There's some big name #politicians & #government organizations that still have framed photos of me with them up in their offices. I've burned or deleted pretty much every single photo, with any politician & me in them. I shudder at those memories now. Since I'm fully committed to #decolonization & those politicians were/are still doing their BS whitewashed/greenwashed political BS to this day.
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The stump ranchers: How #Merville lost its #trees. The #logging and #colonial settlement history of the #Comox Valley helps us understand why the coastal #DouglasFir #ecosystem is now #endangered.
https://thediscourse.ca/comox-valley/the-stump-ranchers-how-merville-lost-its-trees
The Discourse. · The stump ranchers: How Merville lost its treesThe logging and settlement history of the Comox Valley helps us understand why the coastal Douglas fir ecosystem is now endangered.
In an Oval Office meeting, our neonazi president ambushed the president of #SouthAfrica, #CyrilRamaphosa, with his #WhiteGenocide lies. There is no Afrikaner #genocide; it's a #FarRight myth. The white 6% own 72% of SA's farmland. #Decolonization demands that it be redistributed.
Wow Heilung has some incredible new material.
While all their stuff contrasts feminine and masculine vibes, their newer videos seem outright matriarchal. The feminine is in control of whatever is happening here.
This is really powerful.
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(he/they) My solidarity with the Palestinians does not depend on whether all Palestinians accept LGBT people. Because solidarity is not a bargaining chip, it is a political action that is not transactional.
My solidarity does not depend on whether my identity is accepted or not. Right now, I am in a country where there is LGBT discrimination and oppression, and of course, I will call for solidarity when needed, but I will not use the existence of potentially homophobic people to eliminate my solidarity. Because solidarity is not transactional.
Asking whether Palestinians support the LGBT cause masks racism and the belief that non-Western people are automatically homophobic, when both gender and sexual orientation are colonial constructs.
If a people is suffering genocide, I don’t care if there are people in that people who are homophobic. If the state that is carrying out this genocide, this massacre, uses the LGBT struggle to wash its hands, I will point it out and make clear that it is trying to make us look the other way while it destroys lives, while it destroys a people.
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FYI - Many self declared moderates/centrists will boost modern day government chosen rez based, band council Indian agents' 'good news' - without any words/lived experiences with many Indigenous peoples who feel abused/exploited by the sellout traitors in their midsts.
Don't be a reckless promoter of ongoing #colonialism & then try to tell me that you're serious about #decolonization work. It's so fucking weakass & hypocritical as heck. Either fully commit to #decolonial work or STFU about how much you care about it. Align your words with parallel actions or I'm not going to take you seriously at all.
Them: "You should try to be less political. People don't like politics."
Me: "My entire existence is political. I'm part of the 'people' too. You're telling me to be quiet about being alive & highly aware. That isn't going to happen; so learn to deal with it or don't communicate with me again. Not my loss."
Them: "You're overreacting."
Me: "Don't pull that colonial smacktalk on me ever again. I'll call you out on it."
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here's how to get a copy of Matike Mai Aotearoa, an extremely carefully crafted document which every adult New Zealander should read:
Network Waitangi Otautahi - · Report of Matike Mai Aotearoa – The Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation - Network Waitangi OtautahiThis report is the result of 252 hui between 2012 and 2015. The Working Group was established at a meeting of the Iwi Chairs’ Forum in 2010 with Terms of Reference: “To develop and implement a model for an inclusive Constitution for Aotearoa based on tikanga and kawa, He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Niu
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"we have a real opportunity right now to move the conversation along. It’s clear from the response to the Treaty Principles bill that 100s of 1000s of people across Aotearoa are ready for a constructive, principled discussion about Te Tiriti & its role in our constitution. It seems to me that we are more ready than ever to explore the potential of constitutional transformation & take up the vision of Matike Mai Aotearoa."
How might constitutional change work in practice?
In the final part of our E-Tangata series examining the work of Matike Mai Aotearoa, Carwyn Jones discusses the models that describe how change could be enacted.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/making-matike-mai-happen/
E-Tangata · Making Matike Mai happen | E-Tangata“The need for these discussions is urgent. We have perhaps not progressed the conversation as far as we ought to have in the nearly 10 years since the publication of the Matike Mai report.” — Carwyn Jones.
Until 30 May, organisers are accepting proposals for the workshop ‘Contested Imperial Endings’, which aims 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/
Don't forget the https://TurtleIsland.blog if you have questions about Turtle Island.
The menu bar in particular leads to much information about our Mastodon instance and Bluesky PDS, including how to get an invite codes, how to sign up, how to login, migrating, user recommendations, more and more to come.
