#colonialviolence — Public Fediverse posts

"On July 1, #Israel and the United States signed an agreement to build a permanent U.S. Embassy in #Jerusalem on confiscated Palestinian property. Among the descendants of the Palestinian families who own the site is historian #RashidKhalidi. He details his family’s nearly 30 year legal battle against the planned embassy — and reflects on whether the hundred-year war on #Palestine may finally be entering a new chapter..."

https://www.972mag.com/podcast-rashid-khalidi-us-embassy-jerusalem/
#USpol #colonialViolence #Nakba

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

Only in a place with decades and decades of #settlerColonialism and #colonialViolence would this be necessary. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/awacak-nunavik-bill-79-quebec-9.7214403

#IndigenousPeoples #Canada #Quebec #Nunavik

When the murderer of an #Indigenous person is characterized as the victim, this #Conservative's rant clearly falls into the #whiteFragility or #whiteSupremacist category. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2026/05/21/manitoba-politician-calls-saskatchewan-farmer-who-killed-colten-boushie-a-victim?briefing_id=602309756&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9w5w9Kfqqz0qvY74sAiLt3u-mT_nsBt00NaiWvgiULxr3O3OFmWQaZ2hltFg9HcUJY67vTFyeTXZZXNiadyA6EGYdf7w&_hsmi=16085228
#mbpoli #racism #ColonialViolence #SettlerColonialism

Conversation with Rep. #RashidaTlaib: 78 Years Since the #Nakba

"Join Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib—the only Palestinian-American Member of Congress—for a special virtual conversation commemorating 78 years since the Nakba began. The event will feature guest speaker Dr. #YousefMunayyer, Head of the #Palestine / #Israel Program and Senior Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC."

replay: https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/briefings/nakba-78
#PalestineSolidarity #USpol #Nakba78 #NakbaDay #Gaza #GazaSolidarity #colonialViolence

May 14, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman #RashidaTlaib (MI-12) re-introduced the resolution Recognizing the Ongoing #Nakba and #PalestinianRefugees’ Rights.

https://tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-introduces-resolution-recognizing-78-years-of-ongoing-palestinian-nakba
#Palestine #Gaza #USpol #HR1289 #NakbaDay #Nakba78 #colonialViolence

"To counter this insidious attempt at #Nakba memoricide by U.S. politicians and others, it is instructive to review the archives of U.S. diplomats stationed in #Palestine and surrounding Arab countries who witnessed the Nakba unfold and reported back to the #StateDepartment on the magnitude and gravity of #Israel’s dispossession of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants." - #JoshRuebner

https://www.mei.edu/publications/five-things-united-states-knew-about-nakba-it-unfolded
#Nakba78 #NakbaDay #PalestineQuestion #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #colonialViolence

"The US actually understood quite early on that the partition plan as proposed by #UNSCOP was not workable and not feasible [...] The US did more than think about going back on partition. In March 1948 [...] the US actually proposed in the Security Council that an international trusteeship be appointed for #Palestine instead of partition." - #JoshRuebner

#Nakba 1948: What Washington Knew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fMiKXebU9Y
#NakbaDay #Nakba78 #PalestineQuestion #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #colonialViolence

"[N]inety-year-old George Bahu revisits his childhood in al-Baqa’a al Foqa, a Palestinian neighborhood in West #Jerusalem before the #Nakba. [...]
"George also recalls the violence that transformed the city: the King David Hotel bombing, armed Zionist attacks on Palestinian neighborhoods, and the mass displacement of #Palestinians in 1948."

This is #Palestine with Diana Buttu

https://this-is-palestine.simplecast.com/episodes/and-i-too-love-jerusalem-voices-from-al-nakba
#NakbaDay #Nakba78 #MandatePalestine #colonialViolence

"[W]hat #Israel hopes to achieve with these talks, beyond prolonging the war on both fronts, is to push #Lebanon toward civil strife..."

