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View this email in your browser New Interview with Klee Benally on Indigenous Mutual Aid, Anarchist Action, and New Music Our latest interview just hit the Agency Newswire! This time we had the honor of interviewing Klee Benally - Indigenous anarchist media activist, organizer, artist, musician, silversmith, and filmmaker. If you are new to Klee’s work, or haven’t checked in for a while, this is a great opportunity to get up to date on the inspiring efforts he has been engaged in since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. See below for more details and full interview. Additionally, below we have some highlights from the Agency Newswire over the past month - from railway sabotage in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en nation, to an antifa wildfire hoax debunked, and much more. Keep an eye on the newswire for regular updates from our media tracking of anarchists in the news, and our critical voices highlights. Interview with Indigenous Anarchist Klee Benally Agency’s Ryan Only caught up with Indigenous anarchist Klee Benally to discuss his work with Kinlani Mutual Aid and other projects. Klee has an extensive background in radical media work including producing films and founding the media action groups Outta Your Backpack Media and Indigenous Action. Deciding what to interview Klee about was no small feat considering the amazing range of creative and powerful projects he has been involved with over the years. We encourage you to check out the extensive links included below to learn more. “Mutual aid is collective care and support. It is organizing to ensure the well-being of all our relations in non-hierarchical voluntary association through direct action. I always define mutual aid with action.” Read Full Interview Latest from the Agency Newswire The Guardian: The activists sabotaging railways in solidarity with Indigenous people “The night of 28 November, Samantha Brooks, 24, hunched over the railway tracks near Bellingham, Washington, about 32km (20 miles) south of the Canada-US border and installed a “shunt,” according to trial documents obtained by the Guardian. A shunt is a wire stretched between the tracks that mimics the electrical signal of a train, causing oncoming trains to engage their emergency brakes. Shunts can cause derailments, which is especially dangerous for trains carrying explosive materials.” Read more Georgia Straight: Hashtag "#IStandWithHarsha shows support for former B.C. Civil Liberties Association executive director Harsha Walia “The recent resignation of Harsha Walia as executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association has generated a fair amount of rumbling on Twitter. One of the challenges for those feeling disappointed in the organization is that this is being characterized as a “resignation”. Therefore, it’s hard to condemn the parting of Walia from the organization over a single tweet as a “dismissal” or “firing”.” Read more Sara Jaffe: Who Cares? “This was the year that everyone discovered that caring is actually hard work. The New York Times told us “America’s Mothers are In Crisis” in a package titled “Primal Scream.” The Washington Post wants us to know that “Working moms are not okay.” NPR ran a special package explaining “Enough Already: How The Pandemic Is Breaking Women.” In the Times, Ezra Klein noted that “forcing parents into low-wage, often exploitative, jobs by threatening them and their children with poverty may be counted as a success by some policymakers, but it’s a sign of a society that doesn’t value the most essential forms of labor.” Indeed.” Read more The Daily Beast: Emails Reveal Cops Fanned Flames as FBI Debunked Antifa Hoax “On Sept. 11, 2020, the same day the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a statement dismissing rumors that leftist activists were starting wildfires in Oregon, a sheriff in Washington state sent a very different message to other members of law enforcement. “One of the methods Antifa is using to start fire’s,is to take a mason jar with tinder placed inside the jar, put it in brush with the lid open, so the hot sun light will create a slow start which allows them to be out of the area before the smoke appears [sic],” Klickitat County Sheriff Bob Songer wrote in an email to officials throughout the state.” Read more Launch Agency Newswire Copyright (C) 2021 Agency. All rights reserved.