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In 2020, "serving your country" means staying open and eschewing anything that racist old dudes thought was a good idea.
"Throughout our history the United States of America has used the separation of families as a means of controlling people of color. Whether during Indian removal, the slave trade, Western Expansion, Internment Camps, Indian boarding schools or in immigration detention centers today - the U.S. government has been stealing babies from their mother’s breasts for nearly 250 years.
But it's not who we have to be.
The first step towards change is acknowledging we have a problem. So while this may be who we are, it is not who we have to continue to be. But that is a decision we have to make together, both intentionally and collectively. Our systemic injustice, racism, and implicit bias of white supremacy are not partisan problems. It's a collective problem."
https://wirelesshogan.blogspot.com/2018/06/separating-families-its-what-us-has.html
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iNaturalist has an algorithm-based tool that kind of works (and sometimes it really doesn't work) for identifying some species based on things like leaf shape, location, flower petals, color, etc. But it only works if something has been identified before and exists in the database. If you have a less-than-ideal image capture, or is something it doesn't already know about it
doesn't work as well, either. It can help narrow results.If the "suggested" species that it tries to identify
something as doesn't look right, people sometimes help out with their suggestions, too.Not always, though. Sometimes when there are two (or more than two), like
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27965754
the UI doesn't quite accommodate categorization.
Another downside is that it uses primarily the Euro-centric 'Latin' names of plants, which are not what we called them pre-Columbus. The native words of a locally-indigenous plant and IDs can be more
tricky, but not impossible. There's a place called Tualatin Valley Wildlife Refuge that
has -- get this -- cutouts of the Atfalat'i people with literal "footnotes" by their feet. Apparently there was some consultation back-in-the-day. Can you imagine how frustrating it must be for them who modern settlers are still trying to write-off as footnotes?White settlers cannot stand it when the narrative spins out of their control.
Both of these tribes were acknowledged by name at the MarkCharles2020 event in E Portland.
Related tangent:
The visitor center also has some info on invasive species of the region, which is how I knew that the scoparius "scotch broom" my bruh and I removed from a forest in the Grand Ronde region is, indeed, invasive.
iNaturalist doesn't explain any of this, and also sometimes can't tell an insect from a monkey.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47920-Antheraea/browse_photos
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Even if you are not a resident of #Portland metro, this might be an interesting podcast to listen to for some insight on how a community can handle (or not handle, as the case may be) cleanup for something like toxic radioactive Plutonium.
''The Hanford Nuclear Reservation - along the Columbia River 200 miles upstream from Portland, is one of the most contaminated places on the planet. Once a bustling production facility for Plutonium and later a proposed site for the United States' permanent nuclear waste repository, it now houses a nasty concentration of radioactive and toxic chemical waste that was supposed to be cleaned up years ago. Cleaning up that waste has been the main mission at the site since 1989, and experts say there are decades of work remaining, at an estimated cost of $3 billion a year to adhere to a legal agreement between the state and federal governments that sets deadlines for the cleanup. But last month the Trump administration once again proposed to cut 700,000 million dollars from the Hanford Cleanup Budget budget."
https://kboo.fm/media/79195-never-ending-saga-hanford-cleanup
#EnvironmentalRemediation #ToxicWaste #Portland
As a side note: this radio station -- KBOO -- also hosts a podcast from the artist named Chris Francisco featured in the postcards above; it is a great independent radio resource.
https://kboo.fm/program/dine-bilaashlaii-human-beings-5-fingers
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The hideous monstrosity of a house across the street from the #Ecostead has a yard covered in invasive English ivy. Some time during week, the Ecostead was robbed of construction tools we had on-site.
Coincidence? We think not.
My union-working bro just called to report the thefts. 😢
Your neighbors' invasive species are hazardous to your safety and community.
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IT IS SO BAFFLING that Mark Charles has negative 350 karma on Reddit. I was wrong about that place; somebody there really doesn't want anyone to hear what he has to say.
The indisputable conclusion is: Reddit is perpetuating white supremacy; it is like Facistbook and Twitter, part of the problem.
Updated the instance summary note to the Fediverse; guess who is going to regret suppressing independent voices?
