Now Showing Online! #BigMountain Film Featured at Tokyo Global Film Festival

By NaBahii Keediniihii, via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com, May 28, 2:33 PM

"Greetings All.

I hope your late Spring is going well.

The ONLY film festival so far that
selected the Big Mountain Film is Tokyo Liff Off Global Film Festival.

Big Mountain feature documentary will end streaming on June 1st which is night time Saturday in the U.S., 5/31.

https://liftoff.network/tokyo-lift-off-film-festival-2025/

Sorry that you have to purchase a Ticket (cost is $12), in order to Vote. GO DOWN TO THE 'FEATURES' Category. Find the title: "BIG MOUNTAIN LEGACY, LAST STORIES OF DÍNEH." More Votes = More Exposure about Big Mountain Legacy!!

Let's hope that other Film Fests judge to select this Big Mountain Legacy film.

What more can I say, this documentary is not about myself. Understand that I am only the MessenJah.

Thank you, again.

Sincerely,

Kat Bahe"

Watch the film trailer
https://vimeo.com/848932137

Big Mountain Legacy Film: SYNOPSIS / Re-enactments / A Dream of a Man
Director: Bahe (Naabaahii) Katenay (Keediniihii), October 2023 (75 minute featured documentary)

Background:

"In the 1970s, Dineh (Navajo) families around Big Mountain were notified that their communities would be uprooted and that they may never see their ancestral homelands ever again. Now 50 years later, less than 20 home sites remain and the once strong #resistance leaders like #PaulineWhitesinger, #HaastinNiizBegay, #JohnKatenay, and #RobertaBlackgoat (#KleeBenally's grandmother) have all passed on.

How should the future remember the legacies of such wise teachers? What gave their community the will to defy U.S.

Congressional Legislations that were nothing but anti-Indian which was forcing them to give up hundreds of years of cultural existence?

The Congress of the United States passed Public Law 93-531 in 1974 and it was signed by the President. It is an Executive Order, a declaration to exterminate, a declaration of war. The justification for this law was to “resolve” a supposed “land-dispute” among the Hopis and Dineh, and the lands were divided.

The 2023 Video Documentary:
The original impetus for resisting the federal mandate was the sacredness of the lands, ancestral ties and natural features which were dwelling places of Deities. The elder interviewees knew the future will not be the same way as they had lived and the same childhood experience. The video put aside much of the effective resistance against the most powerful, #capitalistic country in the world, instead the video presents stories about their ancestors’ teachings. A Dineh ritual existence which was basically daily living, ceremonies and nutrition. An indigenous atmosphere long before the Europeans’ arrival with its brutal conquest. The video narrowly touches on a 400-year history of cultural survival and maintaining identity. And how that history overlaps with so-called modern America.

One grandmother’s story become an intense chapter, and it is about her direct clan ancestry facing near annihilation as one little girl survives which resulted in re-establishing a Clan at Big Mountain.

"This story comes from a massacre site with two mass graves. Then stories about decades of intense state of fear and which lead into the US’s late 1800s war policy of random killing, starvation and captivity. The modern times the 1920s and 30s when these story tellers were born, a different state of fear had re-emerged, and then again at their elderhood in the late 1900s. All the stories in this documentary program are messages for the future because, as these elders have predicted, the lands maybe empty of indigenous culture which once thrived for centuries."

Continue reading at: Sheep Dog Nation Media
https://sheepdognationmediarockswisdom.blogspot.com/

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/now-showing-online-big-mountain-film.html

#BigMountainResistance #Activism
#Dineh #Dineteh #Hopi #JohnMcCain #PeabodyCoal #BigCoal #PeabodyEnergy #Resistance #WaterIsLife #CorporateColonialism #HumanRights #LandDefenders #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #DirectAction #DefendTheSacred #IndigenousAction

Free Elias Rodriguez: Build the International Popular Cradle of Resistance

Elias Rodriguez’s targeted attack on two israeli diplomatic staff on May 21, 2025 was a legitimate act of resistance against the zionist state and its genocidal campaign in Gaza. After twenty months of non-stop apocalyptic violence wrought by the zionist movement, inflicted upon Palestinian civilians striving for national liberation as well as on the freedom fighters advancing that national liberation; after twenty months of political and legal repression by these same zionists against our international movement opposing their campaign of total destruction—the time has now come for real consequences. They have left no other option for effectively opposing their rampage and utter disregard for any boundaries, whether those of human decency or political borders, as they engage in repression against even the possibility of non-violent protest across the entirety of the imperialist alliance led by the so-called United States.

