#indigenous liberation

[haykhighland]

Nare Simonyan, displaced Artsakhtsi

Film: "Armenia: The Fall of Nagorno-Karabagh"

Director: Astrig Agopian

#Artsakh #armenia #palestine #indigenous #armenian #free artsakh #free palestine #Middle East #west asia #indigenous west asian #indigenous liberation

[missmayhemvr]

Like halfway through "how Europe underdeveloped Africa" cause I decided I'd read/listen to it after I had a strong base on knowledge on African history and just holy fuck is he right about nearly everything so far.

Having learned about how extensive African trade was prior to the 18th century and how heavily most African kingdoms shifted in the 16th it's very clear that what he points out in the way the slave trade and the need to aquire firearms grew the European economies while near completely emptying out African economies and how the hard shift to European import goods after Europe had grow through the use of African slave labor and monopoly of trade routes is still a largely still at play in the era of neocolonialism.

The way that Walter Rodney not just points out that this is true, but the depth to which he covers a variety of African kingdoms, their economies, and cultural practices puts even some college level courses to shame while also showcasing the exact ways in which some of these stronger or more expansive kingdoms like the Ashanti, oyo, borno, Kongo, and Benin kingdoms had explicitly tried everything to get guns through any other trade and how the Ashanti, merina, Ethiopian, Burundi Benin kingdoms sought our education and scholars to begin industrialization and the systematic way in which Europeans and Americans prevented that is just, well it's damming.

It's a continuing reminder how from the first stage of European expansion and control they had precisely zero good intentions for the peoples of Africa. That Europe saw Africa as nothing more than a way to grow itself, it's institutions and improve its economies by depriving Africa of labor, materials and freedom which is true to this day, most starkly in the Congo but true across the whole region.

But while the book shows the crimes of Europeans without sugar coating, it also doesn't glorify the African leaders and more importantly those that became collaborative with European despitism. It also does not abide by the word games the European powers like to play and goes in depth to the way Europeans had no actual interest in ending slavery, and that while invading the various kingdoms and communities to "end slavery" the created some of the most brutal slave conditions on this side of the globe, not just in Leopolds Congo but in French forced labor camps and British controlled regions, with the Portuguese being particularly up front about it.

Truly a shame that like most other black radicals Rodney was murdered so young. The rarity to which black radicals even get to 40 shows how desperately capitalist and white supremist try to prevent even the slightest push back from black voices. It also makes clear how much we all need to know this stuff, from debois's black reconstruction to nkrumah's neoimperialism these books give a great understanding of the past and the precise way in which we arrived to the current situation.

I pray that with the new scramble for Africa that is unfolding in front of our very faces, the genocides in the Congo, and Sudan, and the way in which these interlock with the genocide of Palestinians, that we all take the time to properly read and reflect so that we may properly organize and fight back for a fully free and sovereign Africa and Palestine and a world free from white supremacy.

#black liberation #colonization #politics #indigenous liberation #world of the oppressed #pan african #the colonized #How Europe underdeveloped Africa #walter rodney

[yellingfellow]

I want to SCREAAAAAMMMM

The world is fucking burning

Palestinians are being starved in their fucking tents that they have to live in because their whole neighborhoods have been bombed

Congolese women are being raped for not meeting their quotas

People are pulling each other out of mines that have collapsed

Babies are laying next to their dead mothers

Trump is on the ballot in Colorado

Indigenous women and teens being kidnapped and murdered and no one wants to help

They won’t search the landfills for the remains of dead natives

We’re being fed stories by the same 6 media coroporations and AI generated fucking prompts are taking over all forms of video and picture we can’t even know what is real

The world is fucking burning and the ice is melting and earthquakes and tsunamis are shaking the fucking earth and people’s homes are being flooded and completely destroyed

But no lets just keep pretending like it matters if I pay my fucking taxes

#being a human #anarchism #impending doom #im so tired #global warming #free palestine #free congo #free sudan #free hawaii #free puerto rico #free us all #indigenous liberation #mmiwawareness #whats next #humanity

[of-monsters-and-werewolves]

Something to reiterate: Free Palestine doesn't just refer to Gaza and the West Bank, it refers to the entirety of Palestine, including the land currently occupied by so called Israel.

