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And look, I'm the first one to ensure 100% of the blame rests on manipulators rather than the manipulated. But I'm not going to do that in this moment. I'm going to look at what I *did* know as a conservative Christian up till age 26 in 2001, long after these events had been set into motion but still with plenty of time to stop them and roll them back.
I knew these two things:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you + if you have done it into the least of these, you have done it into me (Jesus).
There's no way to put those together without the result: If I do it to someone else, I'm doing it to myself.
If I cut taxes because "my" money is forcefully going to the freeloaders (BIPOC, the poor, the sick, the imprisoned — folks *expressly* listed in the Bible), I did it to myself.
These truths were here all along. Yes, the Manipulator Class wove in all kinds of distractions and distortions, but we had plenty of patriotic and RW slogans that, if considered closely, reveals that we should not have let this happen.
ELN: A Look Towards Africa
In Africa, tectonic movements of liberation and decolonization are again being felt. In the African Sahel, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad and Senegal have expelled France permanently. On the continent, the pan–Africanist agenda of the 1960s is being revived. In November 2024, the historic “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel” was held in Niger, organized by the Pan African Secretariat (PAT) and the Organization of the Peoples of West Africa (WAPO), under the slogan: “For anti–imperialist unity, peace and friendship among peoples.” PAT and WAPO are two great engines driving the pan–African liberation project. It is placed on the agenda in the revolutionary and national liberation movements of the world, calling us to a dialogue and coordination with this African libertarian reality. Malcolm X, on his trip to Africa (1964) having renounced the Nation of Islam, which preached black nationalism, discovered affinities and identities with revolutionary leaders, some of whom were not black, such as Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. By finding deeper identities with African revolutionary leaders, and not just with Black Africa, he further sharpened contradictions with the Nation of Islam leadership, especially Elijah Muhammed. Then Malcolm X would profess his identity and admiration for revolutionary leaders of Our America, such as Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara, questioning whether the strategic thing was “being black” or “being revolutionary.” This dilemma persists today for the Afro–Colombian movement, a powerful force for emancipation and transformation in Colombia, which has managed to significantly influence the nation’s political agenda. Certainly, the project of emancipation in America is inconceivable and becomes unviable without black and indigenous liberation. That is why we should turn our gaze to Africa. However, on France’s two visits to Africa, he failed to engage in dialogue with the ongoing African liberation organizations and processes. In Ghana he met with the president who openly promotes the conspiracy against the countries of the African Sahel. He also appeared at a press conference with an Ashanti chieftain, notorious in Ghana for his corruption and starring in politics. Socialist revolutionaries in Ghana watched with sadness that a black leader from Latin America, from a left–wing party, showed no affinity with the African left. Black identity and the struggle against structural racism is and has been a key point in the unity building of the African American diaspora. It has been a 500-year struggle, fraught with unimaginable sacrifice and suffering. Black identity against the systemic racism of the white and mixed world is legitimate and necessary. The difficulty lies in the fact that black identity is not the epicenter of the liberation project in Africa, but the decolonization, the confrontation with imperialism and the revolutionary transformation of its societies.Africa is not a monolithic continent; there are pro–imperialists and anti–imperialists, as well as left and right; also exploitative bourgeois and exploited workers. These factors are decisive in the African liberation struggle. At COP 16, held in November 2024 in Cali, there was a clear misunderstanding between the Afro–Colombian movement and the delegates from African countries, precisely for that reason: black identity is not decisive in the African struggle, as it is taken in the struggles of our America. Here emerges the debate and tensions that have existed between identity struggles and revolutionary struggles, where the latter focus on class identity, between exploited versus exploiter. The unity of class and the unity of identity need not quarrel, for there are multiple points of encounter. The meeting of the two in a strategic project of emancipation is vital to achieve the revolutionary transformation we desire. The black and the Indian in the Petro government are interesting topics for a current debate. Comandante Antonio García Source: ELN Voces
This is how I feel. I am not a democrat, liberal, socialist or any other colonial political or economic design.
#LandBack to me means exactly that - LandBack to the Native Nations. #Decolonization means LandBack and full non-custodial Native Nation #Sovereignty - which is a win-win for everyone in reality.
Colonial systems, different or new politicians and even eternal voting will never fix or reform colonial systems. It is designed that way.
