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they/them. BSky: @/baf. Indigenous anarchist. Transnational solidarity against fascism, colonialism, & imperialism.
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Both my rent and my internet went up in the past couple months— I need to keep my housing to be able to keep up the work ❤️🩹✊🏻 mîkwêc, I'm endlessly grateful for any and all help. It's been a brutal time lately.
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I think the fact that unhoused folks in toronto have just organized and established the Toronto Homeless Union should be getting far more attention. This is massive and historic.
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Yesterday I watched Al Jazeera's interview with Motaz, and he was fully serious when the host asked why he left, & he said that he left to see "what's wrong with you people." Literally to try and understand how the hell the world is letting this happen. I won't soon forget that.
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Thinking tonight about when my mom and I were making my ribbon skirt, and when we were measuring the diameter of the material around my legs, she got me to take the widest step I could just in case I needed to run while wearing it. That spoke volumes and I'll never forget it.
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Hot tip: If you get cutlery from takeout or whatever, put em in a bag, and when you have a good amount, bring em to encampments for unhoused folks. There's *never* enough cutlery in encampments.
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Yesterday, an org we ally with had an overflow of holiday donations, so me and a homie took on some of that work.
It was fucking miserable. I'm so glad our collective only takes donations from friends and trusted folks, because:
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*exhaustedly taps the sign* being Indigenous is a specific political location in relation to being colonized/colonization and doesn’t just mean "where ur from" 😮💨
people are like “where are Jewish people indigenous, if not Israel?” nowhere! just like almost everyone else on earth most jews are not indigenous people!
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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day from your unfriendly neighborhood Indigenous anarchist bead artist 🖤 hit me with a follow for all your anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-fascist beading needs ✊🏼🏴🚩
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Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Im a Cree bead artist and I make and sell antifascist beadwork, hit me with a follow to keep up with my work 🖤 and if you want to support monetarily, my PayPal is
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Lotta passive language here. We were and still are here; we did and still do practice sustainable agriculture. Europeans VIOLENTLY colonized us & we still face settler colonialism to this day.
And we're not anyone's white settler climate guilt outlet. Take responsibility.
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People seem very confused as to why kkkanada is facing such extreme wildfires right now— as an Indigenous person who has studied ecology and climate science pretty extensively, folks need to understand that the Arctic, the subarctic, and wetlands are frontlines of climate change.
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Being disabled under genocide and imperialism... the cruel act of breaking assistive technology could have left this boy stranded and alone if it wasn't for his mom's repair work. Horrifying.
🚨Israeli army assaulted a young child, forcing him to undress and dragging him, then broke his hearing aid and compelled him to leave his area, depriving him of ability to communicate with his family. His mother taped the device back, describing this moment as life-saving.
#Gaza
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These people are 21, 24, 26, and 25 years old. These are Palestinian youths— the lens through which the world sees the brutality and horror of a genocide being enacted on their own people by the state of israel. Not one of them even 30 years old. What a burden to bear.
People of the year.
Plestia Alaqad.
Motaz Azaiza.
Hind Khoudary.
Bisan Owda.
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I'm not crying you're crying 🥺
For the first time in over a century, plains bison are roaming on Poundmaker Cree Nation territory in Saskatchewan again.
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Apparently it’s national nonbinary people’s day which mean it is my day, hello I am an Indigenous queer non-binary bead artist who makes anti-fascist beadwork :-) my next drop is July 24th at 2pm EST on my Etsy (link in bio) 🖤
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Thinking about how the "bystander effect" was first named after a violent incident which the New York Times inaccurately and incorrectly reported that no one tried to help or get help, when in reality, many folks did respond, and it was before the establishment of 911 in the area
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The other UN representatives should have simply beat the shit out of this guy ngl
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The forehead and cheek kisses, fixing the baby's hair, wiping off dust 🥺 so many tiny gestures of care that add up soooo much 😭💕 I hope this little baby spends their whole long life knowing how much they are loved and cherished
The miracle that came after 37 days. Baby born in the first days of the war was rescued alive from the rubble of the house bombed by Israel
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The holidays are the most dreaded time of year for anyone who deals with donations that aren't $$. People literally just give away their garbage. Like, look at the shit you are about to donate, and ask yourself if you could feel good handing this directly to someone w nothing?
