Our first interviewee ever (special thanks!) is Kolin Sutherland-Wilson of the Fireweed clan of the Gitxsan people. His family has generations of participation in the resistance against settler-colonial encroachment on indigenous land in what we in the West call Canada. Kolin has been speaking out on behalf of both his people and their ancient allies, the Wet’suwet’en, as they weather continued assaults on their soverignty from settler-colonial Canada and large gas extraction corporations. Scott contacted him on Reddit, where he has written extensively over the past few years about his experiences as \/u\/decolonialman<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2020, Kolin staged a “solo week-long strike of his own outside the B.C. Legislature in support of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en peoples against the [Coastal Link Gas] pipeline. He walked out during the first week of classes on Jan. 6 and was there from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day of that week.”<\/a> He published a video<\/a> explaining why he was doing so on the first day. Today, we discuss the continuing effort to protect unceded lands in the northwest of our continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interview [35m46]; annotated transcript of the interview<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Gitxsan have a similar social structure of clans and houses to the Wet’suwet’en, although they have over 60 houses as opposed to 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eastern clans, including Kispiox Western clans The name Wet\u02bcsuwet\u02bcen means “People of the Wa Dzun Kwuh River (Bulkley River)”. The 22,000 square km of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Territory is divided into 5 clans and 13 house groups. Each clan within the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Nation has full jurisdiction under their law to control their territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also want to mention the Unist’ot’en group, which is currently affiliated with the Yex T’sa Wilk’us (Dark House) under the Gilseyhu (Big Frog) Clan. Western media have called this a protest camp, but the people living there do not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the Unist’ot’en on their own website<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Unist\u2019ot\u2019en homestead is not a protest or demonstration. Our clan is occupying and using our traditional territory as it has for centuries. Our free prior and informed consent protocol is in place at the entrance of or territory as an expression of our jurisdiction and our inherent right to both give and refuse consent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The hereditary chiefs jointly filed a press release stating the same in 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Hereditary Chiefs have maintained their use and occupancy of their lands and hereditary governance system for thousands of years. Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Hereditary Chiefs are the Title Holders and maintain authority and jurisdiction to make decisions on unceded lands\u2026.<\/p> Chief Kloum Kuhn stated, \u201cThe five clans of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en will never support the Coastal Gaslink (CGL) project and remain opposed to any pipelines on our traditional lands.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n As another example of Western imperialism, and with Russian\/Ukrainian\/US tensions back in the news again for the first time since we began the program, I thought the few minutes we have left in the hour could be spent providing some background on the situation there which is not very well-known. I’m not an expert on this, but I think this is context which should not be left out of the conversation. More background can be found in several episodes of Congressional Dish, primarily episode 244<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1m37s<\/p>\n\n\n\n A phone call between high-ranking government officials was leaked Feb. 4, 2014, wherein those officials discuss who they think should and should not be taking high-ranking roles in the Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n clips are not related aside from being from the same conference<\/p>\n\n\n\nthe Gitxsan, ‘People of the River of Mist’<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Gisgaast – Fireweed<\/strong>
Lax Gibuu – Wolf
Lax See’l – Frog<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giskaast \u2014 Fireweed
Lax Gibuu \u2014 Wolf
Ganada \u2014 Frog
Lax Skiik \u2014 Eagle<\/p>\n\n\n\nthe Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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chart of hereditary chiefs provided by the Unist’ot’en<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nUkraine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In practice, the reason many of the countries which have been loaned money by the IMF are in financial trouble is due to exploitation, or worse, sanctions. Because many (not all) of these situations are caused by external forces, this results in the IMF functioning more as a way for the wealthy, exploitative, capitalist oligarchies to change the laws and rule over countries which don’t align with the neoliberal world order. If this sounds nuts, please spend some time listening to Congressional Dish and following her sources.<\/li>Nuland\/Pyatt Leaked phone call<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Joe Biden at the Council on Foreign Relations on “Defending Democracy”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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