If you don't feel small, underneath old growth trees....older than our great grandparents...there is something that is quite sick, within.
Ancient trees have mesmerizing energies. What a shame, when mankind cannot truly see the forest, when looking at an elder tree.
What other irreplaceable moments are you missing to see/to admire, knowing when an elder tree or two or three or more is clear-cut? Does it make you feel anything different than you do, now? If you don't want more ancient trees/forests cut down, what are you willing to do to help us?
#StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #WorthMoreStanding #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #BCpoli #CDNpoli #GreenFutures #Resistance #FuckCapitalism #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #WeAreReclaimation #LandBack
Российским историкам из академии наук не понравилось, что в учебниках истории Кыргызстана есть такие термины, как «колониализм» или «колониальная политика». Они призывают кыргызстанских коллег отказаться от них и использовать нейтральные формулировки. Исследователи в Бишкеке не согласны.
Logging off to make time to connect with comrades in my backyard. To discuss shared betrayal feelings, from bad experiences with self declared leftists who behave in similar ways as our colonial & capitalist enemies. It's disheartening as heck.
I get a lot of my "white people have been colonized too" thoughts from learning about Irish history. As an American descended from Irish and German ancestors, I am directly in this fight alongside with folks who have more melanin in their skin.
Even in living memory, the cruelty against pale-skinned folks who don't conform to the whiteness construct is a stark testament of how it harms everyone. These events are just a long chain of colonization in Ireland going back a thousand years. And the Irish have solid experience in successfully fighting back.
Content warning: This video is intense though it only touches the iceberg's tip. (You'll have to look up the Magdalene Laundries because they only glancingly mention it.)
A combo of my own & comrades responses to whitewashed POC & the white folks they're quick to defend/justify being voluntarily connected with - like no one is forcing them into being connected, whatsoever to any type of bigots whatsoever - over past 5 years.
I'm marking it with - them & us exchanges that happened.
Them: You have a lot of Indian friends. You're not worried about being robbed?
Me: I'm worried about people like you, robbing me. I'm not worried about the Indigenous folks trying that on my home.
Them: You hang out with welfare bums! Those Indians get free rides! They should pay taxes too. They need to stop bitching about shit that happened before I was born. I am 65, goddammit!
Me: You're 65 & still ignorant as fuck. I'm 51 & you were around while many of my family was being bombed to death. My friends aren't welfare bums. Most are gainfully employed. They'd stop bitching about injustices if the injustices weren't still happening & if past crimes by white people were actually made fully accountable with real enforced, legal punishments & more land back diplomacy, led by Indigenous folks.
I don't care what continent you live on/were born on. I do care if you've ever made public declarations about #decolonization & stressed how important that work is to your life & towards #humanity as a whole.
I seriously don't give a single fuck about anything you say/type here, if you're not living true to your own words. Why the heck should I, or anyone else with a functional, #CriticalThinking abled brain - give a fuck about WTH you say, if you can't align your own words with your own actions?
STFU. Brave the fuck up.
People like me, do not tolerate any cowardly #hypocrites.
Straight fucking up.
From Morality-Tale Science Fiction to Fantasy-Infused Settler Colonialism
https://www.scifi.global/from-morality-tale-science-fiction-to-fantasy-infused-settler-colonialism/
#Colonialism #Community #Decolonization #Degrowth #Ethics #ForAllMankind #greed #HumanRights #KimStanleyRobinson #LaborRights #Mars #NASA #Satellites #ScienceFiction #SciFI #StarTrek #Starlink
The nation of Nauru/Naoero may be following eSwatini and Türkiye by changing its English name to be truer to native pronunciation.
<<"Nauru emerged because Naoero could not be properly pronounced by foreign tongues, and was changed not by our choice, but for convenience," the government said in a statement explaining the change.>>
#geography #pacific #oceania #micronesia #Geotrivia #trivia #decolonial #decolonization
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