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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Incendiary Homelands: Indigenous Peoples of the “Amazon Forest" and Sacred Sites - (8/28/2019)
American Indian Airwaves Presents:“Incendiary Homelands: Indigenous Peoples of the “Amazon Forest” in Peril and the National Parks Service Potentially Places Indigenous Sacred Sites At-Risk for Future Development” Part 1:___________________________________ Leila Salazar-Lopez, Executive Director, Amazon Watch (https://amazonwatch.org/), joins for the first segment of today’s special program to provide us a recent on update on the Amazon fires – particularly in Brazil, the lack of fire containment in Brazil, the frequency and spreading of the fires, the impact the fires are having on Indigenous peoples and communities immediately and in the future with the realization that some Indigenous traditional homelands destroyed will result in genocide(s). Also, Leila Salazar-Lopez discusses: how Brazil’s President Bolsonaro is advocating for the destruction of Amazon Rainforest and as a former military personal once called for the extermination of Indigenous peoples; how the Amazon fires were started by non-Indigenous peoples for business and corporate interest and as a pretext for the usurpation of Indigenous people lands; who are the transnational corporations benefiting and financing the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest; “Settler Colonialism;” Amazon Watch working with Indigenous organizations in Brazil and the Global Day of Action happening this September 15th, 2019 at Brazilian embassies and consultants, financial backers headquarters such as BlackRock – one of the largest asset managers and financiers of Amazon Rainforest destruction and Indigenous peoples-, Chase, HBSC; and other transnational corporate benefactors. For more information on the Global Day of Action, visit: https://www.amazonwatch.org. For general background information: https://amazonwatch.org/assets/files/2019-complicity-in-destruction-2.pdf and https://amazonwatch.org/assets/files/2019-summer-investor-eye-on-the-amazon.pdf. The Amazon Forest region is home to approximately one million indigenous peoples with over five hundred representative cultures and communities throughout nine Amazon countries. In addition, the Amazon Rainforest has more than half of the world’s relatives and species of plants and animals live in the region. Many unique animals are found nowhere else on Mother Earth. Part 2:___________________________________ Wesley Furlong, Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund (NARF) (https://www.narf.org/) joins us for the second part of today’s program to discuss: the recent proposed changes by the United States National Park Service (NPS) to the National Registry of Historic Places (NRHP); how these changes, if implemented, could jeopardize and place at-risk for destruction and development purposes, over 95,000 historically and culturally significant places are listed on the NRHP – including a little under one hundred Indigenous sacred sites; and how the proposed changes will make it more difficult to place historically and culturally significant sites onto the NRHP. NRHP status is one federal protective layer but is not a permanent protective guarantee. The newly proposed changes would make it easier for government agencies to open up certain lands to development. 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. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/ or https://www.kpfk.org/archives/.