Some fab free book scores.

Calling My Spirit Back by Elaine Alec
Elaine Alec, is a #Syilx & #Secwepemc author, based in Kamloops, BC.
https://www.elainealec.com/books

Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization provides a variety of Indigenous perspectives on the history of colonialism, current Indigenous activism and resistance, and outlines the path forward to reconciliation.

Originally released as a free e-book, the audio version features renowned Indigenous writers Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Russell Diabo, Beverly Jacobs, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Kanahus Manuel, Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, Pamela Palmater, Shiri Pasternak, Nicole Schabus, Senator Murray Sinclair, and Sharon Venne. The late Arthur Manuel’s writings are read by his grandson, Mahekan Anderson. FPSE has been proud to partner with Nuxalk Radio to produce the audio version of this essential work.
https://fpse.ca/resources/whose-land-is-it-anyway/

My Indian Summer by Joseph Kakwinokanasum
A novel about survival, reconciliation and identity set during the summer of 1979.
https://www.strongnations.com/store/10103/my-indian-summer
Joseph Kakwinokanasum is a member of James Smith #Cree Nation. Kakwinokanasum's work has been published in the 2022 anthology Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, the Humber Literary Journal and Emerge.
Kakwinokanasum was shortlisted for the 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize.

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje, won the 1970 Governor General's Literary Award. Ondaatje's hauntingly disturbing evocation of the life and death of the 19th-century American outlaw placed him in the forefront of the new generation of Canadian poets emerging in the 1970s. The Collected Works commences with a list of 20 men killed by Billy the Kid and a foreshadowing of his own death. Using a highly visual, visceral poetic style featuring violent surreal images of madness and men killed in gun fights, shifts in time and perspective, and impressionistic fragments of Billy's existence, Ondaatje traces his capture, escape and eventual death at the hands of Pat Garrett, the "ideal assassin." Following the publication of The Collected Works by House of Anansi in 1970, a dozen major productions of a stage adaptation were held across Canada.(from The Canadian Encyclopedia)
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-collected-works-of-billy-the-kid

#books #bookstodon #ReadMoreBooks #Decolonization #Booklovers #Paperbacks #Literarature #DecolonialReading #DecolonizeYourMind #FreeBooks

B.C. MLA #DallasBrodie is the mastermind behind ‘Making a Killing,’ a #documentary that purports to investigate #ResidentialSchools but is chock full of #lies and #AntiIndigenous #propaganda.

Lance of The Serfs exposes how ‘Making a Killing’ misdirects its audience and distorts the truth.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-Ha1TwcG8

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@TheBreach newsletter link.

#BCPoli #IndigenousRights #EveryChildMatters #CulturalGenocide #IndigenousGenocide #JusticeForTheChildren #ConservativesSuck #CDNpoli #DecolonizeYourMind #Racism #Canada

This viral documentary about residential schools is lying to you

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This is considered, lifelong unpaid work, for me. It is very important for me, to spend the rest of my life, decolonizing & trying to right colonial capitalist wrongs. This unpaid work is essential to my existence as a living war survivor, as a POC woman, as a disabled woman - this work is essential to my living essence.
I do not sway or deviate from this lifelong work.

#AsianMastodon #DecolonizeYourMind #Decolonization #FreeThyself #ColonialismIsSlavery #CapitalismIsARatTrap

I'm a part of the growing #POC #SocialMovement to #decolonize #NatureOutings. I work with 18 different BC #nonprofits actively working towards more #decolonization of their public programs 👊💚☘️
I'll update here, on this important #DecolonizeYourMind efforts in nature group outings as we work with developing more educational programs for the public 👍💗

*I think Eby's the current, problematic BC politician in Premier power role. The core problem is that #BCNDP haven't really respected #IndigenousRights for a long time. Their caucus became too whipped under Horgan & that's continued under Eby - who was groomed by the former neoliberal in charge of BC policies.*

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs says the NDP has a “colossal” leadership problem, and if it doesn’t move on from Premier David Eby, the party could be doomed for decades. “I think the problem is Premier Eby,” he said at a Friday morning news conference in Vancouver held by Indigenous leaders opposed to a proposed suspension of parts of the Declaration on the Rights of #IndigenousPeoples Act (DRIPA).

Phillip spoke alongside the #FirstNations Leadership Council, which is made up of members of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, the First Nations Summit and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. The groups held a joint news conference in Vancouver on Friday (April 10), slamming the B.C. NDP government’s DRIPA suspension plan, a move the council had called a “unilateral betrayal” on Thursday. #DRIPA is a 2019 B.C. law that formally commits the province to aligning its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ( #UNDRIP ), which affirms the right to #SelfDetermination for #Indigenous peoples worldwide.

