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tonight i feel crazie. i feel like things are teetering on the edge of something. part of it, i think, is that i started taking my meds again and mixing with caffeine is not good for the brain. part of it is that i am back in an insane environment.

where is the line between an observation of a pattern and perpetuation of a stereotype?

i feel like the environment i am in is an insane one because there are all these dangerous feeling undercurrents. is it me? am i the crazie one? i feel like it IS me, that it's all in my head. but the bus driver happened, and the cars driving by and honking and giving me the bird happened.

canada is a viciously racist country. it is a frighteningly racist country because the prevailing attitude is to deny that racism exists, even when all the evidence points to it.

i feel sick here. i feel like i am on dangerous ground every day.

denial scares me.

it scares me because it is a sick sick thing.

it is the product of a mentality that has stopped functioning rationally.

when a person is no longer rational, they are capable of gross violations, the worst kind of outrages against other human beings.

please read the following article and all the comments:

Aboriginal woman was stealing food.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/traffic-brisk-at-fateful-food-store-61726567.html

This is excerpted from Joel Andreas' awesome book called Addicted to War. You should totally buy the book b/c it includes a hella lot more info that I am unable to include here.( Read more... )

HOT FLASH! The Infinite “Red-X” discovers Secret Instruction Manual: "Advanced Strategies on Stealing Indigenous Resources” – TWO DIRTY COLONIAL REPTILES – CHRIS “ODB” REID & ROBIN “ROTTEN EGG” AITKEN CITED AS SLIMEY “AUTHORITIES” ( Read more... )

okay, this is awesome. i dont trust russell means much but i do believe that people can change. so.

this is what i have been saying all along....the only way for the ndgns of colonized/occupied nations like the us, canada, australia, new zealand to resist and defy and get out from under colonial oppression is to RESIST, DEFY, AND GET OUT FROM UNDER them....

Sitting Bull's people break away from US

From correspondents in Washington

December 20, 2007 03:10pm
Article from: Agence France-Presse

THE Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the US.

"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,'' long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means said.

A delegation of Lakota leaders has delivered a message to the State Department, and said they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the US, some of them more than 150 years old.

The group also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and would continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months.

Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22954249-1702,00.html#

And what is fear of need but need itself?

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable?

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

And there are those who have little and give it all.

These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.

"If Brown (vs. Board of Education) was just about letting Black people into a White school, well we don’t care about that anymore. We don’t necessarily want to go to White schools. What we want to do is teach ourselves, teach our children the way we have of teaching. We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain...We don’t need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier."

- Marcos Aguilar (Principal, Academia Semillas del Pueblo)

101-Year-Old Still Active, Spry
SASKATCHEWAN NDN MAY 1977 v07 n05 p53 ( Read more... )

when my mom was alive she used to take us to visit this Cree man who lived in a cliff cave by the side of the road. i was young, around eight or so, and i can't remember his name (never was good with them) and i asked my brother if he could remember his name but he doesnt. ( Read more... )

Corruption in the leadership of our communities is a far too common thing. Colonization occurs on many levels, breaking down the original cultural foundations like an acid on one hand and physically on the other by the casualties our communities have suffered and continue to suffer.( Read more... )

the status quo is the status quo because people get complacent and apathetic and then hostile/defensive when it looks like they are going to have to get off their asses and do some changing

it makes me sad how casually people use the word "revolution"....weekend warriors who dont really understand what that means, most of them

revolution means a COMPLETE and TOTAL transformation of the STATUS QUO....nothing less

to achieve social revolution requires an individual's entire mental universe to undergo an equally expansive transformation....the status quo is the status quo because the majority of people maintain it through their inertia

social change happens when individuals change, not maintain, the status quo

revolution is holistic

you cant pay attention to one thing and expect the WHOLE thing to change

you cant do it part time and expect your efforts to have any effect

revolution is not compromise, it is the end of compromise
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Western philosophy is based in a system of formal argumentation that follows a defined set of "logical" rules.( Read more... )

And those who claim to be liberal and forward thinking...if they are so, then why have our grievances still not been redressed? Why are we still under the jurisdiction of the Indian Act? Why do we still have to prove occupancy in white colonial courts?
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De-colonization may just as well be called de-pop-culturization since the dissemination of pop culture is probably the most effective modern-day weapon for imperialist psychological annexation and preparation of colonial subjects for imperialist take-over. The two pronged attack of neo-colonialism (imperialism) relies heavily upon technological & ideological pacification; where these two scouts fail, neo-colonialism then resorts to a more aggressive stance as we have seen in the case of Iraq.( Read more... )

There is no such thing as "race".

Emancipation must happen along ethnic lines because it is by virture of ethnicity that Indigenous people have so long been persecuted.( Read more... )

against colonization often means more simply asserting your inherent right to live from your own cultural norms & values by living them.

By living them.
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Where are the leaders of our people with hearts like bison, vision like eagles, loyalty like wolves and the wisdom of our Elder Ancestors?

The last of our great leaders died with Big Bear and Poundmaker. The last of our great warriors died with Wandering Spirit who, as he stood on the gallows built by the whiteman, noose around his neck, to punish him for taking one of their cattle to feed his new bride for lack of the promised government food rations to replace the genocided buffalo people, sang a love song to his wife.

A love song.

This is the true heart of our people: bravery, integrity, wisdom, love, humility, loyalty, self-sacrifice, defiance, respect, honoring Ancestors who died for their people for their tribal nations against a colonial enemy, not the shams who fight for the colonial enemy.

Duck Lake
Sand Creek
Wounded Knee
Bear River
Cypress Hills
Beothuk Genocides
Bad Axe Massacre

Remember the Warriors who have been lost in the fight for freedom from racist colonial rule.

Honor those who put their lives in the path of colonial bullets to stand up for their people against colonial occupation at:

Kahnesetake
Ts'Peten Lake (Gustafsen)
Burnt Church
Stoney First Nation
Caledonia
Ipperwash
Adams lake

These are the true heroes, the true Warriors.