#colonialviolence — Public Fediverse posts

Pure evil! #Genocide, #landTheft, #dehumanization, #humanRightsViolations, #settlerviolence #colonialViolence - words that @cbcnews stumbles over in its reporting to normalize #Israeli's murderous regime.

#Palestine #Palestinians #FreePalestine

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/defence-minister-israel-katz-palestinians-gaza-9.7330886

"The line that the onslaught by #Israel against #Gaza, the #WestBank and #Lebanon is about Hamas and Hizbullah is undercut by a closer look at the indiscriminate nature of the killing and uprooting of Arabs whatever their religion. The Vatican has expressed its concern at the violence against Christian villages in Southern Lebanon and in Gaza. St Porphyrius Church in Gaza was destroyed by Israel in October 2023."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/august/we-suffer-together
#Palestine #EastJerusalem #colonialViolence #oPt

« #Lebanon I think is a playground for all the frustrations - whether American or Israeli - to express themselves. It's like the Lebanese are going to pay the price of the fact that everything went wrong in #Iran. »

Political scientist #AurélieDaher talks w/ Doug Henwood about #Israel's #colonialViolence in #SouthLebanon, the state of #LebanesePolitics, and the #LebaneseResistance

https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-august-20-2026/
#Hezbollah #Hizbullah #Hizballah #MiddleEastWar

Another excellent, sprawling series from the #TheDigRadio: Nusantara covers the history of #Indonesia from the period of Dutch #colonialism to the present.

Latest ep (no. 7) covers conflicts in the state's colonial periphery: #WestPapua, #EastTimor & #Aceh

https://thedigradio.com/podcast/nusantara-ep-7-suhartos-fall/

series site: https://thedigradio.com/Nusantara/

#DutchEastIndiaCompany #SoutheastAsia #colonialViolence #decolonization #Sukarno #Suharto #PKI #decolonialStruggles #FreeWestPapua #documentaries

cc @Jinjirrie

JVP welcomes Cherokee journalist #RebeccaNagle to discuss her new podcast series #FirstAmerica:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGTePBm_fw

series website: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-america
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #settlerColonialism #colonialViolence #decolonialStruggles #documentaries #USA250

“The last grievance in the Declaration of Independence is about 'merciless Indian savages' [...] According to our founders, in their own words, the thing that they were most angry about was Native people.”

Cherokee historian #RebeccaNagle talks about her new podcast series #FirstAmerica

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/30/rebecca_nagle_first_america

(v. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-america)
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #colonialViolence #decolonialStruggles #documentaries

Cherokee historian #RebeccaNagle joins Nick Estes to talk about her new podcast series #FirstAmerica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0sHsVF-tQ

"Hosted and reported by Rebecca Nagle and featuring leading #NativeHistorians, First America unveils how the founders’ treatment of #Indigenous nations—and their resistance—shaped US democracy."

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-america
#NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #colonialViolence #decolonialStruggles #documentaries

#CitationsNeeded pod | How Selective, Patronizing "Deradicalization" Discourse Pathologizes #AntiColonialStruggle

'In this episode, we break down the long history of reducing #liberationMovements to "radicalism," "terrorism" and a host of brain problems that avoid addressing the underlying reality of injustice, death and dispossession.'

w/ Prem Thakker

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-237-how-selective
#Palestine #Gaza #Indigenous #colonialViolence #PalestineCoverage #media #mediaCriticism #decolonialStruggles

Majority Report welcomes #JamieHolmes, author of the #TheFreeAndTheDead, which tells the story of how a free Black American and an #Indigenous warrior resisted the US attack on the #Seminole nation in pre-statehood #Florida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiuAwww07X8

#SouanaffeTustenukke #Osceola #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #Seminoles #BlackSeminoles #SeminoleWars #SecondSeminoleWar #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #AmericanHistory #forcedRemovals #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.

We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.