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Don’t forget: vegan leather and fake fur are not leather and fur they are PLASTIC! In 1000 years they will still be on the planet leeching toxins, while actual fur and leather as byproducts of hunting and sustenance will be returned to the Earth like they should be!
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Please stop saying "the UK virus", her name was margaret thatcher
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An important sacred site before it was desecrated*
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In such a sacred moment and process, she was thinking about my safety while being visibly, undeniably Indigenous. While making a piece of our traditional clothing, her thoughts were on making sure I'd be able to get away.
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What's happening in Palestine right now is a "famine" in the same way as the Irish potato "famine"— it genocide. It's ethnic cleansing through starvation, malnutrition, and illness. "Famine" is passive voice for the next steps of this genocide.
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One thing I'm glad the world is learning rn is that international law is worthless and only reinforces hegemony, bc if powerful countries 'disagree', no one can make them comply. But if a relatively powerless country disagrees, everyone else can sanction and embargo them to hell.
The israeli airforce account accidentally published an image of an Apache carrying an unknown version of a Hellfire missile with a red-colored band before removing it
Based on the US-standard munitions markings, a red-banded missile indicates a Geneva-banned incendiary warhead
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(Speaking as an autistic person myself) I honestly think that a large part of why Greta has been able to shift from a world-renowned cute child progressive to an actual badass leftist young adult has to do with her being autistic.
I was wondering why I hadn't seen Greta Thunberg in the news lately so I checked and yeah it makes perfect sense why she's no longer a media darling lol. Absolute legend
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Today is a day of mourning for Indigenous peoples, and it's adding insult to injury that we have to pay rent to (mostly settler) landlords on our own land today too. Indigenous folks, please drop your links below. Settlers, today is a great day for some reparations.
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Bending over backwards not to take any blame for residential "schools"
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Someone's out there sleeping rough and you give them pilled up, yellow-stained old socks and some facial mist spray..... I hope you get your shit rocked 😑 poor people and unhoused people deserve so much better than ur literal trash, fuck.
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During such a beautiful and sacred process we shared together, we were forced to keep our minds on the reality of the sheer danger of simply existing as Indigenous— nêhinaw— peoples on our own colonized lands.
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This interview has had massive reach, and I'm just curious: genuine question, why does this resonate with you so much as a non-Osage/non-Indigenous person?
At the film’s premiere, Osage language consultant Christopher Cote shares his complicated feelings about
#KillersOfTheFlowerMoon
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Nothing makes my heart happier than seeing fellow Indigenous folks from across the americas upholding our duty to our Indigenous relatives in Palestine, as well as to the land and to the water. We out here ✊🏼🇵🇸
UPDATE: Indigenous activists are now blocking the weapons shipment to Israel from leaving the Tacoma Port from the water.
The boat is still unable to leave the port.
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Pride month may be over but that doesn't mean we take a break ✊🏼 Rainbow molotov earrings on fingernail backings 🔥
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I have an enormous amount of feelings over how non-Natives acted at the Na-Me-Res pow wow today. It was incredibly disheartening and upsetting in so many ways. I don't have the bandwidth to explain it all right now, but I'm going to come back to this. It's not okay at all.
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I *hate* that her mind had to be on such things in that moment. I hate that colonialism forced her to have to consider her child's ability to escape from danger, rather than being able to share this moment solely in peace, love, and joy.
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I spent the evening de-pilling used knit items, including these socks that I later decided were too stained (although washed, thank fk) to give away to anyone. There's no way I could look someone in the eye and feel good about giving these away. Nope.
