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   "For you, who also despairs"

   ~ dedication of Klee Benally's book: No Spiritual Surrender

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     "The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the “issues” they work to address. These nonprofit capitalists advance their careers off the struggles they ostensibly support. They often work in the guise of “grassroots” or “community based” and are not necessarily tied to any organization.

     They build organizational or individual capacity and power, establishing themselves comfortably among the top ranks in their hierarchy of oppression as they strive to >

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     the ally “champions” of the most oppressed. While the exploitation of solidarity and support is nothing new, the commodification and exploitation of allyship is a growing trend in the activism industry."

     From “Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex” written by Klee Benally as featured in: Taking Sides - Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism, edited by Cindy Milstein.

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     "In its base definition, capitalism is an economic and political system based on unregulated or "free" markets, private property, competition, and limited government intervention. But the definition obscures the reality that capitalism is based upon extreme social exploitation & dispossession, ecological destruction, hyper-individualism, materialism, and that its history is rooted in white supremacy, cis-heteropatriarchy, genocide & slavery."

     ~ Klee Benally - No Spiritual Surrender

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     "We do not believe that we can vote our way out of this crisis. We will not beg politicians to reform the very system that is predicated on our genocide and destruction of our Earth Mother. We urge for something more effective towards the undoing of colonialism in our lands."

     ~ Klee Benally - No spiritual surrender

     Indigenous peoples' day of rage.