Relevant links:
https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Detail/objects/518

https://orangeshirtday.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Indian_Residential_School_(Alert_Bay)

https://www.umista.ca/

https://www.7generations.org/what-is-every-child-matters/

#IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse

The Long Arc of #Fascism Teach-in | Palestinian and #Indigenous Solidarity in Historical Perspective

w/ Glen Coulthard and Sherene Seikaly

"Their conversation grounded the day’s anti-fascist analysis in a deeper temporal arc – tracing how extractive #imperialism and #settlerColonialism are not only linked across continents, but across time."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgcC5-kI83I

#Palestine #FirstNations #PalestineSolidarity #decolonialStruggles #colonialism #extractivism #colonialViolence @palestine

"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."

#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees

https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/

#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia

"They did it to Native Americans, to #Palestinians like my family in 1948, and now Trump wants to do it again in #Gaza. It's called '#forcibleTransfer,' and it kills something much greater than any individual life."

How to Erase a People

a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura

https://youtu.be/IcVR3qwdkgM

#ForcedTransfers #Palestine #Nakba #oPt #ColonialViolence #PalestinianRefugees #CrimesAgainstHumanity #SettlerColonialism #CulturalLoss #ecocide #DecolonialStruggles @film @palestine @israel @histodons

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #MalcomFerdinand, author of #DecolonialEcology / #UneÉcologieDécoloniale and #SAimerLaTerre, and Prof. #AzucenaCastro, author of #PoeticPostnatures

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/01/27/building-worlds-beyond-modernitys-double-fracture-a-discussion-with-azucena-castro-and-malcom-ferdinand/

#DecolonialEcology #SocialEcology #DecolonizingEcology #ecology #DecolonialStudies #DecolonialStruggles #DecolonialLiterature #ecocide #ColonialViolence #capitalocène #EnvironmentalJustice #books @bookstodon

Fellow #SaveOldGrowth forest defender, Sheena, made a short film. It includes the jingle dance circle with me & several other #environmental #landback #activists on the bridge between River & Landback resistance camps.

River & Landback camps were main strongholds at Fairy Creek blockade. River camp was the first resistance camp set up in 2020 & it ran for a year before final big raid. There are 2 very rough logging roads that lead up to untouched old growth forest tracts from these camps. River camp is also where people could go hike to see/visit with Grandmother & Grandfather cedars. After we were removed, industry started cutting more roads up into the untouched old growth tracts. Teal Jones logging company has since pulled out due to financial issues & everything is up in the air at this time. Temporary deferral was renewed this year for some tracts by this one particular area in the watershed. Still hoping for permanent protections as the elder trees are not included in this small deferral.

"My student documentary on the Fairy Creek/Ada'itsx old growth forest blockade 🌲 something of a collage, made with many hands and hearts. While the blockade and movement has evolved and gone through many stages, the momentum remains and many still carry forth the activism in heart and deed."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OEGhjc02k

#FairyCreekBlockade #DocFilm #documentary #ShortFilm #WorthMoreStanding #CivilDisobedience #LastStandForAncientForests #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Frontlines #BCpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #DefundRCMP #BCForestryReform #ColonialResistance #ColonialViolence #StudentFilm

#RCMP issued an #apology on September 7, 2024, for the historic use of #StreetChecks and other harmful interactions with members of the #African #NovaScotian community. It was an apology too long in coming, for treatment that was, in the words of Rev. Lennett Anderson, “dehumanizing and tragic.” And the RCMP's history suggests we should be deeply skeptical that the proposed action plan will be even close to what is required to remedy these grave injustices.

In his 2019 report, written for the #NovaScotia #HumanRights Commission, Dr. Scot Wortley defines street checks as any occasion in which civilians are stopped by #police and subjected to intrusive questions, and their personal information collected into a database. He confirmed what community members have known for years: people of African descent in the #Halifax region are almost six times more likely to face street checks.

