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"Hope is not a tactic, it's a marketing scheme for the biomachinery of civilization. It is spoon-fed little by little to keep us going (progress), to keep enduring (resilience), to keep producing, to keep consuming. Hope preserves institutions of domination and exploitation from those who aren't distracted by its religions.
Hope maintains the imaginary confines of our servitude like an electric fence; we don't even know if it's on all the time. We become preoccupied by the fabulous sales pitch, "You too can become the master." Hope is progressive reform handed down from above, one link at a time it is the loosening of chains to make those enslaved believe that freedom is comfort in slavery."
- Klee Benally, "No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred", page 369
Respectability politics and "generative" (which is code for progressive) conflict are both part of the same machine that seeks settler inclusion through appropriate channels. Progressive activist projects attempt to render positive or legitimate action towards a favorable resolution. Both liberal and radical conflict resolvers are enticed to recuperate and mediate with settler society. They refuse to shed the skin of the civil, of the respectable. They articulate their intelligibility as 'generative' in order to make agreeable their brand of social management. They are the administrators and marketers of The Struggle™. Their liberalism encodes domination. It is the politics of idealizing your captor and putting their clothes on. If this is the 'new world' envisioned. It is utopic violence dressed in a sweatshop free organic cotton t-shirt emblazoned with the words Democracy Now!"
- Klee Benally, "No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred", page 364
#NavajoNation Dishonors Legacy of #KleeBenally: Agrees to #Uranium Transport Through #Navajo Communities
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, February 3, 2025
"The Navajo Nation dishonored the memory and legacy of Klee Benally by agreeing to allow radioactive uranium trucks to travel through the Navajo Nation. It was what Klee spent the last years of his life fighting against.
"The deadly trucks from the #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain uranium mine in the #GrandCanyon will pass through the #Havasupai's homeland, and then past the homes of #Paiute, #Dine' and #Hopi in Arizona before reaching the dumping ground: The Energy Fuels #UraniumMill in the #WhiteMesaUte Community in Southern #Utah.
"Klee is being honored with a #NuclearFreeFutures Award in New York in March.
"Nuclear Free Futures said, in announcing the award, 'Klee Benally was a Navajo activist and musician and member of the Navajo #Tódichiinii Clan and the #Nakai #Diné Clan. In addition to a
musical career with his siblings in the band #Blackfire,
"'Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of uranium mines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, '#NoSpiritualSurrender: #IndigenousAnarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'
"The award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.
"Klee, co-founder of #HaulNo!, warned of the danger to the water and rivers from the uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and the planned deadly transport of radioactive ore, before he passed in
December 2023: 'There is possible radioactive contamination to land, water, and air from the #CanyonMine, White
Mesa Mill, and transport of uranium would impact northern Arizona, southeast Utah, the #ColoradoRiver, #MoenkopiWash, the #SanJuanRiver, and the lands and cultural resources of the #Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, Ute, and Paiute peoples.'"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/navajo-nation-dishonors-legacy-of-klee.html
#WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife
bsnorrell.blogspot.comNavajo Nation Dishonors Legacy of Klee Benally: Agrees to Uranium Transport Through Navajo NationCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
Fundraiser for #KleeBenally [updated February 2025]:
- Donations for #HaulNo!
"Klee was deeply involved in Haul No! to stimulate actions of #resistance against #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain / #CanyonMine #UraniumMine, Energy Fuels’ #WhiteMesaMill, and related transport."
#IndigenousResistance #MutualAid
#LandBack #RestInPowerKleeBenally
#IndigenousAction #Fundraisers #UraniumMining #NuclearColonialism #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #Dine
And last, but not least, not a music video, but a plug for #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender
"No Spiritual Surrender: #IndigenousAnarchy in Defense of the Sacred is a searing #AntiColonial analysis rooted in frontline experience. Klee Benally (#Diné) unrelentingly agitates against #colonial politics towards #IndigenousAutonomy and total liberation of #Nahasdzáán (#MotherEarth)."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wWXP7_KmY&pp=ygUSa2xlZSBiZW5hbGx5IGNvdmVy
Available now from Detritus Books
detritusbooks.com
406 pages | $20
Nonfiction | Paperback
Available in select bookshops.
#RestInPowerKleeBenally #HaulNo # #IndigenousAnarchy
#NoUraniumMining #DefendTheSacred #NoMiningWithoutConsent #DefendMotherEarth #SaveOakFlat
#KleeBenally's acoustic cover of #TheRamones song "I Believe in Miracles."
Klee: "One of my favorite Ramones songs of all times. I've covered this before live and with my previous band.