> We stand with Wet'suwet'en! Decolonize your thinking: "Traditional Ecological Knowledge" (TEK) is the most valuable asset you can have as the world continues to sink deeper into the chaos and destruction of broken, inequitable, and faulty colonial systems. We encourage you to join us as we build and participate in an Ecological Democracy that includes #AllThePeople as envisioned by a Navajo Nation member running in 2020. Tell the militants to throw their guns into a volcano; TEK doesn't work like that. Decenter whiteness. Living walls, not border walls."
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IT IS SO BAFFLING that Mark Charles has negative 350 karma on Reddit. I was wrong about that place; somebody there really doesn't want anyone to hear what he has to say.
The indisputable conclusion is: Reddit is perpetuating white supremacy; it is like Facistbook and Twitter, part of the problem.
Updated the instance summary note to the Fediverse; guess who is going to regret suppressing independent voices?
> We stand with Wet'suwet'en! Decolonize your thinking: "Traditional Ecological Knowledge" (TEK) is the most valuable asset you can have as the world continues to sink deeper into the chaos and destruction of broken, inequitable, and faulty colonial systems. We encourage you to join us as we build and participate in an Ecological Democracy that includes #AllThePeople as envisioned by a Navajo Nation member running in 2020. Tell the militants to throw their guns into a volcano; TEK doesn't work like that. Decenter whiteness. Living walls, not border walls."
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Took bus and MAX and bus to the #ecostead yesterday. When there are so many things to do, priorities become necessary.
My solstice lodge "mandate" (afaic understand) has been exhausting. Decolonization takes work. Not the kind you can buy.
Been thinking about this passage and how essential it is to stop the "dehumanizing" of women and marginalized people (PoC).
Survivors have every reason to reject Christianity and all of its attempts at "reform". Boarding schools, or "charter schools" as the Evil Betsy DeVos calls them, are pushing false narratives for money. Salesforce and TRE45ONIST have teamed up to put prison camps for children on their borders. They knowingly push false narratives and distortions of facts, wanting so badly to believe their own falsehoods have some legitimacy.
Spoiler alert: they don't.
The reality is that corrupt people have been murdering innocent red and black and brown and "yellow" people for centuries. There's no such thing as an innocent white angel.
When Obama did things that made those men who were so used to being the center of everything less "central", in order to let oppressed voices be heard, those white dudes got scared. For the first time, they couldn't hijack the conversations and make it all about them. For a brief while, women and PoC were heard.
Much in this volume belongs in the national discourse.
Today is a national holiday, but this "holiday" (President's Day) is nothing for anybody to be proud of. Remind your fellow humans to "smash those delusions" and get back to listening to the survivors.
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Skilled laborers and #Union. That's right. Who wouldn't be thrilled to pay their brothers union wages?
It's what happening at the #ecostead, where we are getting close to framing after what can only be described as an amazing site preparation job by one dedicated GC-to-be, my bruh Ben.
HE HAS AN INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD UNION CARD AND EVERYTHING. :)
Continuing the discussion on framing systems, a few other human-centric thoughts about variation of styles in (or not in) the "longhouse". TBH I wasn't expecting these things to be so specific, but eh.
Portland's #suburbs have some areas where the architectural styles of the neighborhoods is definitely inspired by (prevalent) of Japanese thinking. In other nearby places, the expression is more rare, w/ only a garden path.
The "in between" spots are all wrong, though: the necessity of on-foot (and we're not talking sidewalks, but trails) travel has been completely ignored by generations of developers in their ff vehicles.
There is, in this region's history, another dark past (similar to oppression of locally-indigenous peoples) that zero of the Realtor-types would ever be able to acknowledge properly. READ: https://www.wweek.com/arts/2019/12/03/survivors-of-minidoka-in-idahos-high-desert-describe-their-experiences-for-a-new-film
So it is no surprise the difficulties the architect we hired had in trying to finish the project's rebuild design; as the #Ecostead is for all practical purposes, a small zen-inspired cottage. It just never had its porch and mudroom finished properly.
She took 7 months and broke the good faith contract we offered. But we paid her garish fees anyway. #NoIvyLeague is better way to go.
P.S. These styles suck:
- Thomas (as in Jefferson)
- Greco-Roman
- Mission (Spanish colonial)
- garish (WS colonial-era 1700's
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THE best part of this video (at least so far, haven't finished it yet) is where he explains IN REAL LIVESTREAM that he is getting written out of "mainstream" campaign stories.
