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Dr. William Robinson discusses how the transnational capital class continues profiteering from the COVID-19 pandemic, predatory capitalism, the potential implications of the Biden Administration and the continuation of the Global Police State, homelessness, Indigenous peoples and resistance, the need for cross solidarity movements in order for future generations survivability, plus more.

News from "Indian Country," spoken word, and music. Song List: Joy Harjo, “This America” Black Lodge Singers, “Keeping it Flowing,” Album: My Family Snotty Nose Rez Kids, “Boujee Natives,” Album: Trapline John Trudell, “The Earth was the Mother,” Descendant Now Ancestor Raye Zaragoza, "They Say,” Woman in Color Alexis Raeana, “Keep My Memory” ft. Charly Lowry (Single) A Tribe Called Red, “R.E.D.”...

The global police state uses a variety of methods of control, including mass incarceration, surveillance, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrant and refugees and the repression of activists. Robinson shows how the global police state, beyond control, is an immensely profitable enterprise that keeps the global capitalist economy afloat in the face of chronic stagnation, plus mor...

The Global Police State, World Economy, and Systemic Violence, Part 1” Part 1 The global police state uses a variety of methods of control, including mass incarceration, surveillance, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrant and refugees and the repression of activists. Robinson shows how the global police state, beyond control, is an immensely profitable enterprise that keeps th...

With the National Interagency Fire Center reporting 79 large uncontained fires burning across the Western United States, and California experiencing almost 7,900 fires destroying or damaging a total of 6,200 structures since the beginning of 2020, along with California recently experiencing more than 3.4 million acres burn; what are the impacts, implications, and consequences the California fires...

There have been 859 buffalo killed between 2019-2020; 12,575 buffalo killed since 1985, and there have 540 buffalo captured by the Yellowstone National Park: 540. What is the current management approach for Yellowstone bison? Why is there such intolerance for bison to traverse their lands, feed, reproduce, live, or be provided more suitable public lands? The state manufactured comparative risks of...

Part 1: Guests: Kathryn Ledebur, Executive Director of the Andean Information Network, joins us for this segment of today’s program to discuss the Jeanine Áñez, Bolivian de facto – coup president’s policies attacking Indigenous peoples, attempts to preempt, democratic elections, and systemic attacks against Indigenous peoples regarding COVID-19, plus more. Part 2: On August 22nd, 2020, Mexico’s mi...

“Chumash Reclaiming & Renaming: Indio Muerto to Hutash and MMIWG2 Human Rights Emergency in northern California” Part 1: What does colonial place-name markers such as Indio Muerto (“Dead Indian”) Street in the City of Santa Barbara, CA mean to the Chumash peoples? The colonial street name origins trace back to the city of Santa Barbara establishment in 1851 when the town council directed Captain S...

Part 1: Brief News Highlights around “Indian Country”. Part 2: With the amplified rise of American fascism and authoritarianism during the Trump Administration, Trump’s desire to postpone the 2020 presidential elections, the Trump campaign’s strategies to preempt people of color from voting this November, the frayed systemic global Capitalist system intensifying economic instability, depravity, co...

Part 1: Given the systemic, escalating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout “Indian Country,” the rising COVID-19 rates reported by Indian Health Service and both Indigenous and non-Indigenous media coverage about the “Pandemic”, very few media reports, in fact, are on urban Native American populations. How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the larger urban Los Angeles urban Native America...

Thursday, 7/23/2020, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen live at: http://www.kpfk.org or podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or iHeart Radio after 8pm (PCT). “U.S. Fragility in the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination: Fallen Statues, the McGirt v. Oklahoma Case, Solidarity Movements, Race, and More” Parts 1 and 2: What are the linkages...

Part 1: NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen was among 20 Land Defenders arrested while protesting Donald Trump's visit to Mount Rushmore on July 3rd, 2020. Over 200 land defenders successfully mobilized to the defend the Ȟe Sápa and the Treaty of Fort Laramie by preventing ticket holders along Highway 244 from taking the Keystone entrance to the Independence Day fireworks celebration spee...

