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First Voices Radio

Thu, Jan 18, 2018   9:00 AM

KEALA KELLY, STEVEN T. NEWCOMB, MARIO A. MURILLO

On this edition of “First Voices Radio,” Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) and Keala Kelly (Native Hawaiian) to the second in an ongoing series of discussions they will be having throughout 2018. Today’s topic is inspired by an interview that Tiokasin recently conducted with author and constructive theologian Jeannine Hill Fletcher about her book, "The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism and Religious Diversity in America” (Orbis Books, 2017). How have we been affected and how have we survived a history of genocide that was wrought by a multifaceted monster of colonization through its religions, governmental policies and denial language? Steven Newcomb is a columnist, film producer and the author of “Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.” Steven believes that a tremendous amount of our cultural memory has been wiped clean by the colonizers over centuries and has been supplanted with false, destructive and colonized perceptions of reality and the physical world. Keala Kelly is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. Her documentary film, “Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawaii,” has been screened and broadcasted internationally and is widely taught in university courses that focus on colonization, Indigenous cultures and the Pacific. To conclude today's program, Tiokasin will talk with Mario A. Murillo. On December 26, 2017, Tiokasin and Mario talked in general about the Indigenous movement in Colombia. Since that time, Mario has visited Cauca, Colombia and spent time with activists from the Nasa community, where the Indigenous movement emerged in the 1970s. Here, a very interesting process of Indigenous resistance is taking place, known as the "Liberation de la madre tierra: The Liberation of Mother Earth." Mario Murillo is Professor of Communication and Latin American Studies at Hofstra University, and is the author of Colombia and the United States: War, Unrest and Destabilization (Seven Stories, 2004), and Islands of Resistance: Puerto Rico, Vieques and U.S. Policy (Seven Stories, 2001). A long-time media activist and award-winning journalist, in his many years in radio he has served as program director, director of Public Affairs programming, and a host and producer at WBAI Pacifica Radio, was a feature correspondent for NPR’s Latino USA, and was a regular guest host on WNYC New York Public Radio. He has written and reported extensively about Latin America for a number of publications and journals, and was a 2008-2009 Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, where he worked in the Universidad Pontificia la Javeriana in Bogotá in its department of social communication.
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