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Some great ideas from the document, highlighting the
"We challenged our community to think about what was possible instead of the challenges that would get in the way. In these community engagement sessions, one elder woman said: “That was the best meeting I have been to in my whole life,” because “[n]o one ever asked me what I wanted for my community, or for my life. Things have been prescribed to this community for a long time.”"
"Decolonize the concepts. Indigenous communities have the power, strength, and intelligence to develop culturally specific strategies of liberation, health, and well-being. Indigenous people have the right to accept new ways of thinking, reconstruct them, or to deny them. Translation is not only encouraged but necessary." p.25
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"We will not be taken off the maps"
NARF is asking indigenous people to ensure the 2020 Census does not ignore them; since homelands are being DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY SETTLER GREED it is imperative that the damages be made apparent to the perpetrators. Repatriation with representation is the only solution:
"... a senior attorney with the Native American Rights Fund, said even though front-line workers are doing their best, the census won’t get an accurate count in Alaska.
“I want to tell every American Indian and Alaska Native to be counted as an act of rebellion because this census is designed not to count you,” said Landreth. “It is designed for you to not have [congressional] districts. It is designed for you to not have federal monies,” said Landreth. “Make yourself heard because I don't think they want to hear from you.”
The bureau “had what our Senate delegation told us was more than sufficient funding for the census,” said Landreth. “I said, ‘if that's the case, how come zero dollars are being spent on language assistance in Alaska with the highest percentage of Native language speakers per capita in the United States?’"
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The "preliminary" round is open for 1 more day and one more hour on the 99Designs contest.
My account there is 12 years old, believe it or not. When I was living below poverty wage (basically the 8 years after I finished grad school), 99Designs helped me not starve (only once; I was never cut out to be an illustrator artist).
They've long since revamped the old site, which I am kind of glad because from what I remember: my old work (think GIMP circa 2009) was pretty amateur.
These are much better than I could do: :rainbowsheep: :invincible: 🌼
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"N’we Jinan, whose name means "We Live Here" in James Bay (Eastern) Cree, is a non-profit organization founded in 2014 and registered nationally in 2016.
It began as a platform for participating youth to learn about and acquire skills in sound recording, music production, songwriting, and performance. Through the use of a mobile studio, original songs are created that center on themes of cultural identity, language, struggle, love, and self-acceptance. To date, more than 500 First Nations youth have participated across 40 communities, resulting in 80 songs and videos that have been viewed more than 15 million times online."
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Dams, removal works. Maybe the still-endangered #Salmon can recover with retrocausality.
Chin'u uk Wa'_ Attitude, it seems, requires more advanced thinking than most settlers are capable of mustering. They haven't the patience; and their faulty ideas about "insurance" claims indicates they never will.
:: Settlers gotta be OUT/,
Not just out, but OFF/ .EARTH
WILL NOT SUSTAIN
WHITE SUPREMACY"When they already had
SO MANY
WARNINGS
the timeout so long!""So long"
See that?
https://www.ecowatch.com/salmon-dams-congress-2563523631.html
#IdiotRepublicans in Congress made their greed apparent with their bill designed to put salmon into extinction; #EcoWatch (reported in 2018): "House Resolution 3144 seeks to overturn multiple federal court decisions that protect endangered salmon and steelhead." Kawahara, an Alaskan fisherman said, "We expect our elected officials to bring people together and work on solutions... instead, we get this divisive bill that locks in failure and conflict. HR 3144 will have a devastating effect on salmon and our region's salmon-fishing sector."
"From populations numbering 130,000 fish in the 1950s, wild Snake River spring Chinook salmon dropped to approximately 5,800 in 2017. Thirteen populations are listed under the Endangered Species Act, and all four salmon and steelhead populations in the Snake River Basin are at risk of extinction, according to NOAA Fisheries. The dwindling number of salmon is having ripple effects across the food chain. In Washington State, only 73 Southern Resident orcas remain, due in part to the lack of Chinook salmon, their main prey."
2020 Update: https://www.ecowatch.com/snake-river-dams-2643764317.html
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Wow, money that #Alaska taxpayers want to go to PBS and the University of Alaska is instead going to the companies operating PRISONS FOR REFUGEES
$49,159,169.00 for 6 months? (Line 40)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EJEeo58KnSlcOPlhrQnSQKSis_l7WbzajUJEeXUZ6y0
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Esses idiotas não podem ser expulsos com rapidez suficiente.
