Before we announce the show, we want to announce our presentation of Sean Swain's voice on our show for the first time in 8 weeks. Sean's GTL (GlobalTelLink, privatized prison phone company) and JPay (private company Sean's critiqued before which handles, among other things, emails/commisary and other profitized elements of incarceration) accounts were suspended by the OSP administration, the office of Governor Kasich & the Ohio Highway Patrol/State Police. During those 8 weeks, Sean's segments on The Final Straw (which were ostensibly a reason for his blackout) never stopped, as Sean smuggled scripts out of the Super-Duper-Uber-Mega-Ultra-Max in Youngstown. Congrats, Sean!
This week we play part two of Mel Bazil's presentation from the 2014 Montreal Anarchist Bookfaire. He covers an array of concepts. He talks about the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Decolonization, infrastructure, false alternative energies and capitalism.
Mel also touches on the ideas around self-knowledge, Free Prior and Informed Consent between individuals and communities (http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/free-prior-and-informed-consent-proto...), and the framework of human/indigenous Rights versus Responsibilities to the earth and to each other and to ourselves. This broadcast comes on the day that Mr. Bazil and other people struggling with the Unistâotâen Action Camp expected an injunction against the action camp by the B.C. government. Anarchists have been invited over the years to build relationships and struggle alongside this community and project, which brings interesting questions of overlaps and differences between anarchism(s) and indigenous cultures in resistance.
Keep informed about the camp: http://unistotencamp.com/
Warrior Publications has been publishing informative and beautifully illustrated works on decolonization, resistance and anarchism for about a decade now: http://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/
Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network is a gateway for outside anarchists and activists to get involved in helping at Unist'ot'en: http://forestaction.wikidot.com/
This audio is from an almost hour and a half presentation that Mel gave on Saturday the 24th of May at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfaire, entitled "Anarchy, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Decolonization." Many thanks to CKUT Radio in Montreal for sharing this content with the Final Straw. More info on CKUT can be found at www.ckut.ca
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