#AmalSaad on the Israel-Lebanon "talks"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2042316667594613238.html
#warOnLebanon #Iran #warOnIran #MiddleEast #MiddleEastWar #SouthLebanon #LebaneseResistance #colonialViolence

"[W]hat #Israel hopes to achieve with these talks, beyond prolonging the war on both fronts, is to push #Lebanon toward civil strife..."

#AmalSaad on the Israel-Lebanon "talks"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2042316667594613238.html
#warOnLebanon #Iran #warOnIran #MiddleEast #MiddleEastWar #SouthLebanon #LebaneseResistance #colonialViolence

"[W]hat #Israel hopes to achieve with these talks, beyond prolonging the war on both fronts, is to push #Lebanon toward civil strife..."

#AmalSaad on the Israel-Lebanon "talks"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2042316667594613238.html
#warOnLebanon #Iran #warOnIran #MiddleEast #MiddleEastWar #SouthLebanon #LebaneseResistance #colonialViolence

"[W]hat #Israel hopes to achieve with these talks, beyond prolonging the war on both fronts, is to push #Lebanon toward civil strife..."

#AmalSaad on the Israel-Lebanon "talks"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2042316667594613238.html
#warOnLebanon #Iran #warOnIran #MiddleEast #MiddleEastWar #SouthLebanon #LebaneseResistance #colonialViolence

"[W]hat #Israel hopes to achieve with these talks, beyond prolonging the war on both fronts, is to push #Lebanon toward civil strife..."

#AmalSaad on the Israel-Lebanon "talks"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2042316667594613238.html
#warOnLebanon #Iran #warOnIran #MiddleEast #MiddleEastWar #SouthLebanon #LebaneseResistance #colonialViolence

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

"#AlHaq Submission on #Artificialntelligence Warns that #Israel’s #AI - Driven Warfare and Surveillance are Erasing the Palestinian People’s #RightToDevelopment"

https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/27054.html
#tech #BigTech #militarizedAI #Palestine #Gaza #colonialViolence #GazaGenocide #UnitedNations #UN

"In endorsing this so-called peace plan, Western powers, Arab states, and now the #UN itself risk endorsing an illegal expansion of the Israeli government’s territorial-maximalist settlement project—and leaving two million #Palestinians with no viable path for rebuilding their lives."

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/23/gaza-the-threat-of-partition/
https://archive.ph/mlKrE
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #TrumpPlan #oPt #colonialViolence #forcedDisplacement

Two #Environmental #ActivistArt pieces, for free, public, non-commercial usage.
Over the years, I've collected a lot of activist art graphics from Tumblr, Reddit & other sites where the artist wasn't always identified. I looked up who these artists were to identify them.

The 1st is by Roger Peet.
https://thefunambulist.net/network/roger-peet

The 2nd & 3rd are by Pete Railand.
https://www.peterailand.com/

I was a part of #StopTMX in 4 separate frontlines places across mainland BC & saw the ecocide, up close. BC NDP sent their CIRG goons in at remote areas of BC, where we had set up citizens watch stations. CIRG came to harass, beat up & eventually remove us. #RCMP protect corporate interests/profits, not citizens.
https://www.stoptmx.ca/

#TransMountainPipeline #StopEcocide #NoTMX #BanCorporateLobbyists #EcoCrimes #PublicAccountability #StopCorporateWelfare #MakePollutersPay #DirtySnakeOil #BCpoli #CDNpoli #ClimateCrisis #Ecological #Art #Activism #WaterIsLife #ProtectWater #ColonialViolence #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CapitalistEvils #DavidEby #MarkCarney #AbolishCIRG #ProtectNature #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCNDP #StopInsuringEcoCrimes #Burnaby #Vancouver #YVR #RemoveQualifiedImmunity #StopInsuringTransMountain #CanadianEcocide

#Chinese #professor Jiang Xueqin condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza, saying “the worst thing you can do in modern society is kill children.”

He argued that #Israel has left itself no way out, describing its approach as “all or nothing” and accusing its leadership of provoking the world deliberately — “starting fights and shouting ‘death to Arabs’ to unite themselves by dividing everyone else.”

