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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone/116730344681911034
#decolonizeYourMind
Please listen (and read in English captions) to this short and important message from an Irish (Gaelic) speaking fellow in Northern Ireland. -
@ErickaSimone don’t hear enough Gaelic. Agreed! Beautiful!
And excellent message too.
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If you don't feel small, underneath old growth trees....older than our great grandparents...there is something that is quite sick, within.
Ancient trees have mesmerizing energies. What a shame, when mankind cannot truly see the forest, when looking at an elder tree.
What other irreplaceable moments are you missing to see/to admire, knowing when an elder tree or two or three or more is clear-cut? Does it make you feel anything different than you do, now? If you don't want more ancient trees/forests cut down, what are you willing to do to help us?
#StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #WorthMoreStanding #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #BCpoli #CDNpoli #GreenFutures #Resistance #FuckCapitalism #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #WeAreReclaimation #LandBack
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A combo of my own & comrades responses to whitewashed POC & the white folks they're quick to defend/justify being voluntarily connected with - like no one is forcing them into being connected, whatsoever to any type of bigots whatsoever - over past 5 years.
I'm marking it with - them & us exchanges that happened.
Them: You have a lot of Indian friends. You're not worried about being robbed?
Me: I'm worried about people like you, robbing me. I'm not worried about the Indigenous folks trying that on my home.Them: You hang out with welfare bums! Those Indians get free rides! They should pay taxes too. They need to stop bitching about shit that happened before I was born. I am 65, goddammit!
Me: You're 65 & still ignorant as fuck. I'm 51 & you were around while many of my family was being bombed to death. My friends aren't welfare bums. Most are gainfully employed. They'd stop bitching about injustices if the injustices weren't still happening & if past crimes by white people were actually made fully accountable with real enforced, legal punishments & more land back diplomacy, led by Indigenous folks.
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"To survive in the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras — be a crossroads." Gloria Anzaldúa, 1987. A trans kid in South Carolina is a crossroads. A grandmother in Cape Town watching the lights go out is a crossroads. Witness is the first form of refusal.
https://twp.ai/9OVj8o
#Anzaldúa #QueerTheory #Borderlands #Mestiza #DecolonizeYourMind #LiteraryQueer #Witness #Resistance #ChosenFamily #Fediverse -
Some fab free book scores.
Calling My Spirit Back by Elaine Alec
Elaine Alec, is a #Syilx & #Secwepemc author, based in Kamloops, BC.
https://www.elainealec.com/booksWhose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization provides a variety of Indigenous perspectives on the history of colonialism, current Indigenous activism and resistance, and outlines the path forward to reconciliation.
Originally released as a free e-book, the audio version features renowned Indigenous writers Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Russell Diabo, Beverly Jacobs, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Kanahus Manuel, Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, Pamela Palmater, Shiri Pasternak, Nicole Schabus, Senator Murray Sinclair, and Sharon Venne. The late Arthur Manuel’s writings are read by his grandson, Mahekan Anderson. FPSE has been proud to partner with Nuxalk Radio to produce the audio version of this essential work.
https://fpse.ca/resources/whose-land-is-it-anyway/My Indian Summer by Joseph Kakwinokanasum
A novel about survival, reconciliation and identity set during the summer of 1979.
https://www.strongnations.com/store/10103/my-indian-summer
Joseph Kakwinokanasum is a member of James Smith #Cree Nation. Kakwinokanasum's work has been published in the 2022 anthology Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, the Humber Literary Journal and Emerge.
Kakwinokanasum was shortlisted for the 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize.The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje, won the 1970 Governor General's Literary Award. Ondaatje's hauntingly disturbing evocation of the life and death of the 19th-century American outlaw placed him in the forefront of the new generation of Canadian poets emerging in the 1970s. The Collected Works commences with a list of 20 men killed by Billy the Kid and a foreshadowing of his own death. Using a highly visual, visceral poetic style featuring violent surreal images of madness and men killed in gun fights, shifts in time and perspective, and impressionistic fragments of Billy's existence, Ondaatje traces his capture, escape and eventual death at the hands of Pat Garrett, the "ideal assassin." Following the publication of The Collected Works by House of Anansi in 1970, a dozen major productions of a stage adaptation were held across Canada.(from The Canadian Encyclopedia)
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-collected-works-of-billy-the-kid#books #bookstodon #ReadMoreBooks #Decolonization #Booklovers #Paperbacks #Literarature #DecolonialReading #DecolonizeYourMind #FreeBooks
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B.C. MLA #DallasBrodie is the mastermind behind ‘Making a Killing,’ a #documentary that purports to investigate #ResidentialSchools but is chock full of #lies and #AntiIndigenous #propaganda.
