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decolonialatlas, 4 months ago to random

As of January 17, analysis of satellite data reveals that between 50% and 62% of all buildings in Gaza have likely been damaged or destroyed. The destruction has not only forced 1.9 million people to leave their homes but also made it impossible for many to return. This has led some experts to describe what is happening in Gaza as “domicide”, defined as the widespread, deliberate destruction of the home to make it uninhabitable, preventing the return of displaced people. The concept is not recognized in law.

• "How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods – visual investigation," from the Guardian.

decolonialatlas, 4 months ago to random

A few of Australia's major cities traditional place names accompanied with the local greetings. There are hundreds of mobs around Aus with hundreds of languages, here is a tip of the iceberg!

This is a free downloadable resource - acknowledgethis.com.au/free for anyone to print out in full!

decolonialatlas, 6 months ago to random

In Haudenosaunee tradition, being grateful & giving thanks is a regular practice in both everyday life & at special occasions. The Thanksgiving Address, or “The Words that Come Before All Else,” is delivered in Native Haudenosaunee languages at both the beginning & the end of social gatherings, celebrations, and council meetings; and it is recited each morning at the beginning of the school day. The Thanksgiving Address is not a prayer, but rather an offering of greetings & thanks to the natural world. Each part of Creation is acknowledged & thanked for the ways in which it contributes to life on Earth.

As Robin Wall Kimmerer says, you can’t listen to the Thanksgiving Address without feeling wealthy. And, while expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea. In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires…The Thanksgiving Address reminds you that you already have everything you need… That’s good medicine for land and people alike.

decolonialatlas, 7 months ago to random

Killers of the Flower Moon has undoubtedly been the first time most people have engaged with Osage history. We're here to inform you that it doesn't even scratch the surface.

decolonialatlas, 7 months ago to random

Life in Gaza before 1948.

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decolonialatlas, 7 months ago to random

Right now, Israel is sending tanks and infantry into Gaza. They've knocked out all communications. A million people have already been displaced from northern Gaza. The Israeli government's stated objective is a "long-term presence" in Gaza and that "the people of Gaza should evacuate… and Egypt will have to accept them." The endgame is the ethnic cleansing of 2 million Palestinians under the shroud of a media blackout.

The Nakba created the world's longest running and largest refugee crisis. Approximately 1 in 3 refugees worldwide are Palestinian.

decolonialatlas, 7 months ago to random

Reminder that Israel destroyed Gaza's airport in 2001 and have systematically denied Palestinians the basic right to movement. That's why we (and Israeli officials themselves) call Gaza an open-air prison. They have nowhere to go. Nowhere to escape the bombs. This is a war crime. This is genocide.

decolonialatlas, 7 months ago to random

Once again, the United States is the world's greatest impediment to peace. As a permanent member of the UN security council, the US's veto power has blocked every ceasefire resolution concerning Israel for years.

decolonialatlas, 7 months ago to random

Via Mona Chalabi :
The New York Times has consistently mentioned Israeli deaths more often than Palestinian deaths. What’s more, their coverage of Israeli deaths is increasing as more Palestinians are dying. Israeli deaths have been mentioned the most in the past few days, even though Israeli deaths have plateaued since 10/12 and Palestinian deaths have skyrocketed.
Please read the notes below on this data - it’s crucial context.
📎 In addition to the bias in sheer volume of coverage, there was a huge difference in the language used. The word “slaughter” was used 53 times in these articles since 10/7 to describe the deaths of Israelis and zero times to describe the death of Palestinians. The word “massacre” shows up 24 times in reference to Israelis and once in reference to Palestinians.
📎 The articles rarely mention the names of Palestinians who die — instead using terms like “mourner”, “resident”, “assailant” or “militant”.
📎 In one article, a murdered Palestinian was simply referred to as the “bloodied corpse” of a presumed terrorist. This is still counted as a mention of a Palestinian death in the data despite the framing. Israelis who died were often mentioned individually and by name with reference to their families and professions which humanized them in comparison to anonymous Palestinians.
Sources: This data was compiled and analyzed by Holly Jackson, a researcher at University of California, Berkeley based on 991 New York Times articles posted between 10/7 and 10/18. The articles were selected if they contained any of the keywords: Palestine, Israel, Palestinian, and Israeli. 500 articles were automatically tagged to have mentions of death or words related to death. Holly read all death related sentences in these articles and tagged whether the sentence was talking about Palestinians, Israelis, both, or neither (i.e. something unrelated).The data on deaths is from OCHA (but Palestinians are struggling to count and register deaths so their numbers are likely to be an undercount).

