Det är 1:a maj och du lyssnar på ett inslag av pluriversal radio. Våra röster kommer från salta Røst havet Lofuohta/lofoten, till floderna i Opaskwayak, de fällda skogarna i Sörmland/Närke, asfaltnära orterna Årsta/Östberga till forsarna i Balkanien. Vi skriver till varandra och till dig som lyssnar.

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Det är 1:a maj 2021 och du lyssnar på ett inslag av pluriversal radio - vi är minst fyra personer och ibland ett myller av skiftande kroppar. Vi vill synliggöra sambanden mellan plundringarna vi ser omkring oss. Vi lever i stora och små sammanhang, stad och land. Vi skriver till varandra och till dig som lyssnar. 
Du kommer också att höra musik av Ženski pevski zbor Kombinatke.

Pluriversal 1 maj - Cirkel 2

The podcast Tales from the Crust builds on the artist Ignacio Acosta's ongoing research into extractive activities in Chile and Swedish Sábme. In Chile, as in Sámi areas in northern Sweden, mining activities by multinational corporations are both visibly and invisibly shaping the landscape and toxifying water, soil, and air while displacing agricultural and indigenous communities. The excavation, extraction, and exploitation of minerals—justified by the promise of immediate accelerated economic growth—means that spaces inhabited by communities become ravaged by desertification, contamination, and expropriation, becoming sites of political and environmental dispute. This podcast was produced in collaboration between pluriversal radio and Arts Catalyst, and is part of Extractable Matters, Arts Catalyst's ongoing inquiry into the politics of extractive practices, of their infrastructures and effects on a planetary scale.

Ignacio Acosta - Tales from the Crust

Recorded by Alex Wilson.

Stardate: -303658.3608574328

Alex Wilson - Pamuskatapan Opaskwayak

Recorded by Alex Wilson

Stardate: -303658.3608574328

Alex Wilson - Atikameg Opaskwayak Layers

Alex Wilson - Snow Geese Road 2184

Alex Wilson - Frogs Gone Wild

sitting kuikka

Beaska Niilas interviewed by Elin Már Øyen Vister

- Duojár, servodat-, kultur- ja giellaberošteaddji. ČSV!
Twitter: @Beaskan

On the 27th of July, accompanied by the light and heat of the last sunbeams of the evening sun, Elin Már caught up with Beaska Niilas at the Márkomeannu festival, which is one of Sápmi most intimate music and culture festivals. (Held each July in Gállogieddi, Skaanit, Sápmi/Norway) Mari Boine, was just about to enter stage, but Beaska Niilas still found time to talk to us. Elin Már was eager to speak to him about his work for his people, his involvement with Siida Skuvla (Siida School), Ellos Deatnu and about some of the escalating Sámi/human rights and rights to land conflicts in Sápmi today, and they also asked how we can show support and show solidarity with Sápmi and Sámi resistance.

As the conversation ends, the Sámi artist Mari Boine has just entered the stage and begun to perform her empowering classic yoik/song "Sáráhka Viina" with her kick-ass band. So we end this inspiring listening moment with the same track. <3

Giitu Beaska Niilas! Thank you Beaska Niilas.
Ellos Sápmi! Long live Sápmi!

Music: "Sáráhka Viina" by Mari Boine from the album Eight Seasons / Gavcci jahkejudgu(2001)
 
Biog:
Beaska Niilas is a brave Sámi land /water protector, Sámi culture carrier, duojár, actor and NSR politician from the Deatnu area in Sápmi.

He is known for speaking honest and freely about the dire need of de-colonization in Sápmi; returning to traditional Sámi ways of relating to the land and of Sámi self governing and self-determination.

Beaska Niilas is also a podcaster creating the fabulous Super Sápmi podcast together with Áslat Holmberg. They are also both part of Ellos Deatnu and supports the Moratorium project.

He is married to the traditional sámi singer/Yoiker, crafter, artist Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska, and together they have two children.
 

Links:

Super Sápmi podcast:
supersapmi.com

Siida Skuvla:
https://www.instagram.com/siidaskuvla/
https://siidaskuvla.net/
https://siidaskuvla.net/siida-school-community-driven-renewal-of-sami-siida-system/

Ellos Deatnu 
https://www.facebook.com/pg/ellosdeatnu
Ellos Deatnu - a self governing civic movement to stand up for Sami rights that have been violated through the Deatnu (Teno) River Fishery Agreement ratified between the colonial national states of Finland and Norway.

You can listen to another podcast here where there is an interview with Áslat Homberg of Ellos Sápmi: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/indigenous-hour/e/51642738?autoplay=true

Read more about the Ellos Deatnu´s Čearretsuolu island moratorium here:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/06/saami-indigenous-led-resistance-against.html

Moratorium Office / Moratoriadoaimmahat:
The Moratorium Office is a decolonialist self-determination service. They write “We will help you take control of your land and advise you to the best of our abilities on how to resist colonialist oppression. We offer an easy-to-use moratorium kit and more information at http://moratoriadoaimmahat.org/en/moratorium-office/

1.Beaska Niilas = Ellos Sápmi!