The destruction of Israel as a state is not inherently antisemitic either, but it can become so depending on, among other things, how consistent you are in applying this to other settler colonies. Indigenous Liberation movements worldwide nearly always involve land back and the abolition of the settler state, including in the so called USA and Canada.

#free palestine #indigenous liberation #palestinian liberation #land back #palestine #non fandom #antisemitism

[socialist-microwave-laser]

your post regarding christians learning hebrew made me consider - i'm anishinaabe (ojibwe or chippewa or native american or however you call it) and so i very much hope this does not derail you and is instead only the shared experience i mean it to be - it reminds me of how white people and the descendants of colonizers will mystify & then appropriate native medicine and mythology, our art, languages, and cultures, because they think it has secret ancient magic powers, and that everybody who actually practices that medicine or speaks that language is dead and gone, and that indigenous people are ancient history. when we are still alive and around and speaking those languages and practicing that medicine today. and the only reason we would even be all dead and gone anyways is if the colonizers who now appropriate our culture had succeeded in their plan to wipe us out!! anyways that's just a thought, like i said, i hope this only comes across as solidarity of some sort, i read your post and really felt i related to the experience!

oh this isn't a derailment at all!!! something i've noticed a lot but feel like i don't know enough about to be eloquent with it is the similarities between a lot of indigenous cultures and jewish cultures. idk it's super cool. shoutout to Really Fucking Old cultures and traditions surviving through and despite everything

there was a celebration for 40 years of democracy here in argentina at la plaza de mayo on saturday. lots of argentinian flags everywhere, big concert stage set up, the works. my friend and i went to an encampment on the casa rosada side that i had noticed a few times before. they had hand-painted signs talking about how they're from an indigenous self-advocacy group that has been trying to get an audience with the president for two years and three months. to support their continued stay on la plaza, they had a shop of homemade materials like bags, scarves, baskets, and more. i ended up buying gifts for my siblings, a gorgeous rainbow scarf with designs the man was telling me had all unique meanings and symbolisms in mapuche culture, and a handmade necklace of the tree of life. i told him that being jewish i'm always on the lookout for more scarves i can use to cover my head, and he told me he hopes this will serve me well (it has, i'm in love with it already). when he told me about the tree of life necklace, i told him judaism has similar symbolism, called etz hayim. he thanked me for teaching him the term

i don't know if that was a particularly impactful exchange for him, but there was some sort of solidarity i immediately felt, like our fights are intertwined (as are all our fights but you know what i mean). you put at least some reasons why that solidarity exists here into words. we are parts of cultures that have faced and are still facing attempted genocide after attempted genocide, and yet we are still here, embodying our people and not backing down. as people try to relegate us to some mystical past, we are vocal and fight back. solidarity to you anon, ily and i wish you the best. please feel free to talk to me more about this

i've reached out to the indigenous organizers currently camping out in front of la casa rosada but as of writing this i haven't gotten a response. the website hasn't been updated in a bit, but i'll add what information i have so that more people can learn about this fight in argentina (i'm realizing as i add this stuff that almost everything is in spanish lmao. i'm going to reblog this with the photos of their signs and translations of each. if your browser doesn't automatically translate these links please lmk and i'd be happy to help out anybody interested in learning more)

information about the org:

a story about a previous protest:

a story about the current encampment:

#indigenous liberation #jumblr #landback #land back #christian antisemitism tw #cultural appropriation #solidarity #anarchist #genocide tw #asks #anonymous #argentinian politics

[anarchistin]

Fires were rare in Hawaii and on other tropical islands before humans arrived, and native ecosystems evolved without them. This means great environmental damage can occur when fires erupt.