Lance of The Serfs exposes how ‘Making a Killing’ misdirects its audience and distorts the truth.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-Ha1TwcG8
From the
@TheBreach newsletter link.#BCPoli #IndigenousRights #EveryChildMatters #CulturalGenocide #IndigenousGenocide #JusticeForTheChildren #ConservativesSuck #CDNpoli #DecolonizeYourMind #Racism #Canada
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This is considered, lifelong unpaid work, for me. It is very important for me, to spend the rest of my life, decolonizing & trying to right colonial capitalist wrongs. This unpaid work is essential to my existence as a living war survivor, as a POC woman, as a disabled woman - this work is essential to my living essence.
I do not sway or deviate from this lifelong work.#AsianMastodon #DecolonizeYourMind #Decolonization #FreeThyself #ColonialismIsSlavery #CapitalismIsARatTrap
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I'm a part of the growing #POC #SocialMovement to #decolonize #NatureOutings. I work with 18 different BC #nonprofits actively working towards more #decolonization of their public programs 👊💚☘️
I'll update here, on this important #DecolonizeYourMind efforts in nature group outings as we work with developing more educational programs for the public 👍💗 -
*I think Eby's the current, problematic BC politician in Premier power role. The core problem is that #BCNDP haven't really respected #IndigenousRights for a long time. Their caucus became too whipped under Horgan & that's continued under Eby - who was groomed by the former neoliberal in charge of BC policies.*
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs says the NDP has a “colossal” leadership problem, and if it doesn’t move on from Premier David Eby, the party could be doomed for decades. “I think the problem is Premier Eby,” he said at a Friday morning news conference in Vancouver held by Indigenous leaders opposed to a proposed suspension of parts of the Declaration on the Rights of #IndigenousPeoples Act (DRIPA).
Phillip spoke alongside the #FirstNations Leadership Council, which is made up of members of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, the First Nations Summit and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. The groups held a joint news conference in Vancouver on Friday (April 10), slamming the B.C. NDP government’s DRIPA suspension plan, a move the council had called a “unilateral betrayal” on Thursday. #DRIPA is a 2019 B.C. law that formally commits the province to aligning its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ( #UNDRIP ), which affirms the right to #SelfDetermination for #Indigenous peoples worldwide.
Read more at: https://saanichnews.com/2026/04/10/the-problem-is-premier-eby-b-c-ndps-leadership-taken-to-task-over-dripa/
#BCpoli #DavidEby #LandBack #NoConsent #Capitalism #Colonialism #DecolonizeYourMind #Decolonization #CanadaIsAllNativeLand #BCGovernment #SueTheGovernment
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This is part of trying to create a better world, with some quieter acts of #AntiCapitalist #decolonial #resistance. Fascism/capitalism doesn't want a more educated, a more humane society of people who care about more than bigger bottom line profits & endless growth at any cost.
#Degrowth #DecolonizeYourMind #ResistanceIsNotLinear #WaysOfResistance #CaremongeringArmy #PlanetOverProfits #OneEarth #WeArePartOfNature #GrowHumanity #EducationIsKey #AnarchoSocialist #FreeEducation #BeTheChange
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What Empire Cannot Erase
#Persian #Poetry and #Civilization.https://we.scienceandnonduality.com/offers/D2fdqgqo/checkout
April 19, 2026 • 10:00 – 11:30am PDT (find your local time)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82963653279?pwd=7G6aM3thTc2VDjMn8NIApFObMcgbTZ.1We are watching, once again, what empire does: not only to bodies, but to the long memory of a people; to the libraries and sacred sites; to art, language, and the ruins that hold the oldest threads of human spiritual inquiry.
We are thinking of the civilization that gave us Rumi, Hafez, Omar Khayyam, Forough Farrokhzad — mystics and rebels and lovers of paradox who understood something about the human soul that we are still, centuries later, trying to catch up to.
This gathering is an invitation to come together: to read poetry aloud, to hear from #Iranian voices, to sit with grief and beauty together rather than alone.
We will work with #political and #moral vocabulary shaped by Iranian thinkers such as Ali Shariati, who wrote against domination, spiritual emptiness, and the violence of imposed power.
We will make space for what doesn’t fit into headlines or talking points—the complexity of empire, the difference between a government and its people, the #authoritarian forces at work not only abroad but here at home. We also gather with the political inheritance of those who taught generations to resist domination and spiritual emptiness, including Ali Shariati.
Watch Omid’s #TeachIn on “What you need to know about Iran”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZrnBY2wWc
#Educational #Iran #MiddleEast #POCVoices #IranianDiaspora #IranianVoices #LearnMore #Cultural #EthnicCommunities #GlobalSouth #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #Oppression #Freedom #Imperialism #Colonialism #Humanities #SocialScience #CulturalIdentity #geopolitics #Globalization #ForeignPolicy #ForeignAffairs #Sovereignty
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Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts. Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.
