"How, exactly, are the oppressed and colonised supposed to behave? If we’re to follow mainstream thought, that is defined by a white supremacist, Eurocentric worldview, Palestinians would be expected to just sit and take all the violence meted out against them: ethnic cleansing, imprisonment, blockade, theft of land and resources…the list goes on."
My friend was shot by a Trumper in a #MAGA hat at a peaceful #IndigenousRally. Please help.
by RL Miller, September 30, 2023
"I went to Santa Fe, NM this week for a US #ClimateAction Network conference. During the conference we covered #decolonization and how Santa Fe/NM has been stolen from #Indigenous, first by Spaniards and then by Americans. Several of us decided to attend a rally in opposition to re-erecting a statue of Juan de #Onate, a particularly odious Spanish #Conquistador who massacred an entire pueblo and cut off the right foot of every able bodied male Native. His statue was taken down in 2020 by #IndigenousActivists but the county of Rio Arriba was supposed to take up, on 9/28/2023, an agenda item of re-erecting the statue. We #USCAN folk, including my friend #JacobJohns who is Indigenous, showed up to support. It was a lovely, peaceful, prayerful rally. (The county shut down its building and kicked the agenda item over a week.)
"For two hours I observed a Trumper in a MAGA hat harass, troll, and disrupt the rally. Toward the end of the rally, the speaker asked for all the children to gather. At that point the #Trumper tried to charge the group. A scuffle broke out; they pushed him back behind a low stone wall; he jumped over the wall, pulled out a gun, and shot. My friend Jacob took a bullet to the chest, likely intended for the children.
Jacob was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital and airlifted to Albuquerque. He had his spleen removed, but he's young and strong with the heart of a warrior and was in stable condition undergoing surgery last I heard yesterday.
The Trumper was arrested and charged with attempted murder. We all gave statements to detectives, and one of my twitter pix is evidence showing that the Trumper was harassing us for two hours.
"Your inboxes are likely overwhelmed with appeals from political folk, but please do not look away from the political violence in this country. Donate and share this Go Fund Me to support Jacob and his family:"
https://gofundme.com/f/help-jacob-johns-recover-from-terrorist-shooting
USCAN is working with local Indigenous groups to amplify their voices, make sure this statue doesn't go up again, and bring the shooter to justice. I will have an additional ask in the coming days; this is an AND, not an OR request. Thank you."
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has backtracked on his comments that PNG had “no right to comment” on human rights abuses in West Papua and has offered a clarification to “clear misconceptions and apprehension”....
Another fantastic story. About whaling by multiple First Nations on Vancouver Island. And if you've ever been to the American Natural History Museum, you might have seen the “Whalers Washing House" which was a sacred shrine with dozens of tall human forms made of wood (Picture in the article). They were taken from the Mowachaht/Muchahlaht in Yuquot in 1904.
"Choreographies of the Impossible" is political, poetic, brave, emphatic, heterogeneous, irregular, discursive but also sensual, a journey that serves as an alternate #history of the #art of the 20th & 21st centuries, paying less attention to Western hegemony & more to the #wisdom of #underappreciated traditions, such as #Indigenous cultures & #African#diaspora in #LatinAmerica, the #Arab world & #Asian continent.
The fourth instance of our online Degrowth seminar series is coming up, on September 19th, 2 PM-3 PM CEST
“The future of degrowth: Decolonizing more than the imaginary” by Dr. Brototi Roy (Central European University, Vienna)
In recent years, degrowth has sparked multiple discussions, analyses and actions on repoliticizing the debate for socio-ecological justice and equity. Since the beginning of the movement as an activist slogan, there have been calls for decolonizing the imaginary. In this talk, Dr. Roy will engage with the idea of how can this decolonization be more material.
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I want to talk about #Brics but I suspect I'll be attacked the moment I open my mouth because it isn't aligned with the current US narrative. 🙃
Better to talk about #CDramas on #mastodon. 😅
I may write a blog post of the notes I've made - I don't think I'm informed enough about #geopolitics to give a solid commentary, but the common topics I've seen around Brics:
More than half a century ago, the British and the Americans established the Diego Garcia military base, breaking international law in the process. The locals were forcibly exiled. But now, after decades of court battles, the people who once called the Chagos Archipelago home are closer to returning than ever before.
With keyboards and typefaces made for English, how to communicate Indigenous languages when they are so few digital tools? 🔡 Christopher Cheung reports.
@thetyee I’ve got to admit to confusion, if #first#nations want to #decolonize why are they adopting digital technology? Culture is defined, in part, by the tools that culture uses. I would think a wholesale rejection of digital technology would be consistent with #decolonization. #cdnpoli
A MUST READ for reconnecting Natives and non-Natives by #Mvskoke TEK academic and researcher Lara A. Jacobs, currently working on her Forest Ecosystems and Society PhD.
