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#reparation — Public Fediverse posts

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

  1. This new Learning guide for grades 9-12 & adult/higher ed is a powerful tool for exploring:
    - Race, Privilege and Reckoning;
    - Trust-Building as a Catalyst for Healing;
    - Honoring the Truth & Preserving Collective Memory;
    - The Relational Work of Authentic Allyship;
    - Grassroots Acts of Reparation.

    Check out the link in the comments to learn more about this powerful film and how to share it with your education community! 👇

    journeysinfilm.org/film/acts-o

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    @histodons

    #Education #Homeschooling #Race #Allyship #Allies #Trust #SocialEmotionalLearning #Grassroots #Activism #Reparation #Reparations #Edutooters #CommunityEducation #AdultEducation

  2. #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