Also there are some foundational pages about #SettlerColonialism and #Decolonization that everyone should know.
#Native #Indigenous #TurtleIsland
Making constitutional change means thinking less about the institutions of power we have now, and more about what values we’d like represented, writes Carwyn Jones.
This is the second of his three pieces examining the work of Matike Mai Aotearoa — the Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/the-building-blocks-of-constitutional-change/
E-Tangata · The building blocks of constitutional change | E-Tangata“The difficulty with starting from the institutions we have now and trying to think how they could be tweaked to better reflect Māori aspirations is that our current institutions are based on a particular way of understanding power.” — Carwyn Jones.
* Did you know?
The Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) is not just history — it's the foundation of Malaysia.
Sabah & Sarawak did NOT join Malaysia — they CO-FOUNDED it together with Malaya and Singapore. MA63 is an international treaty signed by all parties and witnessed by the UK. It promised special autonomy to Sabah & Sarawak in areas like immigration, education, religion, and resource control. Full MA63 implementation = a real federation, with equal partners — not central control from KL. Honoring MA63 is NOT anti-Malaysia. It is how Malaysia was meant to be: fair, united, and just.
We don’t need to fight to divide. We need to speak up to restore.
7.5: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Four Great Things We Take for Granted and Ought to Fight to Keep
In these dark times of (American) political backsliding/the general rise of fascism in the Global North, Ariel and Christina consider four things that we'd made great progress on, to the point of taking those achievements for granted. Let's take the time to acknowledge them and the danger we are in of losing them. Because how can we fight for what we don't recognize as being incredible yet fragile?
PS: We definitely didn't plan on this coming out on the day of the Canadian federal election, but so it goes. Go forth and fight the fascists at the ballot box, friends.
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What Correctly Defines Pan-Africanism in 2025 and Beyond
By Ahjamu UmiRepublished from Hood Communist.Since its initial organizational expression in 1900, the phrase Pan-Africanism has been expressed in many different forms. For some, its current meaning is defined as unity between all people of African desc…
https://voices.murica.website/ahjamu-umi/what-correctly-defines-pan-africanism-in-2025-and-beyond/
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This think-piece makes a case for addressing the colonial roots of sustainability which have led to dispossession and violence, especially for Indigenous and marginalised communities in the majority world. I also focus on the dangers of decolonisation becoming a buzzword without much change in actual practices in ways of working and collaborating
#Decolonization #Development #Sustainability
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41287-025-00700-0
SpringerLinkThe Challenges of Decolonising Sustainability and the Environment in Development Studies (DS) - The European Journal of Development ResearchThis think-piece makes a case for addressing the colonial roots of sustainability. It examines how enduring colonial mechanisms and biases have led to certain forms of value and valuing, problematic views of ‘pristine nature’ and processes of extractivism. These in turn have led to dispossession and violence, especially for Indigenous and marginalised communities in the majority world. It explores how studies on the environment and sustainability have sought to implicitly or explicitly challenge these colonial biases and their impacts. Researchers working on the environment, gender and sustainability have brought together Development Studies (DS) with science technology studies (STS), (feminist) political ecology, anthropology and feminist epistemology. This has resulted in strong engagements with the politics of knowledge, the colonial roots of environmental problems and the need to lift the perspectives and voices of historically marginalised groups to promote alternative ways of doing and understanding development and nature/society relations. Researchers working in other fields of DS could do more to draw on these diverse perspectives, especially since epistemic and material inequalities and power structures are interlinked and mutually reinforcing. I also focus on the dangers of decolonisation becoming a buzzword without much change in actual practices in ways of working and collaborating.
I have to have a serious talk with one of my Metis friends on how she needs to do a lot more decolonization work. It's due to her reaction to my annual Earth Day call for #Indigenous #LandBack. She's still very colonial indoctrinated. Her response to any landback statements is: "Every earthling needs earth and land 
happy earth day."
If you still have a #colonial #mindset like this - it tells me that you need a ton more #decolonization work. Landback isn't about making sure ONLY Indigenous peoples have lands. It's about recognizing colonial land theft & the ongoing colonial genocide of Indigenous peoples by colonial capitalists. It's about respect & genuine reconciliation for Indigenous peoples. It is literally the least we can do as settlers on stolen Indigenous lands.
Víctor Barros and Aurora Almada e Santos were two of the researchers invited to collaborate on the exhibition ‘Before Being Independence, It Was a Struggle For Liberation’, recently opened at the Aljube Museum.
We tell you all about it here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/barros-santos-aljube-museum/
© José Frade / EGEAC