Read more at: https://saanichnews.com/2026/04/10/the-problem-is-premier-eby-b-c-ndps-leadership-taken-to-task-over-dripa/

#BCpoli #DavidEby #LandBack #NoConsent #Capitalism #Colonialism #DecolonizeYourMind #Decolonization #CanadaIsAllNativeLand #BCGovernment #SueTheGovernment

‘The problem is Premier Eby’: B.C. NDP’s leadership taken to task over DRIPA

Indigenous leaders voice opposition to DRIPA suspension plan

Saanich News

This is part of trying to create a better world, with some quieter acts of #AntiCapitalist #decolonial #resistance. Fascism/capitalism doesn't want a more educated, a more humane society of people who care about more than bigger bottom line profits & endless growth at any cost.

#Degrowth #DecolonizeYourMind #ResistanceIsNotLinear #WaysOfResistance #CaremongeringArmy #PlanetOverProfits #OneEarth #WeArePartOfNature #GrowHumanity #EducationIsKey #AnarchoSocialist #FreeEducation #BeTheChange

What Empire Cannot Erase
#Persian #Poetry and #Civilization.

https://we.scienceandnonduality.com/offers/D2fdqgqo/checkout

April 19, 2026 • 10:00 – 11:30am PDT (find your local time)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82963653279?pwd=7G6aM3thTc2VDjMn8NIApFObMcgbTZ.1

We are watching, once again, what empire does: not only to bodies, but to the long memory of a people; to the libraries and sacred sites; to art, language, and the ruins that hold the oldest threads of human spiritual inquiry.

We are thinking of the civilization that gave us Rumi, Hafez, Omar Khayyam, Forough Farrokhzad — mystics and rebels and lovers of paradox who understood something about the human soul that we are still, centuries later, trying to catch up to.

This gathering is an invitation to come together: to read poetry aloud, to hear from #Iranian voices, to sit with grief and beauty together rather than alone.

We will work with #political and #moral vocabulary shaped by Iranian thinkers such as Ali Shariati, who wrote against domination, spiritual emptiness, and the violence of imposed power.

We will make space for what doesn’t fit into headlines or talking points—the complexity of empire, the difference between a government and its people, the #authoritarian forces at work not only abroad but here at home. We also gather with the political inheritance of those who taught generations to resist domination and spiritual emptiness, including Ali Shariati.

Watch Omid’s #TeachIn on “What you need to know about Iran”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZrnBY2wWc

#Educational #Iran #MiddleEast #POCVoices #IranianDiaspora #IranianVoices #LearnMore #Cultural #EthnicCommunities #GlobalSouth #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #Oppression #Freedom #Imperialism #Colonialism #Humanities #SocialScience #CulturalIdentity #geopolitics #Globalization #ForeignPolicy #ForeignAffairs #Sovereignty

Science and Nonduality

Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts. Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.

In this engaging interview, Talila A. Lewis argues that ableism has deep implications for every other marginalized identity. In short, ableism, according to Lewis, is at the root of other powerful hegemonic sites — from race and class to colonialism and nationality. In this way, they uncover the ways in which ableism insidiously operates across space and time. As an abolitionist community lawyer, educator and organizer, Lewis has focused on abolishing the medical-carceral-industrial complex and highlighting the inextricable links between ableism, racism, classism, and all other forms of oppression and violence.

https://truthout.org/articles/ableism-enables-all-forms-of-inequity-and-hampers-all-liberation-efforts

#PeopleWithDisabilities #DecolonizeYourMind #AntiAbleism #DisabledLivesMatter #Decolonization #EndOppression #Intersectionality #Activism #DisabledActivists #BeAComrade #NoAbleism #DisabilityRights #HumanRights #Classism #Colonialism #Capitalism #Inequality #Liberation #Inequity #marginalized #RiseUpAgainstAbleism #StopBeingEnableists #Educational #DisabilityAwareness #Inclusion #NothingWithUsWithoutUs

Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts

Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.

Truthout

You can't play a race card on me either, when you choose to personal side with bigots with a proven bad track record for bigotry. GTFO with that crap with me.

#SitWithBigots #Enablers #Ableists #POCVoices #DecolonizeYourMind #Misogynists

All Power to the People does not mean All Power to the White People. Wake up Amerikkka. All Power to ALL the People. #DecolonizeYourMind #YourLiberationIsMyLiberation #BlackLiberationIsWhiteLiberation