This week, an interview with Clifton Ariwakhete Nicholas and Franklin Lopez about about the film currently in production via Amplifier Films, A Red Road To The West Bank: An Indigenous journey of resistance and solidarity.
https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad
The conversation covers some about relationships between the people of occupied Palestine and Kanehsatà:ke in so-called Canada, histories of settler colonialism and resistance of it. Clifton and Franklin are attempting to raise $10000 CAD for the film.
Franklin also talks about his recently published kids book The mega-adventures of Koko Sisi & Kiki Pupu that he co-created with his son.
Links:
- Karistatsi Onienre: The Iron Snake (film by Clifton)
- Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way! (film by Clifton)
- Trouble #1: Killing The Black Snake (narrated by Clifton)
- Anarcho-Indigenism: Conversations on Land and Freedom (Clifton contributed an essay)
- A 2011 interview with Franklin we conducted
- Franklin’s interview with Clifton on the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society and Oka
- Mahmoud Darwish’s poem, The Penultimate Speech of the Red Indian to the White Man
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