#Native #Indigenous
We've opened a call for papers for the workshop "Contested Imperial Endings", seeking to encourage a comparative discussion on dissolution of several European empires, with a greater emphasis on those which unravelled in the aftermath of post-1945 European decolonization.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/contested-imperial-endings/
The #TRANSMAT project culminated last week with the conference ‘Decolonising Museums and Colonial Collections. Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods’ and the opening of the exhibition ‘Facing the Colonial Legacy in the Museum’, both hosted by the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum in #FigueiraDaFoz.
We tell you more here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/transmat-conferencia-exposicao/
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The early cross cultural marriages between Chinese men & Indigenous women occurred more often back in the gold rush & railroad building days because Canada had the head tax on Chinese people & also it was mostly men allowed to come here to work. There were very few Chinese women allowed to come into Canada. The Chinese men worked for basically colonial slave wages, like Indigenous workers - both were paid far less, for same work, as their white coworkers.
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This week, the #TRANSMAT team moves to Figueira da Foz for the international conference ‘Decolonizing Museums and Colonial Collections. Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods’.
The programme includes keynote speakers Meryem Korun, Mark Thurner, David William Aparecido Ribeiro, and Marta Lourenço.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/decolonizing-museums-colonial-collections/
Sitting & waiting to sign some documents & then can get out of this place, full of unmasked plague spreaders - at least for a few hours until I can bring my client her new air filtration unit.
As I'm waiting, am reading up more on how to make reef balls out of broken seashells. Getting ahead on some research that will help me to help better with several projects along our coasts to restore Indigenous shellfish gardens & utilize the nature engineering powers of bivalves to restore some ocean ecosystems that were destroyed by acts of greed fueled colonialism.
#NativeAmericaCalling: A new wave of resistance against #Trans #Native relatives
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
"Trans #NativeAmericans face a new wave of #resistance
"Iowa is testing new legal limits as the first state to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state’s civil rights code.
"The Trump administration is also removing transgender service personnel from the military. And the State Department is using existing law against #fraud to bar foreign #TransgenderAthletes from entering the country, something critics worry could be used to ban any trans traveler.
"After years of progress, Native American trans residents are facing a major rollback of favorable laws and policies. Tune in to hear about the current public climate and what might be in store for the future."
Listen:
https://soundcloud.com/indianz/two-spirit-ncai-ecws2025
Spotify link:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6dtU6nDFD0f7eupqihE4Rg?go=1&sp_cid=b834467a3894c08ce4d3b77ae608fd50&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=1452335958d041a6
#Resist #ResistFascism #ResistColonialism #GBLTQRights #NativeAmericans #USPol #Decolonization #Decolonize
Indianz.Com · Native America Calling: A new wave of resistance against Trans Native relativesAfter years of progress, Native trans relatives are facing a major rollback of favorable laws and policies.
Blog: Voices of #Decolonization
#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘#nuclear-is-green' deception
by William Eric Altvater, February 6, 2025
"Some First Nation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #Indigenous peoples to expand nuclear power generation capacity in #Canada.
"For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.
"Newcomers, armed with the #Colonizing tool, 'The #DoctrineOfDiscovery' and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called 'Savages,' almost totally exterminating #Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.
"Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for #capitalism, a system to make a #profit, that morphed into #greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.
"Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, #deforestation is rampant, #biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.
"As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the 'bigger, better, faster, more is never enough' mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that #FossilFuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.
"So-called '#GreenEnergy' is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.
"#NuclearPower is now being touted as being 'Green.' It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as #uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.
"When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.
"After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous #Grandmothers have labelled it 'Forever Dangerous.'
"The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the #RadioactiveWaste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.
"What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.
"Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.
"Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the 'Nuclear is Green' mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."
Eric lives in #PeskotomuhkatiNation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.
https://www.wabanakireach.org/first_nations_chiefs_shouldn_t_be_duped_by_the_nuclear_is_green_deception_by_william_altvater
#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #UraniumMining #UraniumMilling #LeaveItInTheGround #Greenwashing #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #NuclearIsNotGreen #CanadaPol #NuclearWaste #NuclearIndustry #TEPCOLies #HoltecLies #NuclearColonialism
1,200 lineages, wiped from this earth. To satisfy Ashkenazi supremacist European settler colonialism.
