Ta Shunka Witko Brigade Radio Essay (MP3, mono, 61 min). Call to action to resist the double standard of the colonial governments of the US and Canada regarding border security and respect as they override indigenous borders withviolent arrogance and impunity.

As the US government and its allies continue to put forward their argument about their need for secure borders in order to assure their national security, and to criminalize our indigenous family from the South, the borders of the Lakota Nation and the Six Nations are being overridden with impunity and their people attacked for defending them. The non-indigenous media (mainstream and alternative) ignores this or misrepresents it adding their qualifiers of invalidation to our indigenous realities. As thousands of RCMPs and OPPS, well armed and in riot gear, ready to attack our unarmed brothers, sisters, and elders, we are (at best) third in line in the "other news", 25 seconds of dismissive portrayal of our misery. When they say "protesters", hear "indigenous peoples under siege". When they say "occupy' insert "protect" and "defend". When they qualify "they say is ancestral land", hear the TRUTH, IT IS OUR LAND. We have had to continuously defend it since the European invasion at the highest cost.

We continue to fight against the most powerful in this planet and all we have is ourselves, the few of us who have survived the genocide at the hands of the European invaders, and only those whose minds and spirits have not been polluted to paralysis by the invader culture and policies. We call on all warriors and all people of conscience to unite with and support the Six Nations, the Lakota Nation, and all indigenous peoples under attack.

Wanbli Watakpe
Tashunka Witko Brigade

NOTE: The "Bush Collage" is from Free Speech TV, the song "No Bravery" is by James Blunt (thanks to our friends from Jordan who made us aware of it, check it out at http://nobravery.cf.huffingtonpost.com/ ), and the closing is by Crazy Horse Juniors of Oglala, Lakota Nation.

The Tashunka Witko Brigade (TWB) focuses on indigenous liberation and gives voice to the indigenous people, the elders, grandmas and warriors on the ground in this our continent. TWB airs on Free Radio Olympia on Tuesdays 3-5 PM PST (with live webstream at www.frolympia.org) and on Berkeley Liberation Radio anytime without warning.