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The Red Nation Podcast

Earth Day special: "Acts of war" w/ John Trudell

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

Society & Culture, History

4.8943 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In celebration of Earth Day, we present a 1980 speech by John Trudell on revolution and loyalty to the earth.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're faced with a very serious situation in this generation.

0:03.6

There are insane people who wish to rule the world.

0:08.0

They wish to continue to rule the world on violence and repression.

0:13.2

And we are all the victims of that violence and repression.

0:16.3

We as the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere

0:18.9

have been resisting this violence and this oppression

0:21.4

for 500 years.

0:23.5

We know that the black people have been resisting it

0:26.2

for at least that long.

0:28.3

And we know that the white people have had to endure it

0:30.6

thousands of years. And now it's come full swing to this generation that we live in,

0:36.4

nuclearization of the world.

0:38.8

You see this cannot be, we cannot allow this to continue to go on. We cannot do it. We cannot expect that the

0:47.3

pro-nuclear oppressor, that other side, we cannot expect that they're going to change for us.

0:54.8

They are going to become more brutal.

0:57.4

They are going to become more repressive because it's a matter of dollars and

1:01.6

their illusionary concepts of power.

1:04.4

We have to reestablish our identity.

1:07.2

We have to understand who we are and where we fit in the natural order of the world.

1:12.4

Because our oppressor deals and illusions.

1:15.4

They tell us that it is power, but it is not power.

1:20.0

They may have all the guns and they may have all the racist laws and judges and they may control all the money.

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