Wounded Knee Occupation (1973) in February 27, 1973, a 71-day uprising began when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) members seized the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to demand treaty negotiations. Paul Manhart S.J. and ten other residents of the area were apprehended at gunpoint and taken hostage.
The town was promptly surrounded by an army of U.S. personnel. John Sayer, author of “Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials”, wrote - “The equipment maintained by the military while in use during the siege included fifteen armored personnel carriers, clothing, rifles, grenade launchers, flares, and 133,000 rounds of ammunition, for a total cost, including the use of maintenance personnel from the National Guard of five states and pilot and planes for aerial photographs, of over half a million dollars.”
Although the Department of Justice (DoJ) prohibited media from the site, the occupation received support from the Congressional Black Caucus and prominent public figures, including Marlon Brando, Johnny Cash, Angela Davis, and Jane Fonda. Angela Davis was turned away by federal forces as an “undesirable person” when she attempted to enter Wounded Knee in March 1973.
Marlon Brando asked Sacheen Littlefeather, President of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee, to speak at the 45th Academy Awards on his behalf. She appeared at the March 27th ceremony in traditional Apache clothing and stated that Brando declined the award due to “the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry…and on television and movie reruns and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee”.
Tribal leaders called off the occupation after 71 days after the killing of Lawrence “Buddy” Lamont, a local Oglala man, by U.S. sniper fire. The terms of ending the occupation included a mandated meeting at Chief Fools Crow’s land to discuss reinstating the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which stated that the Black Hills of South Dakota belonged to the Sioux people.
In the 1980 Supreme Court case United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, the Court held that the taking of property that was set aside for the use of the nation required just compensation, including interest. The Sioux have not accepted the compensation awarded to them by this case, valued at $1.3 billion as of 2011.
“If we accept the money, then we have no more of the treaty obligations that the federal government has with us for taking our land, for taking our gold, all our resources out of the Black Hills…we’re poor now, we’ll be poorer then when that happens.”
former Oglala Sioux Tribe President Theresa Two Bulls
I hope you nerds have a great next week and also first week of March. 
Remember no crackers
it breaks my heart how the leaders of the ummah united to murder 115 children sitting in class, to murder an Imam, to help a genocide, all in the holliest month. All in the name of the corporations, all in the name of Chevron and Shell.
Just had some cracker tell me they’re worried about getting on their flight from Bumfuck USA to Shithole USA because “Iran promised to blow up passenger planes”. (No they didn’t)
When a cracker sees the mass slaughter of brown people their first thought is how the uppity nonwhites are going to interrupt their vacation.
Actually you know what? I hope every single one of these vile crackers gets put on a plane and blown up over the ocean. Genocidal fascists all of them
I think Americans don’t realize that when people refer to “Hollywood” they don’t necessarily mean the film industry. They mean the entire LA entertainment bubble that includes influencers, YouTubers, and streamers. They’ve absolutely fallen under the Hollywood entertainment umbrella and extended US soft power.
I only bring this up because some NATO leftist said targeting Hollywood would be wrong because poc live there and they don’t film movies there anymore.
Iran is chock full of poc but that clearly didn’t matter when they got bombed.
I fucking hate westerners explaining to me how akshully overthrowing Iran is good and how Iran is bad, and being centrists on the conflict.
Fuck you, i live in this region. I don’t need a fucking neocon NATO lib living cushily in europe explaining to me the fucking politics of my region, death to america, israel and europe
God i’m so angry right now.
What I hate even more are the diaspora crying to officials about how their people must be killed for the better of the world. Absolute scum and then they try to use their identity to gain “exotic” points when convenient.
The same people who have been crying about women’s rights in Iran saw that one of the first things to come out from the US-Israel strikes was that an all girls school was hit killing 80+ girls and they still came out and thanked Trump.
These are the same people that were crying about the US wanting to annex Greenland about a month or so ago. But now that they’ve check their
cards its back to the same old bullshit.they saw the Epstein files, they saw the genocide in Gaza, we should saw them in half
they will be put in mazov’s sausage grinder inshallah
god willing.