Florida's Republikkkan governor, Ron DeSantis, thinks that setting up a government office and throwing money at the ocean will stop the rising tides.
"2019 was the year the effects of climate change grabbed the attention of Republicans in state Legislature. A Senate committee recently approved a bill that will officially create an office of resiliency and a statewide sea-level rise task force — two efforts championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. "
The party's incorrigible ignorance and unforgivable stupidity extends well into several states' legislatures as well; the #LCV Scorecards have all the records.
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/record-heat-and-king-tides-look-ahead-florida-s-climate-future
#Climate #Flooding #Florida #IdiotCapitalists #Espanol #idiotRepublicans
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Esses idiotas não podem ser expulsos com rapidez suficiente.
Florida's Republikkkan governor, Ron DeSantis, thinks that setting up a government office and throwing money at the ocean will stop the rising tides.
"2019 was the year the effects of climate change grabbed the attention of Republicans in state Legislature. A Senate committee recently approved a bill that will officially create an office of resiliency and a statewide sea-level rise task force — two efforts championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. "
The party's incorrigible ignorance and unforgivable stupidity extends well into several states' legislatures as well; the #LCV Scorecards have all the records.
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/record-heat-and-king-tides-look-ahead-florida-s-climate-future
#Climate #Flooding #Florida #IdiotCapitalists #Espanol #idiotRepublicans
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BOULDER, Colo. — The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) announced Friday that "the organization and their clients, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Fort Belknap Indian Community (the Tribes) received some great news from a Montana court. The federal court denied the United States federal government’s and the TransCanada’s (TC Energy) efforts to dismiss the Tribes’ case against the KXL Pipeline.
NARF Staff Attorney Natalie Landreth praised the decision, “The court’s decision means that ALL of the tribes’ claims on the current permits will proceed. ... this is a complete win for the tribes. ... We look forward to holding the Trump Administration and TransCanada accountable to the Tribes and the applicable laws that must be followed.”
NARF Staff Attorney Matthew Campbell also reacted to the news, “Of course, the treaties were agreed to by the president of the United States and ratified by the Senate, so the treaties clearly apply. The court rightly found that today.”"
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/tribes-win-kxl-order-in-rosebud-sioux-tribe-v-trump
Energy-sustainable solutions NEED NOT INVOLVE certain business or white men with black hearts of rotten greed.
"TERAs enhance self-determination and economic development opportunities for Tribes by promoting Tribal oversight and management of energy resource development on Tribal lands. TERAs also support the national energy policy of increasing utilization of domestic energy resources. The updates also increase the options available by adding Tribal Energy Development Organizations (TEDOs) as an alternative to TERAs."
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The #Anasazi pueblo and cliff dwellers roamed a large geographic area throughout all of the Four Corners region. Although many people are quick to think that all "southwestern" prehistoric and archaic peoples were the same in tribal and cultural practices, they in fact were highly adaptable to the land.
"As the name implies, these prehistoric inhabitants of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners region of the Southwest were not ancestors of the Navajo. Instead, their most directly related descendants are the Hopi Indians who now live in pueblos on First, Second, and Third mesas in Arizona, plus the Zuni and people inhabiting several pueblos along the upper Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.
The term Anasazi is as alien to Puebloan people as the abandoned ruins were to the nomadic Navajo. But collectors and archeologists at the turn of the century adopted and popularized this name for prehistoric Puebloan people.
The roots of the Anasazi are not entirely clear. They were preceded by foragers who lived in the Southwest between 6000 BC and [0 AD]. Known as the Archaic or Desert Culture, they entered the Southwest as it was being vacated by big game hunters at the end of the Ice Age. Archaic people realized that their strength and survival lay in diversity. They subsisted on plants as well as animals, a response to the increased aridity that accompanied the end of the glacial period."
Source: _Prehistoric Culture Anasazi_ Library of Congress Number 91-67394 ISBN 1877856045
And this lovely research paper I started 20 years ago. The University did not offer a major like the one I'd started at Pacific University, so this somehow ended getting submitted to an English professor 🤣
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12PcqIWYFj1BLzJ8zoeXtd6KflmHJetSc
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Methods of working with natural materials of the earth have been around for centuries.
