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Zionist colonization uses the same racist line of reasoning that all European colonizers do: “We will take over the land, as is our divine right. We bring modernity & western values to their primitive barbaric ways. We are the children of light, they’re the children of darkness” ~ Amanda Gelender (Twitter)

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“Well, the idea I was raised with was that, as aboriginal people, everything that we do is political. When we wake up in the morning—that’s political. The fact that we’re here driving and surviving is political because everything has been done in the past 500 years to stop that from happening. So the politics part of it is automatic. It’s not even a choice. It’s a responsibility that we have to carry as aboriginal artists because it’s just part of our life. It goes back to that holistic way of seeing life. We don’t divide the political and the spiritual. The day to day. Those are all a part of the same thing.”

— ‘Bear’ from A Tribe Called Red in their interview with Noisey explaining whether their music is political or not. (via pwakamo-pahkwesikan)

Hell yes

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hey!!!! remember standing rock water protectors and the dakota access pipeline?

the massive, poorly constructed environmental risk that spat all over the Standing Rock Sioux people's treaty rights? that dug up their sacred burial sites? the one where the oil corporation who owned it bought out a private company to do a sham of an "environmental analysis" and never consulted the tribe and STILL didn't actually get approval? the one that's literally operating illegally and without proper permits right fucking now?

yeah, that.

you remember that.

surprising absolutely no one, the army corps of engineers this week (September 8, 2023) released an EIS (environmental impact statement) draft for public comment that takes into account absolutely 0 of the tribe's concerns, and in fact did not consult with them once in the process!

they're going to officially approve the pipeline.

what's the good news?

IT'S A DRAFT. YOU CAN SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT RIGHT NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER 13!!!

This link RIGHT HERE (https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/dapl-eis-2023) will take you to a Lakota Law Project page where they've set up a form to make it easy to submit a comment.

All you have to do is add your name, email, and zip code, and it pulls up a form with a pre-written message you can just click and submit, listing the most pressing concerns. You can also personalize it if you want, but you don't have to. This will take you two minutes. Please.

you can also access the comment information on the USACE website here, email [email protected] yourself, or call Brent Cossette, the contact for the draft, at 402-995-2716!!!

you can also donate directly to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe here.

#psa #signal boost #ᐐᑑᑯᑖᑎᐎᓐ #standing rock #nodapl #ᒪᒋ ᐱᒫᑎᓯᐎᓐ #ᑭᒋᒨᑯᒫᓐ #keystone xl #ᑆᓐ

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Israel has been committing unspeakable war crimes, crimes against humanity, and illegal collective punishment against Palestinians in Gaza for 15 years. 15 years. Any comment or analysis that doesn’t take this fact into consideration today is hollow, immoral, and dehumanizing.

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Happy birthday, Vernon Bellecourt! (October 17, 1931) 

A member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, Vernon Bellecourt became involved with the American Indian Movement, which his younger brother Clyde helped to found in 1968. He quickly became a leader in the movement, participating in the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan to Washington DC, and served as a negotiator for AIM during its subsequent occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Bellecourt served as an international emmisary for AIM, meeting with a number of anti-imperialist world leaders such as Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez. Soon after this latter meeting, he fell ill and died at the age of 75.

#ᐙᐸᓐ ᐃᓂᓂ #ᒥᓄ ᐱᒫᑎᓯᐎᓐ #ᐅᒋᐺ #ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ

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we have to start ridiculing climbing mount everest the way we've ridiculed diving to the titanic there's no reason to be dying up there why dont you do a nice normal sport

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#ᑭᒋᒨᑯᒫᓐ #ᒪᒋ ᐱᒫᑎᓯᐎᓐ

[chippewa]

a little more information regarding the maui wildfires:

medical workers on the ground are describing finding hundreds of bodies. the current death toll in the media is, unfortunately, only a fraction of the reality

hospital workers are describing injuries and trauma as if survivors had come out of a warzone

thousands are still missing

an apartment complex for the elderly was lost. not everyone could get out. people were saying goodbye to loved ones over the phone

people who did get out of lahaina were leaving with ashes covering their faces and nothing but the clothes on their backs. people are losing everything.

hotels are still operating. hotels are still operating. they are not the ones offering shelters or housing or food. even bowling alleys are offering shelter, but hotels have the audacity to build on burial sites but not open their doors to local families who have lost everything.

donate to maui united way, the maui food bank, mutual aid, and maui humane society

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I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.

In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!

Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.

Anyway dragonfly for admiration:

Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy

[chippewa]

Can I tell y’all about the longleaf pine? Aka Pinus Palustris :D

Ranging from southern virginia down the east coast to florida and as far east as texas, the longleaf pine may have dominated as much as 90,000,000 acres.

Tough and fire-resistant, these massive trees can grow to be 500 years old. Spanning miles- these pine barrens were a major part of the southeastern ecosystem.

Today, less than 3% of those forests remain.

The longleaf pine is a evergreen conifer, growing to be 80-100 tall and a diameter of 3 feet. These pines get their name from their needles, having the longest of the eastern pines species.

The life cycle of longleaf pines is a unique one- rather than spending their first years growing in height, they instead start as a grass. This is essential to their development- they instead focus on growing their taproot- a long central root that can grow to be 12 feet long.

This root stabilizes the trees, anchoring them down through hurricanes and helping them reach groundwater throughout droughts.

After going through the grass stage, the pines begin to grow in height- entering the bottlebrush stage. At this stage they are resistant to fire, severe windstorms, pests and drought. It is these characteristics that make longleaf pines highly resistant to the effects of climate change.

And it's for this reason that conservation and restoration is highly important.

Beginning during colonization, forests began being cleared to make way for agriculture and development- and the exceptional lumber was used to build ships, railroads, turpentine and tar.

These forests were replaced by commercial forests full of loblolly and slash pine.

With their tall sturdy trunks and higher canopy coverage (when compared to other pine species), I consider longleaf pines to be an excellent overstory tree in a food forest system. With the litter dropped (pine cones, pine needles, bark, branches) they are excellent for compost or mulch material. There are medicinal uses for the tree, but I’m not an herbalist so I won’t get into that. Pine resin from the tree also makes a great incense, just make sure you collect it when it’s dry.

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Texas Oak Tree Thought to Be Extinct Discovered in Big Bend National Park https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/texas-oak-tree-thought-to-be-extinct-discovered-in-big-bend-national-park/

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Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana, 1969.

At the time the photo was taken the mine was still active. Once decommissioned, the pit filled with water deemed now to be some of the most toxic surface water in the US. It is said that waterfowl landing on it die more-or-less immediately. Some efforts have been made to drain the pit.

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It’s giving “let’s make up some info about aliens to distract people while we commit war crimes” or perhaps some other awful action around the climate

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the main problem i have with america is that nothings old as hell there. i cant be so far away from a castle it damages my aura

#ᑭᒋᒨᑯᒫᓐ #ᑲᑮᐹᑎᓯᐎᓇᓐ #ᒪᒋ ᐱᒫᑎᓯᐎᓐ #ᔖᑲᓈᔕᒃ

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Yasakw Yakgujanaas Designs goes hard