Decolonization is not a metaphor
By Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang
“Our goal in this article is to remind readers what is unsettling about decolonization. Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools.”
"While the global community congratulates itself on achieving what is politically possible, we cannot overlook the anemic nature of the agreement considering the magnitude of the problem. It will not avoid the death of millions – because they simply do not matter.” (Pulido, 2018, p. 128)
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Ernstson and Swyngedouw (2019) termed the depoliticizing technocratic discourse that coexists with obscene capitalist accumulation and waste as the Anthropo-obscene (critiquing the totalizing banner of Anthropocene that homogenizes an undifferentiated humanity that does not exist).
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A performance of diversion, delay, co-optation, and performativity without substance is repeated almost annually. Nonetheless, these are also spaces of opportunities to challenge the system, to utter necessary words for more people to hear, collectivize among young and old activists, learn from different positionalities, create new openings and possibilities of alliances – in other words, a repoliticization of climate instead of the depoliticized techno-economist utopias that never deliver.
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আমরা কোথায় যাব, আমাদের কি ভবিষ্যৎ? আমরাকি হত্তছারা, পরিত্যক্ত? (Where will my people go, what future do we have? Must we remain abandoned, forsaken?) The disproportionate burden of climate damage is falling on formerly colonized and brutalized racialized communities in the developing world. We are still colonized, but this time through climate change, the development industry, and globalization. I feel an immense responsibility to do something. But no one is going to listen to someone like me, and even more importantly, more marginalized peoples, women and children, farmers and fisherfolk, writers and scholars. But we are all expected to be resilient because we have no choice.
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Climate coloniality is perpetuated through global land and water grabs, REDD+ programs, neoliberal conservations projects, rare earth mineral mining, deforestation for growth, fossil fuel warfare, and new green revolutions for agriculture – which benefit a few while dispossessing larger numbers of historically-impoverished, often elsewhere.
"Maybe we have left #Russia out of this whole debate about the #decolonization, that we'd sort of overlooked that Russia itself is in many ways a #colonial entity"
Great Q&A session by Prof James Ker-Lindsay, highly acclaimed expert in the international relations:
Ngisenhlangweni yobulimiziningi eUFS eBloemfontein kuleli viki, kodwa kunokuningi okungumbhuqo nehlazo la. // I am at a conference on #multilingualism at UFS in Bloemfontein this week, but there is much that is ironic and disgraceful here. #languages#academia#IsiZulu
Bese omunye uze ematafuleni ethu, lapho kunezincwadi ze-Ancestral Voices nezichazamazwi, ethi “nisekelwe nguHulumeni kulo msebenzi obaluleke kangaka?” // then someone came up to our tables, where there were books from Ancestral Voices as well as dictionaries, saying “are you supported by Government in this crucially important work?” #multilingualism#decolonization#language#isiZulu
It's quite remarkable how the narrative around #WarInUkraine always gets redirected to the topic of #Ukraine borders, its right to have its own agency or independence, but never to the topic of of #decolonization of #Russia.
Racists defacing bilingual road signs in indigenous languages is annoying. But ultimately I think it serves our cause more than theirs. "Respectable" white folks may not care about decolonization, but they're passionately against vandalism of public property.
>Watch this exclusive clip from our upcoming documentary, of pan-African scholar PLO Lumumba on how until Britain is made to pay for its crimes in Africa, it will continue feeling entitled to dominate the continent. “The day they do, they will know that we are truly angry”.
Kinda bad funny when middle aged white guys who enjoy spending $ at private golf courses(on unceded native lands) & other old white guys try to say astroturf helps us to save water & attract more wildlife 🤡 inform me that they're gonna block/mute me because I'm against both of those selfish, privileged things that harm natural environments.
Unfortunately for them, I enjoy being blocked by entitled #privileged old white dudes who aren't doing any #decolonization of their #colonized minds.
Papua New Guinea leader James Marape denies West Papua human rights comments were his (asiapacificreport.nz)
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has backtracked on his comments that PNG had “no right to comment” on human rights abuses in West Papua and has offered a clarification to “clear misconceptions and apprehension”....
Erasing the Existence of 1,500 People: Britain's Ongoing Colonial Crime in the Indian Ocean (www.spiegel.de)
More than half a century ago, the British and the Americans established the Diego Garcia military base, breaking international law in the process. The locals were forcibly exiled. But now, after decades of court battles, the people who once called the Chagos Archipelago home are closer to returning than ever before.