Oppression can only survive through silence
-Carmen de Monteflores
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Colonialism
How to Decolonize Your Mind
“How do you decolonize your mind?
You have to begin by questioning some of the most basic ideas you take for granted every day.”
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Source: www.interchangecounseling.com
Constant State of Rage Part II: No I Don’t Need to Be Nice to my Oppressors
“Being nice to your oppressor and tending to their emotions and standards has never freed any oppressed group. Audacity and bravery are required.” –SHENITA ANN MCLEAN
The U.S. Roots of the Central American Immigrant Influx
Before dying of pneumonia at a Guatemala hospital in late May, the recently deported 21-year-old Gustavo Antonio Vásquez Chaj told his family that the U.S. Border Patrol had kept him, at some point, wet, stripped of a layer of clothing, and in a cold cell during several days in detention.
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The tragic journey of Vásquez Chaj and Tucux Chiché is one story among many of how harmful U.S. political and economic policies in Latin America violently intersect with a hardening and brutal system of U.S. immigration control. In their case, the young men’s voyage was first and foremost one of necessity rather than of choice. Vásquez Chaj and Tucux Chiché were economic migrants fleeing a country of wreck and ruin that decades of harmful U.S. foreign and economic policies have helped to bring about.
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It is indisputable that the United States shares significant responsibility for the genocide of tens of thousands of Guatemalans—mainly indigenous Mayans, including members of Gustavo and Maximiliano’s community, who comprised a majority of the (at least) 150,000 killed in the 1980s alone.
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Source: nacla.org
Undoing Border Imperialism: Harsha Walia
“Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. Drawing on the author’s experiences in No One Is Illegal, this work offers relevant insights for all social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. The author grounds the book in collective vision, with short contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America.
Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular educator rooted in emancipatory movements and communities for over a decade.”
Community Village‘s insight:
See on www.amazon.com
Video interview: Harsha Walia on Anti-Oppression, Decolonization and Responsible Allyship
See on Scoop.it – Community Village Daily
“Given the devastating cultural, spiritual, economic, linguistic and political impacts of colonialism on Indigenous people in Canada, any serious attempt by non-natives at allying with Indigenous struggles must entail solidarity in the fight against colonization.
Non-natives must be able to position ourselves as active and integral participants in a decolonization movement for political liberation, social transformation, renewed cultural kinships and the development of an economic system that serves rather than threatens our collective life on this planet.
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A growing number of social movements are recognizing that Indigenous self-determination must become the foundation for all our broader social justice mobilizing.”
– Harsha Walia, from the article Decolonizing Together
Community Village‘s insight:
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Decolonizing the Mind: Healing Through Neurodecolonization and Mindfulness
“Decolonizing the Mind: Healing Through Neurodecolonization and Mindfulness –
Author, educator, medical social worker and citizen of the Arikara (Sahnish) and Hidatsa Nations in North Dakota, Michael Yellow Bird, MSW, Ph.D. works with indigenous communities, teaching about healing the trauma of colonialism.
On January 24, 2014 he spoke about his experiences at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, sharing his ideas about how to go about doing this through techniques of mindfulness, thought and behavior which he refers to as neurodecolonization. ”
Post Colonialism?
“Since the recent Anti-Colonial Anarchism or Decolonization poster went viral I’ve been privileged, as the poster’s maker, to take part in several conversations it has provoked.”
Decolonize All The Things: How Africana Sociology & Decolonized Anthropology Undo Domination
“The first step towards critical analysis and political liberation is decolonization. Decolonization is anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist. ”
Community Village‘s insight:
See on redsociology.com
Satirical film targets ‘development’ for tribes.
Survival helps tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.
Community Village‘s insight:
Excellent video.