How do we think about health justice without addressing the fact that millions of Black and Brown people’s lives and health have been impacted for centuries by colonialism? What does it mean to look at reparations?
Agreements between the EU and Tunisia on migration control contribute directly to the escalation of racism, migrant hunts, and mass deportations.
Making knowledge in a way that harms Indigenous land for the “greater good” is a colonial land relation.
Our relationship is directly with the spirit of the land itself. Their relationship is with a man who has dominion – it is based in a feudal system.
The sectarian narrative is often completely false; this messaging of fear is designed to preserve authoritarian regimes in the face of popular protest movements that have nothing to do with sect.
Police and prisons are not the end-all and be-all of white supremacist power. Before the prison was established, before the official uniformed constables were in existence, there was still totalitarian control over blackness. Abolition must encompass critique of the entire settler colony.
Most people seem to think California is a bastion of cultural pluralism and progressive policymaking, but California had more Confederate monument than any other free state.
No passport, no job title, no class position, no achievement will protect us from constantly being seen as outsiders, as those who do not belong. I don’t have to frequent hookah bars to understand the message of the Hanau terrorist and those who stoked his hatred.
Land organizes everything: Our perceptions of gender, our perception of private and public. If there’s still an element of humility within us, it reminds us that we are insignificant and our Earth Mother has her own timetable as far as when and how to revolt.
A conversation with Indigenous grassroots activists engaging in radical autonomous community care and defense work in the face of the ongoing epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR).