In this engaging interview, Talila A. Lewis argues that ableism has deep implications for every other marginalized identity. In short, ableism, according to Lewis, is at the root of other powerful hegemonic sites — from race and class to colonialism and nationality. In this way, they uncover the ways in which ableism insidiously operates across space and time. As an abolitionist community lawyer, educator and organizer, Lewis has focused on abolishing the medical-carceral-industrial complex and highlighting the inextricable links between ableism, racism, classism, and all other forms of oppression and violence.
#PeopleWithDisabilities #DecolonizeYourMind #AntiAbleism #DisabledLivesMatter #Decolonization #EndOppression #Intersectionality #Activism #DisabledActivists #BeAComrade #NoAbleism #DisabilityRights #HumanRights #Classism #Colonialism #Capitalism #Inequality #Liberation #Inequity #marginalized #RiseUpAgainstAbleism #StopBeingEnableists #Educational #DisabilityAwareness #Inclusion #NothingWithUsWithoutUs
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You can't play a race card on me either, when you choose to personal side with bigots with a proven bad track record for bigotry. GTFO with that crap with me.
#SitWithBigots #Enablers #Ableists #POCVoices #DecolonizeYourMind #Misogynists
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You can be #antiracist & still not be OK with #whitewashed #POC who choose to work for #government & are #Zionazis.
If I based everything on race alone - I'd never have confronted Asian sellout politicians nor chose to go no contact with several whitewashed, capitalist jerks in my own family.
Only fools will keep volunteering to defend any politician.#AsianMastodon #POCVoices #politics #FuckTheWhitewashed #DecolonizeYourMind
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#ComradeCat got his paws on some local #Anarchist Network #VancouverIsland #zines 😺
#cat #AntiCapitalist #AntiColonial #Decolonization #AntiGovernment #DecolonizeYourMind #AntiMisogyny #FreedomForAll #StopOppression #Comrades #OrganizedAnarchy #Caturday
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Last time Luke & I saw each other was 2022 -> we were chasing Justin Trudeau around BC Leg, trapped BC MLAs inside; they had to leave their cars & be snuck into chauffered cars through side doors. Then, Trudeau's private driver called cops on me - for standing 10 feet away, saying absolutely nothing & just mean glaring at her 🤣
Cops told her to just move the vehicle because I broke no laws by just glaring.Horgan & Trudeau had to move their meeting room 3 times that evening 😅 Every time we found the room they were in, we gathered outside & by doors - making a ton of noise. They kept running from one meeting room to another, like cockroaches when light is shined upon them. It was pretty hilarious how much cops they sent to try to get us to stop making noise & chasing dirty politicians inside. Absolutely ridiculous how terrified politicians are when citizens demand public transparency, public accountability & to stop being colonial capitalist wankerbutternoodles.
#Anarchists #Comrades #BCpoli #CDNpoli #FreeThePeople #FreeTheLand #EndAllOppression #DecolonizeYourMind
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Part of my thread that's coming later this week will also discuss how being treated like shit/being disbelieved here (after getting swatted by a pathological liar who owns a huge Canadian instance, with a lot of ignorant supporters who seem unaware or don't care that their guy swatted me) - severely triggered my PTSD on being disbelieved when I tried reporting being SAed as a teen. I was bullied & ostracized for trying to report SA. People believed the rapist & not me. It brought up the same angry, disappointed & people are fucked feelings.
I had almost left Mastodon completely, due to that.The Epstein Files triggered both of those hella horrible life memories, again. I'd never been swatted before Chad Ohman chose to send that racial violence to my home, shortly after my Dad died. That night was full of unnecessary police traumas too. I'm sick of people pretending to care & I find out they don't, when shit hits the fan.
I don't need fake support. I don't need cowardly folks. That shit ends up hurting me in the long run. I don't need any fucking devil's advocates either. Go hang out with Satan.
#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #Trauma #PTSD #MstdnCA #DecolonizeYourMind #Swatting #RacialViolence #Bullying #Canadian #Misogyny #DevilsAdvocate
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Later this week.
I'll talk about my feelings about how most folks are socially conditioned to quickly judge loud, angry POC women but not conditioned to understand why a lot of us are done with being mistreated/disbelieved/treated lesser than because we don't stay calm/polite when we experience ongoing abuses & rarely are supported during our worst experiences. Most folks (fellow POC are included) are socially conditioned to refrain from judging the polite in public white person, who abuses their white privilege & stays calm, after being shady & abusive.All of this shitass, social programming is fucking ass backwards. It sets up a perpetual system of putting polite talking, calm, perpetrators, over not polite talking, not calm, victims.
