Category Indigenous
Senator Lynn Beyak stands by residential school remarks
Senator Lynn Beyak stands by residential school remarks, cites ‘fake news’ – Politics – CBC News – She also said they support her calls for an audit of all money “flowing in and out of reservations, and talks with grassroots indigenous people,” she said. “Which Indigenous people are your friends?” Independent Senator Patrick Brazeau said […]
proudblacksista: Return our People | Ramblings…
Return our People | Ramblings… – They, being the museums, tell us that they are not the owners of these remains, but the keepers of them until they can be handed back to the families and communities to have a burial or to be housed in somewhere safe. But these people and the hair samples […]
Archived Press Release: Why We are Occupying Bernie Sanders’ Burlington Office: (April 26, 1999)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:21:29 -0400 From: Will Miller [http://www.uvm.org/iaag/why-occupy.htm] Subject: Occupying Bernie Sander’s Burlington Office with follow-up Instant Antiwar Action Group Contact: Will Miller Press Release – April 26th, 1999: Why We are Occupying Bernie Sander’s Burlington Office: [Burlington, VT] I am writing on behalf of the anarcho-socialist-feminist and anti-racist left in Vermont, […]
Reclaiming his indigenous name: Khelsilem’s story – Home | New Fire with Lisa Charleyboy | CBC Radio
‘Rebranding’ himself as Khelsilem was based on where that particular name comes from.”Khelsilem comes from a family that did a lot of work that was very public – canoe building and carving,” he said.”These are things that are done in a private sense but then shared with the world afterwards.”As he was getting ready to […]
I Am a Native American Woman With White Privilege | Yes, I Said; Yes, I Will, Yes.
There are a lot of ways in which it sucks to be a light or white-presenting Native American. I’m often not recognizable, even to people of my own nationality. Sometimes, I even have to perform to be seen by myself, as if by wearing turquoise and beadwork, I won’t get so lost in the Western […]
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade.
This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. The dots—which represent individual slave ships—also correspond to the size of each voyage. The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on […]
Homosexuality not un-African – Africa’s gays argue
The Nandi and Kisii of Kenya and parts of Eastern Africa are also recorded to have practised female-to-female marriages, while among the Cape Bantus, lesbianism was ascribed to women who were in the process of becoming chief diviners, known as isanuses. Generally in Southern Africa, many female diviners were thought to have been either homosexual […]
4thWorldRadyo: La Zapatistas – The Ongoing Struggle Against neo-Colonialism with the AngryWhiteKid | APNS Public Radyo
Summary: TheAngryindian speaks with US Social Justice activist and anti-colonialist news blogger Scott Campbell a.k.a., the ‘AngryWhiteKid’ (angrywhitekid.blogs.com /@angrywhitekid) about recent developments and communiqués from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN – ezln.org.mx) and how their struggle relates to other Indigenous political and liberation (and survival) efforts in the Américas and across the Fourth World. Listen / […]
The stigma for descendants of African slaves – Jori Lewis – Aeon
Though legal slavery in Senegal has been over for more than 100 years, I was curious about how the descendants of slaves in that Sine-Saloum village saw their legacy. I wanted to talk to them about their experiences and try to understand their stories. But my boyfriend refused. He said that if I asked people […]
Fourth World Radyo: 500 More Years of White Racist Colonialism And Abuse? | APNS Public Radyo
Summary: TheAngryindian offers his thoughts on the daylight, public execution of Walter Scott by a murderous United States police officer in the American South; his disgust at the unforgivable colonialist disrespect and institutional misogyny shown by the Euro-settler Canadian justice system to the loss of First Nations #MMIW victim, Sister Cindy Gladue and some brief comments on the Death-by-Neglect […]
FBI confirms black activist Ray Robinson was killed during 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee – CBS News
Desiree Marks, who’s held out hope for 40 years that she’d see her father again, said she was crushed by the FBI’s confirmation of his death. “I’ve always thought that might not be the case. He may come home. He may be alive. He may, he may, he may,” Marks told The Associated Press on […]
4th World Radyo: Conscious Being And Ethical Nothingness 01.03.2015 | APNS Public Radyo
4th World Radyo: Conscious Being And Ethical Nothingness 01.03.2015 by aboriginalpress Summary: TheAngryindian offers his thoughts on the untimely transition of North American Indigenous activist and Leonard Peltier supporter Ms. Joan Rodriguez (known on Twitter as @Joanie399) and the passing of actor Leonard Nimoy and his importance as a cultural icon for people of mixed-heritage around […]
Rape and HIV as Weapons of War – United Nations University
While the history of wars and conflicts is replete with systematic incidents of sexual violence against vulnerable women, modern-day wars have witnessed large-scale indiscriminate deployment of rape as a “weapon” of war by combatants. In recent armed conflicts — such as in the former Yugoslavia, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, the Central […]
‘Land is a Relationship’: In conversation with Glen Coulthard on Indigenous nationhood | rabble.ca
Coulthard is a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, an assistant professor at UBC, and involved with the Dechinta Bush University. His debut book Red Skins, White Masks is a trail-blazing opus, quickly gathering a storm of praise and becoming a manifesto for Indigenous resurgence within academic, activist and community circles, as well as […]
Glavin: Canadians have no reason to be smug about race | Ottawa Citizen
Comparing welfare rates makes Canada look far worse. Slightly more than 10 per cent of African-Americans are on welfare, but in Canada, roughly a third of Aboriginal people are on welfare or some other form of income assistance. Canada looks worse again when we look inside the prisons. African-Americans make up only about 12 per cent […]
