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Dhyan Nada :vegananarchism:<p>She's done it again - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GretaThunberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GretaThunberg</span></a> joined protests against Danish shipping giant Maersk that plays an important role in the logistics of weapons deliveries to Israel aiding and abetting the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. </p><p>She sets a convincing example of what <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/climatejustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatejustice</span></a> is all about. While Fridays For Future Germany severed ties with Greta because of her being accused of antisemitism in German Media she remains the authentic voice of this youth movement because she knows about the close link between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fossilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossilism</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/climatecatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatecatastrophe</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FridaysForFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FridaysForFuture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/XR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LetzteGeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetzteGeneration</span></a></p><p>4:22</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHIkdoAm1Q" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=kHHIkdoAm1</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a></p>
Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽<p>Canada has no justice system. And since lawyers often break the rules of law and the rules of court with impunity, there never will be justice until the people have oversight and the bad acrtors are disbarred for life.</p><p>Law School Semester 1<br>"The Law is the Law, it is not Justice"<br>Law School Semester 2<br>"This is law school, not justice school"</p><p>Its a rogue system that only protects its power and gross profits that bankrupt citizens that want and deserve justice.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a></p>
humanpod<p>"The core of the internet regime is digital extraction – a ceaseless process of appropriation in which data and raw materials are harvested,"</p><p>Countering Digital Colonialism Carlos Delclós - CCCB LAB (Carlos Delclós) <a href="https://lab.cccb.org/en/countering-digital-colonialism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lab.cccb.org/en/countering-dig</span><span class="invisible">ital-colonialism/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/harvesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harvesting</span></a></p>
Sofie_unlabeled<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> </p><p>All over the world</p>
Nina S. Studer<p>The same figure of an older North African man in traditional clothes seems to be printed on a (lottery?) ticket attached to this bottle of "Hamoud" from 1939 - which is interesting, as I've not seen him depicted in other adverts for "Hamoud Boualem"! </p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/DrinkingStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrinkingStudies</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Historians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Historians</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/softdrinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softdrinks</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/FrenchColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrenchColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Algeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Algeria</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HistoryOfAlgeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfAlgeria</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ColonialAdverts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialAdverts</span></a></p>
WINGS_radio<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>billionaire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>colonialism</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canada</span></a> <br /><a href="https://rabble.ca/podcast/oxfam-inequality-report-2025-billionaire-colonialism-in-canada/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rabble.ca/podcast/oxfam-inequa</span><span class="invisible">lity-report-2025-billionaire-colonialism-in-canada/</span></a></p>
Jaume d'Urgell 陈建军<p>Today, just as in the past, we must intensify our efforts to protect the underprivileged: those who suffer as victims of capitalist imperialism and systemic oppression. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NATO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheWest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheWest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WesternWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WesternWorld</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p>
ABC Feeds<p>Once forbidden, this dance is now being showcased on WA stages<br>By Bridget McArthur</p><p>When Muriel Hillion's grandparents were growing up on Réunion island, maloya music and dance was banned. Today she proudly performs it on stages across WA.</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-25/reunionese-dancer-muriel-hillion-performs-maloya-in-wa/104966508" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-02-25/reu</span><span class="invisible">nionese-dancer-muriel-hillion-performs-maloya-in-wa/104966508</span></a></p><p><a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/Dance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dance</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>World</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/PerformingArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PerformingArts</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/ArtsCulturalandEntertainmentEvents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtsCulturalandEntertainmentEvents</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/BridgetMcArthur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BridgetMcArthur</span></a></p>
Gif's Artidote<p>Interesting to watch how a left <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indian</span></a> channel discusses the situation in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lebanon</span></a> vs <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Israel</span></a> with Professor <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Marandi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Marandi</span></a> from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TehranUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TehranUniversity</span></a> who gives <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>analysis</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WesternMediaGenocideDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WesternMediaGenocideDenial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/dZuxv22PySw?si=UN93N3uXMrdaMnIX" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/dZuxv22PySw?si=UN93N3</span><span class="invisible">uXMrdaMnIX</span></a></p>
