What’s up Fellow Workers!

Dave is back with Chris, IN REAL LIFE! For the first time in eons, we get to sit next to each other and record. Anyway, this week, we sit down with Zitkato — of the podcast Bands of Turtle Island — a Lakota Scientific Socialist, Marxist-Sitting Bullist to tackle a pretty tough topic for an overwhelming majority of the white left — settler-colonialism.

We break it down pretty simple for yall, discussing some of the actions Wolf has been active in, from small-scale work to “getting the bona fides” at Standing Rock. We tackle the differences between settler and extractive colonialism and what decolonization and self-determination is. We also recount a swath of Indigenous activist history from the “colonial era” all the way to the American Indian Movement and modern times. What can white folks do to help their Indigenous relatives and comrades?

Of course, there are some diversions along the way. We try to keep it light and talk about Thomas the Tank Engine in blackface, that time Bill Clinton was kickin it on the Reservation, how golf shouldn’t be goddamn legal, and trading our Charles Manson tidbits.

Thanks so so so much to Wolf for hopping on with us. Please check out these links to donate and practice solidarity with our tribal brothers, sisters and siblings:

Tribal Donations Thread: https://bit.ly/tribesmotAIM Trail of Broken Treaties 20-Points: https://www.aimovement.org/ggc/trailofbrokentreaties.htmlLocal Tribes: https://native-land.ca

Also please check out the old Bands of Turtle Island podcast episodes as well!

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