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I'm seeing a huge increase in Palestinians correcting false 'updates' that go viral... just because someone starts a tweet with "BREAKING" doesn't mean it's legit. Please fact-check before amplifying. It's more crucial now than ever, there's so much false propaganda being spread.
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I would feel fuckin sick, just so ashamed w some of this stuff.
After the socks, I sorted through a box overflowing with small faux-leather bags that someone had acquired from *a lot* of first class flights.
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If you're thinking of donating something ever, ask yourself if you would be okay gifting that item, as-is, directly to a stranger. Would you be embarrassed? Then put that shit in textile recycling or throw it out. No one wants your trash.
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She laughed as if it was a joke, but it absolutely wasn't. He has never left Gaza in his life, let alone Palestine. He went to a whole different country to figure out what the hell is wrong with us that we are not stopping this.
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I try to avoid bringing this up out of respect, but my ex was a Palestinian lesbian and we were wholeheartedly embraced by her family, including those born in Palestine. They'll be okay. Social change requires basic needs of life to be met.
zionists love telling me that they’d definitely kill me in gaza for being bisexual. this is weird because no palestinian person has ever disparaged my sexuality once and also i do not think that differences in social norms justify murdering 20 thousand innocent people
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Your regular reminder to capitalize ‘Black’ and ‘Indigenous’ when talking about people 👍🏼
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The bags are nice and usable, and many of the items are usable, but then there's literally a bottle of perfume, "facial spray mist", "energizing fluid", and anti-aging marine collagen facial moisturizer??
Like pls understand you live in a different fucking world 🥴
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They take everything from us, even our thoughts. They ruin everything. They tarnish everything. Their violence is everywhere, colonizing our land, bodies, brains, blood. Past, present, and future. Our minds, bodies, and spirits are aching for freedom.
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That's only a small piece of how our thoughts are forced by the hand of colonization, as it is during every moment of every day. I wish we, as just one group of all colonized peoples worldwide, could exist in peace and freedom, in movement, in body, and in mind.
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For folks who don't understand the gravity of what's happening in Ottawa: I have friends sleeping in KN95s because idling cars and trucks have destroyed the air quality. Pollution is 13x higher than the average. Another way the anti-vaxxers are killing people.
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Let me tell you right fkin now, after the week I've had, it almost triggered a BPD episode going through these bags.
There were literally Hermès body lotions and conditioners that were from some hotel or airline. They go for $93 on eBay, each. This is someone's garbage.
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And all of these varieties exist because of Andean Indigenous peoples' agricultural ingenuity! Next time you eat an edible nightshade, thank Indigenous peoples 😌
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Thinking about this piece I made last month 😍 I gotta do more like this tbh it's so crispy
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Yo this is so interesting, I never thought about this... veganism is obviously (loudly) so white, and I considered the colonial and privilege/food security aspects, but I never considered the white saviorism aspect where they get to be the heroes bc animals don't speak. Damn
The gag is, this entire discourse started because I was asking about non dairy cheeses. You all have zero desire to actually move people towards veganism, just to use animals as a self insert for oppression and a moral high ground where the “victims” don’t actually speak.
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Like. Someone definitely threw these bags in the back of their walk-in closet and decided to do a philanthropic holiday cleaning to get rid of their garbage and make space.
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It's hard to get a perspective on the genocide of Indigenous peoples in north america. 90% of us were killed. 9 out of 10 of us were murdered. Think of 10 of your loved ones-- only one would have survived. Only one.
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And they didn't put any effort into making sure the bags were balanced at all. Some had dental kits from overnight flights, some had packs of cards, some had 3 chapsticks and no soap. And it was absolutely soul-killing to go through all the different items.
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The comments are frustrating bc everyone is "reminding" OP that c-PTSD exists. As an Indigenous person with a c-PTSD diagnosis, what they are saying is that these diagnoses are formulated from a *white, western* baseline. There is no pre- or post- when trauma is in our blood.
PTSD is a white, western, colonial concept that locates the source of trauma in the past and requires a “non-traumatic baseline” to compare to. What the Palestinians are experiencing is not PTSD. There is no comparable framework. The trauma is enduring.
