A Red Road To The West Bank (with Clifton Ariwakhete Nicholas and Franklin Lopez)

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 $10000 CAD for the film.

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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

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