Are reparations possible in a world still stealing?
Hekayyatna
Another event I’d have liked to have gone to but which is already sold out:
https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/are-reparations-possible-in-a-world-still-stealing
‘While #museums debate returning artefacts, coltan mines fuel wars in the Congo. While conferences discuss #postcolonial reparations, Sudan’s gold finances its own destruction. Ibrahim Mahama’s “reverse restitution” asks us to look at the empire’s ruins - but what about the ruins being made right now? Join Hekayyatna for an evening exploring what #Justice repair, and #restitution mean when #extraction never stopped, when the #GlobalMajority is still being #colonised and when tomorrow’s debts are being written in today’s conflicts.’
I’m sorry to ruin your evening, but if you’re mad about what’s going on in #Palestine right now, you should also be mad about what’s going on in #WesternSahara.
The #Saharawi #Arab people are the last #colonised people in #Africa, in the worst police state in the world, formerly colonised by #Spain, but now by Morocco after Spain left.
And to add insult to injury, #Morocco are using weapons systems bought from #Israel against the Saharawi.
https://nebula.tv/videos/cogito-western-sahara-africas-last-colony/
Certification.
#Israël #colonised #Gaza #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState
Israël a annoncé mercredi avoir transformé près d’un tiers de la bande de Gaza en « périmètre de sécurité », poursuivant son offensive militaire contre le Hamas. L’armée bloque également l’entrée de l’aide humanitaire dans l’enclave, alors que la situation humanitaire est jugée catastrophique par les ONG.
A ‘Cop of peace’? How can #authoritarian, #HumanRights-trashing #Azerbaijan possibly host that?
"The #ClimateCrisis is just as much about protecting human rights as it is about protecting the #Climate and #biodiversity. You cannot claim to care about #ClimateJustice if you ignore the sufferings of oppressed and #colonised people today. We cannot pick and choose whose human rights to care for, and who to leave behind. Climate justice means justice, safety and freedom for everyone."
by #GretaThunberg, November 11, 2024
"Cop meetings have proven to be #greenwashing conferences that legitimise countries’ failures to ensure a livable world and future and have also allowed authoritarian regimes like #Azerbaijan and the two previous hosts – the #UnitedArabEmirates and #Egypt – to continue violating human rights.
"#Genocides, #ecocides, #famines, #wars, #colonialism, rising inequalities and an escalating #ClimateCollapse are all interconnected crises that reinforce each other and lead to unimaginable suffering. While #humanitarian crises are unfolding in #Palestine, #Yemen, #Afghanistan, #Sudan, #Congo, #Kurdistan, #Lebanon, #Balochistan, #Ukraine, #NagornoKarabakh / #Artsakh, and many, many other places, humanity is also breaching the 1.5C #GreenhouseGas emissions limit, with no signs of real reductions in sight.
"Instead, the opposite is taking place – last year, global emissions reached an all-time high. #Heat records have been shattered, and this year is 'virtually certain' to be the hottest year ever recorded, with unprecedented #ExtremeWeather events pushing the planet further into uncharted territory. The destabilisation of the biosphere and the natural #ecosystems we depend on to survive is leading to untold human suffering and further accelerating the #MassExtinction of flora and fauna."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/wip/M0xcU
#COP29 #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #CorporateColonialism #CorporateFascism #Greenwashing #BigOilAndGas #PetroState #DefendTheSacred #MotherEarth #LivingBiosphere
📢#OutNow in #OA: '#Folktales of #Mayotte, an #African Island' by Lee Haring, foreword by Mark Turin.
The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of #oralnarrators in a small #African island. Relying on the researches of three #French #ethnographers who interviewed #storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-#colonised people using #verbal #art to preserve ancient values in the #postcolonial world, when the island of #Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected #colony to an overseas department of #France.
The author’s innovation is to read #ethnographic researches as #play scripts—to see printed folktales as accounts of live #performances.
#Literary specialists, #folklore enthusiasts, and people who like #reading stories will find much to appreciate in this engaging and sophisticated book.
Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0315
The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France.
"The one thing we know about the #CimateCrisis is that it has incredibly long-term impacts", he says. "That's the core of the #intergenerational #climate problem: we've #colonised the future, we treat it as a dumping ground for ecological degradation, and technological risks, as if there was nobody there."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230215-should-future-generations-have-climate-rights
in post #bojo the pm election of 2019
the poor communities that voted #tory are
the #colonised and
the phrase for indicating that position seems:
levelling up
or to
level up.
eg
forget about attempting to make life more fun
for all.
Zacks Brother
Gary Hall
Ko Simon toku ingoa 
Pipo Tache
Libby
DoomsdaysCW
prasoon
Open Book Publishers
CelloMom On Cars
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