Influences: Tom Of England

“I honestly believe that you made up your mind long ago that I was guilty and that you were going to sentence me to the maximum sentence permitted under the law, but this does not surprise me because you are a high-ranking member of the white racist American establishment which has consistently said “In God we trust” while they went about the business of murdering my people and attempting to destroy our culture. The only thing I am guilty of and which I was convicted for was of being Chippewa and sioux blood and for believing our sacred religion”. Leonard Peltier.

The action in this documentary takes place in Dakota where the Standing Rock pipeline protests are still going on today. In essence, the story of the incarceration of Leonard Peltier is the the story of corporate backed governments vs the people, greed vs Nature, fear vs love.

If I had a time machine, I would take it here.

“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies,
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears
And water’d heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?”

William Blake

“I am a desperate man who demands to connect…who denounces the dullness of money and status…who will not bow down to accolade or success – ‘i am the strange hero of hunger”
Billy Childish

Sometimes you just want to feel happy so you let go and remember that it’s all going to be OK.

It’s hard to capture an essence of mezcal culture. You could come at it from this way.

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