Iran has been bombed again, poc lives don’t matter to white people. I can’t even think of a single time in recent history of any conflict between two groups one being of lighter and one being of darker skin where the lighter skinned group is not the aggressor
The west got collectively owned by Genghis Khan and have never been able to get over it.
the
force located in eastern europe has been deployed and are now explaining to everyone how “both sides” in this conflict are bad 
(by both sides they mean iran)
Candid thoughts on the non-binary community and the state of how I feel about the label of non-binary
Realizing how much the non-binary community has gone full circle, with it comprising the most bioessentialist, binary-minded people in existence, has made me distance myself from the label hard.
There was a time where I owned that label, but, gee, it feels entirely fucking foreign to me now.
The non-binary community has officially reached a point where they have immense expectations for what someone’s presentation, mannerisms, behavior, thought patterns, and sometimes even sexual orientation might be like simply on the basis of assigned sex.
We are now at a point where the non-binary community is sounding not too different than traditionalists on the subject of gender, with how they functionally expect AMAB non-binary people to embody some form of masculinity and AFAB non-binary people to embody some form of femininity.
As someone who can only describe myself as hyperandrogynous, it feels simultaneously awkward and totally sensible to say that I am uncomfortable with the non-binary community specifically because it is so damn binary.
So f’n tired of people glazing Daryl Davis, FFS.
Hopefully my last time mentioning this recent discourse but I feel like many white users here defended their position cause they probably have said the n slur and/or other racial slurs in the past. “I was young and didn’t know better” is a common position among many of the no purpose flour people, how many of them even used to be chuds after all?
So many of the “I was young” types end up being older than 21 when they talk about their “youth”
Edit: and yeah that’s still a young age but by that point you should know better about using slurs. I’d personally say you’d know better by your teen years as well
Yeah, agree and yes as a teen unless it’s a foreign language where you don’t grasp the full meaning then you’re old enough. I was old enough to understand fully what they meant when they directed it at me they knew damn well what they’re doing but white folks will infantilize themselves to escape.
Or “it’s just a song”.
The discourse here doesn’t sit right with me because it feels unresolved. Why did they fight so hard against an apology then go back and say “but he apologized(now).” Because as we pointed out over and over, it was about the slur not the disability.
Yep. And now that it’s blown over its “back to normal” as if the poc here are supposed to look at the white users the same lmao hell no. Always side eye any fucking cracker that fights so damn hard for one of them to not apologize for a racial slur, always.
Exactly… they aren’t reformed chuds. They’re just chuds.
I shouldn’t do any work today. Next week it’ll be just me so I’ll do work then
Guitar solo starts at around 3:01. I’m quite proud of dat shit
Haven’t been working on music nearly as much (especially since I’ve been doing prep for the CNA stuff), but I finally got around to building more of the last song I was working on. Just finished writing a guitar solo for it, but still got some other shit to do because I plan for it to be a fairly lengthy track. Haven’t had the creative spirit in a bit, but it seems to have returned.
I might share a mix later.
How it been feelin like for me
What’s with all the New Jersey hate? I’ve been there a number of times and found it friendlier to poc than upstate New York
I continue to be disturbed by how few people, even POC, realize that “benevolent racism” is still racism.
Saying “Asians are good at math and science” is racist.
Saying “Black people are super athletic” is racist.
Saying “Latinos are such hard workers” is racist.
People not realizing this is why racial fetishism gets a pass from so many people, including POC.
Like wtf should we support a “benevolent” racism that divides people into essentialized, division of labor roles? That’s literally the type of thing racism is supposed to justify for empire and capital…
it’s always the first line of defense when you call out a poc tap dancing for white attention. they always try to say it’s just a joke or that it’s a good thing but yet they’re still always doing it for white people.
Also it’s the first thing libs love to bring up to defend why poc are important, like no we shouldn’t protect latinos humanity on the basis that they are economically productive, they are just people
