𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗿𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 -

I've never done anything but love my experiences with Erdrich's words and worlds. And somehow, this one slipped past me. Maybe, even, worth a 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘴 podcast episode later this week?

#books #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #louiseerdrich #thenightwatchman #fiction #novel #indigenousliterature #IndianTerminationAct #TribalSovereignty #Dispossession #Assimilation #ojibwaliterature

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #uspeaceplan / #reconstruction / #occupation

„#ProjectSunrise outlines a “smart city” with AI grids. It’s only possible with the continued #dispossession of Palestinians.“

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/21/gaza-ceasefire-phase-two-rafah-project-sunrise/

Israel seeks a rebrand amid Gaza genocide

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/israel-seeks-rebrand-amid-gaza-genocide

Quote of the day, 7 September: St. John of the Cross

In the measure that the memory becomes dispossessed of things, in that measure it will have hope, and the more hope it has the greater will be its union with God; for in relation to God, the more a soul hopes the more it attains. And it hopes more when, precisely, it is more dispossessed of things; when it has reached perfect dispossession it will remain with perfect possession of God in divine union.

But there are many who do not want to go without the sweetness and delight of this knowledge in the memory, and therefore they do not reach supreme possession and complete sweetness. For whoever does not renounce all possessions cannot be Christ’s disciple [Lk 14:33].

Saint John of the Cross

Ascent of Mount Carmel, book 3, chap. 7, no. 2

John of the Cross, St. 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Revised Edition, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K and Rodriguez, O with revisions and introductions by Kavanaugh, K, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Eagle silhouette against sunrise over mountain landscape. Image credit: Stock photography

#discipleship #dispossession #hope #StJohnOfTheCross #unionWithGod

"We are all #Palestinians" -- #Zapatistas Resistances and Rebellion Underway in
#Chiapas

#Indigenous leaders and international delegates meet “to resolve and organise against #capitalism and all pyramids”

by Mateo Sgambati, Freedom News, August 4, 2025 (via #CensoredNews)

"The gathering is being hosted in Chiapas by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (#EZLN), aiming “to reach an agreement on what, how, where, and why” of demolishing capitalism and all hierarchical systems. The gathering opened over the weekend with a
marching display where all carried Palestinian flags.

" 'We are all Palestinian children,' said Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés at the opening of the meeting. 'Today, in one of the small parts of this land, the capitalist system is committing #genocide against the Palestinian people. We cannot forget, we cannot set aside'.

"In the statement ahead of the gathering, Zapatista speaker El Capitan (aka Marcos) had referred to 'what it means to be born, grow up, live, and struggle as #IndigenousPeople in a geography where
being ‘other’ is a cause of contempt, #exploitation, #repression, and #dispossession. ‘To be’ where ‘not to
be’ is the norm and and the stigma for those who are different'.The inauguration was done by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) with a deployment of militia and a speech by the insurgent Sub-Commander Moises."

Via Censored News:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/08/zapatistas-in-morelia-we-are-all.html

Continue reading at Freedom News
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/04/zapatista-gathering-of-resistances-and-rebellions-opens-inchiapas/

#Colonialism #CorporateColonialism #Resistance #GazaGenocide #GazaSolidarity #Genocide #CapitalismKills

Telling different #OriginStories of #mining & extractivism allows to highlight #environmental injustice racism & settler colonialism in the US

👀T. DePree on the history of uranium mining in New Mexico & its entanglement w/ Indigenous #dispossession: https://doi.org/pcgd

OnlineFirst - "Accumulation by repossession: Capitalist settler colonialism in Coast Salish territory" by Thilo van der Haegen and Heather Whiteside:

#capitalism #dispossession #land #repossession #settlercolonialism

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X241312890

Imperial violence

"Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries."

The book "brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined “small” violence as essential to imperial rule and global order."
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248479/they-called-it-peace

Benton, Lauren: They Called It Peace. Worlds of Imperial Violence. Princeton 2024
The book analyses imperial violence between 1400 and 1900.
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https://history.yale.edu/people/lauren-benton
#book #history #empires #violence #war #warmongers #massacres #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #HyperViolentPeace #Pacific #GlobalOrder #peace #TruthTelling

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #dispossession / #idp

„The Israeli army has distanced itself from comments made by a brigadier general that ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of the northern Gaza Strip and residents will not be allowed to return home. (…)

International humanitarian law experts have said that such actions would amount to the war crimes of forcible transfer and the use of food as a weapon.“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/07/idf-israel-military-no-return-remarks-north-gaza