The Palestinian #holocaust and #genocide continues unabated.
Radical #Zionist ideology is #terrorism.
#decolonization #
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-wiped-out-at-least-1200-entire-families-in-gaza-analysis-finds/
Truthout · Israel Wiped Out at Least 1,200 Entire Families in Gaza, Analysis FindsThere are also at least 3,400 families with only one surviving member, Palestinian officials have said.
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I've been an annual subscriber of #WatershedSentinel for a few years & love receiving each magazine issue. Full of journalism that's relevant to my #environmental & #decolonization interests.
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#BostonReview book talk
#SamKlug in conversation about his book #TheInternalColony with Prof. Chad Williams
"Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance of global #decolonization to the divergence between mainstream liberalism and the #BlackFreedomMovement in postwar America."
#BlackHistory #UShistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLiberation #internalColonization #CivilRights #racialCapitalism #decolonialStruggles #books @bookstodon @histodons
We’ve officially hit 25% of our goal for A Red Road to the West Bank! 
A huge thank you to everyone who has supported, shared, and stood in solidarity with this project. This film is about connecting Indigenous struggles across continents, and every contribution helps us bring this story to life.
Let’s keep the momentum going—we’re just getting started!
Support & share: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad
#RedRoadToTheWestBank #IndigenousSolidarity #Decolonization #FreePalestine #AIM #Mohawk #KeepItGoing 
Canadian cuisine
Deconstruct and decolonize Canadian cuisine. Take a culinary tour of cod tongues and Nanaimo bars. Unpack how we teach and write about Canadian cuisine. Review culinary history and literature in Canada.
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat
#CanadianCuisine #Decolonial #SettlerColonialism #Neoliberalism #FoodSovereignty #Decolonization #CulinaryHistory #CanLit #Canada
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| Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentationScholarly and community articles about food and food systems
Leonard Peltier’s release after 49 years of wrongful imprisonment resonates deeply within anti-colonial struggles, particularly when compared to the systematic incarceration of Palestinians under Israeli military rule. Both cases exemplify how settler-colonial states use imprisonment as a tool of repression against Indigenous resistance.
Peltier, an Anishinaabe-Lakota activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), was convicted in 1977 for the killing of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation. His trial was riddled with misconduct, including fabricated evidence, coerced witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct. The U.S. government made him a political prisoner, punishing him not for any proven crime, but for his role in defending Indigenous sovereignty. His nearly five decades behind bars symbolize the criminalization of Indigenous resistance in North America.
Similarly, Israel systematically imprisons Palestinians, especially those engaged in resistance against occupation. Since 1967, over 800,000 Palestinians—including activists, political leaders, and children—have been detained under military rule. Many are held without charge under "administrative detention," a practice that allows indefinite imprisonment without trial. Just as Peltier was targeted for his role in AIM, Palestinians are arrested for organizing protests, resisting land seizures, or even posting anti-occupation statements online.
Both cases highlight how settler-colonial powers use incarceration to neutralize Indigenous movements. The U.S. government sought to break AIM through the imprisonment of Peltier, just as Israel aims to weaken Palestinian resistance by jailing its leaders and youth. The goal in both cases is not justice, but deterrence—turning prisons into tools of colonial control.
Yet, despite decades of imprisonment, neither Peltier nor Palestinian political prisoners have been silenced. Their struggles continue to inspire movements for decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, and global solidarity against settler oppression. This is exactly what we seek to unpack in A Red Road to the West Bank—the shared tools of repression used by colonial states and the enduring spirit of resistance that connects Indigenous struggles across continents.
Learn more at: www.redroadtothewestbank.com
Our 2nd group of calls to hire four Assistant Researchers under the #FCTTenure programme ends on 24 February:
2023.11076.TENURE.199: #Migrations and #Globalization in Historical Perspective
2023.11076.TENURE.200: #Colonialism, #AntiColonialism, #Decolonization
2023.11076.TENURE.203: #SocialMovements, State and #Capitalism in #ContemporaryHistory
2023.11076.TENURE.259: History, specialising in #memory and #heritage
Sage smudge burning in an abalone shell, in front of private Indigenous healing sweat lodge. One of the best sweat lodge spaces I've been invited into. It's set in a beautiful temperate coastal rainforest, on private property in East Sooke.
