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sublimeobservationarcade · 7 months

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How We Cleared The Native People From Their Land

The Voice referendum has shone a light on Australia’s interracial relationships between First Nations people and white Australia. The lethargic acceptance by modern Australia of its neglect of its Indigenous population has been woken up somewhat. The majority of Australians of European descent have little to no appreciation of our history when it comes to how we cleared the native people from…

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#Aboriginal Australia #Australia #First Nations #Frontier police #Genocide #Indigenous Australians #Mass Poisonings #Massacres #native police #Queensland #racism #Voice

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whats-in-a-sentence · 2 months

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The Australian War Memorial Act already includes them in its wide embrace as a "military force of the Crown raised in Australia before the establishment of the Commonwealth", a force entitled to be commemorated in the memorial for its part in "wars and warlike operations". There is space in those sad halls to stand two Australian figures in bronze, a white officer and a black trooper, and engrave on the plinth beneath:

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

#book quotes #killing for country #david marr #nonfiction #australian war memorial act #native police #military force #commonwealth #commemoration #australian war memorial #war memorial #war #warlike #bronze

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tenth-sentence · 2 months

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He called for the earliest possible abolition of the force.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

#book quote #killing for country #david marr #nonfiction #archibald meston #abolition #native police

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nando161mando · 5 months

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Interesting that a lawyer for Cop City said in court that the project was being held together with "chewing gum and paperclips"-and that ONE day's court ordered stop work could now finish off the whole project.

PUSH! PUSH! PUSH!

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butchfeygela · 6 months

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okay you’re disabled and you don’t work. i assume you still need to eat. where does the food come from? is it all a community garden? is there a supply-line? what if those people don’t want to work? Are you just supposed to just keel over and starve?

Or…and allow me to guess here…you’ve literally never thought about any of the answers to these questions short of “I’ll go to the store”. because you’re American. your entire life exists because of exploited labor from the global south. where’s your toaster come from? microwave? cobalt in your phone? clothes? food? it’s all exploited labor (and they’re get exploited a lot harder than any American with a damn office job).

so sure, you can’t work. but somebody has to, or you’ll die. and contrary to the warblings of many weepy anarchists on twitter and tumblr, i do not, in fact, want you to die. but sometimes i think western anarchists would rather keep the world’s injustice as long as it benefits them personally, and i sure haven’t seen otherwise here

(also if you’re not American and live in a different cracker-ass European-ass country everything i’ve said applies just as much. i haven’t checked. don’t be a pedant)

i actually do work bc our system wants disabled people to work until they die and makes it incredibly difficult if not almost impossible to get any support. this is largely the case everywhere there is a system for deciding who is disabled enough to be allowed not to work. youre a few months late to this whole discourse but in summation i think people want to preform labor and tasks so much more than capitalism assumes. especially if their needs are met thru tht work. if no one wants to do a specfic type of labor at all then we need to figure out how to either go without the product of that labor or figure out other ways to get it.

its interesting to me you bring up the immense forced labor the western empires are built off of and yet you think there should be a board of people who's job it is to force disabled people who have not met their lofty criteria to work until they die. why should that principal be upheld anywhere?

i swear disabled anarchists cant win either we're getting yelled at for not supporting the forced labor of our siblings, viewed as bougie parasites for daring not to work our bodies to destruction or we get called ableist for calling for the destruction of our society that runs on forced labor

#seriously decide if u want to yell at me for saying people shouldnt be forced to work or for benefiting from the global hegemony that #forces people to work #i think its honestly the western authcoms that want to keep society largely unchanged w their disability boards and peoples police #and extractive practices and lack of Land Back and autonomy for native peoples

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ciderjacks · 24 days

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idk why ppl ignore that women, regardless of race or class, experience police violence for being female. Both from on duty and off duty officers. That 40% cops thing is thrown around a lot but no one acknowledges that as hate, that police officers off duty will often use their power as a man and as an officer to beat/kill women. Theres also the cases of police on duty using abortion as an excuse to brutalize and stalk women, police officers raping and murdering women using their power as officers to do it and getting away with it. and then also something no one talks about: the justice system unfairly punishes women if it can. The justice system hates women being free.

Also, “crime of passion” laws still exist, female murder victims and missing women (regardless of race, but especially native women) are rarely taken seriously. And let’s not even get into how women are treated in female prisons, male guards frequently use female prisons as his own personal brothel, and this behaviour is allowed for sometimes years. Oh, and shit let’s also not talk about how many laws are really only created to protect men and arrest girls. Let’s not talk about how many women end up in jail for minor things like drugs and property damage, compared to men.

