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One of the best #Indigenous #comedians - the legendary #CharlieHill 
R.I.P.
He was such a #trailblazer & inspiration for many native comedians who came after. #RichardPryor recognized Charlie's talent & gave him a TV spotlight in the late 70s.
Charlie Hill Stand Up Comedy | The Richard Pryor Show | 1977 | NBC
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kFSoWpYjkzc
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Was, wenn die Teilung Russlands nicht Frieden bringt, sondern Chaos?
Grenzen sind nicht nur Linien auf Karten – sie bewahren Geschichte, Spannungen und Realität.
→ Den vollständigen Artikel auf Medium lesen.
#Geopolitics #Russia #Decolonization #Borders #Sovereignty #PostEmpire
#MediumArticle #CriticalThinking #Democracy #Nations #Ukraine #news
#PowerStructures #PoliticalMorality #EmpireLogic #GeopoliticalAnalysis
#UkraineCrisis #WarAndPeace
"Crepúsculo do Império. Portugal e as guerras de descolonização" foi coordenado por Pedro Aires Oliveira e João Vieira Borges e apresenta um grande estado da questão sobre os últimos anos do colonialismo português.
Terá nova sessão de apresentação a 3 de Abril, durante o congresso "Das Guerras ao Pós-25 de Abril: Os Militares em Territórios em Convulsão".
https://www.bertrandeditora.pt/produtos/ficha/crepusculo-do-imperio/29093855
3 kinds of Indigenous smudge medicines.
From top to bottom:
#BraidedSweetgrass
#WhiteSage
#Cedar
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And look, I'm the first one to ensure 100% of the blame rests on manipulators rather than the manipulated. But I'm not going to do that in this moment. I'm going to look at what I *did* know as a conservative Christian up till age 26 in 2001, long after these events had been set into motion but still with plenty of time to stop them and roll them back.
I knew these two things:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you + if you have done it into the least of these, you have done it into me (Jesus).
There's no way to put those together without the result: If I do it to someone else, I'm doing it to myself.
If I cut taxes because "my" money is forcefully going to the freeloaders (BIPOC, the poor, the sick, the imprisoned — folks *expressly* listed in the Bible), I did it to myself.
These truths were here all along. Yes, the Manipulator Class wove in all kinds of distractions and distortions, but we had plenty of patriotic and RW slogans that, if considered closely, reveals that we should not have let this happen.
This is how I feel. I am not a democrat, liberal, socialist or any other colonial political or economic design.
#LandBack to me means exactly that - LandBack to the Native Nations. #Decolonization means LandBack and full non-custodial Native Nation #Sovereignty - which is a win-win for everyone in reality.
Colonial systems, different or new politicians and even eternal voting will never fix or reform colonial systems. It is designed that way.
#Native #Indigenous
We've opened a call for papers for the workshop "Contested Imperial Endings", seeking to encourage a comparative discussion on dissolution of several European empires, with a greater emphasis on those which unravelled in the aftermath of post-1945 European decolonization.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/contested-imperial-endings/
The #TRANSMAT project culminated last week with the conference ‘Decolonising Museums and Colonial Collections. Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods’ and the opening of the exhibition ‘Facing the Colonial Legacy in the Museum’, both hosted by the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum in #FigueiraDaFoz.
We tell you more here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/transmat-conferencia-exposicao/
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The early cross cultural marriages between Chinese men & Indigenous women occurred more often back in the gold rush & railroad building days because Canada had the head tax on Chinese people & also it was mostly men allowed to come here to work. There were very few Chinese women allowed to come into Canada. The Chinese men worked for basically colonial slave wages, like Indigenous workers - both were paid far less, for same work, as their white coworkers.
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This week, the #TRANSMAT team moves to Figueira da Foz for the international conference ‘Decolonizing Museums and Colonial Collections. Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods’.
The programme includes keynote speakers Meryem Korun, Mark Thurner, David William Aparecido Ribeiro, and Marta Lourenço.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/decolonizing-museums-colonial-collections/
Sitting & waiting to sign some documents & then can get out of this place, full of unmasked plague spreaders - at least for a few hours until I can bring my client her new air filtration unit.
As I'm waiting, am reading up more on how to make reef balls out of broken seashells. Getting ahead on some research that will help me to help better with several projects along our coasts to restore Indigenous shellfish gardens & utilize the nature engineering powers of bivalves to restore some ocean ecosystems that were destroyed by acts of greed fueled colonialism.
#NativeAmericaCalling: A new wave of resistance against #Trans #Native relatives
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
"Trans #NativeAmericans face a new wave of #resistance
"Iowa is testing new legal limits as the first state to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state’s civil rights code.