It took five years after the release of this report for the RCMP to apologize for the harms caused. They also committed to an action plan, developed in consultation with members of 13 African Nova Scotian communities and the Association of #Black #SocialWorkers.

https://mediacoop.ca/node/119259

#CDNpoli #NSpoli #DefundRCMP #SystematicRacism #ColonialViolence #RacialProfiling #RacistRCMP #RacistCops #ACAB #BlackCanadians #Maritimes #BlackCommunity #ColonialInjustices #SocialJustice #BIPOC #POCinCanada

#Free #Decolonial #OpenAccess #Research Paper.

Building the #SettlerColonial Order: #Police (In)Actions in Response to #Violence Against #IndigenousWomen in #Canada

Abstract:

In this article we focus on missing and murdered #Indigenous women, girls, and #2SLGBTQQIA people in Canada. We theorize narratives that police employ to respond to this violence. Using a broad data sample of #testimonies across Canada, this article contributes to understanding how police (in)actions make sense of, justify, and dismiss violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. We draw from 48 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Indigenous peoples in Toronto and other Canadian cities and 219 testimonies from the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (NIMMIWG). The #analysis finds that police repeatedly use similar frames (topics), styles (linguistic and behavioral strategies), and storylines (narratives) to respond to violence against Indigenous peoples. While framing Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people as deviants helps police make sense of and explain violence against them, the use of verbal and behavioral strategies (indifference, callousness, and lack of information) and storylines (“they were [insert pathologizing frame]” and “there’s nothing we can do”) allows police to dismiss and justify acts of violence. We argue that the frames, styles, and storylines employed by police perpetuate violence. Police (in)actions are fundamental to achieving settler #colonialism’s ideological and material dimensions.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08912432231171171

#CDNpoli #IndigenousCanada #NativeMastodon #NativeCanada #SystematicRacism #KKKanada #ColonialViolence #RacistRCMP #ACAB #Injustice #TruthBeforeReconciliation #CanadianCops #MMIGW2S

#RecommendedReading for #Decolonial #Education. #Free #OpenAccess report.

About Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is an #uncensored #record of the planned #extermination of #IndigenousChildren in #Canada’s murderous Indian #ResidentialSchools. It is issued as a corrective #CounterReport to the miscarriage of #justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” #TRC. Based on eyewitness #testimonies and #archival #documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the #genocide of #IndigenousPeople began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: – Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened – This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare according to a prescribed monthly “death quota” – Evidence of these crimes and their intentional nature has been continually destroyed by the RCMP and the #Catholic, #Anglican and #UnitedChurch since at least 1960 – The same genocide continues today, is aimed at indigenous women and children, and is driven by foreign corporate interests hungry for #NativeLands and resources Murder by Decree is issued by The International Tribunal for the Disappeared of Canada (ITDC), an international #coalition of #jurists and #HumanRights groups. The ITDC was formed in December, 2015 to investigate the disappearance of people in Canada, prosecute those responsible and prevent a further #whitewash by Canada of its #CrimesAgainstHumanity. This report is an answer to these #crimes and an urgent summons to the world and to all #Canadians to live no longer under #genocidal #regimes.

Published by the #ITDC Central Offices in #Brussels and #Toronto. For more information write to [email protected] .

http://murderbydecree.com/

#CDNpoli #IndigenousRights #ColonialViolence #CoverUp #KKKanada #FirstNations #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #NativeRights #UNDRIP #Injustices #ColonialCrimes #TruthBeforeReconciliation

One of many earlier #British #ColonialCrimes in #SouthEastAsia. The #BriggsPlan in #Malaysia.

The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term #ConcentrationCamp a name symbolic of #atrocity, so when British #colonizers once again visited the idea of #ForcedRelocation of #IndigenousPeoples to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with #NewVillages. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in #Malaya during the 1950 #MalayanEmergency. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.

#Britain lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million #Chinese in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.

When the Malayan #CommunistParty received support from armed #guerrillas from Malaya and #China, the British, intent on restoring #Imperial rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist #insurgents would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.

The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.

Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated #CollectivePunishments directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. #Deportation without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.

#AsianMastodon #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #ColonialismInAsia #Decolonization #DecolonialLearning #ColonizerCrimes #ColonialViolence #Decolonize #AsianHistory #MalaysianHistory #LearnYourColonialHistory

#ColonialCrimes : World #Map of #Justice Initiatives.

