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Q: Why is colonization so bad?
A: Brutal killings over political borders.
Today's MMIW story where the W is for ¨Warriors¨ who have been senselessly murdered by entities with political agendas. 11 of the 19 victims were from the Kaqchikel[3] language-speaking region, AKA Guatemala; we mourn with them.
The murders are Realtors and their landlord associates on both sides of the US-Mexico political border walls, where demands for colonial money (both pesos and US dollars are colonial money as both English and Spanish are colonizer languages) to perpetuate enforcement of corrupt police-controlled gates or roads.
Realtors and landlords NEED policing goons with guns and misguided loyalty to their Realtor-Landlord agendas. Is really obvious ... whether publicly thru taxpayer dollars, or privately thru shell corps and contracts, they need cops with guns to evict folks who cannot (or who refuse) pay their rents, commissions, and fees. Avoiding or attempting to avoid such systems should not result in fatalities or imprisonment of anyone involved!
¨Guatemalan authorities said Tuesday that five migrants survived the Jan. 22 massacre of 19 people, including 16 Guatemalans, in northern Mexico.
The migrants were being taken toward the U.S. border by people smugglers when one or two of the trucks came under fire, apparently from a state police unit¨[2]
¨“We are all asking for justice, to know why those police in Mexico killed him, they left his family, wife has three children and is pregnant,” said the sister. ¨[1]
¨A dozen state police officers have been charged in the killings in the township of Camargo. Two trucks were set on fire and the victims' bodies were so badly charred that identification has taken weeks. The bodies of 16 Guatemalans and two Mexicans have been identified; the 19th body is still undergoing tests.¨[2]
[1] https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/families-begin-burying-murdered-guatemalan-migrants
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The centuries-long desecration of sacred Kizh/Tongva land by mentally ill colonists:
Founded as a whites-only or a "sundown"[2] town, Culver City[3] is Yet Another Corrupt Node (Y.A.C.N) of colonization to be dismantled.
Sound familiar? In the closing credits of big-budget movies and TV, Culver City is home base of colonizer-focused production studios[a], AKA pretty much every public airwave in the US of A. (Unfortunately, PBS takes a great deal of money to promote the #fascistbook these days!) Such colonizer-focused production studios continually refuse to acknowledge the real native story, preferring to distract with short-sighted issues and other things they want to control.
Like the cutely-named trio of ships from overseas arrived around the same time and with the same delusions, so too did Culver City´s "founding father". Harry Culver was mentally ill when he arrived, perpetuating a delusion that Columbus had discovered America... and that as a Privileged White Man, it was all his for the taking. Never mind those burned villages![*]
Culver and his buddy James Henry Carleton[4], a fascist genocidal tyrant[3] worked together to push the REALTOR agendas, as they murdered a definitive number of native language speakers of the American Southwest.
Ecological impacts of the colonization not even 100 years later are determinable enough to say it is bad: take a few minutes to look up ¨Salton Sea¨, or any CA-marine coastal disaster or anything poisoning the heart of the Rio Grande.
#Kizh / Tongva land today in LA does not resemble anything it once did, but a few native people who survived Carleton and Culver´s murderous legacy did survive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTlvsGlgQ9Q
[2]https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/content.php?file=sundowntowns-whitemap.html
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culver_City,_California
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Carleton[*] NOTE that all refs & records stored at Minnesota-based and Ivy-league institutions are HEAVILY BIASED TOWARD EUROCENTRIC thought and rarely, (no actually never) accurately account the native stories.
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The 100 percent ¨uncopyrightable¨ song of the red-winged blackbird (mp4).
The #fascistbook / tweeters would steal its song for views to sell advertisements.
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In Kizh/Tongva territories (occupied LA County)[1], ten people per hour are dying from COVID-19. Air quality regulations have been suspended to accommodate the need for more cremations. [2]
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Q: ¨How long has the US Gov´t been failing to solve this problem of ¨affordable housing¨ for its lowliest wage slaves?
A: Hint is ¨less than 80 years¨ -- @simonthecat is almost double/triple that in cat years!.
The Realtor cartel was established during the same timeframe of the ¨expansion¨ described in the infographics below.
The history of the NAR is basically... attempts by white dudes to FUND other white dudes as they ¨brazenly¨ pushed further and further west on Native Land, murdering people ... extracting resources ... leaving sickness, death, and destruction in their wake.