Racism gets in the way of Romance, says new CBC poll – Manitoba – CBC News
Only 50 per cent of people from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta said they would be OK with a romantic relationship with an aboriginal person. That compares with the national average of 63 per cent.Mark Grindey did not let racism get in the way of love when he proposed 38 years ago to Shirley McLean, a […]
Caged Warrior – Leonard #Peltier
With its COINTELPRO brainchild, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI operatives had a mission of quashing all movements considered subversive, using divide-and-conquer tactics, flooding inner-city neighborhoods with drugs, tying up movement hands with false arrests and trials, and complicity in cruel and torturous measures. The main targets of their aggressive attacks were the Black Panthers and the […]
As Long As Grass Grows or Water Runs – [historyisaweapon.com]
And so, Indian Removal, as it has been politely called, cleared the land for white occupancy between the Appalachians and the Mississippi, cleared it for cotton in the South and grain in the North, for expansion, immigration, canals, railroads, new cities, and the building of a huge continental empire clear across to the Pacific Ocean. […]
Message from Leonard Peltier 08/28/2014… – Friends of Peltier
The Constitution of the United states was a copy of Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy Law. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin all wrote down as to where they got the ideas and inspiration from. The main premise of the constitution being, you have the freedom to do anything you want as long as you don’t […]
Gaza: el genocidio y sus sinrazones – Por: Atilio Borón
En medio del espanto y del baño de sangre que inunda Gaza se oye una voz, metálica, glacial. Pronuncia un soliloquio similar al que en su obra Enrique VI William Shakespeare puso en boca de Ricardo, un ser deforme, monstruoso, pero aguijoneado por una ambición ilimitada y orgulloso de su villanía: “Soy el espíritu del […]
Holocausto palestino en Gaza › Cuba › Granma – Órgano oficial del PCC
Las escribo con rapidez solo para dejar constancia de lo que se requiere meditar profundamente.Pienso que una nueva y repugnante forma de fascismo está surgiendo con notable fuerza en este momento de la historia humana, en el que más de siete mil millones de habitantes se esfuerzan por la propia supervivencia.Ninguna de estas circunstancias tiene […]
Elie Wiesel blames the victims | World War 4 Report
In his penultimate paragraph, Wiesel writes: “And I enjoin the American public to stand firmly with the people of Israel who are in yet another struggle for survival, and with the suffering people of Gaza who reject terror and embrace peace.” Note the subtlety of the propaganda. We are admonished to stand with “the people […]
Beyond blackface: emancipation through the struggle against Black pete, Dutch racism and Afrophobia | New Urban CollectiveNew Urban Collective
Every December 5th the Dutch celebrate ‘Sinterklaas’, a feast rooted in Middle Age folklore. The legend goes that Saint Nicholas travels from Spain in the Netherlands every year with his steamboat to reward the children who have behaved well with presents and punish those who have behaved naughty. The old, wise and kind white saint […]
Thomas Fuller African ”slave” And Mathematician.
[reunionblackfamily.com] Thomas Fuller, known as the Virginia Calculator, was stolen from his native Africa at the age of fourteen and sold to a planter. When he was about seventy years old, two gentlemen, natives of Pennsylvania, viz., William Hartshorne and Samuel Coates, men of probity and respectable characters, having heard, in travelling through the neighbourhood […]
Michael Oluwagbemi: Does African Philosophy Exist?
At the heart of most African Philosophy is the concept of communalism which is not socialism, communism, capitalism nor the other “isms” of the West. It is high time we market this unique brand of economic system: if capitalism legalized lobbying bribery of legislators in America, communalism should legalize gift-giving bribery in Nigeria. Is it […]
Peter MacKay tries to explain lack of diversity on federal courts | Toronto Star
Several of the men and women at the meeting of the Ontario Bar Association’s council described the remarks to the Star variously as “disappointing,” “bizarre,” “frustrating” or “offensive.”In the first instance, they said the answer failed to address the issue of diversity. Secondly, they suggested it was presumptuous if not insensitive, and thirdly it betrayed […]
allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Flying Witches and Africans Page 1 of 2
Embracing superstitions should call into question a people’s mental state and cause others to question their claim to rationality. Making superstitious claims should reinforce the idea that some human beings are backward, trapped in pre-modern age and still down the ladder of human civilisation, in an unenlightened state.Irrational beliefs expressed publicly by public leaders embarrass […]
Petition | Remove your video “Peace Pipe” and apologize !!!! | Change.org
Mr. Emerson Windy – Looks like a lot of work and money got put in to your peace pipe video. I am sad to say, that while the beat and production was very good it is overshadowed by the absolute disregard of native peoples and their ways of life. It is painfully obvious that you […]
Lucy Parsons Center – Biography Of Lucy Parsons – by IWW
Little is known about the early life of Lucy Parsons. She had an African American, Native American, and Mexican ancestry. She was born in Texas around 1853, during the Civil War Era, and it is likely that her parents were slaves. During her lifetime, in order to disguise her racial origins in a prejudiced society, […]
canada ukraine and the ghosts of babi yar – j.b.gerald
Canadians are also protected from self recognition by the government’s acquiescence to U.S. policies which are war crimes. The Canadian legal community’s lack of challenge and countering the government’s crimes and deprivations of justice to citizen, shares the blame. While Canadian agencies are complicit in the war crime of torturing Canadian citizens, no Canadian government […]
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