Secret COINTELPRO Plot to Infiltrate and Destroy the American Indian Movement

Jeremy Kuzmarov Wounded Knee Standoff 1973: Pine Ridge, South Dakota February 27 through May 8 marks the 50th  anniversary of the occupation by the American Indian Movement (AIM) of Wounded Knee on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the site of the last great massacre of the Indian Wars in December, 1890….

Ward Churchill on COINTELPRO, Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement”

Ward Churchill, Legendary Author, Scholar and Activist joins Kalonji Jama Changa one-on-one in an exclusive Riot Starter TV Interview. Ward is a former professor and author of “Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement”, “The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret War Against Domestic…

Notes Toward a National Defense Organization Against Racism and Political Repression, 1973

The Black Agenda Review Few records survive of the birth of a national anti-police repression organization formed by supporters of Angela Davis – but government spies preserved Davis’ speech. “We are here to build a united organization to defend existing movements, and to defend our communities from racist and politically inspired attacks.” Introduction On Saturday…

Fighting for Their People: Meet Saskatchewan’s Indigenous Warriors

Mark Melnychuk A look at the men who are continuing the tradition of Indigenous warrior societies in Saskatchewan. A soldier’s helmet, a gas mask and a knife feature prominently on a shelf. There are stacks of gun magazines and books for everything a soldier might need in the field, including a survival manual and a…

Warrior Societies and Land Defence

Sakej Ward (Mi’kmaw) My name is Sakej. I am Mi’kmaw and a Sma’knis, a traditional Indigenous warrior of the Mi’kmaq Nation. I want to speak from the most ancient system of knowledge in the world, the Indigenous worldview. I will speak a few words about the secret societies known as warrior societies. Since time immemorial,…

Sakej Ward: Decolonizing the Colonizer

Real Peoples Media In this speech, Sakej Ward talks about decolonization in relationship to the original people of the land you are living in. He argues that a central aspect of any process of change requires the correct identification of the terms we use to describe ourselves. Ward seeks to dispel the illusions and resulting…