"If #Biden continues his current course, extraction of the lithium, copper, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and manganese vital for a green-energy transition will come at the cost of Indigenous lands and trust... it could also cost Biden the election."
Sheila, a family friend, a neighbour, a mother - stolen from her family as a child during the #sixtiesScoop - a woman who did everything she could to care for her community - our community, was left impoverished and without any help from the same state that destroyed her family.
She was couch surfing, staying with my uncle when his house caught fire in the middle of the night. The others barely made it out. Sheila did not.
Sheila was the first friend to go during the pandemic. There have been 9 more since then. I haven't even been able to begin process Sheila's passing.
I'm greatly looking forward to this permeant public reminder of a friend, but more importantly a role model - a person who despite having very little, gave it all. The same cannot be said about most.
May her death bring positivity, and foster a sense of community over consumption.
I am pretty disgusted by both parties and will be voting 3rd party come November! If you are more worried about a cheeto jesus win over genocide Joe, then you are just as complacent in this as they are in this war for PALESTINIAN FREEDOM AND LIVES, AND AMERICAN FREEDOM AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Because to me, both parties are death parties, death to freedom of the ppl, and definitely death to democracy. #FreePalestine#FreeCongo#FreeSudan#FreeAmerica#LandBack
just a reminder to all the folks putting content out for Asian Heritage Month, without acknowledging the ongoing genocide being committed against Asian's.
First they came for our children...because the children believe that everyone should have a right to live. Next they will come for the rest of us. It's time to stand up to these bullies and get out there to support the children and the rights to free speech!
This is what you're not seeing on the news! She's yelling that she hopes the protesters get raped at college kids!!! Only colonizer minds think this way. The colonizers are monsters that only think that "they are the only race"!
#UNisCivilSociety: The report, “Criminalization of Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights,” lays out the mechanisms by which Indigenous peoples around the world are increasingly facing criminalization and violations of their rights with impunity. Indigenous land, subsistence, and governance rights are often poorly implemented, if at all, leading to violations when they intersect with government and third-party interests, especially in extractive industries and conservation.
#Billionaires want to #dismantle#socialsecurity and put all your money in their bank accounts. I think we should do the opposite and take their #trilliondollars, put it into social security, and put everyone below $250k on #disability . You don’t have to call it #ubi if you don’t want to. It’s not #socialism I promise.
I’m beginning to get the distinct impression that leftists who care about the environment enough to do actually get off their ass and do something about it are a miniscule minority.
Most seem more interested in virtue signaling their love for humanity while we fill our nest so full of shit our children drown in a boiling vat of it.
And honestly, I think the IDPOL cancel culture just has a lot of people too scared to speak out for fear of being labeled an eco-fascist.
It’s crazy.
There won’t be any people to love in a decade or two if we don’t get our environmental shit together. And it is going to hit the marginalized groups the hardest, first.
We don’t have the luxury of choosing our battles anymore people. We ALL have to be #Class warriors. We ALL have to be #SocialJustice Warriors. And, we ALL have to be #EnvironmentalWarriors
@LeftistLawyer Mobius, the Leftist Lawyer confines himself to leftists only. Since the vast majority of people don't fit into that theoretical cubbyhole, he's not counting us non-aligned folk actually doing something about the environment on the "Think Globally Act Locally" basis, and there are a lot of us. He's overlooking Native Americans entirely. #Landback
Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:
Comfortable with ambiguity
Strong people skills
Good culture fit
Multitasking
A fast-paced dynamic environment
Bachelor's degree or better
I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.
I only consider myself "left wing" in the French Revolution sense, and not in the Marx vs Smith sense as I don't adhere to European/Christian economic theories.
The Minnesota state legislature has introduced a bill in both the house and senate to return land stolen - part of a treaty not upheld by the US - to the Indigenous Red Lake Nation.
It's the right thing to do. It will be challenging to accomplish, as it impacts current communities and businesses in the area. But it is the right thing to do.
Legislation would give state land around Upper Red Lake to Red Lake Nation #LandBack#MNastodon
I used to play a fun game with white folks to wake them up a bit. Any time a white person would say something about slavery ending or segregation ending or something, I'd ask them, "When did slavery end, exactly?"
They'd say something about the civil war, and I'd cite Slavery By Another Name and point out peonage in the early 1900's, which wasn't even prosecuted until the 1940's. They guess after that and I'd point out that, legally speaking, there was no law against slavery in the US until the 50's. I might point out that Jim Crow was really about extending slavery.
Whatever white person then guesses the civil rights movement ended slavery, and then I'd explain the 13th amendment to them and blow their minds. I might even point out how Walmart was sued for using slave labor when they locked workers in stores after hours and forced them to work without pay.
I feel like the 13th Amendment is common enough knowledge now that basically anyone would answer correctly that slavery is still legal in the US.
So how about we play another game. When was the last time the US violated a treaty with a tribe, failed to uphold a promise in a treaty, or otherwise illegally annex sovereign indigenous land? I don't mean this in the sense that they're always in violation. I mean, what was the last year that the US government violated a treaty that they had been honoring.
If you try to Google broken treaties, most results will cover the history up to 1871. Most folks will probably guess the trail of tears or something like that. Some clever folks might point to the annexation of Hawaii in 1898. But I don't think that a lot of people know about the US military via Pierce County violated the Treaty of Medicine Creek by illegally annexing part of the Nisqually reservation in 1918 to expand the local military base called JBLM.
Now... With that starting point, let's play. Putting the question another way...
When did the US government stop violating its treaties with tribes? What year?
I'm gonna tag with #LandBack, because I have some answers (as to when they didn't) but I bet there's a lot I don't know about. (If you're laughing because you know the answer, this is primarily for colonizer education... not excluding my own)
Ok, so a little over 100 years ago the US military violated the Treaty of Medicine Creek and kicked a bunch of native people off their land and stole it for what became JBLM.
When I was growing up, I remember being taught that the US stole a bunch of land in the past and was all done with that since they stole it all. This all happened in the 1800's, right?
Seeing a 19 at the front of the year feels a bit weird, huh? It feels so much closer. Like finding out slavery was still common in the 1910's and 20's in the south. It kind of changes how one thinks about things... Or at least it did for me. But that's still a long time ago.
Let's talk about something more recent. In 1868 the US signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie with the Lakota people. It said that unused federal lands would be returned to indigenous people. In 1969, a group of indigenous people started occupying the then unused Alcatraz Federal penitentiary. Since it had been declared surplus federal property by the federal government, they were legally reclaiming the land. The federal government forcibly removed the group in 1971. So this would be another instance of forcibly removing indigenous people from land they were promised.... Not 150 or 100 years ago but a little over 50.
Now 1971 doesn't just some how feel closer because it has a 19 in it. My dad was an adult (in Vietnam, if I'm remembering the dates correctly). There are more than a few people on here who were alive then, and may even remember this.
That whole "breaking treatises" period of US keeps creeping closer.
The whole narrative I remember from school went something like, "we took the land, but now people live on it, so we can't really give it back." But like, here you go. All you have to do is give it back, like the contract you signed where you said you would. It couldn't possibly be easier to fulfill that treaty. There's a whole system designed to track and sell these properties. The hard part is like 90% done. Literally, just give the fucking #landback.
"The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League."