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I personally do not comprehend how someone can feel okay doing this. In fact, they're probably proud of themselves. Me and a buddy were talking about it, and they said it's "shameful shit. But shameless somehow." And that is SO true.
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Not only are they indigenous to north america, they were also cultivated into the form we recognize today by Indigenous farmers and are one of the oldest cultivated crops in the world 🎃
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This isn't quite what happened— there were cheers and boos in equal measure and they wouldn't stop trying to drown each other out. He was sent out there to get her off the stage. He instead went out and said to her, "don't let the bastards get you down."
The time Kris Kristofferson consoled Sinead O'Connor after she was booed mercilessly for telling the truth in 1992.
It costs nothing to be a decent human being.
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Lawns are wastelands of biodiversity! Plant some (native) wildflowers! Or grow some veggies!!! Food sovereignty!!
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They are absolutely shameless in handing off their garbage to homeless people and the orgs that have to sort through their bullshit, but they should feel incredibly fuckin ashamed. What they do is SO shameful, and they do it all the time, especially this time of year. 🫠🔪
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Happy International Sex Workers' Rights Day ❤✊🏼
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"Do you condemn hamas" I condemn your mama and your daddy for raising an ignorant goof-ass nerd
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I got I think 5 pairs total, after soooo much de-pilling. (Added a pic of what I use btw, it's just from a Loblaws chain I think, and I also use a small pair of sharp, pointy-tipped craft scissors).
Anyways, it was not a good use of time.
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A revolutionary movement that centres community and Giving a Shit About Each Other embracing measures to keep each other safe while also keeping themselves safe (in more ways than one). You truly do love to see it.
Any fashion writers tryna cover the Zapatista's apparent switch from balaclavas and bandanas to covid-era cloth face masks?
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There was toothpaste from Greece, a pen from a fancy-ass Austrian hotel (oh yeah, they also threw a handful of pens in the bottom of the box that were from banks, airlines, and hotels?), and like I said, this fucking Hermès body wash and conditioner??
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Because I get asked like 400 times a day, here is the verdict on whether non-natives can buy my beadwork. No actual native people will sell anything publicly that can’t be bought by any person. We know what should be kept within our communities. Knock yourselves out!
In case anyone was wondering, I don’t list anything that can’t be worn by non-Natives😊 the only thing I ask is that if you buy solidarity medicine wheel beadwork, please do your research and orient it correctly when pinning/sewing on (white at the top for my people)✊🏼 mîkwêc!!
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This picture is a tale as old as time. Settlers, never ever let our people stand alone in our fight for justice, or you are just as much our enemy as these cops.
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has received less aid in a month than they used to get in A SINGLE DAY, now, when they need it most. People are starving. There are cholera outbreaks from no clean water. The few medical professionals that remain are using vinegar and sugar to treat grievous wounds.
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As you participate in marches for Gaza and Palestine today across the americas, remember that you, too, are on stolen and occupied land.
This reminder isn't to "make it about us", because it *is* about us. We are all Indigenous peoples. We are all the wretched of the earth.
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I have an idea about who you could've just asked instead of doing all this
"I think this is probably the biggest discovery about the peopling of America in a hundred years."
Human footprints in New Mexico are at least 23,000 years old, a study said, suggesting people may have arrived 10,000 years earlier than scientists thought.
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Was watching a documentary on whales, and I learned that orcas who have an elder to learn from have 5x better chances of survival. That hit hard as a colonized person.
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Every year these white people up the street grow white sage and every year I steal their white sage 😌🌸✨
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Can't.. stop.. making.. militant antifascist action flag pieces...
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Take care of each other. This is one of my largest pieces ever, and it carries a lot of my own personal story, from the quills I harvested and cleaned myself to the medicines represented, and the teachings that have shaped me. Strawberry, cone flower, cedar, and saskatoon berry.