"I believe in miracles
I believe in a better world for me and you
I believe in miracles
I believe in a better world for me and you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e50I5IhwTYs
#RestInPowerKleeBenally #FridayNightMusicVideos
#FridayNightMusic #MusicForActivism #MusicForResistance #ThisMachineKillsColonizers
#KleeBenally's moving cover of #SimonAndGarfunkel's "The Sound of Silence"
"Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seed while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams, I walk alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence
'Fools,' said I, 'You do not know
Silence, like a cancer, grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you'
But my words, like silent raindrops, fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, 'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence."
- Paul Simon, 1964 (modified by Klee)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYu1jzL1jUw
#RestInPowerKleeBenally #FridayNightMusicVideos
#FridayNightMusic #AllTheFeels
#KleeBenally on his cover of the #BobMarley's song "Redemption Song":
"I have a complicated feeling about this song but wanted to fit in with a Diné hand drum style... you can read about that story on my patreon ;)
"This is also for my Afro-Indigenous relatives and all those combating anti-Blackness that is perpetuated in many Indigenous communities. For #Diné '#Nahiłi' is a term my sister Radmilla Cody has introduced to address anti-Blackness in #DinéBikeyah. If I ever perform this live, it would definitely be a shout out for all those challenging #AntiBlackness and showing love for #AfroIndigenous relatives."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyUxJT2lGec
#RestInPowerKleeBenally #FridayNightMusicVideos
#FridayNightMusic #MusicForActivism #MusicForResistance #SongsOfFreedom
#KleeBenally's on his cover of the #TomWaits song "Earth Died Screaming."
"#Climatechange is a consequence of the war against #MotherEarth.
The #greenwashing of #capitalism and #colonialism perpetuates the nightmare of #ecocide and #genocide of #IndigenousPeoples.
"#LithiumMining is intensifying to meet demand of 'green' #EV cars. This means further targeting and destruction of #Indigenous #SacredLands and water. Support #Hualapai & #Shoshone (and beyond!) resistance to lithium mining.
From mining, transport, milling, and waste, 'clean/green' #Nuclear energy is a deadly lie. There are more than 10,000 abandoned uranium throughout the so-called US that have been left to permanently contaminate our communities with deadly #radioactive pollution. There is also no permanent plan to deal with the highly radioactive waste from nuclear power generation. #YuccaMountain, a sacred site for #WesternShoshone, is still being considered for a national nuclear waste repository.
"For wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles, #ResolutionCopper proclaims that they desperately need to mine the copper beneath #OakFlat, a sacred site for #SanCarlosApache.
"We can't ignore the brutal impacts associated with the sourcing of necessary metals and minerals needed to
'sustain' unsustainable ways of life.
"#GreenCapitalists and #colonizers dream, while the Earth dies screaming."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMrBYnKo9v4
http://www.the-ciej.org
http://www.indigenousaction.org
http://www.HaulNo.com
http://www.dinenonukes.org
http://www.cleanupthemines.org
#DefendTheSacred #DefendMotherEarth #ClimateChange #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #RethinkNotRestart #NoUraniumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #CulturalGenocide #Genocide #RestInPowerKleeBenally #FridayNightMusicVideos
#FridayNightMusic #MusicForActivism #MusicForResistance
#KleeBenally's cover of #LeonardCohen's Avalanche
"When I am on a pedestal,
You did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
To kneel grotesque and bare.
I myself am the pedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTmlagiKtic
#FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #RestInPowerKleeBenally
So, I found some more amazing covers by #KleeBenally. I think that will be my focus for #FridayNightMusicVideos tonight.
#FridayNightMusic #RestInPowerKleeBenally
Canceled inauguration parade would have put spotlight on pro-Donald Trump #Navajo group
Matthew DeWees / Cronkite News
Jan. 17, 2025
"'As President Trump returns to the White House, I am hopeful that his administration will build upon the groundwork laid during his previous term,
#BuuNygren wrote." [Oh sure Trump will. What a suckup! I wish #KleeBenally were still around. He'd give #Nygren a piece of his mind!]
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/01/17/navajo-voters-helped-donald-trump-win-inaugural-parade/
#USPol #Diné #NavajoNation
Cronkite News - Arizona PBS · Canceled inauguration parade would have put spotlight on pro-Donald Trump Navajo group
"Our mother aches
Iron claws dig until she breaks
And she bleeds for this
How much is enough?
I remember listening to songs of the sun
For all those, who’s breath was stolen
Who’s future was taken away
Who learned too late
CHORUS:
And so we sing again
To the house of dawn
There are no words, no words that can right these wrongs.
