Ep. 12: Abolishing the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Join Klee Benally, Chizhii, and Kittie Kuntagion as they close out the colonial calendar year with a raging fire of challenges and agitations that have been at the forefront of anti colonial struggle in 2023. We ask the questions, “What fights matter the most to you right now?” and more simply, “What’s pissing you off […]

Rejecting Indigenous Peoples’ Day of Tokenism Hosts Klee and Bonn talk with some awesome guests & revisit our 2017 ‘zine “Uprooting Colonialism: The Limitations of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” We dig into the questions, “How do whitewashed celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day undermine decolonization?” and “What does it mean to be an anti-colonial abolitionist?” Guests: Amrah […]

Bonn, Amrah and Taloa talk about the failings of white liberal feminism, or #girlboss feminism and apply an Indigenous abolition approach to feminism while analyzing three current events happening in Indian Country.

Indigenous Action Podcast hosts Bonn and Klee join featured guest speaker Tawinikay in a panel style discussion on Indigenous Autonomy and Anarchism: Against Settler Politics.  This podcast is from the livestream of the 15th Annual No Thanks, No Giving! that was held on Thursday, November 24th. For 15 years we have hosted No Thanks, No […]

In this #mmiwg2st show, host Bonn talks with indigequeers, Simona Bearcub (@bearcubstrong), Blue (@ceneeteeniieihii), and Demian Dinéyazhi’ (@heterogeneoushomosexual) about queer erasure within the cis-heteronormative narratives around #MMIWG2ST and the co-optation of our movement by the non-profit industrial complex. Content warning: Sexual & interpersonal violence. [Transcripts below] Connect with & support: Bonn, Simona, Blue and Demian’s […]

In this #earthday show, hosts Bearcat and Klee talk with anarchaqueer Onkwehon:we organizer Amanda Lickers about land trauma and the extractive ways the climate justice movement perpetuates white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism. Connect with & support Amanda’s work: www.instagram.com/skrimpskrap/ and PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/ALickers Watch on youtube: www.youtu.be/TebscxKK4PM Hosts:Klee Benally (Diné), Indigenous Anarchist agitator. Writer, musician, filmmaker, […]

Content warning: Sexual violence. The Non-profit Industrial Complex (NPIC) is a system of relationships designed by colonial and capitalist forces to manage and neutralize effective radical organizing. In this show we address how the Indigenous NPIC and capitalists are barriers to building collective power towards liberation. Guests: Morning Star Gali is a member of the […]

In this show we hear from host Edxi Betts and our guests about their experiences within the Academic Industrial Complex and discuss the ways they navigate, disorient, and seek to abolish institutional colonial education systems. Guests: Bre Byrd (she/they) is a writer, performer, plant enthusiast, and PhD student in the Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her poetry is […]

With thousands of remains of Indigenous children recently uncovered in mass graves at residential schools in “Canada,” collective Indigenous rage has been sparked to address the brutal legacy of colonial schools. In this show we share our personal experiences, and discuss how we cannot address the brutal horrors of assimilation through forced education without facing […]

Many Indigenous frontline resistance struggles are wrought with strategies and tactics that reinforce colonial logics. From resource extraction resistances, “honoring” treaties, green capitalism, and Indigenous non-profit capitalists, how do we identify, challenge, and go beyond these issues so we can more effectively fight for liberation?In this show we hear from Bearcat reporting from the frontlines […]