https://soundcloud.com/radio-bed/three-canoes-mel-bazil

@MelBazil discusses the relationship between the mode of colonialist capitalism that he calls “mega-Empire”, indigenous resistance, decolonisation and the collapse of industrial capitalism. What comes across in Bazil’s discussion is that the collapse will necessarily require humane modes of organising human societies along the lines that present day indigenous resistance communities have already been exploring. Bazil also discusses the idea of the common from the perspective of common needs, a theme that returns us to the idea of generic corporeality. There isn’t much in the way of concrete advise in the talk but there is a lot of pointing towards means of developing mutual aid and utilising skills as currency.

Mel Bazil is an indigenous Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en organizer, sovereigntist, and anarchist involved in the Unist’ot’en Action Camp outside of Toronto, Canada. Bazil is here talking to Radio b-e-d, a podcast that routinely focusses on the struggles of indigenous peoples.