ALL colonial cities across the west have the same general footprint ... colonization, churches, crutches.
They don´t want you to remember is native land! No, they want you to forget that the government of the ¨United States¨ MURDERED THE BUFFALO TO STARVE THE INDIAN. Is much easier to distract the poor with a game of CANDYCRUSH or something else as useless.
Familiar with both the ¨poor farmer¨ and the ¨poor landlord¨ stories, eh?
IT IS NOT THE JOB OF WORKING PEOPLE TO BAIL OUT LANDLORDS. The trillions of dollars the gov´t wants to spend to help out the ¨landlords¨... it WILL be raped from the land. Colonial history shows us is the precedent we should expect. But probably, the earth cannot take another trillion dollars of rape, even by the most well-intentioned wannabe investors.
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Last year we shared Leonard Peltier 2019 Thanksgiving message in this thread.
He is not the only indigenous activist and PoC suffering behind steel bars this day, bars from the for-profit prison industrial complex perpetuating colonialism.
Indigenous people are incarcerated at 15X - 20X the rate of whites whose ancestors run the prison system. These men and women are NOT criminals.
Indeed, the statistic remains true for EVERY continent has experienced colonialism (prison industrual complex).
In Montana, for example, the #ACLU reports: ¨Indigenous people comprise approximately 6.5 percent of the Montana state population and yet account for 20 percent of the men’s state prison population, 34 percent of the women’s state prison population, and 27 percent of the state’s arrests for failures to appear in court or for probation or parole violations.¨
See the video[1] of the Peltier statue´s dedication:
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBftM1CLBsM&feature=emb_title
[2] https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/leonard-peltier-statue
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What follows here is one of the more interesting hacks from reconstruction:
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Background on this project for any new followers of #Ecostead tag is yeah... we saved quite a bit of material from the teardown. No, we were unable to save everything (COVID prevented us from donating first to local orgs where they would have gone to be diverted from the waste stream). But we did upcycle more than 75 percent of the teardown material we did not save. Some of it we went to great lengths to deliver to like-minded folks, too!
Something a white bro scoffed at me for saving to reuse was the "black tarpaper" from behind the old siding. Yeah it had a few spiders' nests on it. Seemed remarkably clean and sturdy for having been up so long. Plus paper; any plant material can be considered as sacred, I think; even a poor old tree that got mixed up in bitumen[1] by no fault of its own.
My gut was to lay this under the waterproofing material of choice (tile!) for the outside deck installation... an extra waterproofing layer, encase any supposedly dangerous material.
Turns out this was a good hunch b/c after I got this tile laid down the other day, found out that the chemistry of the tarpaper is such that it will likely increase strength and longevity of the thin-set layer of mortar under the tile. Cool, eh?
Turns out, folks from the EU are making business out of it [2]:
¨The refining process of Tarpaper Recycling converts the bitumen-rich roofing felt waste to a raw material .. that can be recycled 100%. This product can be used as binder in the production of new asphalt as it contains bitumen, the most valuable raw-material in asphalt. Roofing felt can replace bitumen to a certain point in the production of asphalt, somewhat depending on what type of asphalt is produced¨
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The Philippines have been experiencing more frequent and severe damage from #typhoon storms at what can accurately be described as an ¨accelerating¨ rate.
People were getting sick of rebuilding only to have their work downed by the next storm.
So, in 2014, some of them decided to rethink/DECOLONIZE how housing and shelters are done, based on successful models in the US and Malawi. Rebuilding amid unpredictable storms was often futile, so they rethought their community around an #Earthship model, adapted as a Windship.
This fascinating documentary (2015) interviews Earthship architect Mike Reynolds, and several young and old folks building self-sustainable biotecture projects that can be climate-specific for a region. https://amzn.to/3pFQnrm
¨The building is earth-bermed and the vaulted concrete roof allows wind to pass over but not lift up the structure.¨
Quite a bit of climate chaos since 2015, and no signs of it letting up, eh?
Living with the daily realities on a planet in retaliation mode means adapting outside of the ¨law¨ and government; these static things are inflexible and unresponsive to dynamic systems. They CANNOT keep pace with the realities of a dynamic and reactive planet.
Indeed, the worst parts of the #Ecostead project have been these inflexible things. Really enjoyed hearing about how Reynolds has successfully worked around outdated and inefficient government systems. (HINT: is easier to do outside of the US than in!)