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Bfx76WbGkuU

#FreePalestine #FeedPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #StopApartheid #StopGenocide #SanctionIsrael #DoxZionazis #ColonialViolence #WarCrimes #BoycottIsrael #BoycottUSA #BDSMovement #ExposeZionazis #IsraelIsATerroristState #ZionismIsACult #FreeGaza #HumanRights #Landback

#UncivilizedMedia | A History of Forced Starvation, Explained

a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890

#film #courtMétrage #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaFamine #Palestine #Ireland #GreatFamine #IrishFamine #Namibia #HereroAndNamaGenocide #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #colonialViolence @film @palestine @israel

"At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of #IndigenousChildren in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. government have been slashed due to federal funding cuts under President Donald #Trump’s administration."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-makes-major-cuts-093504202.html
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #ColonialViolence #USpol #USpolitics #NEH

#LettersAndPolitics | The #IrishPotatoFamine and its Consequences

guest: Padraic X. Scanlan, author of Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-march-19-2025/

#GreatFamine #Ireland #IrishHistory #imperialism #BritishImperialism #colonialViolence #famines #books @histodons @bookstodon @ireland

"#JeanPfaelzer (Prof. Emerita, University of Delaware) describes the untold history of #slavery, #SlaveRevolts, and resistance in #California, based on her award-winning book #CaliforniaASlaveState"

https://soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s08e04_pfaelzer_california-a

#Indigenous #EnslavedIndigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #BlackHistory #USHistory #AmericanHistory #CaliforniaHistory #SettlerColonialism #ColonialViolence #RacialCapitalism #HumanTrafficking #CaliforniaGenocide #FirstNations #books @bookstodon

Before I head out for the day ->
Recommended #documentary film.

Between 1952 and 1960, Britain fought a vicious war in Kenya against the anticolonial Mau Mau movement. It was an exceptionally bloody conflict, with atrocities committed on both sides. For decades, many of the worst abuses by British colonial forces were kept hidden. Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture – including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations.

A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman.

Document archive is courtesy of the UK National Archives.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sSGd2w_rk

#ColonialViolence #GlobalSouth #Kenya #BritishColonizers #Colonialism #AfricanHistory #HumanHistory #Geopolitics #BritishHistory #ColonialExploitation #ColonialAbuses #MauMau #ColonialResistance #Decolonization #Educational #DocFilm #Africa #BlackHistory #POCstories #LearnHistory #SystematicRacism #Torture #WarCrimes #UKhistory #ColonialAtrocities #historians #history

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

*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

He ensured I was medically OK - AFTER shitass #RCMPCIRG CO - SGT JASON CHARNEY(Google him) sent my #BCAmbulance help away - telling them no one needed medical assistance. #RCMP tried to lie to me & try to force me into using their corrupt & unaccountable RCMP #medics.
Same kinda 'medics' caught on cameras, pepper spraying non-violent protestors & threatened more than 8 journalists who also got pepper sprayed & assaulted.

#BCpoli #KKKanada #LANDBACK #ColonialViolence #RESPECTtheTreaties #CashbackColonizers #CDNpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDisaster

The notion of #police being there to #ServeAndProtect in times of need often does not apply to #Indigenous, #Black or other #RacializedMinorities in #Canada. The notion of “help” more often resembles harm.

This leads to the question, why does #PoliceBrutality against Indigenous and Black people continue to happen? Because it is a symptom of the structural #racism that exists within #Canadian society.

You can read article & download the brief:
https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2020/07/15/police-brutality-in-canada-a-symptom-of-structural-racism-and-colonial-violence/

#ACAB #CDNpoli #BCpoli #SystematicRacism #RacializedViolence #CriminalCops #NoAccountability #AbolishPoliceUnions #AbolishRCMPCIRG #ColonialViolence #Racism #BIPOC #Injustices #HumanRights #CopsAreCriminals