Final Straw: A Red Road to the West Bank

Long-running anarchist radio show and podcast speaks with Amplifier Films about A Red Road To The West Bank: An Indigenous Journey of Resistance and Solidarity.

This week, an interview with Clifton Ariwakhete Nicholas and Franklin Lopez about about the film currently in production via Amplifier Films, A Red Road To The West Bank: An Indigenous Journey of Resistance and Solidarity. The conversation covers some about relationships between the people of occupied Palestine and Kanehsatà:ke in so-called Canada, histories of settler colonialism and resistance of it. Clifton and Franklin are attempting to raise $10,000 CAD for the film.

Franklin also talks about his recently published kids book “The mega-adventures of Koko Sisi & Kiki Pupu” that he co-created with his son.

Links:

• Karistatsi Onienre: The Iron Snake (film by Clifton)
• Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way! (film by Clifton)
• Trouble #1: Killing The Black Snake (narrated by Clifton)
• Anarcho-Indigenism: Conversations on Land and Freedom (Clifton contributed an essay)
• A 2011 interview with Franklin we conducted
• Franklin’s interview with Clifton on the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society and Oka
• Mahmoud Darwish’s poem, The Penultimate Speech of the Red Indian to the White Man