Witness the outright banning of protest and expression of support for Palestinian liberation from within Europe, particularly in Germany and France; themselves no strangers to committing genocide. Witness the arbitrary arrests, detentions and deportations of Palestinians and Muslims across North America and Europe. Witness the targeted lawfare and phony “terrorist” and “sham charity” designations against Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network for their unwavering defense of the Axis of Resistance and the prisoners locked in zionist concentration camps. Witness the terror lists that criminalize international solidarity. Witness the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine at multiple campuses, the civil suits aimed at students to demobilize the most active part of the movement, the collaboration between zionist vigilantes and militarized police forces, the doxxing and death threats and expulsions. Witness the terror of attacking the livelihoods of opponents, bullying people out of jobs and institutions. Witness the political prisoners of the Palestine solidarity movement locked up for their conscience, from the Holy Land 5 to Casey Goonan. Witness the brutal murder of six-year-old Palestinian Wadea al-Fayoume in Chicago, whose picture was displayed in Elias Rodriguez’s apartment window. Witness the utter impunity with which they accomplish all of this—cynically cowering behind the absurd assertion that zionists are the real victims while having the backing of the most militarized empire in the history of humanity, the USA.

Extending beyond this repression within the West, the zionist movement uses all means to repress opposition among the people and states existing outside of, or on the boundaries of, western dominance. They have used diplomatic, economic and even military means, through the provision of weapons, mercenaries, and training to any agents whom they can use as tools for their interests. They have crossed every line and boundary, attacking Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq. Engaging in perfidy across the world, killing civilians and assassinating even negotiators, often under a flag of truce. Witness their diplomatic and economic attacks on South Africa, through their senior partner in crimes against humanity, the US government. The zionist movement, as concentrated and formalized in the israeli state, are explicit that they will not respect any limits, everything and anything is permitted in advancing their supremacist world view, and cementing the festering settler colony they have, temporarily, established on Palestinian land.

In this light, the operation conducted by Elias Rodriguez against israel’s diplomatic functionaries in Washington DC—people actively engaged in facilitating this comprehensive violence across the globe by creating the diplomatic space to continue and deepen it—was, by his own account, a declaration of ENOUGH! To paraphrase a great revolutionary, protest is when we say “we don’t like this”, resistance is when we put an end to what we don’t like.

To be clear, what we are asserting is more than a recognition that the violence and oppression meted out by the zionist movement will inevitably give rise to counter-violence, an indisputable truism. We are saying that such counter-violence is legitimate. It is justice.

Elias Rodriguez’s act was fully justified, at that place where legal and moral duties meet. It is clear that international law, which the West itself established and whose institutions are dominated by the interest of these imperialists, establishes a duty to take action to stop genocide, including the use of violence to do so. Under international law, this duty is assigned to states—it is not for non-state actors to assert. But what of the case where no Western state has taken sufficient action to stop the devastation, where a genocide occurs in front of everyone’s eyes, live streamed both in the carnage of Gaza and also in the explicit and implicit admissions of the israeli government and broader zionist movement? In this case, our case, the only actors who dare to impose consequences have been, by the designation of the imperialists themselves, non-state actors, besides Iran.

This is the point at which those legal obligations, derogated and left unfulfilled by those responsible to them, fall to the free people of the world to fulfill. Elias Rodriguez exacted a consequence, a mere drop in the bucket of consequences due to the zionist movement and its military garrison of a state. May it redound to teach a lesson and set an example. To finally give pause to the zionists, that there are limits and that impunity will not be permitted, anywhere.