An arid desert southwest made for some especially interesting challenges in designing an #Ecostead. The best architects of their time (the 1100's) were anything but primitive in their intelligent use of precious desert water.
Most of this data I have been gathering for years (extensive research for a fictional book that was to be rooted in actual historical context). The research part of novel writing is sometimes arduous, and can itself take decades and yield many surprises along the way.
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Methods of working with natural materials of the earth have been around for centuries.
An arid desert southwest made for some especially interesting challenges in designing an #Ecostead. The best architects of their time (the 1100's) were anything but primitive in their intelligent use of precious desert water.
Most of this data I have been gathering for years (extensive research for a fictional book that was to be rooted in actual historical context). The research part of novel writing is sometimes arduous, and can itself take decades and yield many surprises along the way.
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@compostablespork @GwenfarsGarden
Badass. :blobmiou: yeaaaaaahh :blobcatbreadpeek:
I'm now in the habit of greenwaste-bagging all my veg scraps, eggshells, coffee grounds, even the catfood @simonthecat won't finish (He's a fairly finicky eater, which I used to loathe but he's obviously doing something right for 18+ years!)
It's a great system when you know the destination of that bag is going to be ground-level dirt. The veg scraps and coffee grounds... really they just wanna be free radical dirt.
At the #Ecostead clear across town (17 miles from here), I have bins and piles which technically is where I *could* take the waste to compost. But that's not stealth, and would require inefficient physical transportation fairly regularly.
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Great news in this recent NARF victory for the water protectors.
✨ 🙌 🦆 :yaysun:
"This is a tremendous victory for the Klamath Tribes, which NARF represented as amicus curiae in the case, as well as for the other Klamath Basin tribes, the United States, and environmental groups.
In this long-running case, Klamath Project irrigators sought nearly $30 million in compensation from the United States government for the Bureau of Reclamation’s curtailment of Project water deliveries during a severe drought in 2001. The water restrictions were made to meet Endangered Species Act requirements and fulfill tribal trust responsibilities. In late 2017, the US Court of Claims confirmed that the Klamath Tribes and downriver Klamath Basin tribes have senior water rights over other water interests in the Klamath Basin. Thus, the Project irrigators, as junior water rights users under the western water law system of “first in time, first in right,” were not entitled to receive any Project water in 2001."
"NARF Staff Attorney Sue Noe was not surprised by the court’s ruling, “The courts continue to rule in favor of the Klamath Tribes’ water rights because it is the only interpretation that makes sense. The Tribes have lived in the Klamath Basin for millennia. In an 1864 treaty they relinquished millions of acres of their homeland to the United States in exchange for guarantees, including protections for the tribal right to harvest fish in their streams and lakes. There is no expiration date on those treaty promises, and they cement the Tribes’ top water rights in the region.”"
#NARF #HonorTheTreaties #Water #Victory #Klamath
Sources:
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shinrin-yoku ~ 森林浴 ~
forest bathing: "A short trip into a forest or natural space to experience the restorative effects of spending time in the stillness of nature."Haven't been to the Portland Japanese Garden since it was redone last year, but I did visit it when gathering the original inspiration idea for the yard... something like a #zen hybrid rain garden and a Japanese tea #garden is what I'm going to go for in the back yard of the #Ecostead
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She wrote also of Indians in #Canada: "... different in details and identical in intent and disastrous effect to that of Indians in the United States"
Nevertheless, themes of survival persist:
"2. Indians endure -- both in the sense of living through something so complete in its destructiveness that the mere presence of survivors is a testament to the human will to survive and in the sense of duration or longevity. Tribal systems have been operating in the "new world" for several hundred thousand years. It is unlikely that a few hundred years of colonization will see their undoing." (Introduction)
-----We can tell by who the whiteman elected Prezzy prez, that their sense of dread must be growing day by day.
"The acts of aggression committed against every aspect of American Indian life and society over the centuries-- what the Aztecs foresaw as Nine Hells or Nine Descents --have left indelible, searing scars on the minds and spirits of the native peoples on this continent. But voices of the spirits that inform Native America are being heard in every region.
