American Indian Airwaves (AIA), an Indigenous public affairs radio porgram and, perhaps, the longest running Native American radio program within both Indigenous and the United States broadcast communication histories. Also, AIA broadcast weekly every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles (http://www.kpfk.org). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiacr American Indian Airwaves is produced in Burntswamp Studios and started broadcasting on March 1st, 1973 on KPFK in order to give Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations a voice about the continuous struggles against Settler Colonialism and imperialism by the occupying and settler societies often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Latin and South America countries located therein. American Indian Airwaves operates as an all-volunteer collective with no corporate sponsorship and no underwriters.
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"Chumash Nation Coastal Territories in Remembrance & Cultural Revitalization, The EZLN - (1/31/2019)
Thursday, 1/31/2019, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org "Chumash Nation Coastal Territories in Remembrance & Cultural Revitalization, and the Conclusion of: 25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas” Part 1:_______________________________________ John Ruiz (Chumash Nation), elder, activist, and cultural resources specialist, joins us for the first segment of today’s program to discuss how the Santa Barbara Oil of 1969, the largest oil spill of coastal lands, devasted traditional Chumash maritime relations and culture, Chumash resistance, cultural revitalization, and the formation of a major Indigenous organizations and institutions within the region and the State of California that continue operating on behalf of Indigenous peoples today. Before any state or federal laws protecting ocean waters existed, the Santa Barbara Oil Spill occurred six miles off the Santa Barbara coast on January 28th, 1969, lasted over ten days, impacted the Gaviota to Santa Barbara coastlands, was the result of Union Company – now part of the Chevron Company – Platform A blow-out releasing approximately 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil. The Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969 is the largest oil spill in coastal waters and ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez oil catastrophes. In 2017, there were 1,366 offshore active production wells of 5,435 total offshore wells off the California coastline, which is home to approximately 40 California Indigenous Nations. Considering federal land managers moving forward in March of 2019 with the sale of oil and gas leases that include the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, lands nearby the Chaco Culture National Historic Park, and other sacred sites, John Ruiz provides an important, critical, and insightful historical account of what happened, relational harms, historical incidences of racism and marginalization, Indigenous activism and organizations, perseverance, plus more. Part 2:____________________________ Dr. Faviana Hirsch, Coyote Radio Correspondent, joins us for the third segment of today’s program as part of our mini-series on “25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”. The 25th Anniversary of the National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Chiapas Uprising occurred on January 1st, 1994 (“Mexico”), the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. Critical issues of reflection, change, and progress on the EZLN’s decolonial struggles and practices will be discussed along with Mexico’s newly elected “leftist” president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), and its implications for Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations and responses by the National Indigenous Congress. American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org.