This is an amazing quote by Irish revolutionary James Connolly. Very relevant to Americans today.
“We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.”
― James Connolly
I was not born to kneel before any government.
I was not born to appease any politician.
I was not born to uphold the sickass status quo.
I was born to challenge all of the above.
I come from a long line of resistance warriors & will fight for justice for the oppressed humans & non-human living beings, as long as I'm alive to do so.
This is a lifetime personal commitment.
I take it very seriously.
Please don't miss the #anarchy part of my #socialist & #anticolonial views.
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.
#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
#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
We’ve officially hit 25% of our goal for A Red Road to the West Bank! 
A huge thank you to everyone who has supported, shared, and stood in solidarity with this project. This film is about connecting Indigenous struggles across continents, and every contribution helps us bring this story to life.
Let’s keep the momentum going—we’re just getting started!
Support & share: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad
#RedRoadToTheWestBank #IndigenousSolidarity #Decolonization #FreePalestine #AIM #Mohawk #KeepItGoing 
Leonard Peltier’s release after 49 years of wrongful imprisonment resonates deeply within anti-colonial struggles, particularly when compared to the systematic incarceration of Palestinians under Israeli military rule. Both cases exemplify how settler-colonial states use imprisonment as a tool of repression against Indigenous resistance.
Peltier, an Anishinaabe-Lakota activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), was convicted in 1977 for the killing of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation. His trial was riddled with misconduct, including fabricated evidence, coerced witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct. The U.S. government made him a political prisoner, punishing him not for any proven crime, but for his role in defending Indigenous sovereignty. His nearly five decades behind bars symbolize the criminalization of Indigenous resistance in North America.
Similarly, Israel systematically imprisons Palestinians, especially those engaged in resistance against occupation. Since 1967, over 800,000 Palestinians—including activists, political leaders, and children—have been detained under military rule. Many are held without charge under "administrative detention," a practice that allows indefinite imprisonment without trial. Just as Peltier was targeted for his role in AIM, Palestinians are arrested for organizing protests, resisting land seizures, or even posting anti-occupation statements online.
Both cases highlight how settler-colonial powers use incarceration to neutralize Indigenous movements. The U.S. government sought to break AIM through the imprisonment of Peltier, just as Israel aims to weaken Palestinian resistance by jailing its leaders and youth. The goal in both cases is not justice, but deterrence—turning prisons into tools of colonial control.
Yet, despite decades of imprisonment, neither Peltier nor Palestinian political prisoners have been silenced. Their struggles continue to inspire movements for decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, and global solidarity against settler oppression. This is exactly what we seek to unpack in A Red Road to the West Bank—the shared tools of repression used by colonial states and the enduring spirit of resistance that connects Indigenous struggles across continents.
Learn more at: www.redroadtothewestbank.com
Food for thought: Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation
"It is essential to note that Palestinians have never rejected Jewish indigeneity in Palestine. However, the liberation movement has differentiated between zionist settlers and Jewish natives. Palestinians have established a clear and rational framework for this distinction, like in the Thawabet, the National Charter of Palestine from 1968. Article 6 states, ‘The Jews who had normally resided in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion will be considered Palestinians.’
When individuals misread ‘decolonisation’ as ‘the mass killing or expulsion of Jews,’ it is often a reflection of their own entanglement in colonialism or a result of zionist propaganda. Perpetuating this rhetoric is a deliberate misinterpretation of Palestinian thought, which has maintained this position over a century of indigenous organising."
https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/anti-zionism-as-decolonisation
#zionism #Decolonization #decolonialism #Palestine #Israel #PalestineSolidarity #colonialism #liberation @palestine @israel
Registration is now open for the international conference ‘Decolonizing Museums and Colonial Collections. Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods’, which will take place at the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum (Figueira da Foz) between 12 and 14 March.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/decolonizing-museums-colonial-collections/
@ramsey The silent 3rd piece of this logic, the one most aren't even aware of, the one I long ago unpacked within myself and was shocked to find, is the underlying assumption that people of color aren't as capable as white people.
And there's the core to racism — not noticing race, not choosing people based on race, not all the *myths* about what racism is... but the hidden implicit bias, a quiet, inherited sense of superiority.
"The journey from Toluca to Cape Town marks a significant evolution in the global dialogue on #diamondopenaccess …the agenda has expanded to embrace a more ambitious commitment to social equity, #decolonization, and systemic reform in scholarly publishing. This broadening reflects the growing recognition of community-owned and non-commercial publishing practices as the foundation for sustainable and inclusive scholarly publication systems."
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/main-section/2024/challenges-opportunities-diamond-open-access-summit
Keep talking about Palestine.
Share info from https://decolonizepalestine.com/
#decolonization #PalestineSolidarity #WarOnGaza #IsrealiOccupation #WarCrimes #HumanRight #InternationalLaw @palestine @israel
@radleybalko.bsky.social Maybe he intends to Make America Great Again by decolonizing the United States. Perhaps he intends to give Mar-a-Lago back to the Seminole or Miccosukee people or give Manhattan back to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band.
#decolonization
A European #decolonization joke:
- Teach UK that they no longer are a colonial power
- Teach France they never REALLY were one
- Teach Russia they will never BECOME one
Weekend story share will be about how commiting to #decolonization of my mind involved destroying a lot of my early childhood beliefs & realizing how almost all of the 'cool people' I saw in big Hollywood movies had brainwashed me.
It involves the Indiana Jones movies.
@benroyce the #decolonization of #Kaliningrad must be one of the results from this war. Europe cannot tolerate a Russian colony in its heart. Enough!
@germany: "The only substantive difference in the opposition pitting the political parties who are seen as capable of contributing to governance and those who are deemed inadmissible (i.e. the AfD) is that the former believe that it is acceptable to ethnically cleanse and settler colonise in Palestine, whereas the latter is of the opinion that ethnic cleansing should be performed at home too. A defense of the right to colonise across the seas is seen by mainstream opinion as crucial to maintaining political coherence, whereas the AfD is unwilling to abide by the classic colonial distinction separating colony and metropole. It is an uncanny predicament: both sides are thinking about colonialism, one implicitly proclaiming its admissibility somewhere, the other its desirability everywhere. And yet neither is referring to it."
Lorenzo Veracini: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2201473X.2024.2397261#d1e387 
All three of us have faced multiple violent threats & assaults from RCMP. All three of us refused to bow down to any colonial corporate entities. All three of us lost loved ones to colonial violence. We are not built like some other women. We are women in active colonial resistance & it is a lifelong commitment. We do not have or will ever have white privileges. We respect our white comrades who have done heavy decolonization work a lot. We do not really respect anyone who always obeys any colonial masters & does not challenge them.
