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#Africa in #USeyes

The American #Capitalistic #Imperialistic #Colonizer can't cope with it: their 'victim' is not begging no more but taking matters in their own hands.

"Burkina Faso: The Truth Washington Doesn't Want You To Know" [ ± 1-3 min]
by AfricanDiasporaNew

youtube.com/shorts/QgBOBE2Bc50

Quote by ADN:
"Jun 16, 2025
Burkina Faso's people aren't complaining; that says it all. We see AFRICOM, Langley, and civil military cooperation. We see President Traore and Sahelian leaders, admiring your work."

#YouGoAfrica #Afripreneurs
#AhTheWordOfTheWhiteMan

People who want the culture war to be violent + want white/settler/anglo to be on top/"win" will take any opportunity.

The caucasity ( "Caucasian" audacity) is strong in these U.S. streets.

The number of folks who want to punch down is too damn high.

The people with skin darker than a paper bag or names that don't sound Western European ( minus Spain+ Portugal of course) are sweating.

#racism
#xenophobia
#settler
#colonizer
#colorism
#violence
#USPol
#WhiteFolks
#Classism
#LandBack

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@00Aaron We actually have lived experiences with how #AiDrones weren't used to locate 2 different #MissingPeople, in remote wilderness on South Vancouver Island - 3 years ago. We asked #RCMP to deploy #surveillance drones & they refused to. One of them was found dead, months later.

Prior to that, RCMP used drones, multiple times/daily, to harass us environmental #activists, guarding the blockades at multiple remote logging road resistance camps. #AItech is abused by #colonizer #cops

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⬆️ @notwithstanding

Thanks for sharing nationalpost.com/opinion/opini

#IgnoraceAndAmnesia

#Colony, #colonizer, and #colonization are maladroitly applied to #Israel by people who are ignorant about the indigeneity of the #Jewish people in the region that is Israel, or by propagandists who refuse to acknowledge that indigeneity.

Also notable: Quick #amnesia about #Hamas #Oct7 and acceptance of revolutionary violence “by any means necessary” again and again and again…

#EcstasyAndAmnesia

@galad

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⬆️ @galad @notwithstanding @martin

>> It gets worse when colony is inflected to #colonizer or #colonization.

… as in #IsraeliColonizers or #IsraeliColonization

Because now instead of putting pejorative connotations on land, one would be putting those connotations on people or nations in the sense of #BritishColonizers and #FrenchColonization.

In that latter sense, "Israeli Colonizers" and "Israeli Colonization" is simply nonsense. Where is the "home country" for this group, if not #Judea?

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⬆️ @galad @notwithstanding @martin

The use of the word #colony in the proper sense that it was originally used in the #Jewish context is not #antisemitic ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

For example, the "Italian colony" or the "German colony" or the "Latino colony" to refer to COMMUNITIES in various parts of the country.

It is the subsequent distortion in meaning by ignorant people and by propagandists that is antisemitic.

It gets worse when colony is inflected to #colonizer or #colonization.

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Mastodonrameshgupta (@rameshgupta@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image ⬆️ @MyNewMinuteNewt Twenty-six SEPARATE #colonies. These "colonies" were agricultural COMMUNITIES, and the land was bought and PAID FOR, not stolen. That's the real meaning of "colony" in the #Israeli context. @enoch_exe_inc @rightardia @vgoller@nrw.social @prolrage@todon.nl @redfrog

I will NEVER entertain the concept that Biden has failed to condemn the #Genocide in #Palestine and stop supporting Isreal because it's "complicated".

It actually is very simple.

If you send weapons and funds to a country committing genocide, repeat their false propaganda, and ignore millions of your own citizens calling for a #PermanentCeasefire and to #FreePalestine , you are condoning and supporting genocide.

The Palestinian people cannot wait for political pandering and colonial bullshit. More people continue to die and suffer at the hands of #Isreal and their #Zionist #SettlerColonial project every minute the U.S. continues to support Isreal.

I will not argue the value of human life. If you find yourself defending Biden because "it's complicated", its because you've allowed #Colonizer propaganda and #WhiteSupremacy to convince you that some human lives are expendable while others are not. This is a lie. Every life is precious and divine. Settler colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy is a direct threat to all life on earth. There is no debate here.

Either you support the liberation of all people or you don't.

What's it gonna be?

Wasté Win Young:
'Take Courage, Keep Going for our #Takojas'

By Wasté Win Young
#Lakota, #StandingRock
November 10, 2023

"The showing of the documentary 'End of the Line' in Sewanee, Tennessee was probably the most emotional response I’ve witnessed and felt. A lot of people came up to me afterward and they were visibly crying. One young woman couldn’t talk and I hugged her for a long time. She said that she and her mom had gone camping in North Dakota and drank water from the #MissouriRiver.

"A lot of the youngins in college had never even heard of #NoDAPL. There was an anthro professor who was so moved. He said he showed his class the documentary last year as well. I felt the love and am beyond thankful. I told them that they could help by submitting comments for the #DAPL environmental impact statement.

"I think my spirit needed this as much as they needed it because yesterday as I got home, I got the word that the Eighth Circuit ruled against #WaterProtectors in Dundon.
This is no surprise in the court of the #colonizer — two of the three judges were appointed by #Trump. One judge was sleeping during the arguments. Smh. Houwn I really cried...

"Despite these decisions made by #WhiteMen who think they are the law and that their say is final — it is not. It never will be.

"I know we have to keep going, that we persevere for our takojas and future generations. Even on the days when I wanna curl up and sob dramatically with my mom and dad or lay in bed with my kids and dogs all day.

"I know that there will be justice for our people and allies in this world and the next. Blíhíčiya — take courage. We keep going."

Waste Win Young, Lakota of Standing Rock, North Dakota, previously served as Standing Rock's Historic Preservation Officer and is a graduate of the University of New Mexico Law School. She is a leading voice for the rights of water in the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/11

bsnorrell.blogspot.comWasté Win Young 'Take Courage, Keep Going for our Takojas' Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

@jhavok @fulanigirl @blackmastodon
You, @jhavok, are lying, there isn't a single thing in that article that evidences the grotesque allegation you have made.
You are saying that the indigenous Hawaiian population caused this wildfire because they wanted sustainable stream flow to their subsistence farming community?
There isn't one shred of evidence of that, and btw, you are talking to a professional hydrogeologist with over 30 years of experience.
#Colonizer

I don't celebrate #VictoriaDay anymore. Just another #colonizer created fake holiday. I don't engage in #colonial celebrations of unceded #NativeLandTheft as part of my #decolonization journey.

I see very little #landback or other #reparations actually happening for stealing & exploiting Indigenous lands & peoples & using #CulturalGenocide on #FirstPeoples (it's still happening). Shallow land acknowledgements are useless without aligning actions.