Let’s also not talk about how poverty and drug addiction connect, and how the patriarchy keeps women in poverty by intentionally underpaying female dominated fields, reducing wages on any field when it becomes female dominated, and underpaying the female workers who happen to work in male dominated fields to keep them poorer than their male counterparts. Let’s not talk about how keeping females and female communities poor is directly contributing to the kind of crime that women are then unfairly targeted for.

let’s really not talk about how all these things connect, how the men in charge of society have set up a system that keeps women poor and trapped, then the men in charge of prison facilities setting up a system where women are locked up in places where they have no control for minor charges, then said men, who now have complete control over these women, use the women who’ve been trapped in these facilities (again, very often for things a man wouldn’t be criminally charged for) as sex slaves, even forcing them to get pregnant….yeah, let’s not talk about how all that connects.

#police brutality #tw sa #sexism #All of this applies especially to black and native women #Who face the worst of this #But it happens to white women asian women latina women etc too #You’re not safe from this treatment just bc ur white or pretty or rich or gender conforming or whatever

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decolonize-the-left · 1 year

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The tree cutting has started

How to help:

Support the work of the Forest Justice Defense Fund a broad coalition dedicated to saving the Atlanta Forest by donating here

The Atlanta Solidarity Fund bails out activists who are arrested for participating in social justice movements, and helps them get access to lawyers. Donate here

You can donate to the lawsuit challenging the Dekalb County movie studio land swap here

Call Brasfield & Gorrie (678.581.6400), the Atlanta Police Foundation (770.354.3392), and the City of Atlanta (404.330.6100) and ask them to cancel the project and to remain peaceful with tree-sitters and other on-the-ground protesters

You can organize protests, send phone calls or emails, or help with direct actions of different kinds to encourage contractors of the various projects to stop the destruction. You can find some of the contractors here: stopreevesyoung.com

You can form an Action Group in your community, neighborhood, town, city, college, or scene. Together, you can host information nights, movie screenings, potluck dinners, and protests at the offices of contractors, at the homes of the board members, on campus, or elsewhere. You can post and pass out fliers at public places and shows, knock on doors to talk to neighbors and sign them up for text alerts, fundraisers, or actions, or you can innovate new activities altogether.

If you want to protest like the French NOW is the time to show that you will support and protect people on the Frontline!!

These protesters are protecting ALL of us after all! Cop city will be a training ground for police across the USA.

Let's show them our gratitude and give them that spark of morale that solidarity and support brings.

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foldingfittedsheets · 6 months

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The professor I TA for asked for things to go in a “pumpkin spice still life”.

Unsure if that meant theme or color but assuming color, I gathered up my plush red panda, a plastic red-brown rock, a toy bison, a leather pouch, some satsumas, and a can of pumpkin.

We set up a fine still life, adding my stuff to his. And one of the students fell in love with my playmobil bison, asking if they could borrow it. I said yes, but only if they could provide collateral. They reached for an earring (after suggesting an organ) and I was like, no no, less valuable collateral!

While they cleaned their brushes I scoped their stuff and asked for their backpack keychain.

For my toy bison I received: a plush toy cheeseburger (the thing I actually asked for), a miniature PS2 copy of Bully, and a tiny vial containing a petrified rat heart that I hadn’t actually seen.

I’m so fucking stoked on the rat heart. If they don’t return my bison I won’t even be too sad.

#ramblies #they also wear a shirt that says native pride and told a story about making a joke as a 14yr old about eating their grandma #and then getting taken into police custody to have cannibalism being illegal explained #and I was sitting there like- that’s the fucking racism cause there’s no other explanation for that bullshit #anyway!#rat heart

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thecitynative · 10 months

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A two year review finished by the DOJ shows Minneapolis Police's widespread discrimination against it's Native & Black residents. The review also shows excessive/deadly force, the use of force following stops, and discrimination against those with behavioral health disabilities. The CDC & 2019 Census data released show that Native people suffer from police deaths 2.2 % higher than white people and 1.2 % higher than black people. Here is the report

This is really scary

#native tumblr #native issues #native rights #native lives matter #minneapolis #department of justice #police brutality #killer cops #blacklivesmatter

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allthecanadianpolitics · 2 years

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An Indigenous man and his granddaughter who were wrongly handcuffed outside a Bank of Montreal branch in Vancouver have reached a human rights settlement with police.

Maxwell Johnson, from the Heiltsuk Nation, signed the "momentous" settlement agreement alongside his granddaughter at a news conference on Wednesday, saying their "three-year fight for justice" had ended with police admitting their discrimination.

"My family and myself are very pleased with the outcome of this settlement," Johnson said after the signing.