The Palestinian struggle is the tip of the spear against global imperialism. As imperialism has made the entire world its battlefield, it is justified to fight it, by any means necessary, without regard for geography. This holds especially true for those of us struggling behind enemy lines, inside the US, an entity that is an equal party in all crimes committed by the zionists. Whether in the beseiged Gaza Strip, the Red Sea, the South of Lebanon or the heart of the US, there must be consequences for genocidal zionist imperialism, and those consequences are righteous.

The moral force that compels us to put an end to the unprecedented brutality of the Gaza genocide—and the imperialist world system as a whole—is grounds for asserting a new law, a law created by revolutionary actors, and standing in defiance against established law which has proven itself to be inadequate and fundamentally illegitimate. In the face of unfathomable imperialist and colonial violence executed on a starved and imprisoned people with absolute impunity, we have an obligation to rupture with the authority that has made that violence possible. Elias Rodriguez did exactly that and his act of resistance has put the law itself on trial.

But this is only the beginning of his battle, and he must have the support of all free people around the world. Opponents of imperialism, zionism, and genocide must rally to defend Elias Rodriguez, and through this defense support the legitimacy and necessity of resistance itself. What takes place with regard to his case over the next months and years will fundamentally alter the trajectory of the international movement against zionism and US-led imperialism. Revolutionaries and people of conscience everywhere have a stake in this fight.

The US state will undoubtedly seek the death penalty for his case, as they have with Rodney Hinton Jr. and Luigi Mangione, whose alleged actions also helped to balance the scales of justice. The zionists will make Elias Rodriguez an avatar of our movement, while distorting his and our message, seeking to strike yet more fear, to intimidate us further into silence and hapless, hopeless “protest.” If we allow them to silently kill Elias Rodriguez, if we sit back and watch or allow ourselves to forget his resistance, then they will have also killed a part of our movement, a part of us; that part that yearns for justice against the outrageous and humiliating impunity of this system of genocide and, indeed, biocide. Again, we have no choice but to defend Elias Rodriguez. All the better that his actions are eminently defensible and morally righteous.

And so, we call on all people of conscience, those for whom the outrages of the last 20 months are simply too much to bear, to gather in support of Elias Rodriguez. Take some part of his act of justice for yourself by supporting his struggle to the end. Send him moral support by mailing letters. Send him monetary support by putting funds in his prison account and by supporting his legal defense. Gather at his court hearings. Gather at the dungeons in which they hold him. And, in all cases, raise your voices to echo his own words and actions for the sake of justice and accountability, that this genocide against the Palestinian people ends now and Palestine be free. Do it proudly and without shame. This too is a way of imposing consequences and sending a message to genocidaires and their accomplices that from this point forward accountability is coming, swift, unforgiving, and unrelenting.

FREE ELIAS RODRIGUEZ! FREE THEM ALL!

BUILD THE INTERNATIONAL POPULAR CRADLE OF RESISTANCE!

GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA!

—Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee (free.elias.rodriguez@proton.me)

Signatures:

Cultural Workers Against Empire

Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network

Bronx Anti War

Resistance News Network

Unity of Fields

JDPOD

Nidal Seattle

Third World Solidarity Front (TWSF)

Resistance Archives

Free Radical

Chorley4Palestine

Collectivize!

People’s Defense Charlotte

Crown Heights Bites Back

Teatro de la Psychomachia

Montgomery County for Palestine

Mateo Feliciano, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

Kamau Franklin

DSA Liberation Caucus

Civilian Freedom Movement worldwide (CFM)

Costurero Anarquista Popular Nueva York

Jewish Bund at Brandeis

Community Liberation Programs

Palestine News Network (PNN)

Brevard Vanguard

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Note: We understand security-minded people may question why we are gathering a list of signatures. We believe showing as much possible public support for Elias is important right now, particularly from anti-imperialist and anti-repression political organizations. We especially encourage organizations and public individuals to sign on. Other individuals, especially those less known to the state, should be mindful of their security and consider signing anonymously with an anonymous Proton mail account if they want to receive updates from the Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee.

source: Tariq El-Tahrir

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19340