This blog issue is to address something disturbing that has been happening for at least a decade that we know of firsthand, and we suspect it’s been going on longer. We will shed light of some areas who are attempting to ban revolutionaries and some of the psychological, social and economic reasons for this.
Sweat Lodges: Revolutionaries have been banned or bullied in so called spiritual places known as sweat lodges. The people who attend them are almost always absent from struggles for liberation especially actual revolutionary organizations. Some of the reasons will be listed here. First off people attending sweat lodge are often using it as an escape mechanism. They are often addicts or ex addicts who still have the behaviors of addicts and drunks. In short, its pain avoidance and pleasure seeking. They use ceremony to try to feel a cultural connection, but they do it at the expense of those who make the culture even possible in the first place. All those participating in culture owe everything they do and every aspect of it to the revolutionaries. They do not want us at ceremony because it reminds them of how they are hiding and letting us carry all of their burdens while they attempt to escape the realities we have to deal with on their behalf. The contributions of the sweat lodge leaders in this decade have been to deprive revolutionaries of the healing they need then those spiritual leaders turned around and gaslight revolutionaries for things like p.t.s.d that were caused directly by depriving us. If revolutionaries are not attending your sweat lodges i will assume that your ceremonies are run by spiritual abusers. Derelicts. Revolutionaries such as myself are often not welcome in places where corruption exists. Cowards and the corrupt and big belly chiefs hang around ceremony while real warriors are tasked with the heavy lifting. We are not basking in a feel good we were awarded only pain. Bogus ceremony people know all of this. They may not be able to articulate it, but they damn well know it. Thats why we are banned. Any sweat lodge that is not healing the verry warriors who ensure indigenous lifeways should be torn down and those so-called leaders dismissed for corruption. It should also be stated that PDJ has held colonizers in organizing spaces when qualified indigenous people were available. This went on for over a decade. We suspect that revolutionaries may be being banned from Sundance as well.
Economics: Revolutionaries are banned from ceremony because ceremony people have widely betrayed the people in the sense that they are petit bourgeoisie aspiring sellouts. Many of the spiritual runs including Peace And Dignity Journeys actually extract from the same communities they should be serving. I’ve seen with my own eyes families give up vehicles and gas money and food to these bogus spiritual groups who shy away from revolution. PDJ has become a vacation for petit bourgeoisie aspiring sellouts. The organizers have literally grown fat off of the resources of the people, some of those people are struggling deeply and a prayer that lacks any dialectics whatsoever is sucking their life essence. Petit bourgeoisie sellouts are stained with the blood of their own people on their hands.
At times it has been stated that politics themselves are not welcome. This is a contradiction with an easy explanation. Any space that bans politics automatically defaults to supporting the status quo subsequently upholding the same empire responsible for their ongoing genocide. Politics are present everywhere. Even prisons ect. There are zero places on earth you can escape that truth.
Revolutionaries pressured the empire until ceremonies that were banned became able legal again after the Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 and those same ceremony spaces turned around and banned the warriors who fought for their very existence. We implore the masses to put immense pressure on these gatekeepers and remove them from their ability to gatekeeps.
You need to be siding with the revolutionaries not the corrupt. Everything you do in life is made possible by us. I.S.R is not welcome in spaces where corruption exists. This is proof that you need to be standing with us unless you yourself are corrupt.
You should always think twice before you cross a talented writer who’s smarter than you. Just a reminder that this is never a good idea. Feel free to try to sue us. I relish the day i rip you up in a court room. We refuse to be bullied.
Politically illiterate people have gatekept these spaces. They accuse revolutionaries of being divisive. Here is the truth from an educated stance:
Excerpt from Pittfalls Of Liberalism by Kwame Ture: Whenever articles are written, whenever political speeches are given, or whenever analyses are made about a situation, it is assumed that certain people of one group, either the left or the right, the rich or the poor, the whites or the blacks, are causing polarization. The fact is that conditions cause polarization, and that certain people can act as catalysts to speed up the polarization.
Liberalism exists in indigenous spaces as well. We were not magically spare from that as a people. Always remember, it was an indigenous person who killed Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull……
These spiritual places are teaching the people to put their efforts into acts of symbolism as where dialectical materialism is desperately needed. Genocide cannot be overcome by prayer. The truth doesn’t care about your feelings.
We didn’t cause the division. It was caused by conditions. We were absolutely true to our role. I am a walking talking living breathing catalyst for change (revolution). We are the new era.
Join I.S.R we are to corruption like water is to oil.
Written by: War Chief Mko (Invisible Warrior)
Illahee Spirit Runners 