“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (via philosophybits)
Hey did you know that this is literally just pink colonialism?
in this month, which is both pride and indigenous history month, please unpack ur “i wanna move to a farm w my wife uwu” shit and realize it holds an inherent expectation of access to land stolen from indigenous people. it’s irresponsible to move to a rural area to ““live off the land”” without giving serious thought to whose land it was before white settlers took it over and how you can work to undo that theft. becoming a white settler yourself ain’t it.
I’ve been seeing alot of these kind of posts targeting white people who want to purchase land, and as a native person myself, the hostility is really unfounded. I get what it’s all going for but it’s just barking up the wrong tree. Yes, the land is stolen. And it was stolen a long time ago, and many aboriginal people were hurt when the land taken and abused. There’s nothing wrong with a few people on the internet having daydreams about managing a farm.
I wasn’t able to discern race from either of the above two responses, so I’m not going to make any assumptions, but I have seen a few of these posts posted by white people. So, if you’re a white person, instead of crying “colonialism!” Out on the internet because people want to own a farm, actually go out and help native people. Learn their cultures and languages, and help preserve them. Donate your time and money to fundraisers and organizations that help native people. Guilt shaming other people for purchasing land that was long taken from us long ago doesn’t actually help natives! If you’re looking for places to donate, please help the local Indian Bands in your provinces, states, county, etc. Do a cursory search on the internet or ask around near where you live. You’ll find something that you can actually do to help someone who needs that help right now.
For example, I’m Haida- from the north-west coast people who live on Haida Gwaii. Our language is dying, and only twelves dozen speakers are still alive after heavy erasure. You can learn some of the language here (for free!:
And even watch a recent documentary to see what life on the island is like today, (I’m not sure if you watch it for free or not, I purchased a Blu-Ray copy of the film):
This is some research I just did right now. Please, if you’re concerned about what has happened in the past, and what you can do to fix it, please do something worthwhile. Getting mad at strangers who want to own some land doesn’t get native people anywhere.
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
this is a signal boost. please share it, for the love of god, media doesn’t cover this enough
yesterday my city held its first pride parade. we were warned by the far right that they won’t allow it to happen, we knew it was going to be bad, but not this bad. nationalists from all across the country took trains here and occupied the area where parade was supposed to start, waiting to begin a massacre. the first people to have appeared at the spot were brutally beaten, there are 4 officially unconfirmed (clarification: this might be fake news, nobody knows anything)deaths of teenagers. they were attacking children they pledged to protect from “gay pedophiles”. i saw them covered in blood. i saw them crying. i saw them running, hiding in nearby shops, chased through the streets by organised groups of nazis that kept screaming: WE’LL KILL ALL FAGGOTS. 50 grown men against a single kid. 10 different men against a 14-year-old girl. she was thrown on the ground, kicked, and beaten, because she had a rainbow on her shirt. the parade was disrupted, but continued to march on. the amount of rocks, bricks, glass beer bottles, bottles with piss, rotten eggs,explosives that were thrown at us, is uncountable. my throat is sore from screaming RUN RUN RUN each time some landed nearby. then they exploded. have you ever experienced the ringing in your ears, so frequently shown in war movies after a grenade detonates nearby? i did, yesterday.
people have burns, traumatic brain injuries, broken bones, broken noses, not to mention bruises and cuts. i saw so much blood that day. we were choking because of smoke and pepper spray that police used against those who attacked them. them, not us. people who threw rocks/glass/bricks/explosives/eggs, slicing our temples, cracking our skulls, breaking our bones, are facing no consequences, unless they’ve attacked the policemen. 25 had charges pressed against them. 25 out of thousands who gathered with the sole purpose of attacking us. they outnumbered and surrounded us. they chased people after the parade ended, screaming death threats. screaming that they will find us through the photos, and kill us. do you know what our right-wing media does? they’re claiming we, the peaceful parade whose numerous members are currently hospitalized with terrible injuries, were the ones who threw rocks/glass/bricks/explosives/eggs at “good christians who were protecting traditional values”. do you know what our church does? it’s thanking those who attacked us. the church approves violence. and so does the government. welcome to poland. run.
Signal boosting this because info came out far-right is now planning to do at again and attack Pride Parade in Płock on August 10. Here you can see just one example of violence and mad hatred these monsters sink to, it’s a video of 3 men chasing down and assaulting a woman for carrying a rainbow bag, examples like these are numerous and cops have been fucking useless, more concerned with protecting themselves. Media failed to cover this so badly that most of the awareness has been spread by FREAKING K-POP FANDOM. I’m not joking, Polish K-pop fans have done more to tell rest of Poland and the world what happened that fucking national media. In fact, they still do, I urge everyone to spread the below screenshots they ask everyone to spread.
Polish nationalists now try to run damage control propaganda and claim that people spreading these screens and using the abovementioned hashtags are Korean bots (and try to prove it because many of these accounts, of k-pop fans, have their favorite Korean musicians in icons, which is new level of dumb), which is their go-to response to keep a lie that 89% of Poles supposedly is against LGBTQ rights. They reacted the same way earlier this year when right-wing government-supporting national tv talk show ran a poll asking whenever we support gay marriage and when the results were overwhelmingly towards “yes” they claimed the pool got attacked by Chinese bots, this is the level of denial we are dealing with here.
I need to ask - if anyone reading this is a member of Polish Antifa or a member of Antifa who is able to come to Płock on August 10 and at least try to provide Pride participants with protection, I beg you to do so. What happened in Białystok was terrifying and appalling, nationalists want us to be terrified, scared of our lives. Police and media are government puppets, they’re next to useless or outright make things worse. Please, if you can provide any help or support, it is necessary.
Cheyenne Hoyt and Florencio Millan-Vazquez were on their way to a doctor’s appointment for their 7-month-old disabled daughter when ICE agents surrounded them and blocked them in, insisting they had a warrant for Millan-Vazquez’s arrest.
Hoyt began livestreaming the interaction (you can see the full video below), which went on for more than 21 minutes before ICE agents appear to illegally use force to smash the window of the vehicle and drag Millan-Vazquez out of the car in front of his children, who were crying in the back seat. According to KCUR, Millan-Vazquez came to the United States at the age of 13 and has lived here for 19 years, raising his 11-year-old son and infant daughter with Hoyt. The video shows the couple repeatedly asking to see the warrant, and an ICE officer repeatedly refusing, telling them it was a “paperless warrant.” The agents would not tell Millan-Vazquez why he was being arrested.
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