Black Friday Sale + Thanksgiving
Thanks for reading this Substack.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
I wanted to pause and send a genuine note of gratitude. This year has been one of the most novel, expansive, and creatively challenging periods of my life — and so much of that is because of you.
Every time you open an email, share a post, engage thoughtfully, challenge me, or send an encouraging message, you make this work possible. Independent journalism is a strange path: intellectually demanding and financially unpredictable. But knowing there’s a community of people who value depth, nuance, and honest inquiry keeps me going every single day.
I’m thankful for all of you. You’ve allowed me to build a platform where I can pursue difficult questions, explore new ideas, interview fascinating people, and write with complete independence. That’s a rare gift, and I don’t take it lightly.
If my work has added value to your year and you’d like to support the next chapter, I’m running a small Black Friday offer for new paid subscribers:
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Thank you again for being part of this community. Wishing you a warm, restful, meaningful Thanksgiving — with good food, good company, and a moment to breathe.
— Rav
Happy Thanksgiving to you too. Many thanks for the work that you are doing.
Punk. Black Friday. What a fool! Giving thanks, uh?
Fool.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/nah-its-not-about-oil-data-water
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“First Voices Radio” digs deep into our 30-year-old archive and brings listeners another interpretation and observation surrounding the American holiday known as “Thanksgiving.” The late John Trudell’s “Thanksgiving Day Address” is from 1980 but how his observations have stood the test of time and still ring true. The names of U.S. politicians that Trudell mentions have changed over the years but the issues that Native peoples faced then and now remain the same.
John Trudell (1946-2015) has been identified as a poet, a fighter for Native American rights, an agitator, and many other things. But if you were to have asked him which of these descriptions best suits him he would have refused to be pinned down.
“Actually I don’t consider myself to be any of those things. They’re things that I do…but they’re parts of me. They’re not the total.”
Indeed, Trudell was the complex sum of all that he saw, endured and accomplished during his 69 years, a time when he experienced more than most people might in several lifetimes. More information about John Trudell can be found at https://www.johntrudell.com/.
Listen up:
https://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/program/20221223