This land breathes pain
And nothing grows
that doesn’t carry the trauma
that we’ve wept, that you sow…
CHORUS
this empire of blood and bones
of stolen, poisoned, homes…
genocide… mutilated ghosts…
fierce hearts lay buried… their struggle speaks…
fierce hearts lay buried… saying…
“leave it in the ground…”
While the mines lay abandoned – What has been done?
Wells poisoned… nothing has been done?
Cancers spread… tell me, what has been done?
To right these wrongs! To right these wrongs!
CHORUS
deafening the screams
grinding down the gears
you can’t hear them cause your window is closed
and you’ve surrendered your power to your fears
There’s a market for everything…
social media exists
so you keep on consuming…
it’s revolutionary chic and at least you “liked” and shared…
for liberation…oh what a loaded word…
and you’ve marched quietly along
and you’ve marched so complacently along
one brutal violent machine pressing against another (3x)
crushing all our dreams, and all we desire
the price is paid in blood and we know what its worth…
the price is paid in blood…
capitalism is the enemy…of mother earth. (2x)
deafening the screams
grinding down the gears
you can’t hear them cause your window closed
and you’ve surrendered your power to your fears
one brutal violent machine pressing against another
you’ve surrendered your power to your fears
one brutal violent machine pressing against another
you’ve surrendered your power to your fears
I will hold your hand
At the edge of this world
As we watch it burn to the ground
I will hold your hand
At the edge of the dawn
And laugh and wonder at the new days we’ve found
they will not suffocate this fire
it burns from our hearts
so long as we hold this inside
they can never take this from us
how much can you take?
how much can you give?
there is no post-apocalyptic
oh this is it
how much can we bleed?
till were up off our knees?
there’s no post-colonial, we live it
they will not suffocate this fire
it burns from our hearts
so long as we hold this inside
they can never take this from us
if this is our grave
such a wondrous bed we’ve been made
only so much we can bleed
so much more than we’d ever need
I will hold your hand
At the edge of this world
As we watch it burn to the ground.
Peabody‘s drag lines across the landscape
like militarized borders that carve this police state
1974 government pens wrote, “relocate”
divide and conquer, 14,000 and today?
We know this nightmare because it repeats
’till something breaks
An act of liberation
Yes we all know it’s the rich against the poor
class, race, gender, and mother earth just a resource
globalization is colonization and colonization is always war…
We know this nightmare because it repeats
’till something breaks
An act of liberation!
Industrial capitalist hetero-patriarchy
We know the story of so many manifested destinies
From the broken bones of broken homes and violated boarding school dreams
We know this nightmare because it repeats
’till something breaks
An act of liberation!
From Big Mountain to Palestine, relocation is genocide.
We stand against all wars and occupation
Against nationalism, against state sponsored terrorism
the free market non-profit industry
accountable to foundations no not community
paychecks for activism, for justice or just them?
But this ain’t no revolutionary commodity…
It’s an act of liberation
An act of liberation!
it’s only a matter of time
it’s only a question, an affirmation
of who we are and who we’ve have been
reconnect the dots
trace back the memories
its only a matter of time
until our words match our actions
CHORUS:
these laws, these borders, these walls, will fall
it’s only a matter of time, it’s only a matter of action
How much can we pretend,
that we’re not complicit in our silence?
how much longer, until these times get so desperate?
the beating in our hearts
a rhythm we can’t shut out
calling us to action, call us to action…
CHORUS
its a matter of action.
these are desperate times calling for desperate measures
these are desperate times calling for desperate action
its a matter of action.
Time for action
Following paths
so many ways to wander
so many ways I’ve wondered
always the question biting at my heel
sometimes its too much to feel
open hearts bleed
strong hearts deceived
where were you in this time of need?
following paths so many ways to take it on
so many ways we’ve lost
always the question expressing the real
sometimes its too much to feel
open hearts bleed strong hearts deceive
where were you in this time of need?
where were you?
your shadow still cast
all that we lived past
your words still linger
if we could peel back the time
uncover the wounds so they can really heal
sometimes its too much to feel
open hearts bleed strong hearts deceive
where were you in this time of need?
where were you?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEBhDVnzG_s
#AnActOfLiberation #Degrowth #TimeForAction #ATimeForLiberation #ATimeForAction #AMatterForAction #AnActOfLiberation #PostColonialism #ResistTheMachine #ResistHeteroPatriarchy
So, while I won't be linking to #WMPG for a while, I did hear some great music today that I'll be posting tonight for #FridayNightMusic. Along with music from #KleeBenally. Music to #FightFascism and #Colonialism!
#FuckFascists #ActivismThroughMusic #FridayNightMusicVideos
HT and congratulations to the @uraniumfestival! Thanks for doing all that you do!
