Studio 49
Aztlan Underground
3/29/2018 | 18m 21sVideo has Closed Captions
Aztlan Underground AKA Anahuak Underground.
Aztlan Underground AKA Anahuak Underground is an evolution of consciousness intertwined with ancient, pre-Colombian thoughts, feelings, and sounds.
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Studio 49 is a local public television program presented by KVCR
Studio 49
Aztlan Underground
3/29/2018 | 18m 21sVideo has Closed Captions
Aztlan Underground AKA Anahuak Underground is an evolution of consciousness intertwined with ancient, pre-Colombian thoughts, feelings, and sounds.
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♪ (flute music) (thumping drums) ♪ (yelping) (flute/drums/conch shell/shaker) ♪ (drum solo) ♪ ♪ (sings): Do we need to ♪ ♪ [electronic voice] invoke the terror and modern day ♪ ♪ horrific images of September 11th ♪ ♪ (sings) for Western societies to understand, ♪ ♪ the ugliness and inhumanity ♪ ♪ of celebrating October 12, 1492?
♪ ♪ Do we need to invoke images of innocent people ♪ ♪ leaping to their death ♪ ♪ and the despair that it conveys ♪ ♪ to remind you that Columbus Day ♪ ♪ signifies the beginning of the end ♪ ♪ for one hundred million Native people and counting?
♪ ♪ Hey ya.
♪ ♪ Hey ya hey... ♪ ♪ ♪ 9 / 10 / 11/ 12 ♪ ♪ Message to the Dominant Culture.
♪ ♪ 9 / 10 / 11/ 12 ♪ ♪ Message to the Dominant Culture.
♪ ♪ How would you feel watching the yearly celebration ♪ ♪ and destruction of your culture, ♪ ♪ people, and ways of life?
♪ ♪ ♪ The lump in my throat becomes yours upon hearing: ♪ ♪ happy 9 1 1!
♪ ♪ Happy 9 1 1!
♪ ♪ ♪ Talk about a slaughter.
♪ ♪ Talk about a holocaust.
♪ ♪ Talk about a genocide.
♪ ♪ Talk about the meaning of October 12.
♪ ♪ ♪ Humanity will never progress until truth is truly universal ♪ ♪ and not only exists in the Dominant Culture.
♪ ♪ Your 9 1 1 is my October 12.
♪ ♪ Your 9 1 1 is our October 12.
♪ ♪ Like 100 million tears falling from my eyes.
♪ ♪ Like leaping bodies of despair falling ♪ ♪ from your World Trade Center...!
♪ [recorded voice]: Now, why are they afraid?
They are afraid because they kn ow that they are dealing with the illusions of power which are based on the realities of violence and brutality.
♪ (sings): If you got the anger then it's time to get it ♪ ♪ managed.
Throw your fist in the air.
Let's do some damage.
♪ ♪ Build it up, now you let it all out.
♪ ♪ Scream inside your head.
Now you're ready for the bout.
♪ ♪ The battle, the fight, the war within yourself.
♪ ♪ It's easier to forget and put it on the shelf.
♪ ♪ Therapeutic therapy, now I'm dealing with my hate.
♪ ♪ You put that s--- up on someone else's plate.
♪ ♪ Whoever said "time heals all wounds" ♪ ♪ didn't feel the pain, cuz the pain always looms ♪ ♪ down deep inside your soul ♪ ♪ Lost inside your head.
Now only time is in control.
♪ ♪ Now only time, now only time is in control.
♪ ♪ Now only time, now only time is in control.
♪ ♪ Now only time ♪ ♪ is in control.
♪ ♪ ♪ I've managed to handle and curb my aggression.
♪ ♪ Live music has become my group session.
♪ ♪ Every time I perform I learn a new lesson.
♪ ♪ Don't forget to put your answers in the form ♪ ♪ of a question.
Revolution!
♪ ♪ What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Revolution!
What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Revolution!
What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Don't forget to put your answers ♪ ♪ in the form of a question.
♪ ♪ Revolution!
What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Revolution!
What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Revolution!
What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Don't forget to put your answers ♪ ♪ in the form of a question.
♪ ♪ 500 and sick years without your mama ♪ ♪ is the driving force behind ♪ ♪ all this drama Xikano neurosis, ♪ ♪ chickens without heads.
♪ ♪ Deuce 4-7 like the living dead.
♪ ♪ No sense of self is how you function.
♪ ♪ But the sexto sol is under construction.
♪ ♪ Bring it back all that we lost ♪ ♪ and introspection is the only cost.
♪ ♪ Like Tezcatlipoca and the Smoking Mirror.
♪ ♪ We invoke the Creator of the Far and Near.
♪ ♪ La Cultura, Cura, Ancient Medicine.
♪ ♪ Ingest your identity, let the healing begin.
♪ ♪ ♪ Ingest your identity, and let the healing begin.
♪ ♪ ♪ I've managed to handle and curb my aggression.
♪ ♪ Live music has become my group session.
♪ ♪ Every time I perform I learn a new lesson.
♪ ♪ Don't forget to put your answers in the form ♪ ♪ of a question.
Revolution!
♪ ♪ What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Revolution!
What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Revolution!
What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Don't forget to put your answers in the form ♪ ♪ of a question.
Revolution!
♪ ♪ What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Revolution!
What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Revolution!
What is the way out of oppression?
♪ ♪ Don't forget to put your answers ♪ ♪ in the form of a question.
♪ ♪ ♪ We must understand how we came to be.
♪ ♪ How we view the world how we think we see.
♪ ♪ We came to be by rape and aggression.
♪ ♪ And hence a psychoanalytical question.
♪ ♪ Why is their sickness within the family?
♪ ♪ Why is there abuse from A to Z?
