by DGR News Service | Oct 5, 2020 | Music & Art
In this poem taken from her book Dimensions, Shahidah writes about her experience of women; birth, choice of sisters, womankind. Shahidah brings her early life in Pakistan to life for the reader. Family by Shahidah Janjua I was birthed into an intimate space Shared by...
by DGR News Service | Jun 22, 2020 | Culture of Resistance, Listening to the Land, Music & Art
Jack D. Forbes (Powhatan-Renapé and Lenape) was the author of Columbus and Other Cannibals, one of the most important books ever written. In this writing Jack Forbes offers thanks to those living with awareness of the interconnectedness of all life. Thank you mother...
by DGR News Service | Mar 31, 2020 | Music & Art
Originally published at Medium. The coronavirus is a disaster for many. As usual in this morally-backward global empire, the poorest and most vulnerable among us suffer the most. In the midst of this tragedy there are lessons worth learning. This poem from Kim Hill...
by DGR News Service | Feb 21, 2020 | Colonialism & Conquest, Indigenous Autonomy, Music & Art, The Solution: Resistance
In this episode of The Green Flame podcast, we speak with Sakej Ward. Sakej (James Ward) belongs to the wolf clan. He is Mi’kmaw (Mi’kmaq Nation) from the community of Esgenoopetitj (Burnt Church First Nation, New Brunswick). He is the father of nine children, four...
by DGR News Service | Jan 29, 2020 | Music & Art
Featured image: Resistance. Acrylic on canvas. 2008. By Travis London. “With the successful devastation of the Washougal River watershed through intense logging and mineral extraction, there was only one thing left to do: install hydroelectric dams. In the early...
by DGR News Service | Nov 25, 2019 | Music & Art
By Katrina Dybzynska Yet another tipping point Two human pregnancies or one of an elephant, white rhino, orca or a killer whale. Time that takes for bamboo to grow 498 meters. Or for your hair to be 22.5 centimetres longer. Period needed to write The Jungle Book. Or...
