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Otipemisiwak.
Educator and social scientist.
Mostly just here to share resources, research, and current events.
RTs ≠ endorsement, opinions my own.
Educator and social scientist.
Mostly just here to share resources, research, and current events.
RTs ≠ endorsement, opinions my own.
"What's the Métis connection to May Day? Not only did the Chicago Haymarket anarchists write & organize an event in solidarity with the Northwest Resistance, William Henry Jackson, who was Riel's secretary (& an organizer himself), moved to Chicago and joined the movement there."
H/T @CameronVale604
Schooling’s Assault on Young Anti-Authoritarians
(Bruce E. Levine)-
Shout-out to the Muscowpetung Salteaux.
Pot store opens on Sask. First Nation after band passes its own cannabis legislation | CBC News
A cannabis store operating outside the Saskatchewan government's regulatory framework is now open in a First Nation community 70 kilometres northeast of Regina after the band passed its own cannabis legislation.
...and a chicken ain't no duck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POnGb28DgFQ&list=PL6J13bZInIKIaF5_69xgIVBnAdXV7XH_g&index=32
Mojo Nixon - Machines Aint Music
"Flow Machines uses a probability equation, known as Markov chains to create catchy tracks. [...] Based on the information imputed and based on previously recorded music, Flow Machines suggests melodies, accompaniments and instrumentation. Producers can accept, reject and alter these suggestions to create their AI-human collaboration."
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-ai-album-ushers-musical-era.html
"Between 1776 and 1887, the United States seized over 1.5 billion acres from America's Indigenous Peoples by treaty and executive order. Explore how in this interactive map of every Native American land cession during that period."
http://usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=eb6ca76e008543a89349ff2517db47e6
http://usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=eb6ca76e008543a89349ff2517db47e6
"This report provides some insight into how the very wealthy insert themselves into local elections through direct
contributions, Independent Expenditure Committees and even non-profit organizations. We focus on nine elections
to provide insight into how in races large and small, some very wealthy Americans are trying to control the education
of our nation’s children while undermining the anchor of our local communities—the neighborhood public school."
http://npeaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hijacked-by-Billionaires.pdf
contributions, Independent Expenditure Committees and even non-profit organizations. We focus on nine elections
to provide insight into how in races large and small, some very wealthy Americans are trying to control the education
of our nation’s children while undermining the anchor of our local communities—the neighborhood public school."
http://npeaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hijacked-by-Billionaires.pdf
"A child working in a mine in the Congo would need more than 700,000 years of non-stop work to earn the same amount as a single day of Bezos’ income [...]. The vanishingly few at the top of the fractal pyramid of value extraction live in extraordinary wealth and comfort. But the majority of the pyramids are made from the dark tunnels of mines, radioactive waste lakes, discarded shipping containers, and corporate factory dormitories."
https://anatomyof.ai/
https://anatomyof.ai/