"One of the things I keep seeing is my granddaughter standing on that street, crying while she's being handcuffed. I don't think any parent or grandparent should ever see that in their lifetime," he added.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#Defund the police #Indigenous #First Nations #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #ACAB #Racism #Anti native Racism #Vancouver #Vancouver Police #bank of montreal

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typinggently · 8 months

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The first time I came across the tag #water sports I didn’t know what it meant, so I read the entire fic — it was very good —, didn’t notice anything in particular with it, went back and thought to myself with slight disappointment “they didn’t even talk about water ski”. Then I went on for at least another year not knowing what that tag referred to.

#the joys of not being a native speaker?#it was a very very good fic though #I’m not into that whole thing but this one? yeah. Hm.#it was MorMor and I just reread the iconic incredible fuck the police RumRollins fic so that’s what it came to mind again #I need to find that OG fic #I think I was 15-16. not sure.

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whats-in-a-sentence · 2 months

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He travelled the Cape, not with an interpreter but an escort of the Native Police, speaking to those "whose evidence is really of value". He came away convinced the Native Police should not only survive but be strengthened.

So long as bushmen, pioneers, prospectors of our own race require protection, or lost persons and criminals, white or black, are able to be tracked in the wilds of the bush, and so long as we have wild uncivilised blacks to control, punish, or in any way look after, deal with, or even feed in their native haunts, I consider strong native police detachments a necessity.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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tenth-sentence · 2 months

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They freely confessed – under noms de plume – to their part in mass killings.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

#book quote #killing for country #david marr #nonfiction #confession #native police #nom de plume #killing #death

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nando161mando · 5 months

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Georgia refuses to release key evidence tied to Tort's murder at the hands of State police. Now they are leaking excerpts of Tort's diary to distract us.

An independent autopsy proves Tort's hands were up/no gun powder on hands when they were brutally assassinated for activism.

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the-everqueen · 7 months

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"well said," "articulate," "we need more civil discussion like this" = red flags for me, personally, because while i think being legible has a political use-value, legible and civil as concepts are always premised on dominant modes of thought. in other words, you can't only listen to marginalized persons when they speak real nice and don't make anyone uncomfortable. civility and comfort aren't how any of us get free.

#whoops the disc horse #don't expect me to be civil about antiblackness and the ongoing genocide of black and native peoples #this shit ain't in the past; it's here in our present #what are you doing to counteract black and native death NOW?#think about under what conditions mis primos have been openly murdered #under the guise of presenting a ''threat''#mis primos y primas who were shot for reaching for a wallet; for yelling at a cop while unarmed; for being disabled in public #i get that ''well said'' is a holdover for a lot of ppl from public school or college where you were required to respond in some way #i get it's not intended as tone policing #i'm just saying...consider which things you find palatable vs which you don't #being angry about racism and exclusion should be the norm. not calm.

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ciderjacks · 5 months

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Also ok I need to sleep but deadloch is such a good satire also. Like I’ve watched some cop shows, and holy shit it flips every aspect over. The obvious one is that it’s women leading and men getting murdered instead of the other way around, but the one I find the most interesting and most important, is that it takes the “few bad apples”, as well as the “ends justify the means” shit, and completely flips it. Like. Ok. B99 is a cop show. It’s a “progressive” cop show, that sort of tries? To have some messaging about bad policing, but it still falls into the issue of the messages being: “most cops are fine it’s just that some cops are racist! But we can just get them fired so it’s ok” and “it’s necessary for cops to break the law and do morally questionable things to solve a case, and they risk getting fired for it so it’s brave”

Meanwhile even with a progressive show like b99, it still fits into the box of what deadloch is parodying. Like the core messages of deadloch are the opposite of what I listed above. Like we have: “the system is rotten, corrupt, and the few good cops are getting pushed out because cops are actively discouraged from being good” and “the bravest thing an officer can do is follow the law and treat people with human decency”

Like idk what else to say it’s just really good. It’s a really good satire. I went in with low expectations (bc I didn’t realize it was going to be a satire) but like. Yeah It’s really really well done.

#TBC I’m not saying u can’t like b99 or other earnest cop shows. They’re fun like I get it.#But like. Be aware of what they’re telling you.#Bc a lot of them use copaganda pretty heavily #deadloch #B99 critical #Also this is just from my pov as an American who’s had crappy experiences with cops bc of mostly sexism and anti native bullshit #The show is Australian idk how different policing is down there and like what the nuances are there. Bc. I am not Australian.#also side note I liked the indigenous aspect of the show. I liked it so much. It was so so so good.

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