We consistently see that when Indigenous peoples have exercised their human right to self-determination,

their inherent right to self-determination, they have been met with incredible acts of violence.

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Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of A Left podcast with clips today

from the Laura Flanders Show, a progressive faith sermon by Reverend Roger Ray,

counterspin the majority report, The Young Turks, and Democracy Now.

We have the potential for developing a political struggle that will in fact cement strategic alliances

with environmental justice groups, with elected officials who in fact understand the dangers

that big oil presents to Mother Earth.

There's something huge happening that most people are trying to ignore.

If our system is predicated upon continued violence and rape of the land,

then there's no just future for us as a society.

This is a moment this day and this is not the end of the movement just the beginning.

This tribe is not the only tribe facing threats from oil companies, mining companies.

In fact, we're in a flint moment, but in Indian country we've had thousands of flints for generations.

We have the natural inclination to want to spiritually liberate ourselves and to connect ourselves with

universe. If there's things in the way of that, then we're going to instinctually work toward

creating circumstances where we do, we feel liberated, we feel good, we feel like how you feel

when you sing or when you dance or when you laugh or when you're able to disconnect from

time, from the clocks, from currency, from your credit cards, from your ID like at that camp.

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