7/6/2023 0 Comments Brave earth community![]() We explore the nature of subjective reality and the narratives that promote capitalism. In this week’s podcast, we discuss his ideas of Capitalism, memes and mind viruses – notably the idea of the Wetiko – and what the antidotes might be. He is also a co-founder of Tierra Valiente, a post- capitalist community in northern Costa Rica. TR started in 2012 as a time-bound project and an experiment in anarchist organizational design, exploring new ways of how to work, play and make trouble together.Īlnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and explores/writes about the intersection between politics and spirituality in troubled times. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules (TR), a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. What if we could see the nature of the stories that drive us, how would we be? Would we be able to change them? And what would we want in their place? This week, Alnoor Ladha, mystic, visionary, activist and regenerative farmer explores the four ways to change the world.Īlnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking and narrative work. Read the full article on Indian Country Today. We want to determine our own future,” she wrote. We want every last oil and gas pipe removed from her body. “We are fighting for our rights as the Indigenous peoples of this land we are fighting for our liberation, and the liberation of Unci Maka, Mother Earth. We are not fighting for a reroute, or a better process in the white man’s courts,” Allard wrote in a 2017 op-ed titled, “ To save the water, we must break the cycle of colonial trauma.”Īllard also advocated for the protection of sacred Indigenous land around the world, notably standing in solidarity with Kanaka Maoli to protect sacred Mauna Kea in Hawaii in 2019. “This movement is not just about a pipeline. People from all over the world including citizens of Indigenous nations flocked to the camps at Cannonball, North Dakota, in support of that mission.Īllard was an annual speaker at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and was a published writer in The Guardian, and Yes! Magazine. Standing Rock grew to become a symbol of a global movement calling attention to the role continued reliance on fossil fuel plays in increasing climate change and the importance of protecting water on the planet. It was the first of several water protector camps aimed at opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline project. Thus, the Sacred Stone Camp began on Allard’s land in 2016 at the confluence of Cannonball and Missouri Rivers. “Someone suggested we start a camp all of a sudden LaDonna said, ‘Hey, I’ve got some land.’” ![]() “Juanita Lock, Josephine Thunder Shield, Honor Ata Defender, Waste Young and a handful of others met in LaDonna’s basement to talk about what we should do about the pipeline,” Braun said. Initial resistance to the pipeline began in Allard’s basement according to Joye Braun of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe in a 2017 Indian Country Today interview. “Even when she was sick, she told us she’d be with us in spirit she told us not to be sad for her but to continue the fight.” “Her son told us that LaDonna heard us chanting and knew we were there outside her house,” White said. The signs read, “We love you LaDonna” and “Water is Life,” according to White. Shortly before Allard died, Indigenous youth enroute to a rally in Fort Berthold opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline, stopped by her house placing banners and signs in her yard. “LaDonna is the one who got the youth fired up to fight the pipeline,” White said. The Standing Rock Sioux citizen was 64 years old. ![]() LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, water protector, tribal historian and founder of the Sacred Stone Camp at Standing Rock died on Apafter a long battle with brain cancer. “LaDonna dedicated her life to the protection of the water she never stopped that fight all the way up until the day she died,” White said. White is a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations. ![]() LaDonna Brave Bull Allard was a catalyst igniting the global movement opposing construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline across her people’s lands.Īs the tribal historic preservation officer for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, Allard alerted people to the impending plans for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, according to Kandi Mossett White, a member of the leadership team with the Indigenous Environmental Network. Republished with permission from Indian Country Today. ![]()
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