Monday, January 14, 2019: Keeping Collective Memory Alive - Ancient Puberty Rites

Winnemem Puberty Ceremony 2010

And from Radio Curious, Christina Amestad Aanestad interviews Caleen Sisk-Franco, the Spiritual Leader and Chief of the Winnemem-Wintu tribe in Northern California, about ancient puberty rites for young women which the tribe resurrected a few years ago, after not performing it for 80 years. The forest service refuses to grant the tribe private access to their ancestral land along the McCloud river, because they are an “unrecognized” tribe, but the tribe realized that if they did not figure out how to bring back the ritual, it will be lost as the oldest members die out. Click here to listen to the podcast. 29:04 min. For more information on the Winnemem-Wintu tribe go to their website.

"Where are the rights for the underground tribes?" -Caleen Sisk-Franco

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Monday, October 31, 2016: Rose Aguilar Reports from Standing Rock

Oil & Water: The Missouri River provides water to 18 million people.

"The level of military violence is shameful."

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Report from Standing Rock - Bay Area Native American journalist Rose Aguilar joins us by phone from near the Standing Rock encampment.  Rose arrived in North Dakota on Friday, one day after water protectors were violently evicted from the Highway 1806 camp, where they were attempting to block construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Rose reports that many of those in the Standing Rock encampment were traumatized by the attack, but they are determined to remain through the winter.  Find out how you can support the Standing Rock protectors.

Listen now. 18:17 min

Rose Aguilar broadcasts live on Your Call Monday thru Friday at 10 AM on KALW.

Want to learn about the genocide against Native Americans?  

American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World Revised ed. by David E. Stannard

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (ReVisioning American History), by Roxann Dunbar-Ortiz

An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History), Benjamin Madley

Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873, Brendan C. Lindsay

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November 17, 2014: Radical Feminism and Sustainability

Earth at Risk 2014 Conference November 22nd and 23rd

This week on Women's Magazine, we hear from radical feminist Saba Malik of the Fertile Ground Institute, an organizer of Earth At Risk, a conference on sustainability and social justice, along with aboriginal women's rights activist Cherry Smiley and anti-trafficking and economic justice organizer Yuly Chan.  Yuly and Cherry will both be speaking on the Confronting Misogyny panel at Earth At Risk next Sunday. They talk about the interrelationship of rape culture, prostitution, environmental destruction, capitalism, land rights and patriarchy.

Earth at Risk Conference is in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts.

For tickets go to: http://www.fertilegroundinstitute.org/tickets---earth-at-risk-2014.html
For event schedule go to: http://www.fertilegroundinstitute.org/earth-at-risk-2014-schedule-and-details.html

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July 7, 2014: Idle No More's Refinery Tour

Idle No More

“OUR PEOPLE AND OUR MOTHER EARTH CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO BE ECONOMIC HOSTAGES IN THE RACE TO INDUSTRIALISE OUR HOMELANDS.

IT’S TIME FOR OUR PEOPLE TO RISE UP AND TAKE BACK OUR ROLE AS CARETAKERS AND STEWARDS OF THE LAND.”

— Eriel Deranger

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations

Imagine your own community beyond fossil fuels.

Today we speak with Pennie Opal Plant and Paula Szoboda of the Native American-led environmental movement Idle No More, about the Connect the Dots healing walks, which wrap up this weekend.  The walks have connected local struggles and climate justice organizations around the East Bay, focusing on oil and gas refining industry sites. It's time to transition to a fossil free future and stop the potentially explosive Bakken crude oil trains.

Idle No More is an affinity group in the SF Bay Area and further. It was started by women and focuses on safer alternatives to fuel, food sovereignty, and a future we want to create. The healing walks end this week on July 12th. The walk starts at Long Tree Park in Rodeo, CA at 8 AM. For more information go to: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/connect-the-dots/ or call 510-619-8279.

Get MP3 or listen now: 24:48 min.

Click here for the entire show. 59:50 min.

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