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#colonialviolence — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #colonialviolence, aggregated by home.social.

  1. "As #Israel’s offensive reduced whole neighbourhoods to rubble, the records that anchor #Palestinians claims to homes and land have often vanished with them. Deeds, contracts, bills and permits are lost in the expanse of #Gaza’s ruins."

    The battle to prove who owns Gaza’s ruins

    ft.com/content/ab6233dc-bfdb-4
    archive.ph/jGJZX
    #Palestine #warOnGaza #massDisplacement #colonialViolence #urbicide #oPt

  2. "As #Israel’s offensive reduced whole neighbourhoods to rubble, the records that anchor #Palestinians claims to homes and land have often vanished with them. Deeds, contracts, bills and permits are lost in the expanse of #Gaza’s ruins."

    The battle to prove who owns Gaza’s ruins

    ft.com/content/ab6233dc-bfdb-4
    archive.ph/jGJZX
    #Palestine #warOnGaza #massDisplacement #colonialViolence #urbicide #oPt

  3. "As #Israel’s offensive reduced whole neighbourhoods to rubble, the records that anchor #Palestinians claims to homes and land have often vanished with them. Deeds, contracts, bills and permits are lost in the expanse of #Gaza’s ruins."

    The battle to prove who owns Gaza’s ruins

    ft.com/content/ab6233dc-bfdb-4
    archive.ph/jGJZX
    #Palestine #warOnGaza #massDisplacement #colonialViolence #urbicide #oPt

  4. "As #Israel’s offensive reduced whole neighbourhoods to rubble, the records that anchor #Palestinians claims to homes and land have often vanished with them. Deeds, contracts, bills and permits are lost in the expanse of #Gaza’s ruins."

    The battle to prove who owns Gaza’s ruins

    ft.com/content/ab6233dc-bfdb-4
    archive.ph/jGJZX
    #Palestine #warOnGaza #massDisplacement #colonialViolence #urbicide #oPt

  5. “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

    democracynow.org/2026/6/30/reb

    (v. pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-amer)
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #colonialViolence #decolonialStruggles #documentaries

  6. "Since his inauguration, it has become all too plausible that the American public will forget what we have learned about our country’s #forcedAssimilation of #NativeChildren. #Trump is taking the United States on a historical amnesia tour, suppressing and rewriting our past and overlooking tribal sovereignty."

    thebaffler.com/outbursts/serio
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #IndianBoardingSchools #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #USpol #USpolitics #colonialViolence

  7. "Since his inauguration, it has become all too plausible that the American public will forget what we have learned about our country’s #forcedAssimilation of #NativeChildren. #Trump is taking the United States on a historical amnesia tour, suppressing and rewriting our past and overlooking tribal sovereignty."

    thebaffler.com/outbursts/serio
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #IndianBoardingSchools #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #USpol #USpolitics #colonialViolence

  8. "Since his inauguration, it has become all too plausible that the American public will forget what we have learned about our country’s #forcedAssimilation of #NativeChildren. #Trump is taking the United States on a historical amnesia tour, suppressing and rewriting our past and overlooking tribal sovereignty."

    thebaffler.com/outbursts/serio
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #IndianBoardingSchools #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #USpol #USpolitics #colonialViolence

  9. "Since his inauguration, it has become all too plausible that the American public will forget what we have learned about our country’s #forcedAssimilation of #NativeChildren. #Trump is taking the United States on a historical amnesia tour, suppressing and rewriting our past and overlooking tribal sovereignty."

    thebaffler.com/outbursts/serio
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #IndianBoardingSchools #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #USpol #USpolitics #colonialViolence

  10. "Since his inauguration, it has become all too plausible that the American public will forget what we have learned about our country’s #forcedAssimilation of #NativeChildren. #Trump is taking the United States on a historical amnesia tour, suppressing and rewriting our past and overlooking tribal sovereignty."

    thebaffler.com/outbursts/serio
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #IndianBoardingSchools #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #USpol #USpolitics #colonialViolence

  11. "[A]ll of the most high-profile Western plans—not least Trump’s own—proceed from the same premises: that #Palestinians have no right to determine their future, that the best they can hope for is to exchange self-determination for construction projects and accept #apartheid in place of genocide." - Sara Roy

    What 'Day After' for #Gaza?

    nybooks.com/online/2025/10/25/
    archive.ph/0TwZY
    #GazaReconstruction #colonialism #colonialViolence #GazaGenocide #Palestine #oPt

  12. "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."

    yahoo.com/news/trump-administr
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #ColonialViolence #USpol #USpolitics #NEH

  13. "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."

    yahoo.com/news/trump-administr
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #ColonialViolence #USpol #USpolitics #NEH

  14. "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."

    yahoo.com/news/trump-administr
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #ColonialViolence #USpol #USpolitics #NEH

  15. "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."

    yahoo.com/news/trump-administr
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #ColonialViolence #USpol #USpolitics #NEH

  16. 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."

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OEGhjc

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

  17. #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.

    mediacoop.ca/node/119259

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

  18. #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.

    journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/

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

  19. #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] .

    murderbydecree.com/

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

  20. #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.

    justiceinfo.net/en/78677-colon

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

  21. *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.

    thewalrus.ca/canadas-national-

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