2025 #NuclearFreeFuture Award laureates announced
January 14, 2025
"The 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards will this year honor individuals from #Brazil, #India, #Navajo country, the United States and #Zimbabwe for their achievements in working for a #NuclearFree world.
"The Award laureates are chosen by an international jury of their peers and are offered in three categories: #Resistance, Education and Solution. The 2025 laureates are: #SPUdayakumar (India) for Resistance; #MárciaGomesDeOliveira and #NorbertSuchanek (Brazil) for Education; and #EdwickMadzimure (Zimbabwe) for Solution.
"Honorary Lifetime Achievement awards will be given to teacher, author and #AntiNuclear activist, #JoannaMacy, and posthumously to #NativeAmericanActivist and musician, #KleeBenally.
"The Nuclear-Free Future Awards will be held on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at The Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City (7 E 7th St. NY NY.) A reception at 6pm will be followed by the awards ceremony starting at 7pm. Both events are free admission and open to the public. Media are welcome.
"The Nuclear-Free Future Awards were founded by German journalist, filmmaker and activist, Claus Biegert, in 1998 and were first held in Salzburg, Austria. Since then, the Awards have traveled the world, honoring the largely unsung heroes of the Nuclear Age who work to end uranium mining and rid the world of nuclear weapons, nuclear power and uranium munitions.
"The event is a co-presentation of #BeyondNuclear and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Germany, an affiliate of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization #IPPNW.
"The 2025 Awards event takes place during the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of #NuclearWeapons March 3-7 at the United Nations."
https://beyondnuclear.org/2025-nuclear-free-future-award-laureates-announced/
#NoUraniumMining #UraniumFilmFestival #NoNukes #NoWar #RadioactivePollutionKills #ItsTimeToCleanUpTheMines #NuclearFreeFuture #NuclearWeapons
#KleeBenally Honored as #NuclearFree Futures Awardee 2025
via #CensoredNews: "Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of #UraniumMines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the #NavajoNation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, 'No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'" [Order Klee's book at the link at the end of the post.]
In addition to Klee, those honored by #BeyondNuclear include the @uraniumfestival founders #MárciaGomesDeOliveira and #NorbertSuchanek, #SPUdayakumar, #EdwickMadzimure, and #JoannaMacy. Klee's award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/klee-benally-honored-as-nuclear-free.html
Order Klee's book here:
https://detritusbooks.com/products/no-spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred
#NuclearFreeFuture #UraniumFilmFestival #NoNukes #NoUraniumMining #NoSpiritualSurrender
![A man singing and drumming at a anti-nuclear rally. Behind him others holding banners and signs saying "Radioactive Pollution Kills:".
[Photo credit: Danka Worthington, Cronkite News]](https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/873/614/242/718/486/original/febdf551589e3dc4.png "A man singing and drumming at a anti-nuclear rally. Behind him others holding banners and signs saying \"Radioactive Pollution Kills:\".
[Photo credit: Danka Worthington, Cronkite News]")
[Thread] Recently, the #WabigoonLakeOjibwayNation decided they wanted to store #NuclearWaste on tribal lands -- and adjacent #FirstNations have concerns over their decision. I swear, if this had happened before #KleeBenally wrote his book #NoSpiritualSurrender, Klee would have included it as yet another example of #TribalGovernments NOT looking out for the land and the people!
Continued thread
From Chapter 14 of #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender - #IndgenousAnarchy, #InDefenseOfTheSacred:
"Although the #NavajoTribalCouncil established a mass scale farming initiative called '#NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustry (#NAPI),' the farm has stated on its website that it plants genetic #HybridCorn seed purchased from '#PioneerSeedCompany, #Syngenta Inc., and #Monsanto companies.' In 2014, in an attempt to 'curb' the diabetes epidemic, the #NavajoNationCouncil created a law that raised the sales tax for cheap junk foods sold on Navajo Nation and another removing sales tax from fresh fruits and vegetables. Economic pressure on those already struggling while not addressing the root causes and environmental degradation is par for the course for the #colonial government and Navajo politicians.
"Instead of directly feeding ourselves and communities, we have become dependent on businesses and corporations that are more concerned with profits than our health and well-being. The #BoardingSchools were replete with capitalist indoctrination to forcibly assimilate #Diné children into colonial society. The curriculum was designed with a clear lesson: To feed our families we needed jobs. To have jobs we needed to be trained. To be trained we needed to obey. To not have a job means you’re poor. To employ other workers is to build wealth. To build wealth means success."
Page 302, KleeBenally, NoSpiritualSurrender.