This week, an interview with Clifton Ariwakhete Nicholas and Franklin Lopez about about the film currently in production via Amplifier Films, A Red Road To The West Bank: An Indigenous journey of resistance and solidarity. The conversation covers some about relationships between the people of occupied Palestine and Kanehsatà:ke in so-called Canada, histories of settler colonialism and resistance of it.
Franklin also talks about his recently published kids book “The mega-adventures of Koko Sisi & Kiki Pupu” that he co-created with his son.
Then, you’ll hear Črna Luknja from Radio Študent in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with an interview about the upcoming Balkan Anarchist Bookfair with organizers of the upcoming Balkan Anarchist Bookfair that will take place from May 15-18th, 2025 in Thessaloniki. More information, the call and the program for the bookfair can be found at BAB2025.espivblogs.net/. This interview was featured in the April 2025 episode of B(A)D News: Angry Voices from Around The World. More info on that project and it’s participants can be found at a-radio-network.org
Links:
- Karistatsi Onienre: The Iron Snake (film by Clifton)
- Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way! (film by Clifton)
- Trouble #1: Killing The Black Snake (narrated by Clifton)
- Anarcho-Indigenism: Conversations on Land and Freedom (Clifton contributed an essay)
- A 2011 interview with Franklin we conducted
- Franklin’s interview with Clifton on the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society and Oka
- Mahmoud Darwish’s poem, The Penultimate Speech of the Red Indian to the White Man
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Featured Track:
- L’enfant Sauvage by Gojira from L’enfant Sauvage
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