Social cohesion and white supremacy in Australia

"Australia does have a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent."

"Since the voice to parliament referendum emboldened the right, racists and bots swarm like flies on a turd to any Indigenous topic."

"The terror and violence usually happens on a case-by-case basis these days."

"When the Bondi royal commission was announced, there were loud calls for anti-Indigenous racism to be addressed, as well as antisemitism. The racism we endure, is, after all, as Australian as meat pies and Holden cars."
- Melissa Lucashenko >>

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/melissa-lucashenko-on-rebuilding-social-cohesion-indigenous-australians-ntwnfb
#IndigenousPeoples #cohesion #violence #genocide #WhiteSupremacy #hate #racism #HateSpeechLaws #treaty #antisemitism #Australia #dehumanisation

Territory as Body: Languages, Memory, Art, and Indigenous Resistance

#podcasts https://rwm.macba.cat/en/taxonomy_tags_podcast/indigenous-peoples/

In this selection we dig up voices from our archive claiming the right to self-determination and to think through their own frameworks, from their perspectives as #indigenouspeoples.

In these conversations, thinking is inextricable from the land and from community life. Languages that have been silenced emerge as living forms of knowledge and the land is a body and a space for relation.

"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."

"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."

- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream

#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers

https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/

Mining's Shadow Falls Unevenly: Displacement and Disquiet Grip Tribal Lands

Tribal communities in Odisha, India and Arizona, USA face displacement and data risks due to new mining projects. Learn about the impacts and new partnership models.

#TribalRights, #MiningImpact, #Odisha, #DataSovereignty, #IndigenousPeoples

https://newsletter.tf/tribal-lands-mining-displacement-2026/

New mining projects in tribal areas are causing more displacement than before, especially in Odisha, India. This is a significant change from past practices.

#TribalRights, #MiningImpact, #Odisha, #DataSovereignty, #IndigenousPeoples
https://newsletter.tf/tribal-lands-mining-displacement-2026/

"Apologies will not end the actual problem which has a name — 'systemic racism.'"https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/afn-rcmp-indigenous-surveillance-9.7165191

#RCMP #surveillance #IndigenousPeoples #humanRights #activism #criminalizingDisent #Canada #cdnpoli #settlerColonialism #colonialViolence

Courthouse News Service: Wisconsin governor signs bill legalizing online sports betting run by tribes . “The new law legalizes online event and sports betting in the state, so long as the server or device used to conduct the wager is constructed on tribal land and aligned with tribal gaming compacts. It does so by adding an exception to the legal definition of ‘bet’ to allow for digital bets […]

CBC: Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it’s too late. “A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.”