ABC Feeds<p>Once forbidden, this dance is now being showcased on WA stages<br>By Bridget McArthur</p><p>When Muriel Hillion's grandparents were growing up on Réunion island, maloya music and dance was banned. Today she proudly performs it on stages across WA.</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-25/reunionese-dancer-muriel-hillion-performs-maloya-in-wa/104966508" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-02-25/reu</span><span class="invisible">nionese-dancer-muriel-hillion-performs-maloya-in-wa/104966508</span></a></p><p><a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/Dance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dance</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>World</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/PerformingArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PerformingArts</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/ArtsCulturalandEntertainmentEvents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtsCulturalandEntertainmentEvents</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/BridgetMcArthur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BridgetMcArthur</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>The Colonial Legacy Is Perpetuated – Antonio García</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>By: Antonio García, Primer Comandante of the ELN</strong></p><p>The international financial system alone transfers 30 million US dollars every hour from the countries of the South to the richest 1 percent in the global North.</p><p>Every year OXFAM generates a report for the summit of the richest, in Davos. This year was no exception.</p><p>Report after Report shows a timeline that shows how progress has been made in the construction of a world system in favor of the super-rich, accentuating inequalities and specifically the immoral accumulation of wealth.</p><p>Three thousand six hundred million human beings today live below the poverty line, that is, they live on less than 6.86 dollars a day, on the other hand the one thousand millionaires increased their wealth by almost 100 million dollars a day.</p><p>Now, how is this accumulated wealth generated?</p><p>The mass media owned by these same elites, sell the idea that these billionaires have earned that place with effort, hard work and discipline, sell their image and history as the new “saints” of the market god.</p><p>The truth is that the elites have benefited profoundly from extractivism in the global south (minerals, industrial agriculture, timber, etc.) thanks to policies that favor the exploitation of resources, accumulation and land grabbing at the expense of the present and future of the communities.</p><p>The adaptation of the normative and political infrastructure of states, their norms and institutions, thanks to the capture of democracy and now the capture of the state apparatus by these elites, facilitates and institutionalizes the transit of these resources to the global North, further enriching themselves by controlling the supply chain themselves.</p><p>International entities such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are there to facilitate this extractive logic throughout the global South, as well as to promote the agile transit of these resources to the elites of the global North.</p><p>Extreme poverty, lack of access to economic opportunities, extreme concentration of wealth, reveal a systematic pattern of wealth accumulation, which is based on deep-rooted structures of inequality and on both economic and social exploitation, perpetuated throughout history.</p><p>Precarious working conditions, low wages, access to privatized basic services, with high costs, etc., an entire system that perpetuates inequality, sustained impoverishment and open injustice.</p><p>The number of people living in poverty and extreme poverty has hardly changed since 1990.</p><p>How was this possible?</p><p>State structures sustain an extractive colonial legacy, a system that favors elites and facilitates the extraction of wealth from the global South to the North.</p><p>The growing power in the hands of monopolistic companies has allowed the control of markets under the logic of real mafias, a de facto criminal order. Thus, these companies control markets, set prices, condition labor rules, and also condition the electoral system, generating an open capture of democracy.</p><p>Global and local tax structures have prevented fair taxation, the growing financialization of the economy has promoted privatization and has generated an environment where the interests of sectors of great economic power are prioritized.</p><p>These powerful economic elites have managed to structure the institutions and norms of the State to favor their interests, clientelism has been established as a “normalized” phenomenon, as well as illegal corruption, but also legal corruption such as political lobbies, campaign financing, among other ways that twist the gear in their favor.</p><p>This system of injustices is perpetuated, the concentration of wealth resulting from hyper-exploitation does not stop, which now with fascist governments are a “normalized” reality.</p><p>There is an urgent need to change this system, to break this sustained evil, this context of perpetuated injustices that result from colonial logics, dynamics and relations, of domination and subordination. This is an unsustainable, irrational reality, of open injustice, it is a hopeless reality.</p><p>Thus, a person who is born into an impoverished family, in this context, could get out of that situation, if the conditions are favorable, in 290 years.</p><p>This reality ratifies without a doubt, the right and duty of peoples to rebellion.</p><p><a href="https://insurgenciaurbana-eln.net/el-legado-colonial-se-perpetua/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://insurgenciaurbana-eln.net/el-legado-colonial-se-perpetua/</a></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17155" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">17155</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/antonio-garcia/" target="_blank">#AntonioGarcía</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/colombia/" target="_blank">#colombia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/colonialism/" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/eln/" target="_blank">#eln</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/south-america/" target="_blank">#southAmerica</a></p>