For example, fires remove vegetation. When a fire is followed by heavy rainfall, the rain can carry loose soil into the ocean, where it can smother coral reefs.

video source

#hawaii #maui #lahaina #wildfires #climate crisis #global warming #indigenous liberation

[palipunk]

I’m so excited to read this I’ve waited so long!!

#indigenous liberation #palestine #turtle island #indigenous rights #settler colonialism #reading list #lgbt

[thepeopleinpower]

Capitalism and colonialism took community away from us and I want it back. I’ve heard about it from my grandparents and in books and articles online. All throughout history and still today in some parts of the world. People looking out for each other. Regularly. Relentlessly. Neighbors watching each others children, having enough food to share and actually sharing it, being invested in each others lives because everyone has different strengths.

Today community has been strategically painted as a weakness and something to be skeptical of because it is a threat to the very foundations of capitalism. And that’s a real fucking shame because in reality, growing up with community and still having that through adulthood would probably make most people generally happier and less perpetually tired and stressed. It is renewable resilient versatile adaptable self-sustaining and kind of the Ultimate Resource.

#I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy #fuck capitalism #global community #local community #communities #community #fuck colonialism #fuck western media #settler colonialism #land back #indigenous liberation #indigenous communities #indigenous culture #human rights #renewable resources #sustainability #intersectional social justice #disability advocacy #social reformer #racial justice #wealth redistribution #healthcare reform #economic justic #environmental justice #generational healing #ancestral healing #industrialization #anti imperialism #religious tolerance #coexistence

[decolonize-the-left]

I've waited 2 months for this to be available

The book was noteworthy for its relevance to the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement and other activist organizations, such as the American Indian Movement, which was beginning to expand. Deloria's book encouraged better use of federal funds aimed at helping Native Americans. Vine Deloria, Jr. presents Native Americans in a humorous light, devoting an entire chapter to Native American humor. Custer Died for Your Sins was significant in its presentation of Native Americans as a people who were able to retain their tribal society and morality, while existing in the modern world.

From wiki

The book description:

"In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria’s Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest."

#vine deloria jr #custer died for your sins #indigenous activists #us history #native history #american history #indigenous liberation #native liberation #native books #indigenous books #american indian movement #Alcatraz Red Power movement #decolonize #decolonization

[corvidist]

For May Day

(No images include participants, ofc)

#photography #california #chumash #san marcos foothills #nature #eco anarchism #anarchist #Indigenous liberation #may day #direct action #protest

[deadassdiaspore]

Black and Indigenous revolutionary joy at the Trail of Broken Treaties, 1972.

#Black Liberation #Indigenous Solidarity #Solidarity #Stokely Carmicheal #Indigenous Liberation

[roga-el-rojo]

Red Skin, White Masks - Glen Coulthard

Hey y’all! Wanted to post my last book rec for this Native American Heritage Month which y’all might find interesting.

I wanted to review a powerful, revolutionary work that improves our understanding of indigenous liberation on the Left: “Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition” by Glen Coulthard.

Dr. Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He’s published numerous critically acclaimed texts surrounding decolonial politics and is also a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning.

“Red Skin, White Masks” challenges prevailing ideas of settler colonialization and Indigenous resistance by rejecting recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics, questioning the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of destructive colonialism between the state and Indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment. The book provides an incredible analysis of Indigenous struggles articulated through a politics fueled not by seeking harmony and pacification, but by grounded theory, fostering a commitment to mobilize ourselves around an unflinching decolonial program.

Coulthard’s unique and sympathetic extension of Marx’s critique of capitalism, particularly through his use of the concept of ‘primitive accumulation,’ is a wonderful framing for how colonialism operates for the explicit purpose of enriching the ruling class and that this process is ongoing. The book also engages Fanon critically (as the title illustrates), explaining how colonialism made the transition from naked aggression to modern governmentality, which uses state recognition and accommodation to limit the freedoms of colonized people and their self-conception of their freedom.

