This Invasion Day I can't make the march but walking in spirit. Doing my best to take care of country instead. Always easy to a soundtrack provided by 3CR. Big ups to Billabong Beats show for the Uncle Kev special tribute.
@sidereal We were the ones who set up a ton of foot-traps for #RCMP#CIRG & our best was filling 3 buckets of outhouse #poop & #trebucheting them at RCMP guys & dousing them with 💩 poop. I mooned their helicopter from #landback bridge an hour before I got arrested - for the 5th time, from same location. I kept going back because what #BCgovernment & shady sellout #Pacheedaht chief(not even from island & runs from me) says he speaks for everyone. POS lying #fucktard.
131 years ago today the US overthrew the government of #Hawaii and stole, killed, or muted everything that it hadn't already. There is no statute of limitation for such crimes. #LandBack
"The nature of this confrontation was altered permanently by the hasty and poorly-made decisions of Jerry Parrish, Bryland Myers, Jonathan Salcedo, Ronaldo Kegel, Royce Zah, and Mark Jonathan Lamb. These officers ambushed and killed Tortuguita, the nom de guerre with which we knew a 26 year old anarchist living in the forest.
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Combative anarchists, New Afrikans/Black liberationists, Indigenous land defenders, socialists, nihilists, abolitionists, anti-imperialists, and all other independent and aspiring forces: let’s organize encounters, events, actions, interventions, and deeds to honor those killed, kidnapped, disappeared, and abused in defense of our shared planet and its life forms."
"#Wabanaki history is ingrained across #Maine and has deep rooted cultural relationships with major natural landmarks that many of us see everyday. However, there is a concerning gap surrounding the important aspects of our state’s rich Wabanaki history and what little many students learn about it in Maine schools.
"Wabanaki studies need to be consistently incorporated into all Maine school districts. According to a 2022 report done by the #AbbeMuseum, the #MaineACLU, the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission and the #WabanakiAlliance, the Wabanaki studies law passed by Maine in 2001 is not appropriately enforced across the state.
"The law 'requires schools to teach Maine K–12 students about Wabanaki territories, economic systems, cultural systems, governments, and political systems, as well as the Wabanaki tribes’ relationships with local, state, national, and international governments,' the report says.
"The Portland public school system recently incorporated a Wabanaki studies program into its curriculum. This will hopefully be a good example for other districts across Maine and encourage them to do the same.
"Teaching Wabanaki studies will help children gain a better understanding of the state. In time, this can help them develop a closer relationship with the #land and our responsibility to ensure that it is cared for and treated with respect.
"'Through #traditional stories representing the terrestrial and aquatic systems, important [Wabanaki] values are imparted that safeguard culturally significant resources from overuse and ensure the persistence of the people and culture,' says Natalie Michelle, interdisciplinary studies and research assistant of native environmental studies in climate change at the University of Maine.
"It is more important than ever that we look to native science as we face irreversible damage to our climate. We must prioritize implementing these ideals early into the educational careers of children so they go on to practice them throughout their lives.
"Western science and education has taught the ideals of dominance over nature for centuries. This is reflected in practices that have contributed to the #extinction of animals, rises in #NaturalDisasters, food and water shortages and the numerous other effects of #ClimateChange. Instead of connecting with #nature, we are often taught to distance ourselves from the #NaturalWorld. We are taught to use vague and nonspecific naming tools like 'it' to refer to any non-human being.
"'We use it to distance ourselves, to set others outside our circle of moral consideration, creating #hierarchies of difference that justify our actions — so we don’t feel,' says Robin Kimmerer, professor of environmental and forest biology at the State University of New York College of #EnvironmentalScience and #Forestry.
"Kimmerer talks of alternatives to using 'it' to put ourselves on the same level as other living beings, recognizing them as relatives by calling them by their name. But she says that this can be difficult for many of her students because they were not taught these alternatives until now.
"In my experience growing up in Maine and going to school, I never encountered a class focused on Wabanaki studies until college. I am grateful to have this opportunity now. But it has been difficult for me to implement these new ideals into my thinking toward the land around me because they seem so foreign.
"Using the word 'foreign' seems wrong when describing ideals that have been used in Maine since long before any of us were here. But Maine schools and communities have an opportunity to change this.
"Children who grow up in this state have the right and responsibility to know the history of the land around them. They have the right and responsibility to understand the negative implications of #colonization and #ForcedRemoval of the #WabanakiTribes and how despite horrible #historical events, the Wabanaki people have endured and developed their own #sovereign structures.
"In order to create more inclusive classrooms that incorporate all aspects of our state history and work towards building respectful relationships with Maine land, other communities should follow the exciting example being set in #PortlandMaine."
Hoopa Valley Tribe Acquires 10,395 Acres Bordering the Western Boundary of their Reservation.
Friday, 22 December 2023
“'#California#NativeAmerican tribes are leading the way conserving California’s lands for future generations,' said California Natural Resources Agency Secretary #WadeCrowfoot. 'We are proud to support this leadership and help to enable the return of #HupaMountain property to the #HoopaValleyTribe. Ancestral land return like this is not only the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do as tribal communities have cared for these lands since time immemorial.'"
#Winnebago tribe’s chairwoman says an act of #Congress needed to fix the problem is close to becoming law. It’s about 1,600 acres right along the Missouri River between #SiouxCity and #Sloan.
#TragedyOfEnclosure: These unethical and unsustainable practices are perpetuated by the world’s biggest meat producers who are reaping record profits at the expense of vulnerable communities, animals and the environment. This will not only increase factory farming emissions and contribute to worsening climate related disasters – but also replace the sustainable, agroecological pastoralists and their diversified independent farming systems.
For thousands of years, the Klamath River has been a cornerstone of #Yurok culture, providing its people with a bounty of #chinook salmon, #coho salmon & #steelhead trout.
FYI, in #landback movements here, in #Canada - what Israel is doing is abhorred & not supported whatsoever. Almost every #FirstNations here(& around the world) has demonstrated #solidarity support with #oppressed Palestinians & taken several actions to show it.
Look; if you don’t support #LandBack, you probably don’t understand what is actually being proposed. #Everything I have read and heard has been very reasonable and fair. The only folks talking about revenge campaigns are #WhiteSupremacists trying to drum up #fears. The movement is co-axial with a lot of the #ideas in the #Ecological and Green movements. It’s a #decolonizing measure. It has the potential to benefit lots of #people, including non-Natives, given that many of the proposals would dramatically improve air and water quality and increase access to food across economic class lines. These folks have good ideas. I am asking you, politely, to just, take a look
Watching the parade in New York City and crying like I always do on this day and the float with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe comes up and now I'm really crying. #landback#freepalestine
The annual Thanksgiving tradition has obscured the historical reality of Native American genocide: dispossession from their lands, efforts to destroy their cultures, and the slaughter of their communities.
It is important to remember this past as we celebrate with our families and bear witness to current struggles against genocide and imperialism. Around the world, Indigenous people are continuing to resist and refuse to be erased.
But I want this for Southern #California too. #OilBeach has a speculative bit about imagining taking the #ports away from commercial & US empire control & asserting tribal & civilian stewardship. It's so impossible to imagine San Pedro Bay as a marine sanctuary but this is why we have to.
Stalin was just misunderstood, the tankies assure me of this
Coincidence?! (i.imgur.com)