Alexandra Horowitz: The World According to Your Dog

5/12/21 by Species Unite

https://www.speciesunite.com/podcast/alexandra-horowitz

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“I can drive my car off a cliff and just leave it where it lay, the most I'll get is a littering fine, and if you throw your dog off the cliff the punishment is actually pretty similar. That's because they're the same type of thing to the law. So, unless you change that status, and you have people of course, who are thinking that there should be a status of kind of living property that might give them more attributes than my car has or my chair has; and then there are individuals who think they should be given the status of legal persons, which isn’t to say being people, but having rights of some sort. I think both of those are pretty intriguing offers. I think we're a little ways off from doing that, but boy, either of those would be a massive improvement in our societal treatment of these creatures. And of course, I don't think it's just restricted to dogs… It's been terrific to work with dogs for all these years, but I think this way about lots of non-human animals that we interact with, were we kind of get to use them sort of, for our sake. I would love to see some kind of sea change in thinking such that we don't get to use animals in the ways we do now, which are really abuses of animals.” – Alexandra Horowitz If you have any questions for your dog, Alexandra Horowitz is a pretty good place to start. She’s spent much of her life researching and writing about what it’s like to be a dog. She is the #1 New York times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know; Our Dogs, Ourselves, Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell; and On Looking. She is a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches seminars in canine cognition, creative nonfiction writing, and audio storytelling. As Senior Research Fellow, she heads the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard. I wish this conversation had lasted all day long as I had about 5 thousand more questions for Alexandra - mostly, everything I’ve ever wanted to ask my dog. Although, the time we did have together was pretty amazing and felt like an absolute gift.

Fôli Kadi

4/29/21 by BTRtoday

https://www.btrtoday.com/listen/theafrobeatshow/foli-kadi

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"DJ Meredith is taking you on a sonic adventure around the world on a journey through sound, introducing a fresh, new lineup of bands & artists from the most unexpected places on Earth! Let’s open the show with ‘Tinini Tanana’ by Okwei Odili + Aweto Band! Enjoy new & rare grooves as we check out Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra, Dele Sosimi, Fely Tchaco and so much more!

00:00 - Mic Break
02:16 - Tinini Tanana (Nigeria/Brazil) - Okwei Odili + Aweto Band
06:26 - Invitation (GMGN Remix) (UK/Poland) - Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra
12:02 - Turbulent Times (E Get As E Be) (Nigeria) - Dele Sosimi
21:38 - Ato Lagoh (Ivory Coast) - Fely Tchaco
25:59 - Mic Break
27:57 - Fôli Kadi (France/Mali) - Mawimbi feat. Fatim Kouyaté
32:11 - Ihabogi Rawaly (Spain/Guinea) - Kiko Navarro feat. Aboubacar Sylla
36:00 - Black Debtors (Nigeria) - Etuk Ubong
40:44 - Cubana (Italy) - Gerardo Frisina
46:29 - Mic Break
47:20 - Wipe Away Tears (UK) Nubiyan Twist
53:26 - Abakoro (Kenya) - Ngalah Oreyo feat. King Koko
58:56 - Basonyiwe (Germany/Uganda) - Ancient Astronauts feat. Spyda MC
62:54 - The Seed (Nigeria/USA) - Tony Allen & Jeff Mills
66:54 - Mic Break
67:36 - Barry Swing (Guinea) - Mamadou Barry
74:29 - Calling England Home (Trinidad & Tobago) - Anthony Joseph
80:34 - 419 Afrobeat (Nigeria) - Ayetoro feat. Tony Allen
88:22 - Timbavati Bounce - Thornato feat. Benjamín Vanegas
91:31 - Brebrebre (Ghana) - Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
96:52 - Mic Break
98:18 - Akafé (Ivory Coast) - Stanley Murphy
106:44 - Finish
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#533 - "Good Indians"

4/23/21 by John Kane

https://youtu.be/Khhomrs901g

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How did Native people go from being the despised victims of genocide to having their images used for school mascots and told they represent pride, courage and honor?

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03-13-19 Zia symbol: from sacred emblem to commercial exploitation

3/13/19 by Native Voice One - NV1

https://soundcloud.com/native-america-calling/03-13-19-zia-symbol-from-sacred-emblem-to-commercial-exploitation

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Ever since a non-Native anthropologist lifted the sacred Zia symbol for the New Mexico state flag contest in the 1920s, it’s appeared on everything from beer labels to album covers to t-shirts. Rarely does anyone using it think to ask Zia Pueblo first. The tribe unsuccessfully tried to copyright the symbol. In recent years, the state of New Mexico has taken steps to formally recognize the symbol’s origin. We’ll explore its history, meaning and subsequent popularity.

A Garden Fair
by Helen A. Fussell
I will sing you a song
Of a garden fair,
Wherein were sown seeds
That brought blossoms rare.
Love, joy and kindness,
And hearty good cheer,
Were the seeds that were sown
And flowered here.
The garden fair
Was a little child’s mind,
And the seeds were these thoughts,
Just the very best kind.

"In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency, too, to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.
We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn't you say you were a believer? Didn't you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn't you ask for grace? Don't you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater?"
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Measure life by the simple things of truth and beauty. We are all stars tending other stars. We are all, right now, each of us, the Mothers of creation.
XO
"Night and Her Train of Stars"
Mixed Media
2016

#536 - U.S. Capitalism: A Story of Genocide and Slavery

5/3/21 by John Kane

https://youtu.be/nkDY8n7XuEU

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The origin of U.S. capitalism and the influence of wealth on politics begins with genocide and slavery.

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Protect Indigenous Women

5/5/21 by Matika Wilbur, Desi Rodriguez Lonebear & Adrienne Keene

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Since the onset of colonization Indigenous women have experienced violence with reckless abandon, today it is a public health emergency. Traditionally, many of our Native societies are matrilineal but settler colonialism has disrupted our traditional value systems. These shifts have tragically contributed to the epidemic of violence we see committed against our women and Two Spirit relations. The issue is systemic and this episode discusses how we must hold systems and people accountable. Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee) is a playwright and lawyer with Pipestem Law, a firm dedicated to legal advocacy for the safety of Native women and tribal sovereignty. She represents families of victims and has testified before Congress for the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Her perspective on the legal issues regarding MMIW expounds how tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction is so important in combatting the crisis. She also explains how political participation and allyship is necessary to fight subversive systems which propagate violence. Abigail Echohawk (Pawnee) is Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and a leader in the movement to bring visibility to MMIW through political advocacy work, data, and research. Her organization conducted a seminal report on the crisis to better understand the prevalence of the crisis which has harmed our relations for 500 years. This episode is raw, real, and heart wrenching. The crisis must be addressed and we need allies to join us in making it visible so we can all take action. We need to hold non-Natives upholding these systems accountable. Further, we need Natives to step into roles of political power to demand change. Every statistic represents a Native woman. We must honor and protect our sisters. No more stolen sisters. Links and Resources

Fill out our form Letter in support of VAWA Urban Indian Health Institute Pipestem Law Public Law 280 National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center Mary Kathryn Nagle New Yorker Article Montana Community Foundation Sovereign Bodies Institute All My Relations is Listener Supported Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/allmyrelationspodcast

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#537 - MMIW Day 2021

5/5/21 by John Kane

https://youtu.be/FtpbJbTvHiI

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May 5th has been designated as MMIW Day since 2017 but 2021 is ushering in "MMIW National Week of Action!"

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