In Episode 17 of the CounterVortex podcast [17], Bill Weinberg discusses growing repression against the Tatar people [18] of the Crimea, and the abrogation of their autonomous government by the Russian authorities since Moscow's illegal annexation of the peninsula. This is a clear parallel to violation of the territorial rights of the Lakota people in the United States through construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline [19], and the legal persecution [20] of indigenous leaders who stood against it. The parallel is even clearer in the cases of the Evenks [21] and Telengit [22], indigenous peoples of Siberia, resisting Russian construction of pipelines through their traditional lands. Yet the US State Department's Radio Free Europe [23] aggressively covers the Tatar struggle, while Kremlin propaganda organ Russia Today [24] (RT) aggressively covered the Dakota Access protests. Indigenous struggles are exploited in the propaganda game played by the rival superpowers. With the struggles of the Tsleil-Waututh [29] people of British Columbia against the Trans Mountain Pipeline [30] and the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe [31] in Minnesota against the Line 3 Pipeline [32] now heating up, it is imperative that indigenous peoples and their allies overcome the divide-and-rule game and build solidarity across borders and influence spheres. Listen on SoundCloud [25], [26] and support our podcast via Patreon [27].
Music: Echo of the Steppes by Julian Kytasty [33]
Production by Chris Rywalt [34]
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