“Don’t portray us as a band of beggars coming to demand reparation. […] I think the Europeans have obligations to us, like all the unfortunate, but especially to us for harms that they caused. That is what I call reparation.” These words of Aimé Césaire, renowned Martinican author of “Discourse on Colonialism”, still resonate everywhere in the world 71 years after they were published.

The issue concerns 70% of the world’s population, either as a citizen of a colonizing country or as one of the colonized, according to French #history professor Bouda Etemad, author of the book “Crimes and Reparations, the West faced with its colonial past”. The colonized and their descendants, he writes, have the right to demand #reparation from the #European powers for the harms these States committed over a period of 500 years, from the “discovery” of #America by Christopher #Colombus to independence in the second half of the 20th century. Forced labour, slavery, persecution, executions, extermination, bombardments, looting and forced cultural #assimilation: the list is long of violent #abuses that accompanied #colonization in #Africa, the Near East, #Asia, the Americas, #Oceania and northern #Europe.

This special focus concentrates on the period known as the “second #colonial empire” which from 1815 marked the new #expansionism of the Western powers until the wave of independence in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/78677-colonial-crimes-world-map-justice-initiatives.html

#Legal #InternationalLaw #Decolonization #Landback #UNDRIP #ColonialTheft #ColonialExploitation #ColonialViolence #Injustices #TruthBeforeReconciliation #GlobalSouth #geopolitics

*In case you missed reading this when it was first published last year.*

#Canada’s #NationalParks Are #Colonial #CrimeScenes.

Many see wilderness as a right of citizenship. But the concept of Canada as untouched #nature is unrecognizable to #Indigenous people

In 2017, it felt like the whole country was swept up in the rah-rah celebrations around Canada 150. It was a collective anniversary, a chance to celebrate our history. Well, some of it, anyway. Tied to the many calls to explore the country and take stock of its many wonders, #ParksCanada released its Discovery Pass, which granted free entry to all national parks that year. These natural spaces “represent the very best that Canada has to offer,” it announced in a press release. “They are the essence of our country because they tell stories of who we are, including the history, cultures and contributions of Indigenous peoples.” But, as Robert Jago explored in his timely essay, Canada’s parks program was built on the displacement of Indigenous peoples and the capture of their territories—a form of “green colonialism.” Parks are wonderful spaces, but they have also acted as #political cover for the control of land, a tactic we still see used today.—Daniel Viola, senior editor, November 2023 issue.

https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-national-parks-are-colonial-crime-scenes/

#IndigenousLand #ColonialCrimes #CDNpoli #Landback #NativeLand #IndigenousCanada #NativeMastodon #NativeCanada #TRC #KKKanada #ColonialInjustice #TruthBeforeReconciliation #ColonialResistance #ColonialViolence #CanadianHistory #HistoryOfCanada #History #Decolonization

Professor John J. Mearsheimer was spot on when he said the # 1 biggest terrorist organization is the USA & the 2nd is Israel.
They are BFFs in destabilizing #geopolitical terrorism. Both have had impunity for their multiple war crimes for too long.

Consequences are long overdue for both of these colonial terrorist governments, filled with many war criminals.

#USATerrorism #USpol #geopolitics #warmongers #USAThreatToHumanity #AmericanTerrorism #USAGenociders #MassMurderers #GlobalDestabilization #perpetrators #EndlessWars #ProxyWars #Murica #ColonialViolence

"#Cherokee journalist #RebeccaNagle joins the show to talk about her recently released book, #ByTheFireWeCarry [..] The book is a centuries-long history and legal thriller, documenting the lead-up to the landmark #McGirt Supreme Court decision."

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/therednation/id/33873057

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #ForcedRemovals #ColonialViolence #IndianRemovalAct #UShistory #McGirtVsOklahoma #Choctaw #Seminole #Chickasaw #Muscogee #FiveTribes #TrailOfTears #books

#RedNationPodcast