Abolition Media<p>The Colonial Legacy Is Perpetuated – Antonio García</p><p>By: Antonio García, Primer Comandante of the ELN</p><p>The international financial system alone transfers 30 million US dollars every hour from the countries of the South to the richest 1 percent in the global North.</p><p>Every year OXFAM generates a report for the summit of the richest, in Davos. This year was no exception.</p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17155/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/171</span><span class="invisible">55/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Analysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntonioGarca" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AntonioGarca</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>colombia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eln" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>eln</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthAmerica</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 24, 1895: Revolution broke out in Baire, near Santiago de Cuba. This was the beginning of the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898). The liberation war ended with the Spanish-American War and the U.S. taking Cuba as a colony. Some of the more well-known commanders of the Cuban revolution were the poet Jose Marti (composer of “Guantanamera”) and Afro-Cuban Antonio Maceo, the Titan of Bronze.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cuba</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/josemarti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>josemarti</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antoniomaceo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antoniomaceo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/guantanamera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guantanamera</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revolutionary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackhistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackhistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastadon</span></a></p>
Mark<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Brazilian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brazilian</span></a> president accuses Trump of seeking to be ‘emperor of the world’</p><p>Lula da <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Silva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Silva</span></a> stated <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s actions show that “he is trying to become <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/emperor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emperor</span></a> of the world”</p><p>He's chiming in on all countries &amp; in all public policies</p><p>Lula da Silva urged the US president to respect the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a> of other nations.</p><p><a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/20/7499333/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/20/7499333/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/dictator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictator</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tyrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyrants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DemocracyNOW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNOW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OrangeTyrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OrangeTyrant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a></p>
Syulang<p>À Mayotte après le cyclone, la jeunesse doit s’en sortir seule </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mayotte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mayotte</span></a> after the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cyclone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyclone</span></a> - The young must fend for themselves. The state is nowhere to be seen. No water. No shelter. No aid from mainland <a href="https://aus.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> or <a href="https://aus.social/tags/EuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanUnion</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://basta.media/mayotte-apres-cyclone-Chido-jeunesse-doit-s-en-sortir-seule" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">basta.media/mayotte-apres-cycl</span><span class="invisible">one-Chido-jeunesse-doit-s-en-sortir-seule</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Outremer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Outremer</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Polycrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polycrisis</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] Just because <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumptyDumpty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumptyDumpty</span></a> says we don't exist doesn't mean we don't exist!</p><p>A Brief History of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nonbinary</span></a> Gender: From Ancient Times to the Early Modern Period</p><p>By Ahmed Kamran <br>July 8, 2021</p><p>"Despite some claiming the contrary, the concepts of a tertiary gender identity or an identity outside of the gender binary is not new. While it is certain that people on average have become much more aware of the existence of these identities, they have been recorded for millennia. In fact, they are mentioned in some of the earliest written records of human civilization. To understand gender as we know it today, it is important to see how it was viewed yesterday and beyond, as it shows that a variance in identities is a part of humanity.</p><p>"Mesopotamian myths, which contain religious beliefs of the earliest human civilization, featured many references to individuals that were neither male nor female or were not what we would know today to be cisgender. One of the most powerful deities was known as Inanna (and later on as Ishtar) and had a particularly strong relationship with gender. Inanna was the goddess of sex, war, and justice as well as the queen of heaven. It was believed that she had the power to change a person’s gender, something noted by a follower as early as the 23rd century BCE. Thus, individuals with nonbinary identities were often involved in religious practices surrounding her, with 'her cult members and priests were known for their androgyny and blurring or destroying the gender binary' (Academus).</p><p>"One such group referred to its members as pilipili, or individuals who played roles in celebratory festivals honoring Inanna. The pilipili were originally raised in society as women (ki-sikil) but were then blessed by Inanna, who handed them a spear 'as if she were a man' and renamed them (Academus). It is debated whether the handing of a spear is literal, with the pilipili becoming warriors and as a result defying traditional binary roles or if the spear refers to a physical transformation of the individual.</p><p>"Another segment of Inanna’s followers was the gala or her priests. Priests were recorded to have been cisgender women, married or unwed, or women with children, but there were gala that were biologically male as well. In these cases, these individuals adopted women’s names and became women 'for all intents and purposes' (Academus). They even sang in a Sumerian dialect known as eme-sal, a pattern of speech solely reserved for women to deliver the words of goddesses.</p><p>"Other relics have been found showing the existence of individuals who were outside the gender binary, suggesting that it is possible that ancient Sumer recognized these identities in ordinary society and not in just religious spheres. Of course, this is speculative because the Sumerian language did not use gendered pronouns, but it is a common interpretation of these ancient texts and remaining art.