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decolonialatlas, 8 months ago to random

The Turtle Island Decolonized map was published a week ago, and already y’all have shown it so much love. From printing posters for your neighbors to adding these names to Wikipedia, we’re truly humbled and grateful. By far the most meaningful responses we’ve gotten have been from folks seeing their languages represented on a map like this for the first time. That’s really why this project was started 9 years ago. Decolonization is simultaneously a struggle for recognition and a celebration of existence - and that’s what this map is.

We encourage everyone to keep printing these posters available for free download on our website. If you can, share copies with your local schools and Indigenous cultural centers. And send us your photos of the map out in the world - we’d love to see it!

https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/turtle-island-decolonized/

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decolonialatlas, 8 months ago to random

300 names. 150 languages. 9 years of research involving the consultation of 100s of elders and language-keepers across the continent. We're thrilled to finally share this with the world on this Indigenous Peoples Day!

Documenting these names is vital work as many of the elders who worked on this project have since joined the ancestors. This map serves to support ongoing language revitalization efforts, acknowledge unextinguished Indigenous land tenure, and help us all better understand Indigenous history, the legacy of colonization, and our relationship with the land.

Just as this knowledge was gifted to us, the map is a gift we hope people will print and hang in schools, community centers, and anywhere it can help start a dialogue.

On our website, you can also find a list of all these names and resources to help learn the accurate pronunciations.

Check it out for yourself at decolonialatlas.com

decolonialatlas, 8 months ago to random

In the context of Indigenous erasure, the global collapse of traditional ecological knowledge, language suppression and revitalization, our hope is that this map will lead to more accurate cultural representation and recognition of unextinguished Indigenous land tenure.

When the map is published on Oct 9, 2023 (Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the U.S.), it will be publicly available for free on our website. Anyone will be able to download and print the map. We're hoping to fundraise to print and ship free posters to Indigenous schools and cultural centers, but we absolutely welcome these maps being hung in other spaces as well because we all need maps that can help us better understand the world and our place in it.

decolonialatlas, 8 months ago to random

"Settlers always think they're defending themselves. It's why they build forts on other peoples' land" - Fred Moten

decolonialatlas, 8 months ago to random

Self-determination means cultural sharing on the tribe's terms, not Silicon Valley's.

decolonialatlas, 9 months ago to random

New York City is often regarded as the world's most linguistically diverse urban center, boasting around 700 of the world's 7,000 languages spoken on its streets. But most languages in NYC are spoken by communities making up a small fraction of the population. To understand urban linguistic diversity on a larger scale, we created this map, as larger communities represent a barrier against assimilation. Many cities lack comprehensive language demographic data, particularly for languages spoken by less than 1% of the population. The absence of official data necessitates estimates from language communities themselves, underscoring the need for cities to collect and evaluate demographic and linguistic data for better understanding.

Toronto claims the title of the world's most linguistically diverse city, with 17 languages spoken by more than 1% of the population according to the 2021 census. These languages include English, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, Spanish, Portuguese, Tamil, Italian, Farsi, Urdu, Russian, Arabic, Korean, Bengali, Vietnamese, and Gujarati. Notably, Indigenous languages are absent from this list. For urban Indigenous linguistic diversity in the Americas, Guatemala City, with its many Maya languages, leads the way.