"The Trump administration is also removing transgender service personnel from the military. And the State Department is using existing law against #fraud to bar foreign #TransgenderAthletes from entering the country, something critics worry could be used to ban any trans traveler.
"After years of progress, Native American trans residents are facing a major rollback of favorable laws and policies. Tune in to hear about the current public climate and what might be in store for the future."
Listen:
https://soundcloud.com/indianz/two-spirit-ncai-ecws2025
Spotify link:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6dtU6nDFD0f7eupqihE4Rg?go=1&sp_cid=b834467a3894c08ce4d3b77ae608fd50&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=1452335958d041a6
#Resist #ResistFascism #ResistColonialism #GBLTQRights #NativeAmericans #USPol #Decolonization #Decolonize
Indianz.Com · Native America Calling: A new wave of resistance against Trans Native relativesAfter years of progress, Native trans relatives are facing a major rollback of favorable laws and policies.
#Arizona #TwoSpirit #Powwow empowers community amid growing #AntiTrans legislation
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
By Brandelyn Clark
"The Arizona Two Spirit Powwow returned to #PhoenixArizona on Saturday, February 22, to spotlight Indigenous #LGBTQ+ and two-spirit people for a day of cultural celebration and community.
"Hosted at South Mountain Community College, the event welcomed dancers, drum groups and attendees from across the region. More than just a traditional gathering, the powwow allowed two-spirit individuals to celebrate their identities and honor their place in Indigenous culture.
“'This (powwow) is a perfect example of a #SafeSpace for people to come and dance in whatever category they want to dance in, dress the way that they feel good about themselves, love who they want to love, and they are safe here. This tells the community we are here, we are here for you,' Sheila Lopez said.
"Lopez is the founder of Arizona’s first Two Spirit Powwow and the first Native chapter of #PFLAG, which bills itself as the country’s largest advocacy organization that supports LGBTQ+ individuals and their families.
"President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions have left #transgender and two-spirit communities uncertain about their rights and recognition going forward.
"'It is super important right now with the administration, what they’re doing to pretty much wipe away trans people. It’s super critical right now for us to continue to show up in the community, to say we’re here, we’re not going anywhere and you can’t erase us, period,' Lopez said."
Read more:
https://indianz.com/News/2025/03/04/cronkite-news-two-spirit-powwow-brings-community-together-for-celebration/
#Resist #ResistFascism #ResistColonialism #GBLTQRights #TwoSpiritPowwow #NativeAmericans #USPol #Decolonization #Decolonize #Powwows
Indianz.Com · Cronkite News: Two Spirit Powwow brings community together for celebration"This tells the community we are here, we are here for you," said Sheila Lopez, the founder of the Arizona Two Spirit Powwow.
Blog: Voices of #Decolonization
#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘#nuclear-is-green' deception
by William Eric Altvater, February 6, 2025
"Some First Nation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #Indigenous peoples to expand nuclear power generation capacity in #Canada.
"For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.
"Newcomers, armed with the #Colonizing tool, 'The #DoctrineOfDiscovery' and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called 'Savages,' almost totally exterminating #Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.
"Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for #capitalism, a system to make a #profit, that morphed into #greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.
"Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, #deforestation is rampant, #biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.
"As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the 'bigger, better, faster, more is never enough' mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that #FossilFuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.
"So-called '#GreenEnergy' is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.
"#NuclearPower is now being touted as being 'Green.' It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as #uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.
"When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.
"After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous #Grandmothers have labelled it 'Forever Dangerous.'
"The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the #RadioactiveWaste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.
"What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.
"Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.
"Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the 'Nuclear is Green' mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."
Eric lives in #PeskotomuhkatiNation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.
https://www.wabanakireach.org/first_nations_chiefs_shouldn_t_be_duped_by_the_nuclear_is_green_deception_by_william_altvater
#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #UraniumMining #UraniumMilling #LeaveItInTheGround #Greenwashing #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #NuclearIsNotGreen #CanadaPol #NuclearWaste #NuclearIndustry #TEPCOLies #HoltecLies #NuclearColonialism
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A Mardi Gras offering~
Video by Andrew Sage of Andrewism Carnival and Class Struggle
On yootoob via duckplsyer
duck://player/x4nDNeKotgA
#BostonReview book talk
#SamKlug in conversation about his book #TheInternalColony with Prof. Chad Williams
"Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance of global #decolonization to the divergence between mainstream liberalism and the #BlackFreedomMovement in postwar America."
#BlackHistory #UShistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLiberation #internalColonization #CivilRights #racialCapitalism #decolonialStruggles #books @bookstodon @histodons