#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #DecolonizeYourMind
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@postpunkmusic We fucking do mean it! #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind ✌️❤️👊
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When I say things like:
- Fuck white people!
- Fuck white privilege!
- Fuck white pillaging & plundering!I'm talking about how white led, colonial capitalist governments have tried to whitewash their own evil & cruel histories in the global power grabs. If you feel offended by when I say the above statements - you should probably check yourself for leftover racism crap.
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Recommended #educational #documentary on the evils of #USA #imperialism on #PuertoRico & #Hawaii. This #DocFilm will make you feel sad & angry & it will help you better understand why many people #Indigenous to those lands are still fighting for justice.
Puerto Rico and Hawaiʻi are usually sold as paradise, beaches, culture, escape. But behind the postcards is a dark reality: debt, unaffordable living, mass displacement, and #political systems designed far from the people who live there.
Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory with no voting power, governed in part by an unelected fiscal board. Hawaiʻi is a U.S. state, built on the overthrow of the world’s first internationally recognized #Indigenous kingdom.
This video starts in Puerto Rico, then moves to Hawaiʻi, to show how American policy, debt, and land speculation are reshaping island societies, and who benefits when paradise becomes unaffordable.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RM7iEPHpy9k
#SanctionUSA #BoycottUSA #USWarCrimes #EvilEmpire #Geopolitics #CIA #Capitalism #imperialism #Exploitation #USTerrorism #DocFilm #Coup #WarCriminals #EvilUSA #USpol #GlobalSouth #CrimesAgainstHumanity #DecolonizeYourMind #WatchAndLearn
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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/518https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Indian_Residential_School_(Alert_Bay)
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
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Last year.
Wearing my Last Stand for Ancient Forests & LANDBACK bandana gifts from fellow #AntiColonial #activists.
I was on my way to a meeting to organize convoy supplies & recruit volunteers to go to Northern BC to support some Indigenous land defenders/water protectors.#AsianMastodon #Antifascist #PeopleWithDisabilities #WomenOfTheResistance #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #AntiCapitalist #AnarchoSocialist #Anarchist #Environmentalist #Humanitarian #Volunteer #POCWomenFightBack #NotATerrorist #selfie #portrait #monochrome #BWphoto #WarSurvivorsForPeace #JusticeForAllOppressed
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I highly suggest #bookmarking this incredibly in-depth, amazing #Educational #resource for #IndigenousFoods of #Canada 👇
Important educational project that's still in progress & continually updated!The #StudentEncyclopedia of Indigenous Foods of Canada is an initiative by agriculture #students at the University of Guelph (Canada) under the supervision of Prof. Manish N. Raizada (Editor) and talented graduate students including from the #FirstNations and #Metis communities. The mission of the Encyclopedia is to share the rich food and agriculture history of the First Nations, Metis and #Inuit peoples of Canada. The #Encyclopedia is written in plain language and targeted at primary and high school students as well as the general public. Editing of the Encyclopedia remains in progress; however, the site has been published to allow early access.
https://firstnationsfoods.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
#Decolonization #NativeCanada #FirstPeoples #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #TurtleIsland #DecolonizeYourMind #LearnMore #KnowledgeIsPower #EducationIsKey #ExpandYourMind #LifelongLearning #FirstNationsFoods #Agroecology #agriculture
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*Recommended online educational resource.*
#FreeOnlineCourses to Advance #Indigenous #CulturalUnderstanding.
This section offers a range of free online courses that explore Indigenous histories, worldviews, and #reconciliation in #Canada. These courses are ideal for individuals, educators, and professionals seeking to expand their knowledge and embed Indigenous perspectives into their own personal practices and institutions.
https://www.indigenousfriends.org/free-online-courses-to-advance-indigenous-cultural-understanding
#Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #Educational #Learn #FreeCourses #FreeEducation #InvestInLearning #KnowledgeIsPower #EducationIsKey #BIPOC #IndigenousCanada #NativeCanada #ExpandYourMind #UNDRIP
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In the UK, they have a super rich former human rights lawyer, turned fascist PM, breaking multiple human rights of domestic/international citizens, for capitalist gains.
In BC, Canada, we have a super rich former civil liberties lawyer, turned fascist adjacent-neoliberal Premier, breaking multiple human rights of domestic/international citizens, for capitalist gains.Dirty rotten sellout souls. In our governments. Globally, now.
#Geopolitics #BCpoli #CDNpoli #UKpoli #Scoundrels #Fascism #Neoliberalism #CapitalistMonsters #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Caucasity #MayosapienMadness #EcoCriminalsInOffice #WhitewashedWorld #DecolonizeYourMind