Cities with linguistic diversity have a duty to provide government services, forms, and information in multiple languages, especially for vital services like healthcare, housing, and emergency response. San Francisco's Language Access Ordinance in the U.S. stands out as a strong local language law, ensuring accessibility for residents with limited English proficiency through translation and interpretation services.

decolonialatlas, 9 months ago to random

In Potawatomi, rocks are animate, as are mountains and water and fire and places. Beings that are imbued with spirit, our sacred medicines, our songs, drums, and even stories, are all animate. The list of the inanimate seems to be smaller, filled with objects that are made by people. Of an inanimate being, like a table, we say, “What is it?” And we answer Dopwen yewe. Table it is. But of apple, we must say, “Who is that being?” And reply Mshimin yawe. Apple that being is.

English doesn’t give us many tools for incorporating respect for animacy. In English, you are either a human or a thing. Our grammar boxes us in by the choice of reducing a nonhuman being to an it, or it must be gendered, inappropriately, as a he or a she. Where are our words for the simple existence of another living being? Where is our yawe?

A language teacher I know explained that grammar is just the way we chart relationships in language. Maybe it also reflects our relationships with each other. Maybe a grammar of animacy could lead us to whole new ways of living in the world, other species a sovereign people, a world with a democracy of species, not a tyranny of one—with moral responsibility to water and wolves, and with a legal system that recognizes the standing of other species. It’s all in the pronouns.

• From 'Grammar of Animacy' by Robin Wall Kimmerer

decolonialatlas, 9 months ago to random

It's wild rice season in the Great Lakes!

"In many ways, manoomin is our lifeblood as Anishinaabeg – it is our primary economic, nutritional, and cultural resource. When we migrated here from the east, we were guided by prophecies that instructed us to go “where the food grows on the water.” Manoomin is our sacred food – used in many of our ceremonies, and often the first solid food given to our babies. Many of us eat it daily. It is a special gift from the Creator, and we have a responsibility to protect it. The treaties between the Anishinaabe and the United States specifically protect manoomin. It's the only grain listed in any U.S. treaty because it's that important." - Stop Line 3

decolonialatlas, 9 months ago to random

Welcome to another bountiful harvest of Turtle Island's largest native fruit.

decolonialatlas, 10 months ago to random

Equal pay for equal work!

Source: Pew Research

decolonialatlas, 10 months ago to random

It's not normal to pay 15% of an annual lease to brokers you never hired and who didn't help find the apartment.

A new NYC City Council bill would require the broker fee be paid by the party who hired the broker.

decolonialatlas, 10 months ago to random

Stolen heritage back!

decolonialatlas, 11 months ago to random

July 11, 1990 - Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) warriors and their allies set up a blockade at Ka’neshatà:ke (Oka, Québec) to protest the expansion of a golf course onto their territory. Canada's response left 75 warriors wounded and 1 elder dead, and ignited a new generation of Indigenous resistance.

Tsi nén:we eniakwateriiósheke, tsi nén:we eniakwatste'niarónsheke.

We will always keep fighting, we will always keep enduring.

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decolonialatlas, 11 months ago to random

When will the people of the United States be free of the United States?

decolonialatlas, 11 months ago to random

“Humans, like all mammals, are heat engines; surviving means having to continually cool off, as panting dogs do. For that, the temperature needs to be low enough for the air to act as a kind of refrigerant, drawing heat off the skin so the engine can keep pumping. At seven degrees of warming, that would become impossible for portions of the planet’s equatorial band, and especially the tropics, where humidity adds to the problem. And the effect would be fast: after a few hours, a human body would be cooked to death from both inside and out. At eleven or twelve degrees Celsius of warming, more than half the world’s population, as distributed today, would die of direct heat. Things almost certainly won’t get that hot anytime soon, though some models of unabated emissions do bring us that far eventually, over centuries. But at just five degrees, according to some calculations, whole parts of the globe would be literally unsurvivable for humans. At six, summer labor of any kind would become impossible in the lower Mississippi Valley, and everybody in the United States east of the Rockies would suffer more from heat than anyone, anywhere, in the world today. New York City would be hotter than present-day Bahrain, one of the planet’s hottest spots, and the temperature in Bahrain “would induce hyperthermia in even sleeping humans.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming