Trump adds new statue of Christopher Columbus near White House
Trump endorses a traditional view of Columbus as a leader of the 1492 mission seen as the unofficial beginning of European colonization in the Americas and the development of the modern economic and political order.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/christopher-columbus-statue-white-house-9.7138205?cmp=rss

Louder for those in the back:
AI RELIES ON HUMAN EXPLOITATION!

"Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world."

"For years, the work of African data labelers has been more or less “ghost work,” the unseen, hidden labor that lets American tech companies build their products."

https://www.blackagendareport.com/ai-african-intelligence-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back

#ai #tech #racism #africa #llm #news #poc #colonization #workers

'A.I. Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train A.I. Are Fighting Back | Black Agenda Report

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind A.I. training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

Black Agenda Report

"These methods address how gender is viewed by Western society: inseparable from physical sexual characteristics.
But gender and sex are different. They aren’t intertwined, and many gender characteristics are learned traits or stereotypes enforced by Western society."

https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/21-03-2026/how-ta-moko-is-redefining-gender-for-takatapui-maori

#lgbtq #trans #queer #maori #tattoo #gender #colonization #culture

How tā moko is redefining gender for takatāpui Māori

Why the future of takatāpui affirmation might already exist within te ao Māori.

The Spinoff
‘Colonization’ in the Cronaca Sovversiva

Taking up less than a single page, this article was actually just one of many Italian anarchist texts dealing with colonialism, and unlike their English-speaking counterparts, the Italians had been…

the transmetropolitan review
Calling Big Tech's AI push digital colonization seems harsh. Yet, the more you read about their resource exploitation, spying, and military intervention, the more it seems accurate to apply that label to OpenAI, Meta, Alibaba, and Co.
#AI #colonization
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/20/progress-of-digital-conolization-ai-data-centers-spark-debate-on-native-lands/
Progress of Digital Conolization? AI Data Centers Spark Debate on Native Lands

The recent explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers has created a litany of environmental and cultural issues for Native people and Tribes

CounterPunch.org

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwaldby/116261938165103558

There's a letter ready to send to Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum.
It couldn't be easier to protest the destruction of lands for corporate profit.

Please sign and share.❤️

"The Black Hills are not for sale. We remain opposed to any and all extraction on sacred lands, whether graphite, uranium, or gold."

#nativeland #sacred #drilling #environment #nativerights #racism #capitalism #colonization #uspol #trump #pollution #water

"What’s new is the arrival of a very ambitious, obsessively communist-fixated, self-promoter in the white house, namely Marco “Root Out Commies” Rubio, who loves to claim his family fled Cuba for Florida, eliding the fact that they did not flee Castro, they fled Batista."
#Cuba #USpol #Imperialism #Colonization

The U.S. is Still Making Life Miserable for Cubans - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/20/the-u-s-is-still-making-life-miserable-for-cubans/

The U.S. is Still Making Life Miserable for Cubans

While halfway around the world Hezbollah and Iran are beating the living daylights out of Israel, here in our own hemisphere, superintended by a bilious

CounterPunch.org
Eurocolonisation
"Z kulturního hlediska je Evropa v současné době rozhodně kolonizovaným kontinentem."

#colonization #antropocene #EU #culture

RT: https://f.cz/users/tymoty/statuses/116242936808554302

"IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir on Wednesday issued sharp condemnation of settler violence, calling attacks against Palestinian civilians and soldiers in the West Bank “morally and ethically unacceptable” and a major strategic impediment."

That's a 1st step but he still support settlers stealing Palestinians lands.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-settler-violence-unacceptable-results-in-extraordinary-strategic-damage/

#israel #palestine #war #settlers #colonization

Siege of Battleford (Mar 28–May 26, 1885)

From March 28 to May 26, 1885, Cree bands under Poundmaker besieged Battleford, prompting civilian evacuations. The siege ended when Poundmaker surrendered after talks with Gen. Middleton, marking a shift to military resolution. #NorthWestRebellion #Battleford #Poundmaker #Canada #Colonization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Battleford