♪ ♪ Domestic violence and child molestation ♪ ♪ are the consequences of a conquered nation.
♪ ♪ Domestic violence and child molestation ♪ ♪ are the consequences of a conquered nation!
♪ (flute music fades) We didn't cross the borders!
The borders crossed us!
♪ (loud heavy music) ♪ ♪ (sings): A.u.g's on the scene with a vengeance ♪ ♪ No man or law can end this power ♪ ♪ in a true sense of the word ♪ ♪ Now it's time that my people be heard ♪ ♪ Some feel this oppression no longer exists.
♪ ♪ Well, here's something they missed.
♪ ♪ Self D means self-determination ♪ ♪ to put a stop to colonization.
♪ ♪ We begin with a historical analysis ♪ ♪ to illustrate a Mexican paralysis.
♪ ♪ See Mexico's been occupied since 1848.
♪ ♪ Which left the Mexicano at a constant 2nd rate.
♪ ♪ Now learn the word called colonization ♪ ♪ Stranger in your own land under exploitation.
♪ ♪ This is the State of the Indigena today ♪ ♪ under the oppression of the settler's way.
♪ ♪ This is the State of the Indigena today ♪ ♪ under the oppression of the settler's way.
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ Yet the settler nation lives in disgust!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ Yet the settler nation lives in disgust!
♪ ♪ The American dream only for some.
♪ ♪ Play the role and forget where you came from.
♪ ♪ Now check it, this is their reality.
♪ ♪ Just because it's WASP holds no validity.
♪ ♪ WASP- white Anglo Saxon protestant.
♪ ♪ The frame of mind that keeps our oppression constant.
♪ ♪ You try to be white and it's very respectable.
♪ ♪ But be Xicano and it's highly unacceptable.
♪ ♪ Then we're termed Hispanic as if we were from Spain.
♪ ♪ Trying to insert us in the American game.
♪ ♪ And we're called wetbacks like we've never been here ♪ ♪ when our existence on this continent is thousands of years.
♪ This is the State of the Indigena today ♪ ♪ under the oppression of the settler's way.
♪ ♪ This is the State of the Indigena today ♪ ♪ under the oppression of the settler's way.
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ Yet the settler nation lives in disgust!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ Yet the settler nation lives in disgust!
♪ Yeah.
(drums/elec guitar/bass) ♪ (Prayer with the Conch) ♪ ♪ We must realize ♪ ♪ our connection to this land ♪ ♪ until a Hopi and a Mexica ♪ ♪ can really understand ♪ ♪ that invaders ♪ ♪ divided indigenous people ♪ ♪ under English, French, or Spanish.
♪ ♪ It left us all feeble, ♪ ♪ unable ♪ ♪ to recognize each other ♪ ♪ from Xicano to Lakota.
♪ ♪ All sisters and brothers ♪ ♪ in the spirit of Pontiac.
♪ ♪ All the Red keepers of the Earth Mother ♪ ♪ from the top of Alaska, so-called, ♪ ♪ to the tip of so-called South America.
♪ ♪ Abya Yala, ♪ ♪ Anahuak, Turtle Island.
♪ ♪ 500 and sick years of indigenous resistance.
♪ ♪ The prophecies are coming true.
♪ ♪ The redemption of the red people has come!
♪ ♪ The 6th Sun now arises.
♪ ♪ The 7th Fire has arrived.
♪ ♪ The Cihuatl Women Nation ♪ ♪ are reclaiming.
♪ ♪ We have returned ♪ ♪ to where the Spirit of Truth dwells.
♪ ♪ We have returned.
♪ ♪ to.
♪ ♪ Az- ♪ ♪ Tlaaaaaan!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!
♪ ♪ Yet the settler nation lives in disgust!
♪ ♪ Get the Trump out!
Get the Trump out!
♪ ♪ Get the Trump, get the Trump, get the Trump out!
♪ ♪ Get the Trump out!
Get the Trump out!
♪ ♪ Get the Trump, get the Trump, get the Trump out!
♪ ♪ Get the Trump out!
Get the Trump out!
♪ ♪ Get the Trump, get the Trump, get the Trump out!
♪ ♪ Get the Trump out!
Get the Trump out!
♪ ♪ Get the Trump, get the Trump, get the Trump out!
♪ ♪ Get the Trump out!
♪ ♪ Wasichu, ♪ ♪ Eater of the Fat.
♪ ♪ Waster of Earth Mother and people.
♪ ♪ Colonizer of Aztlan and the World.
♪ ♪ Get the hell out!
♪ OHHH!
♪ HO!
♪ (flute music) ♪ ♪ (sings): I strike on my drums.
♪ ♪ I, the willful singer ♪ ♪ that I may fire our friends ♪ ♪ who think of nothing ♪ ♪ to whose minds plunged in sleep ♪ ♪ the dawn has not yet appeared ♪ ♪ over whom are yet spread the dark clouds of night.
♪ ♪ May I not call in vain and poorly.
♪ ♪ May they hear the song of the rosy dawn ♪ ♪ poured abroad widely by the drum.
♪ ♪ The divine flowers of dawn blossom forth ♪ ♪ glittering with dew.
♪ ♪ They spread abroad their fragrance.
♪ ♪ The war flowers ♪ ♪ of the cause of all.
♪ ♪ Bring them here ♪ ♪ that they be not hidden ♪ ♪ nor bloom in vain.
♪ ♪ That they may rejoice ♪ ♪ you our friends ♪ ♪ and not in vain shall be the flowers ♪ ♪ and not in vain shall be the flowers.
♪ ♪ The Living, ♪ ♪ Colored, ♪ ♪ Brilliant, ♪ ♪ War flowers!
♪ ♪ ♪
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