groups that're doing interesting work on the ground (*not food distro*) from an anti-state-nationalist analysis.

Lorenzo and JoNina Irvin will appear in the film, among other radical Black people like Jessica Gordon Nembhard, The Northeast Action Collective in Houston, and Arm the Girls in Oakland. So, I'm not at a complete loss.

But, please send me all the rad groups of Black people you know that are creating long-term, democratic, mutual aid projects in their communities. They do not need to identify as anarchist, but they *cannot* be down with the nation state and have to be doing more than food distro.

Thanks a ton, y'all.

Beyond all that, I'm also really interested in connecting with people to write Star Wars analysis and fan-fiction. I think the galaxy far, far away is an interesting canvas to explore the tensions of autonomous world building vs authoritarian revolutionary movements. If I lived in that universe, I'd no doubt be getting into arguments with the Rebel Alliance.

Thanks for reading this long-winded post.

#Solidarity

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