Thursday, 7/9/2020, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org “Disrupting Settler Colonial Spaces: The Doctrine of Discovery, The Alta Spanish Mission System Impacts on California Indigenous Peoples, the Fallen Statues of Father J. Serra, California’s Public Apology to California Indigenous Peoples: One-year later, & More” Parts 1 and 2: First, a short news segme...

Thursday, 7/2/2020, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)- Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org “Colonial Legacies of Treaty Violations and Failed Trust Responsibilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Chiapas Resistance to the $8 Billion-dollar, 948-mile Mayan Train. Part 1: With rising COVID-19 rates across “Indian Country,” in major urban areas with large urban Indigenous populations, and de...

Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai’i’s renowned songwriters and activist; founder or co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, general cultural practitioner, peacemaker and veteran; a Kupuna Advisor for Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Laulani Teale is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practi...

Given the spread, severity, and potentially devasting consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic situation in the-midst of stay-at-home ordinances, school and employment closures, etc. throughout the Los Angeles and Orange County regions in southern California, three very important urban Indigenous community members join us for the hour to report on how the larger the urban Los Angeles Indigenous commu...

December 29th of this year marks the 129th year anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre whereby the United States 7th Calvary stopped Spotted Elk, Miniconjou and Lakota Ghost Dancers, and community members from returning home to Pine Ridge, now located in South Dakota. Near the Wounded Knee Creek, Spotted Elk and community members were stopped by the United States 7th Calvary during a time when t...

Thankstaking Special: A Day of Mourning. Georgianna Sanchez and George "Tink" Tinker both revisit the racist Thanksgiving Day Holiday, the propaganda surrounding settler colonial imagery and understandings, state-sponsored hate speech day, plus more.

Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Nation, is Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash and Yokuts (http://amahmutsun.org/governance/tribal-council) and he joins us for the entire program to discuss what California Governor Newsom’s Executive Order #1519, a soft public apology “on behalf of C...

“Update: In the Heart of the Hawaiian Nation: Protecting Mauna Kea from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project” Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai’i’s renowned songwriters and activist; founder or co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, general cultural practitioner, peacemaker and veteran; a Kupuna Advi...

Dr. Henrietta Mann (Southern Cheyenne Nation), elder, activist, scholar, founder of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, Professor Emeritus at Montana State University (www.montana.edu/nativeamerican/henrietta_mann.html), and current Board Chair of the Board of Directors for the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc. (7genfund.org/dr-henrietta-mann), was the keynote speaker at th...

Thursday, 9/26/2019, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org “Urban Indigenous Los Angeles Series: The Ancestors Walk and The 15th Many Winters Gathering of Elders” Part 1:_________________________________________________________ Rebecca Robles (Ajachemen/Juaneno Nation), joins us for the first segment of today’s program to discuss the importance of sacred site...

“The Pathway for Indigenizing Mexico’s New Constitution: Respecting Indigenous Peoples and Afromexican Rights in the Constitutional Reform Process” Marcos Aguilar, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Academia Semillas del Pueblo and Head Of School at Anahuacalmecac International University (http://www.dignidad.org/), joins us for this special program to provide listeners a critical and in-depth u...

Dr. Robert A Williams Jr. (Lumbee Nation), is the E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Chair of the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. Professor Williams received his B.A. from Loyola College (1977) and his J.D. from Harvard Law School (1980). He was named the first Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (2003-2004), having...

“Surviving the System: From Survival Mode to Renewal” Part 1:_______________ Deborah Sanchez(Chumash and O’odham Nations), Community Organizer, Cultural Language Practitioner, and Professor, joins us for the hour in a one-hour exclusive on “Surviving the System: From Survival Mode to Renewal”. She recently spoke as the first keynote speaker at the World Indigenous Law Conference: Rights, Responsib...