Die könnte auf der #Erde interessant werden, wenn der #Klimawandel weiter fortschreitet. Auch wenn das Sprichwort lautet, dass Du #Geld nicht essen kannst, vielleicht klappte es mit Steinen.
New mobile malware masquerading as a news app has been spotted targeting human rights activists associated with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), a partially recognized state in the western part of the Sahara desert....
An activist who criticized Morocco’s decision to normalize relations with Israel was sentenced to five years in prison, as some of the Arab world’s largest pro-Palestinian protests continue to sweep the country. Abdul Rahman Zankad of Mohammedia, Morocco was arrested in March after posting on Facebook about the Israel-Hamas...
The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) has declared its solidarity with civil society groups and student protesters demonstrating against the torture of a Papuan man, Defianus Kogoya, by Indonesian troops in West Papua last February....
Making the circumcision controversy controversial: Going meta and taking aim at the messenger(s): Reply to Wamai et al.,
de Camargo Jr et al., 2015, Global Public Health
"For those of us who study the use of rhetoric in science, their commentary offers a fascinating example of many of the well-documented observations made by authors working in Science and Technology Studies."
Continuing the Mad Men approach to ecological space colonization, this sequel explores the growing pains of a company town becoming a democracy, a corporation losing its monopoly, and two species of people figuring out how to live together.
Amnesty International Indonesia is calling for an evaluation of the placement of TNI (Indonesian military) in Papua after a video of a Papuan man being tortured by several soldiers at the Gome Post in Puncak regency, Central Papua, went viral on social media. “This incident was a [case of] cruel and inhuman torture that really...
Violence by armed groups has escalated in Haiti, the poorest country in the Caribbean. The issues go back to the era in which Haiti was ruled by the colonizing power France.
How do you name your devices? I name my devices after #philosophers. I've had Schopenhauer, Kant, Diogones, Socrates, etc. But for this newly installed laptop using #GNOME#Silverblue, I decided for something a bit different.
My new system is called Fanton, after Frantz Fanton, who studied the psychology of #colonization - that is both the colonized and the colonizers. His statement that colonization dehumanizes both still rings true today.
I'm especially interested in the potential conflict between concepts of #land#landback and #property and rights concerning #geography between cultures who associate themselves with belonging to the land vs. so-called true nomadic or semi-nomadic cultures (not so much pastoral nomads who still have a sense of belonging to a specific geography).
Added bonus if there is an intersection with #leftist, especially #communist critique.
On this final day of Black History Month I’d like to share about the origin of African countries.
The “Scramble for Africa” was the invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers between 1870 and 1914.
#SouthKorea on Thursday #protested against Japan's repeated territorial claim to the #Dokdo islets, called #Takeshima in Japan, lying halfway between the two countries.
Throughout the ages, colonizer has successfully used the same tricks to steal land from #indegenous : starve them !"
For decades on the West Bank, #Israeli settlers and the IDF soldiers who protect them have both denied #Palestinians access to their crops and ripped the trees from the ground to deny their caretakers a living. Because it takes a number of years after planting for new trees to bear fruit, it’s obvious why they do this.
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Historically it’s often been the case that those who wanted to colonize a land used attacks on treasured resources to dispossess and even eradicate those reliant on them. To see this closer to home we need look no further than the 19th century campaigns in North America to wipe out bison populations, including one led by the US. army starting around 1870. This was done with the expressed purpose of forcing Indigenous peoples reliant on these herds onto reservations.
By taking away a peoples’ way of life like this, European colonizers attempted to degrade and eventually destroy their cultures. In Canada, and likely in the United States, what was done to indigenous people is often dismissed as something that happened, “long ago” (even as it continues in many places to the present day).
On the day that Indonesia went to the polls — Valentine’s Day, February 14 — Benny Wenda, president of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), accused Jakarta’s military of continuing its “reign of terror” in rural West Papua....
French authorities have announced a controversial plan to amend the constitution to revoke birthplace citizenship on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, claiming it would help stem an immigration crisis. The reform was announced by interior minister Gérald Darmanin on Sunday after he arrived on the island, the...
"There's no use fighting over the deeds of the first settlers. What's done is done, and we must live with it. But it's within our power to change the way we've been living with it..."
Love, but not for the colonized: responding to repression of Palestine solidarity at CUNY
"However, what we find particularly affronting and are driven to address here is the insidious way in which WAC coordinators weaponized the language of love, antiracism, and care to silence support for Palestinian liberation. This hypocrisy is part of a broader trend in left academia and is thus important to address."
Separatist fighters who seized Phillip Mehrtens say he will be released to protect humanity and safeguard human rights, but did not say when. Rebels in Indonesia’s West Papua region have said they will release a New Zealand pilot who was taken hostage a year ago as a bargaining chip for their independence movement....
"Palestinians across the West Bank describe how Israeli settlers, with military backing, are intensifying their takeover of land for illegal construction."
"Despite their narrow focus, recent international sanctions against settlers are laying the foundations to turn verbal condemnations into tangible action."
Human rights activists in Western Sahara are being targeted by mobile malware (therecord.media)
New mobile malware masquerading as a news app has been spotted targeting human rights activists associated with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), a partially recognized state in the western part of the Sahara desert....
A Moroccan activist was sentenced to 5 years for criticizing the country’s ties to Israel (apnews.com)
An activist who criticized Morocco’s decision to normalize relations with Israel was sentenced to five years in prison, as some of the Arab world’s largest pro-Palestinian protests continue to sweep the country. Abdul Rahman Zankad of Mohammedia, Morocco was arrested in March after posting on Facebook about the Israel-Hamas...
Let in UN human rights mission to West Papua – stop Indonesian impunity, says Pacific Network on Globalisation (asiapacificreport.nz)
The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) has declared its solidarity with civil society groups and student protesters demonstrating against the torture of a Papuan man, Defianus Kogoya, by Indonesian troops in West Papua last February....
Amnesty International urges review of Indonesian troops in West Papua after torture video (asiapacificreport.nz)
Amnesty International Indonesia is calling for an evaluation of the placement of TNI (Indonesian military) in Papua after a video of a Papuan man being tortured by several soldiers at the Gome Post in Puncak regency, Central Papua, went viral on social media. “This incident was a [case of] cruel and inhuman torture that really...
France's historical responsibility for Haiti (www.dw.com)
Violence by armed groups has escalated in Haiti, the poorest country in the Caribbean. The issues go back to the era in which Haiti was ruled by the colonizing power France.
Wenda accuses Indonesia of more human rights atrocities in Papua (asiapacificreport.nz)
On the day that Indonesia went to the polls — Valentine’s Day, February 14 — Benny Wenda, president of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), accused Jakarta’s military of continuing its “reign of terror” in rural West Papua....
France unveils plan to curtail right to French citizenship in Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte (www.theguardian.com)
French authorities have announced a controversial plan to amend the constitution to revoke birthplace citizenship on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, claiming it would help stem an immigration crisis. The reform was announced by interior minister Gérald Darmanin on Sunday after he arrived on the island, the...
New Zealand pilot kidnapped a year ago and held hostage in West Papua will be freed, West Papua National Liberation Army says (www.theguardian.com)
Separatist fighters who seized Phillip Mehrtens say he will be released to protect humanity and safeguard human rights, but did not say when. Rebels in Indonesia’s West Papua region have said they will release a New Zealand pilot who was taken hostage a year ago as a bargaining chip for their independence movement....