We are not going to run out of trash or refuge material. Hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons and landslides all decompose weak systems. Smart societies rebuild more intelligently.
https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/earthship-biotecture-off-grid-living/
https://www.archdaily.com/888713/michael-reynolds-to-build-sustainable-public-school-in-argentina
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The Philippines have been experiencing more frequent and severe damage from #typhoon storms at what can accurately be described as an ¨accelerating¨ rate.
People were getting sick of rebuilding only to have their work downed by the next storm.
So, in 2014, some of them decided to rethink/DECOLONIZE how housing and shelters are done, based on successful models in the US and Malawi. Rebuilding amid unpredictable storms was often futile, so they rethought their community around an #Earthship model, adapted as a Windship.
This fascinating documentary (2015) interviews Earthship architect Mike Reynolds, and several young and old folks building self-sustainable biotecture projects that can be climate-specific for a region. https://amzn.to/3pFQnrm
¨The building is earth-bermed and the vaulted concrete roof allows wind to pass over but not lift up the structure.¨
Quite a bit of climate chaos since 2015, and no signs of it letting up, eh?
Living with the daily realities on a planet in retaliation mode means adapting outside of the ¨law¨ and government; these static things are inflexible and unresponsive to dynamic systems. They CANNOT keep pace with the realities of a dynamic and reactive planet.
Indeed, the worst parts of the #Ecostead project have been these inflexible things. Really enjoyed hearing about how Reynolds has successfully worked around outdated and inefficient government systems. (HINT: is easier to do outside of the US than in!)
We are not going to run out of trash or refuge material. Hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons and landslides all decompose weak systems. Smart societies rebuild more intelligently.
https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/earthship-biotecture-off-grid-living/
https://www.archdaily.com/888713/michael-reynolds-to-build-sustainable-public-school-in-argentina
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Reposting this video of the Swamp family speaking (Haudenosaunee elders and their son, Skahendowaneh Swamp); can rarely remember tags originally posted it under. Should have been under #Democracy or #Longhouse or something similar, but is not. Want it easier to find and discuss. Is timely and relative today...
All discussions about the drama-filled US government happenings should always acknowledge how YOUNG this government is, young like a teeny bopper. To make this acknowledgement as a sane and sober human intent on decolonizing, you might want to read something like _Killing the White Man's Indian_[2] for a more proper perspective on how natives view time and #timelines.
Hint: you don't need to be white to mindlessly enable white supremacy!
About ~49 minutes into the video, the Iroquois elder talks about this, and about how the main ideas for what the US thinks of as its "Democracy" were actually "borrowed" from First Nations native peoples. The colonists, of course, adapted it to be "white man friendly" by destroying the best and most crucial* part of a matriarchal society. (*The 13 indigenous clan mothers could kick out anyone suspected of bringing corruption to the lower tribal courts.)
We have no such checks!
Unfortunately, "fake plastic trees" Amy Coney Barrett cannot be trusted to fend off patriarchal institutions dreamt up by the wasicu. She belongs to Barbie Doll land. Her appointment was not done to lessen the whiteman's capacity for corruption; the opposite is true: she is a complicit enabler of white supremacy, a corrupt node. Her patriarchal ideas about womanhood and women will do nothing good for the future generations. And going forward, we STILL DO NOT have a representative democracy.
Don't sit on your laurels.
Scary times are not over.
Nobody is out of the woods.
We still need brave activists and fearlessness outspoken against the wasicu. Stop the ongoing #genocide of native peoples.
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Some extra root insulation for the _ants' greenhouse. #Ecostead
Plastic reuse to provide heat and thermal insulation. #Hydroponic ideas to help the plants recycle water better.
Kick the fascist out of the whitehouse, kick the whitehouse out of the courthouse, put all the white-collar criminals' wealth in the homeless encampments.
Stop building vehicular transportation roads and fossil fuel transportation pipelines.
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Spotted in downtown Hillsboro on Monday.
Psst. Check out our old thread with the #Kalapuya tag for additional info.
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Recycling wood from the rebuild / teardown, turning it from interior base wood to outside finish wood with 焼杉板, or shou tsugi ban.
焼杉板 is technique for wood (usually Cedar or Cypress) that brings out the natural grain and finish. It increases fire resistance and water resistance (makes it last longer from weathering) by charring the wood and rinsing it with water before finishing. Some people say it can extend the life of wood siding up to 80 years! I dunno about that, but it is fun and beautiful. Also get to use a blowtorch to make it, so there's that.
