#title Defenders #subtitle dedicated to the U’nis’tot’en Land defenders #author Ron Sakolsky #SORTauthors Ron Sakolsky; #date 2016 #source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/396-summer-2016/defenders]] #lang en #pubdate 2016-06-04 #notes Fifth Estate #396, Summer, 2016 [[3-s-fe-396-15-defenders.png r][Activist with the Unist’ot’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in northwestern British Columbia protecting indigenous lands from oil and gas development. August 2015. (RedPowerMedia.WordPress.com)]] Broken leather latch time’s dispatch an oil-stained suitcase containing tar sands underwear surrounded by industrial overwear. Over where? Not over here you bastards not anywhere! This ain’t no time for caged canaries with velvet beaks. We must bite the hand that feeds us tonight. We will sing our splintered songs to shred skylines borderlines and pipelines. We will dance to the beat of 100 studded walking sticks hitting hard on the frozen ground. We will roar to the sound of rising spirits breaking hearts and cracking heads. We will crash and burn under the blood red moon and come again. Hell yeah we will come again and soon. We will move together like 1000 homeless moles loosed from the earth at the quaking crack of dawn. Never mind the blood money falling from the rusted wormholes in the sky. Never mind the hollow hiss of bus-in-ess as usual. Never mind the cash registers ringing out their siren song of legal tender love gone wrong. Never mind the ledger books balanced on dinosaur bones unearthed beneath our feet. Bones Ancient bones Bones for sale! Never mind. It’s all good. Don’t weep. It is what it is. Go back to sleep. No, wait Wake up! Do not disturb those decayed bones! Disturb the disturbers instead! Ron Sakolsky is an anarcho-surrealist who lives and writes on Denman Island, BC. His latest book is Breaking Loose: Mutual Acquiescence or Mutual Aid? [[http://www.fifthestate.org/archive/396-summer-2016/review-breaking-loose/][See review on Page 36]].