The oral tradition, from which the contemporary poetry and fiction take their significance and authenticity, has, since contact with white people, been a major force in Indian resistance." (p. 53)
"Contemporary Indian communities value individual members who are deeply connected to the traditional ways of their people, even after centuries of concerted and brutal effort on the part of the American government, the churches, and the corporate system to break the connections between individuals and their tribal world. In short, Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget." (p. 210)
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She wrote also of Indians in #Canada: "... different in details and identical in intent and disastrous effect to that of Indians in the United States"
Nevertheless, themes of survival persist:
"2. Indians endure -- both in the sense of living through something so complete in its destructiveness that the mere presence of survivors is a testament to the human will to survive and in the sense of duration or longevity. Tribal systems have been operating in the "new world" for several hundred thousand years. It is unlikely that a few hundred years of colonization will see their undoing." (Introduction)
-----We can tell by who the whiteman elected Prezzy prez, that their sense of dread must be growing day by day.
"The acts of aggression committed against every aspect of American Indian life and society over the centuries-- what the Aztecs foresaw as Nine Hells or Nine Descents --have left indelible, searing scars on the minds and spirits of the native peoples on this continent. But voices of the spirits that inform Native America are being heard in every region.
The oral tradition, from which the contemporary poetry and fiction take their significance and authenticity, has, since contact with white people, been a major force in Indian resistance." (p. 53)
"Contemporary Indian communities value individual members who are deeply connected to the traditional ways of their people, even after centuries of concerted and brutal effort on the part of the American government, the churches, and the corporate system to break the connections between individuals and their tribal world. In short, Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget." (p. 210)
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Recall campaigns work. These kinds of things work in a #Democracy.
"The internet has simultaneously made recall campaigns cheaper and made it easier for them to raise money. Social media helps voters find each other; smartphones and spreadsheets make coordinating their efforts far simpler. And citizens can even download a recall petition, print it out and sign it (or get their family and friends to sign it) on the spot.
Another reason recalls may be on the rise is that power *brokers are increasingly willing to put their muscle behind them."
Ideas:
(1) Start or advance a #Recall campaign against groupings of corrupt REPUBLICANS (for an opportunity to save the world).
(2) Assess ecosystem damage wrought by aforementioned bad guys, immediately shut down their abuses of privatization (or obvious intent to abuse via privatization).
(3) Assign ecological damage scores to those in political power; notice increased for each day of continued damage (or attempted damage)?; these cannot be removed.
(4) Expel and remove anyone unwilling to enforce accountability on the white collar criminals. Let the educated public among the system collectively vanquish those who refuse to be precisely accountable.
(5) Immediately embark upon eco-remediation strategies for the areas with the worse damage.
Indigenous #sovereign nations (and as the wise remind us: sovereignty is only to be acknowledged; it's obviously never granted) have all the answers, and really; they owe nothing to the white man. No real estate anything the white man dreamed up in vainglory is worth that kind of harm.
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Q: What's the most unsustainable business model on an Earth under literal attack by climate change deniaiists?
A: Insurance.
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Speaking of messages that can arrive from #LightYears away: (lest anyone forget about the missing and murdered indigenous) ...
And yet, strong women still get the message out: "Hello, world! It's never too soon to #oust corruption."
What if #Canada had been able to democratize without oppression and unnecessary but ultimately destructive foreign intervention?
"You can disagree all you want; that doesn't make her wrong."
"Among other policies, the state denied natives voting rights until 1960, unless they agreed to forgo indigenous status. Canada also forced 150,000 aboriginal children into “residential schools” — state-funded boarding institutions where assimilation into white culture was mandatory. Students were beaten if they spoke in their native tongues, and an unknown number of girls was sterilized. The last of the 130 schools didn’t close until 1996.
Today, Canada’s 1.4 million indigenous people suffer economically — 36 percent of indigenous women live in poverty, for instance, versus 17 percent of their non-indigenous counterparts. One-third of indigenous people between the ages of 25 and 54 have less than a high school education. Substance abuse is a rampant concern; in a 2011 national survey of First Nation adults living on reserves and in northern communities, 83 percent cited it as the biggest threat to aboriginal health. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, president of the non-profit Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), says she once heard domestic abuse in aboriginal households called as normal as keeping “ketchup in the fridge.”"
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a27560457/native-american-women-missing