
Just returned a bit earlier from my twin Camara’s #blackartandactivismnow event in TriBeCa @ our home away from home #DecolonizeThisPlace — fortunately, my Black Rock Coalition/Bold As Love good friend/compadre Rob Fields was seated by me at the program, sharing the digital smoke signals about the #NoDAPL good news with me during the panel & then, upon returning home, got a ring from my friend Jonathan from the camps @ the frontline in North Dakota giving the confirmation that the easement was not granted to ETA – if they git’er done, Jonathan’s footage will appear on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS Tuesday night. I finally truly believe in the power of prayer, happy to see such a great outcome after many months of organizing, laboring, marching, rallying & of course, singing, in support of #StandingRock.
Yet this is not the end, for we #blacksnakekillers of the Tri-State must be heartened by this result & continue to fight to #StopSpectra #NoAIM #NoAlgonquinPipeline & I remain #standinginsolidaritywithsplitrock >>>>>>>—–))—>♥ Sometimes we on the right side of history can prevail & conscience trumps greed and corruption. Thank you, President Barack H. “Walking Eagle” Obama & the Army Corps for your action!
Overjoyed that we water protectors have won! The Dakota Access Pipeline will be re-routed, which is a hard-won victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe & rest of the Oceti Sakowin. The ordered environmental impact statement will take months to complete, so it’s not all over & done yet. Still, we celebrate this huge victory & I will report back on the gnosis and mood of tomorrow night’s Democracy Now! event held by Harry Belafonte & Danny Glover et al @ Harlem’s Riverside Church – A’ho!
ARMY HALTS CONSTRUCTION OF DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE!
December 5, 2016 | Categories: Live, Red Road, Showout, Uncategorized | Tags: Activist, Algonquin, AlgonquinPipeline, ArmyCorpsOfEngineers, Art, artist, Artists, ArtistsSpace, artivist, BarackObama, BlackArtAndActivismNow, BlackArtsMovement, DakotaAccessPipeline, DannyGlover, DecolonizeThisPlace, DemocracyNow, ETA, HarryBelafonte, IndependentArtists, Indigenous, JonathanDemme, Kandia Crazy Horse, MniWiconi, Music, native, NativeAmerican, News, NoAIM, NoDAPL, NYC, NYC2StandingRock, NYStandsWithStandingRock, OcetiSakowin, Prayer, RobFields, Standing Rock Lakota Reservation, StandingInSolidarityWithStandingRock, StandingRockSiouxTribe, StandingWithStandingRock, StopSpectra, USPresidents, Water Is Life, WaterNotOil, WaterProtectors | Leave a comment
Osiyo skidoi; Tohitsu to all my relations & followers. Yes, it has been a spell since I updated this site, but I have been focused on my Red Road journey all of this year, experiences along the mighty powwow highway (including Drums Along The Hudson, Thunderbird, & the Bronx Native American Festival this past weekend), learning Tsalagi due to much time spent with my family of friends from the Cherokee Language & Cultural Circle NYC, and — above all — my engagement with the #NoDAPL resistance between DC & NYC. Still, I have also managed to write some new songs, including one in early August for our precious water protectors @ Standing Rock: “Mni Wiconi (Water Is Life).” Stay tuned for some press digital smoke signals about my upcoming Standing Rock benefit concert in NYC – the Sacred Water Medicine Show!
September 28, 2016 | Categories: Red Road, Tourlife, Uncategorized | Tags: Americana, Black Snake Killas, Country Music, Dakota Access Pipeline, Honor The Treaties, Kandia Crazy Horse, MniWiconi, News, NoDAPL, NYC, Protect The Sacred, Sacred Water Medicine Show, Standing Rock Lakota Reservation, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Water Is Life, Water Is Life Solidarity Concert | Leave a comment