</p><p>"Another gender variant recorded all of the way back to before the common era (BCE) was that of hijras in the Indian subcontinent. These individuals were noted in the Kama Sutra and other ancient Hindu texts, and the term included eunuchs, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/intersex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intersex</span></a> people, and transgender people. Despite attempts to wipe out this identity by the British following their passing of the Criminal Tribes Act in India in 1871, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hijras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hijras</span></a> are still present today and are legally recognized as a part of a third gender category by the state. Sadly, the efforts of the British during <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonization</span></a> have had an impact on society’s view of hijras, being the beginning 'of a mainstream discomfort… [with] transgender people and hijras' (New York Times).</p><p>"Around the same time of the Kama Sutra, approximately 385-380 BCE, Aristophanes detailed a creation myth revolving three sexes or genders. Males were believed to be 'born of the sun', while females were 'born of the earth' (Diogenes). A tertiary category, androgynos (now translated to androgynous), was believed to have been born from the moon and androgynos individuals had combined male and female traits. Aristophanes claimed that androgynos no longer existed. Today, it is often suggested that Aristophanes was solely referring to intersex individuals, explaining the different physical and biological traits of males and females existing in one person, but it is interesting to speculate on the potential for the features to represent the individual’s understanding of the gender expression as well.</p><p>"Finally, it is necessary to highlight the history of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoSpirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TwoSpirit</span></a> identity in different Native cultures. More than 150 Native American tribes recognized third genders in their communities prior to colonization, with many of these identities having unique names and cultural significance. Most tribes considered two-spirit individuals a third gender, being neither men nor women, and the same terminology was used in reference to them. Other tribes, however, had a distinct word for two-spirit females, making them a fourth gender variant. What is apparent, however, is that the concept of gender had much more fluidity in Native American society than its European counterpart.</p><p>"Two-spirit people in some tribes held special roles in their communities, sometimes as healers or religious leaders. Unfortunately, many traditions in Native communities have been lost due to colonization, and 'two-spirit roles, in particular, were singled out for condemnation, interference, and many times violence' (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Much of what is known has survived by being passed down orally through generations.</p><p>"All of these examples scratch the surface of what is known in regard to gender expression prior to the early modern period. It is difficult to truly measure the scale because the further back one goes, the harder it is to find a wide array of text and relics from the period. What can be said for certain, however, is that individuals who identified outside of the gender binary have been a part of civilization since its infancy and have played valuable roles in a wide array of societies. This knowledge should help bring understanding that overall, human gender is quite fluid, and being aware and accepting this is part of long-practiced human traditions." </p><p><a href="https://clouddancers.org/a-brief-history-of-nonbinary-gender-from-ancient-times-to-the-early-modern-period/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">clouddancers.org/a-brief-histo</span><span class="invisible">ry-of-nonbinary-gender-from-ancient-times-to-the-early-modern-period/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenderFluid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Androgyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Androgyny</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeExist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeExist</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>Content Warning </p><p>(Note: “massacre” = 3+ murdered) </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/23/more-than-10000-first-nations-people-killed-in-australias-frontier-wars-final-massacre-map-shows-ntwnfb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/feb/23/more-than-10000-first-nations-people-killed-in-australias-frontier-wars-final-massacre-map-shows-ntwnfb</span></a></p><p>Vale Lyndall Ryan<br /><a href="https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia</span><span class="invisible">lmassacres/</span></a></p><p>Map <a href="https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia</span><span class="invisible">lmassacres/map.php</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aawabakal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Aawabakal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firstnations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>firstnations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>map</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/frontiermassacres" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>frontiermassacres</span></a> @ Data Verse <br /><a href="https://dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.26193/L0WEID" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataset.x</span><span class="invisible">html?persistentId=doi:10.26193/L0WEID</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p>The rise of nationalism in Canada deeply disturbs me. Canada is built upon genocide. It profits on the effects of genocide, and racism is systemic in its power structure. How many Canadians have bothered to read the calls to action in the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation commission? <a href="https://c.im/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TruthAndReconciliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TruthAndReconciliation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>
osfa_2030<p>Very amazing book--- I am more than half way now. "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa", by Walter Rodney, 1971. It tells the situation in Africa before the slave trade, through the trade and through the colonial and even postcolonial period. Very intense. Maybe the main idea is that asymmetrical exchange supported by one sided military power never helped African countries to develop, but rather were deliberate strategies of dedevelopment and underdevelopment. Might be obvious to some, but not the dominant narrative.<br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Smithsonian: Smithsonian Launches Online Lesson That Investigates Long-Omitted Information on California’s History. “The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s new digital lesson ‘California Native American Survival and Resilience During the Mission Period: A Source Investigation’ provides a more complete understanding of U.S. colonial history by including Native […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/23/smithsonian-smithsonian-launches-online-lesson-that-investigates-long-omitted-information-on-californias-history/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/23/smithsonian-smithsonian-launches-online-lesson-that-investigates-long-omitted-information-on-californias-history/</a></p>