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The Arctic is 2 thirds of kkkanada's coastline, and 55% of its landmass.
This colonial state relies on resource extraction for the majority of its economic "production", and puts massive efforts towards land theft and quashing Indigenous land and water protectors.
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I was raped a week ago. I spent Saturday in the hospital with an infection. They gave me IV pain medication and took tests. This is the 4th person to rape me in my lifetime. I was aged 14-16, 18, 22, now 27.
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White people: if you’re not a traitor to your race you’re not doing it right. Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity
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I got fuckin arrested today so please donate to our legal fund lmao
Arrests are taking place in Toronto
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
blockade, e-transfer funds for legal to risingtidetoronto
@gmail
.com, pw: solidarity
BUT DO NOT LET THE ARRESTS DISSUADE YOU!
COME TO THE BLOCKADE!
AND THEN CONTINUE TO TAKE ACTIONS!
#WetsuwetenStrong
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It's really annoying me that white people are (finally) saying "fascism is coming", "fascism is here"... like, Indigenous and Black people have BEEN saying this and BEEN telling you. 🙄😒
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In my experience, people overwhelmingly *do* respond even when there's a large crowd. The main exception being when the person in crisis is someone we are told does not matter by colonial capitalist white supremacist and ableist culture.
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Seen this around a lot and I know it was in reference to a specific situation, but I have to speak on it.
We as First Nations, Métis, and Inuit have faced increased visibility in recent years regarding our oppression and our fights for justice, especially recently.
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Other reporters knew the Times' reporting was grossly inaccurate but were too scared and/or powerless to challenge them. The Times admitted to it in 2016.
CW for sexual assault, violence, gendered violence on the clickthrough:
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If you misgender someone, apologize briefly, correct yourself, and do better next time. Do not then force them into the awkward and painful position of having to sit there while you process your guilt about how hard it is for you
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Today is the KKKanadian colonizer day, an especially harrowing day for Indigenous peoples affected by this settler occupation. Settlers, please consider supporting and/or donating to Indigenous folks today. Indigenous folks, please post your cash links and plug your art below:
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This is actually making me tear up as a former student organizer... it's like pulling hen's teeth to get faculty to show up for students, and the more secure their jobs, the less likely they've been to show up.
NYU faculty creating a ring around the Gaza solidarity encampment to protect their students after the school threatened mass arrest. So beautiful.
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My drop is tomorrow, Jan 30th, at 4pm EST, and all of this will be listed and more!! 🖤
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I need to bring attention to something re: Toronto Police.
2 out of 3 of the last recent arrest warrants against pro-Palestine activists include charges against masks/facial coverings, During a GLOBAL PANDEMIC. TPS is laying charges for wearing MASKS.
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Thinking about how I as an Indigenous person got arrested for sitting and beading at an anti-pipeline protest and was charged with Mischief over 5k and a charge under the railway safety act, yet these assholes literally get through 3 layers of fencing to the literal capitol. Hmm
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What we are witnessing is the consequences of rampant resource extraction as the basis for the economy of the 2nd largest country in the world (area-wise).
Kkkanada has been digging its own grave, as well as our collective graves, for over half a century.
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Some Haudenosaunee blue and white corn 🌽 a gift, not for sale
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I didn't expect this thread to get reach, but I'm so glad it is. If you want to contribute to the work our community aid collective does, hit up my link 💕 we don't give out trash lmao and we work in the community and provide what they actually need!
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This tweet is quoting a very graphic image of a victim of white phosphorous. I think its very important to share, and at the same time, click with awareness.
This is shocking. The pain much be so Excruciating, I cannot imagine 😦
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Kkkanada is a state in the global north that has always been expected to face disproportionate effects of climate change according to climate scientists. This is exactly what's happening right now, for the world to see.
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It's frustrating to me when people interpret "Land Back" as ONLY giving the land back. Land repatriation is literally just the starting point, the entire settler colonial system from the ground up, from lifeways to economics, must be overhauled. Land Back is just the start.
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