Baajh vaeride årrodh! La fjella lev‪e‬

Pluriversal Resistance Radio had the great joy of speaking to Majja-Krïhke - Maja Kristine Jåma, a 27 year old Åarjelsaemien (South Saepmie) landprotector and bovtsealmetje (reindeerherder). Maja Kristine lives with her partner and their dog in Snåase /Snåsa, a small town in the middle of Norway/Saepmie. She grew up in a reindeer herding family by Gåetiejaevrie (Godtvatnet). Maja Kristine has her own reindeers in the Åarjel Fovsen Njarke sitje, the southernmost coastal reindeer herding area in Norway/ Saepmie. In addition to being a reindeer herder, she is a Åarjelsaemien/South Saepmie cultural carrier and language* teacher. She also practices and teaches duedtie**, and since August 2020 she has been a political advisor for the Council of the Sámi Parliament /Sámediggi. She is dedicated to Sámi matters, particularly those related to land rights, reindeer herding and the language. Majja-Krïhke loves spending her time in nature and in the mountains. 

Maja Kristine recently took part in creating and publishing the booklet/guide «Sjædtoeh”; medicinal plants in the South Sámi areas. The booklet is based on the aimto document and continue the knowledge about medicinal plants that have traditionally been used in the South Sami area. A central part of the project has been to collect South Sami words and expressions in connection with the use of medicinal plants. 

We caught up her at the end of 2020 to listen to her story. Her family, the Åarjel Fovsen Njaarke Sijte, are fighting to protect their land against Europe´s largest windmill farm project Fosen Wind /Fosen Vind, which was completed in 2020. 38 square kilometers of unique mountain nature has been destroyed and converted into an industrial area by Fosen Vind; including 59 kilometers of road, 80 x 87 meters wind turbines with rotors of a diameter of 117 meters. 

About Fovsen /Fosen:(Source: Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) Switzerland):

Fosen is a peninsula on the west coast of Norway/Saepmie, some 15 kilometers north of Trondheim. In 2016, the construction of Norway’s largest onshore wind project, Fosen Vind DA, comprising six power plants, began. Completion is scheduled for 2020. The largest of the six wind power plants is to operate in Åfjord, in the mountain area called “Storheia” (which translates as ‘large hill’). Storheia is one of three main winter pasture areas used by a southern Sami reindeer- herding community, the Åarjel Fovsen Njaarke Sijte, also called the “South Group”. The wind turbines and additional infrastructure will make it impossible for them to utilize some 44 percent of their winter pastures.3 This will force the Sami people to reduce the size of their herds. Reducing the herds will lead to such a reduction in income that not all three families will be able to continue making a living out of the activity. Consequently, as will be described in detail below, one of the three remaining families will have to give up their traditional herding activities, violating their collective and individual rights as indigenous Southern Sami. This also raises the question of whether the remaining two families will be able to continue, as the collective work burden will remain the same, in spite of reduced herds. The construction project in Storheia thus puts the very existence of southern Sami reindeer husbandry on the Fosen peninsula at great risk. The loss of this land will mean that the last remaining breeding families will essentially have to give up their livelihood and culture.

To support Fovsen Njarke sitje´s upcoming courtcase, you can here:
Sørgruppa Fosen rbd – konto nr: 4410.08.07227 
IBAN NR: NO1244100807227 + BIC (SWIFT) SPTRNO22

This podcast features music by Marja Mortensson. The vulie “Onne Lim” (When I was Young) from the Aarehgïjre album, (2015).

Read more here:

Meet Maja Krïhke - Maja Kristine Jåma (Fovsen Njarke sitje/Fosen)

what is going on?
We – diverse bodies writing these lines, situated in different places in the European North – find ourselves, together with a multitude of other beings, amidst an intense wave of land grab and appropriation for purposes of various forms of extraction.
Together with fossil fuels, particularly strong is the quest for metallogenic minerals that are supposed to fuel all sorts of technologies, especially “hi-tech”.
Extractivist interests and machinery target both land and communities in the North and in the South, and everywhere in-between.
“Primitive accumulation” has never ended, thirst for energy and “raw materials” is now reaching its peak. (for example, see: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/raw-materials/specific-interest/critical_en)

our intentions…
to witness and pay attention to HOW we are doing things
to document WHAT we learn by reflecting upon HOW
to join forces to bring forward acts that can make change FOR REAL

motives….
to formulate alternatives to the necropolitical system
to unlearn ways of doing and thinking that keeps us stuck in the dysfunctional system/logic of exploitation of life and nonlife
to learn HOW to live and die as trees in the old forest
to protect the biosphere from the system that kills us all if we don´t do something NOW

pluriversal methodology
In conversation with Swampy Cree scholar and Idle No More organiser Alex Wilson and Colombian Mestiza artist/scholar Praba Pilar, we learn and take up a commitment “to reimagine a pluriverse that approaches the Zapatista’s concept of a ‘world in which many worlds coexist.'” (link https://roarmag.org/essays/indigenous-peoples-resistance-americas/)

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