Was half-humorously thinking we should post this to Indigenous Peoples' Day of Rage as an event: "Burning the Rabble of Colonialism" ... whatcha think? ;)
Have too many pieces to do on my own and going to hire some help or recruit volunteers. Yeah Craigslist again. #Ecostead #Wood #DIY #Fire
https://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/trd/d/forest-grove-shou-sugi-ban-burnt-cedar/7210008960.html
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Recycling wood from the rebuild / teardown, turning it from interior base wood to outside finish wood with 焼杉板, or shou tsugi ban.
焼杉板 is technique for wood (usually Cedar or Cypress) that brings out the natural grain and finish. It increases fire resistance and water resistance (makes it last longer from weathering) by charring the wood and rinsing it with water before finishing. Some people say it can extend the life of wood siding up to 80 years! I dunno about that, but it is fun and beautiful. Also get to use a blowtorch to make it, so there's that.
Was half-humorously thinking we should post this to Indigenous Peoples' Day of Rage as an event: "Burning the Rabble of Colonialism" ... whatcha think? ;)
Have too many pieces to do on my own and going to hire some help or recruit volunteers. Yeah Craigslist again. #Ecostead #Wood #DIY #Fire
https://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/trd/d/forest-grove-shou-sugi-ban-burnt-cedar/7210008960.html
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5115 acres old-growth forest in A’aakw Kwáan lands (near Juneau, Alaska) are being threatened by the Trump administration:
"The U.S. Forest Service’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the South Revilla Integrated Resource Project timber sale proposes chainsawing 5,115 acres of old-growth forest near Ketchikan. It also would allow bulldozing or rebuilding more than 80 miles of damaging logging roads costing U.S. taxpayers more than $11 million. The public will have until Oct. 19 to provide comments.
The Tongass is the largest intact temperate rainforest left on Earth and provides vital habitat for eagles, bears, wolves, salmon and countless other species. It is a globally recognized carbon sink and helps to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, storing approximately 8% of the total carbon stored in all U.S. national forests.
Tongass is the largest national forest in the United States. Since time immemorial it has been the traditional homelands of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian peoples.
“This assault on America’s largest rainforest will destroy important habitat for salmon, bears and wolves, and worsen the climate crisis,” said Randi Spivak, Public Lands Director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Clearcutting the Tongass and wiping out enormous carbon stores is like cutting off part of the planet’s oxygen supply. It’s mind-boggling that the Trump administration wants to decimate this spectacular old-growth forest and erase one of the solutions to averting catastrophic climate change.”"
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Imagining a US where all the treaties are upheld:
"Going back to the original treaty texts would make broad swaths of the nation Native territory. That means Indigenous people would have a stronger voice on environmental enforcement, more of a say on fossil fuel infrastructure construction, be able to better control the fate of Native children removed from their parents’ home, and less likely to be tried in local courts where district attorneys are elected using racist, tough-on-crime politics. Beyond control over the land itself, the treaties lay the groundwork for obligations requiring the federal government to provide adequate resources to support health care, safety, and education — which have never been fulfilled.
Fletcher said the decision will apply to the other four tribes forcibly removed to Oklahoma too. If the state or federal government attempts to fight that, they will lose, he added. As for the rest of the U.S., the decision will serve as a legal precedent in some reservation boundary cases, but it also opens up a space to imagine a different kind of United States, where all treaties are upheld."
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/17/mcgirt-v-oklahoma-indian-native-treaties
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Yeah, I was force-fed the settler delusion about endless free land for the taking and hardy pioneers ... they did this to all the kids in my younger elementary and middle school days.
"The issue I had with Oregon Trail is that it always put Native people in relation to settlers,” said Anishinaabe, Métis video game designer Elizabeth LaPensée, who teaches at Michigan State University. “The game is all about colonization.” - Native News Online #NNO
Fast forward about 40 years, and LaPensée and a team of writers and artists have remixed the tired old Oregon Trail into the Indigenous-focused “When Rivers Were Trails.”"
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Some of the salvaged wood products from the deconstruction phases @ the ecostead.
Saturday's event was mostly quiet, until some driveby harassment(s) from somebody who wouldn't even exit their vehicle (all the while it was polluting fossil fuels) while idling on the street and shouting dumb questions at the worker in the yard.
