Another reason that #ElonSucks! [Spoiler alert -- #Starbase city is expanding!]

From 2022: Defending #NativeAmerican #SacredSites From #ElonMusk and #SpaceX

By Frank Hopper
Dec 21, 2022

"The #CarrizoComecrudo Tribe of Texas is suing to protect the tribe’s #AncestralLand.

"From an observation deck near the top of his South Texas rocket launch tower, Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and self-proclaimed proponent of free speech, looks northward to South Padre Island, home to many ancient village sites of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas.

"In a video published last May to the YouTube channel Everyday Astronaut, Musk is seen looking over the tower’s railing and down at a 'farm' of huge rocket fuel storage tanks filled with liquid oxygen and methane gas. These will service weekly launches of SpaceX’s massive #SuperHeavy and #Starship orbital launch vehicles in 2023.

"Musk surveys the land from the gleaming metal launch tower, looking down on an #ecosystem filled with #EndangeredSpecies, such as #Ocelots and Kemp’s #RidleySeaTurtles. To the east, he sees the waves of the Gulf of Mexico crashing on #BocaChicaBeach, the site of the Carrizo Comecrudo creation story. To the northwest just a few miles away is #GarciaPasture, an #ArchaeologicalSite containing the remains of a #PreColumbian village nearly a thousand years old.

"Musk wears a black T-shirt with 'Occupy Mars' emblazoned across the front, as if his #corporate conquest and #colonization of space were some sort of righteous protest. As he stands atop his multibillion-dollar mountain of #ToxicMachinery, he cannot see the Indigenous people below who have come to offer tobacco to their ancestors.

"Musk doesn’t see them because, according to the Carrizo Comecrudo, he is blind to the concerns of the #IndigenousPeople who fought and died for the land he now occupies."

Read more:
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2022/12/21/sacred-site-spacex

#ProtectTheSacred #ElonMusk #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism #OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople

Battle of Fort Pitt – Cree Victory (Apr 15, 1885)

On April 15, 1885, Cree fighters led by Big Bear captured Fort Pitt (Saskatchewan), overpowering a small NWMP garrison. The fort was burned and its defenders taken hostage — a rare Indigenous-led victory early in the conflict. 🇨🇦 #NorthWestRebellion #Cree #FortPitt #Canada #Colonization

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

Battle of Duck Lake – First Clash (Mar 26, 1885)

On March 26, 1885, the Métis militia under Gabriel Dumont ambushed North-West Mounted Police and volunteers at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan. The Métis won, inflicting 12 deaths and marking the start of open conflict in the North-West Rebellion. 🇨🇦 #NorthWestRebellion #Métis #DuckLake #Canada #Colonization

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

Battle of Cut Knife – Cree Resistance (May 2, 1885)

On May 2, 1885, Cree and Assiniboine fighters led by Chief Poundmaker repelled government forces at Cut Knife Hill (Saskatchewan). Despite superior numbers, the militia retreated after six hours of fighting — one of the rebellion’s few Indigenous tactical successes. 🇨🇦 #NorthWestRebellion #CutKnife #Poundmaker #Canada #Colonization

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

Battle of Frenchman’s Butte (May 28, 1885)

On May 28, Cree warriors dug in at Frenchman’s Butte resisted an attack by Middleton’s Alberta Field Force in northern Saskatchewan. Although government forces withdrew, it had little strategic effect after Batoche’s fall. 🇨🇦 #NorthWestRebellion #FrenchmansButte #Cree #Canada #Colonization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Frenchman%27s_Butte

Excellent discussion. I especially appreciated the repeated reminder that in closing the Strait of Hormuz Iran is now doing to the world what the US has been doing to Cuba, and what Israel and the US have been doing to Gaza. How does it feel to get punched back? How does it feel to be denied an essential resource. And this blockade is only a few weeks old and has, to this point, not actually impacted supply. Imagine years of a blockade that denies fuel, food, and medical supplies.

After years of restraint in the face of repeated US aggression Iran is giving the world a taste of what we've been dishing out to others. They're offering direct resistance to #US #Imperialism and colonization. The US is and always has been an agent of #colonization. The US is #empire.

It's not enough that we oppose the US #war against #Iran, we have to oppose US Imperialism as a long running practice. We have to oppose Empire.

#Politics #Democracy #Fascism #Antifascism

https://eastpodcast.com/podcast/iran-war-diary-day-29-w-kumars-salehi-and-navid-zarrinnal/

This is mind-boggling.

I so dearly hope I live to see the day when the USA stops glorifying the 15th and 16th century colonizers (especially Cristoforo Columbo).

"Colonization of the Americas at the end of the 15th century killed so many [indigenous] people, it disturbed Earth’s climate, according to a new study by University College London."

https://globalnews.ca/news/4924534/little-ice-age-death-55-million-indigenous-people-colonization-study/

#IndigenousPeoples
#LittleIceAge
#colonization
#genocide
#ClimateChange

Battle of Batoche – Decisive Clash (May 9‑12, 1885)

From May 9–12, 1885, Canadian militia attacked the Métis stronghold at Batoche. Despite heavy resistance, overwhelming numbers and firepower under Gen. Middleton led to the collapse of the Provisional Government and Louis Riel’s surrender on May 15. 🇨🇦 #NorthWestRebellion #Batoche #Riel #Canada #Colonization

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