All of these factors then filter into Coulthard’s critiques of liberal politics and demonstrate why indigenous liberation requires independent movements focused on the material basis of colonialism. I highly recommend this text for anyone wanting to start investigating these issues from a Marxist lens!

#indigenous liberation #decolonisation #settler colonialism #anti colonialism #colonialism #marxism #frantz fanon #bookblr #book blog #book review #native american heritage month

[missmayhemvr]

Most serious question of my life, what the fuck are people being taught about the rise of fascism in Europe to have so fucking many people completely unaware that the dems are doing the wiemer strategy? Or that France and Germany are also doing the exact same strategy? Or that that hilter gained his confidence to do the shit he did from what the Japanese did in China and Korea and what Italy did to the horn of Africa? Like have we just removed all traces of that info from our schools or did the west just learn zero lessons? The liberals have once again shown they will rather become the exact guy they claim to be against than have even slightly less far right pro capitalist economic policies, they will drop social progressivism like a hot rock to maintain their power and their profits. What's not clicking about this? They are doing it in our faces, congress people are doing the political equal to crying and pulling the trigger and in and out, they are talking about state and corporate projects in the exact same tones as the axis. Come on yall wake the fuck up.

#police #black liberation #colonization #indigenous liberation #palestine

[comrade-onion]

The Liberation of Palestine and the Rights of Indigenous Americans: The Same Struggle

532 years ago, America was "discovered" by Europeans for the first time. What resulted from this fateful day was nothing short of a genocide. Millions systemically displaced and killed, cultures destroyed, and ecosystems irreparably altered to accommodate the European colonizers at the expense of the people who lived there. In both the United States and Canada, remaining indigenous populations face massive societal discrimination and are victim to underfunding and exploitation from the governments of their respective states. Many are forced into poverty, underfunded reservations, and horrid living conditions. Sound similar?

The genocide in Gaza and the expansion of the Israeli settler state is almost completely congruent to the history of violence experienced by indigenous Americans. Both the Palestinian liberation struggle and the Land Back movement in the US are inherently interwined in their ideals and histories, and any anti-imperialist should recognize the victory of these struggles as fundamental to the development of equality and liberty for the oppressed.

Solidarity with Palestine and Solidarity with the First Nation's People forever. No freedom, no peace, on stolen land.

#communism #history #current events #politics #socialism #marxism #gaza #anarchism #anarchocommunism #gaza solidarity encampment #palestinian liberation #land back #indigenous #workers of the world unite #black liberation #indigenous liberation #first nations #stolen land #historic #american history #class war #racisim #acab1312 #tribes #end the occupation #united states #canada #youth #protest #colonialism

[socialist-microwave-laser]

a new Guy to keep an eye out for. this person is looking through jumblr posts and posts by indigenous people and going through the blogs of anyone who says anything negative about anybody who may have been affiliated with christianity. i ended up blocking them for just straight up denying countless genocides (literally calling into question the fact that christians have every systematically killed anyone) but here are the screenshots i took before then

i'm also putting this in the taylor swift tag bc the majority of this person's posts seem to be in that community? y'all have fun with that lmao

#votejainism #antisemitism tw #genocide denial #taylor swift #indigenous liberation #land back #jumblr #anarchist #jumblr blocklist

[anarchistin]

Kashmir has been colonized by the Indian state since 1947, but recent changes demonstrate how it is increasingly becoming a settler-colonial project.

As opposed to classic colonialism that aims to unlawfully retain control of a territory, take advantage of its resources, and deny its people self-determination, settler-colonialism seeks to acquire land so that colonists can settle permanently and form new communities in what they see as their new “home.”

In Kashmir, we have seen a combination of classic as well as settler-colonial strategies.

#kashmir #indigenous liberation #settler colonialism #india #hindutva #bjp #genocide #islamophobia