Subsequent phases of the "build and finish" layers will use and donate some of these wood and salvage pieces.
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Native Art Collectives receiving some supplies.
Dismantle what doesn't work.
Donate something to the arts.
REPURPOSE, RECYCLE, ETC.
No whitewashing these trees.
Colonist cash still means nothing.
Those with the most money are the most corrupt.
Probably, Larry and Sergey always regretted putting a landlord in their early-stage business. We no make that mistake.
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Native Art Collectives receiving some supplies.
Dismantle what doesn't work.
Donate something to the arts.
REPURPOSE, RECYCLE, ETC.
No whitewashing these trees.
Colonist cash still means nothing.
Those with the most money are the most corrupt.
Probably, Larry and Sergey always regretted putting a landlord in their early-stage business. We no make that mistake.
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"Capitalists cannot practice Mutual Aid; they can practice temporary reallocation (philanthropy) which is not the same. Charity is not Mutual Aid." - Regan Loggans
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As long as Facebook stock crashes down (like, way way down) from its preposterous ~690 Billion dollar valuation, we'll be okay. Can't wait for what it calls "earnings"... sleaze salesmen blathering on about how special they think they are. Who has money to spend on advertising these days?
What kind of "revenue" is it going to report... who is it taking the big bucks from to promote Trump's paranoid delusions?
Yeah, isn't it a relief that the whole market does not need to crash to save the world? People just need to stop letting themselves be brainwashed by his cartel of associates and criminals. They are centered on facebook.
How hard does it crash? Where? That part is a mystery... what is not is the celebratory news that ALL THE REALTORS AND LANDLORDS GO DOWN WITH IT, lol. (Oh, booohooohooo crybabies would cry if it crashed to less than a dollar for every person on the planet?) Such narcissists!
We know we are winning because those Realtors and landlords are the only ones who refuse to quit facebook.
Everybody else, maybe put your graffiti to good use by taking down their signs, bilboards, etc, and putting up a tastefully done native land acknowledgement.
It so awesome to be alive.
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Every community that cares about its people ought to download and read "A People's Orientation To A Regenerative Economy"
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https://www.ienearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ProtectRepairInvesBuildTransformDRAFT02.pdf
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So what happened with this thread?
Three part interview series from indianz.com showing the allies and action that supports the sovereign rights of indigenous peoples and the LEGAL TREATIES that the US Gov't (which claims to be a law-oriented entity) is _required_ to honor.
Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzoPKPwYkY
Part Two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz4ZDrL4ME4Part Three:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkIGPcnBnrITrump's goons and paid by dirty colonist money antagonizers (
They didn't mention anywhere that Trump or his supporters are allowed to trespass... ). Hey military bros and sistahs: Taxpayers aren't paying you guys to protect a murderer!Search tags on ecosteder: #MMIW #HonorTheTreaties #Dakotas
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So what happened with this thread?
Three part interview series from indianz.com showing the allies and action that supports the sovereign rights of indigenous peoples and the LEGAL TREATIES that the US Gov't (which claims to be a law-oriented entity) is _required_ to honor.
Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzoPKPwYkY
Part Two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz4ZDrL4ME4Part Three:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkIGPcnBnrITrump's goons and paid by dirty colonist money antagonizers (
They didn't mention anywhere that Trump or his supporters are allowed to trespass... ). Hey military bros and sistahs: Taxpayers aren't paying you guys to protect a murderer!Search tags on ecosteder: #MMIW #HonorTheTreaties #Dakotas
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Beautiful reclaimed wood used as siding, art, and floors ... cool idea.
The #ecostead project has fallen way behind schedule ... architect plans for roof design were co-opted by truss building company's expertise. Still working it out, will post updates soon.
Construction jobs, like plants, require people who care.
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Great interview with Nick Tilsen (NDN Collective) about how the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River people are making it known that they explicitly prohibit the colonist's "President" from trespassing and intruding on their sovereign sacred territory. He does not have permission at this time.
The colonial state of South Dakota's "governor" Kristi Noem recently stared her hideous face and vacant, dead eyes into a TV camera and insisted that neither masks nor social distancing would be required the rally Trump wants there.
As Covid-19 cases have been accelerating in several states, the idiocy of colonist leaders cannot be underestimated.
Lots of love to the indigenous people of the region; keep yourselves safe.