Regarding the action to shut down hwy 101 at a strategic location to force concessions towards water quality and conservation was a massive success. Concessions are basically when the oppressor throws the people a bone partly because they are caving to the demands and pressure put on them by revolutionary elements who intend on doing more than put up water tests results and vote. tribal people who had been monitoring water quality and raising awareness. Raising awareness is a great first step it helps lay the groundwork for actual revolutionaries who should take up a cause later. So many people think raising awareness is the end all be all. Those people are incorrect. Raising awareness does nothing until people like me come along. A revolutionary element brings about change by force. The other reason is to save face and appear to be in the interest of the people. Those with Stockholms syndrome eat this up and people who never wanted to resist very hard are easily satisfied. Clearly the benefactors of the worlds largest and ongoing genocide do not and have never had the best interests of indigenous peoples in mind….. These changes are concessions brought about by force. That being said 34 million dollars was awarded to the state of so called “Oregon” and tribes for wastewater treatment.
What happened at the action that forced this? I previously released a statement saying openly what i was going to do as a warning that if not headed would bring about shut downs on hwy 101. When they were not headed i came back to make good on it. At a well scouted and strategically powerful location i set out to shut down Hwy 101. I scouted it so well that i was certain of some kind of victory before i committed to the action that i knew could potentially end me up in jail if i made too many wrong moves. I invited many tribal people and activists on the coast, I invited an indigenous motorcycle club, and militants from around Illahee but none showed up. I had committed in my mind to do this by myself if i had too which i knew was very dangerous. Just as i was about to do it myself a couple people showed up. Although only a few people showed up, my opposition is threatened by my alliances, they are extremely nervous that elements of the local salmon tribes and beyond will back me up on this and could be actually mobilized to take decisive action. We maneuvered oversized signs around a strategically powerful area backing up traffic for miles. Police showed up because colonists called them. The first police showed up and i was able to mentally dominate them and diffuse the situation. Traffic continued to be delayed. A young colonist tried to hit me with a vehicle. I dodged it like a bullfighter dancing around a bull and continued. I was playing recordings of Grandmother Agnes on a loudspeaker so people in the cars could hear her talking about the water and the salmon while i worked my magic. I wasn’t quite breaking the law but i bent the shit out of it severely. After a good while longer and having really backed the highway up for possibly 5 miles “Oregon” state troopers blitzkrieged my ass and threw me and one of my crew in handcuffs. There i was about to get cuffed and stuffed for the Salmon but i have training and this wasn’t my first rodeo. I convinced the police to release us on a technicality. I was able to relate as a human being but carefully without incriminating myself because you should never talk to cops. The police were shocked at how effective i was. They kept looking around and asking if i had more people with me. Almost like they didn’t think just the few of us could do all that. Also, kind of in a way that seemed to suggest why the hell didn’t I have more support because this was so ace. The officers decided that the law had not been broken and that i had only just bent the shit out of it severely. The officers said that they loved the salmon too and they released us. I thanked them for not roughing us up and we went on our way. Like an artist who understands how to use my palate. By this time Hwy 101 was at a complete stand still. We had secured a victory.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both”.
Frederick Douglass
Who is to thank? Your champions are not who you would think.
1. A man who has defended forests and fought for the rights of the homeless and continues organize around a creative recycling program in Portland. He is known as Mo.
2. A non-native and a communist who loves the river and does not wish to be named.
3. Myself, War Chief Mko who has completed 300 actions and who’s dedication is unrivaled.
Whats next where do we go from here? Although this is one of our top achievements and we acknowledge it isn’t finished. This isn’t over yet we realize these are just concessions and we continue to build power for our own pan indigenous government who will one day rival the empire. Water quality is still being monitored by tribal people as well as the scientific community. We suspect one more wastewater treatment plant is still shitting on tribal people and poisoning the river with a mix of sewage, medical and industrial waste. I.S.R will lead an effort to shut them down too as soon as data comes back and the people fully back I.S.R pan indigenous government and our efforts by what is now our own department of natural resources within I.S.R. I.S.R as a government will implement our own environmental standards for the first time as the rightful stewards and revolutionary indigenous government.
Next is the lost art of self-determination. Some of the money that was given should be used for composting toilets that have already proven to save millions of gallons of water. They should be put in by the state who needs to be forced to have some kind of environmental standards. Their 1930s kkk laws have them embarrassingly shitting on indigenous people in 2022. Even rodents know not to defecate in their drinking water, but a colonist is lower than a rat therefore this and all efforts should be lead by the indigenous. We are asking that the existing tribal government of Siletz who has been reluctant to resist the poisoning of their own river now keep up their end. Siletz tribe could and should also put in composting toilets but this time flexing their tribal sovereignty to take it to the next level and start to produce a safe humanure. This humanure can safely be used for certain horticulture such as fruit trees or corn etc. The flushing toilet is only around 1000 years old. Ancient people just composted it. It is absolutely paramount that indigenous peoples who have input into how they run their own sovereign nations to flex on this and lead this decades late undertaking. We call for a massive increase in composting toilets by all indigenous nations. If this is not embraced by these nations it will serve as further proof of the necessity of a new pan indigenous government. One born of revolutionary struggle.
You can find a free download of the humanure handbook online https://www.permaculturenews.org/2008/09/18/humanure-handbook-free-download/
Written by the Invisible Warrior War Chief Mko 2022
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