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[ Back to the Decolonize to Liberate main Working Group page] "“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.” - Frantz Fanon, philospher"  "“[We have to] rediscover our most intimate selves and rid ourselves of mental attitudes and complexes and habits that colonization … trapped us in for centuries.” - Patrice Lumumba, the first indigenous leader of the Republic of the Congo, called for mental decolonization in his speech to the 1960 Pan-African Congress." = Decolonize to Liberate, Resource Page = '' The following articles, websites and other resources have been gathered by member of the Decolonize to Liberate Working Group and our friends and allies on the internet. The statements made in the resources contained herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions of anyone in the Decolonize to Liberate Working Group or the broader Occupy Boston movement. They are provided for educational and discussion pursposes. If you come across any other resources you'd like to share with the group, or find a bad link below, please email it to decolonizeboston[at]gmail.com ''         (You can follow this link back to Decolonize to Liberate Working Group page)

News, updates and action alerts
 Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory and Practice    Intercontinental Cry(IC)     Indian Country Today Media Network     Cultural Survival     Indigenous Environmental Network     Rainforest Action Network 

Recommended reading
 The Ally's Toolkit: A website dedicated to empowering Allies   allystoolkit.tumblr.com/      Decolonizing together    Moving beyond a politics of solidarity toward a practice of decolonization  by Harsha Walia   Jan 1, 2012         What is a colonized mind?   Article by Peter d'Errico for Indian Country Today Media Network'  December 12, 2001        Occupy Boston Declares Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples    OB Media October 10, 2011       Letter to Occupy Together Movement    By Harsha Walia   October 14, 2011       An Open Letter to the Occupy Wall Street Activists   By JP Montano   September 24, 2011         The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity    Paul Levy, via Reality Sandwich         The Doctrine of Discovery and U.S. Expansion     Lewis and Clark: The Unheard Voices ©2005 Anti-Defamation League 

Reading Lists
 The Turtle Island 42 Initiative Reading List 

"Required Reading - literary support to help us remember the indigenous human legacy we've simply forgotten..."

Selected resources from the anthology: The (Un)Occupy Movement: Autonomy of Consciousness, Practical Solutions, Human Equality  ~ prose & poetry

- compiled and edited by Mankh (Walter E. Harris III)

Recommended viewing and listening
 Occupy Talks: Indigenous Perspectives on the Occupy Movement [video  ]  Ancestral Continuum with Ukumbwa - "Decolonization" [radio/podcast ] 

 "Un-Settling Occupation" OWS Stands With Indigenous Americans [radio/podcast]  First Voices Indigenous Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse - "Occupy" [podcast]    December 29, 2011         Waziyatawin Speaks to Occupy Oakland [video]  November 14, 2011 - Occupy Oakland

 Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond, Radio show with Dr. J. Kauanui [podcasts ]

 

Articles, videos and resources related to the Occupy Movement
 Paradigm Shifts: The End Goal Is Not to Occupy   '''by Mankh (Walter E. Harris III). Axis of Logic   April 26, 2012        [http://www.pulppoetry.com/occupy-wall-street-or-decolonize-wall-street/ '' Occupy Wall Street or Decolonize Wall Street? ]   by Eric Zimmerman    Jan 10, 2012         Decolonizing together      Moving beyond a politics of solidarity toward a practice of decolonization    by Harsha Walia     Jan 1, 2012           An Indigenous Platform Proposal for “Occupy Wall Street”     Endorsed by Occupy Denver GA 10/8/11 Owe Aku International Justice Project             Occupy Wall Street Stirs Up Radical Ideas in Indian Country     December 13, 2011 - Unsettling America             [https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/to-occupy-or-decolonize-that-is-the-question-is-there-an-easy-answer/ To Occupy or Decolonize? That is the Question… Is there an Easy Answer?]    December 8, 2011 - Unsettling America        What is a colonized mind?     Article by Peter d'Errico for Indian Country Today Media Network    December 12, 2001        Decolonize Oakland: Creating a More Radical Movement     By Morning Star Gali on Occupy Oakland website December 3, 2011             [http://poormagazine.org/node/4199 You Say OCCUPY, I Say UMMM... your occupation is nothing new, you’ve been occupying since 1492.]    spoken word piece by Jen Emm December 6, 2011        In solidarity, Occupy group joins with Native Americans     November 25, 2011  Boston Globe, article about National Day of Mourning             Waziyatawin Speaks to Occupy Oakland [video]     November 14, 2011 - Occupy Oakland             Open Letter to The 'Occupy' Movement: The Decolonization Proposal [video]     Video excerpts of the GA proposal to rename Occupy Oakland        Decolonization: What it means to me in the context of Occupy     Pensamientos de Luz    November 28, 2011             Occupying solidarity with Indigenous rights     By Krystalline Kraus    October 28, 2011             (Un)Occupy Turtle Island     October 19th - collection of articles on Unsettling America        An Open Letter to ‘Occupy Wall Street’: A Lenape Perspective     From In Xinachtli, In Milpa    12 October 2011             Decolonization and Occupy Wall Street     Robert Desjarlait    October 11, 2011          Letter to Occupy Together Movement     By Harsha Walia    October 14, 2011        OCCUPY WALL STREET: The Game of Colonialism and further nationalism to be decolonized from the “Left”     By Jessica Yee    September 30, 2011        An Open Letter to the Occupy Wall Street Activists     By JP Montano    September 24, 2011        Manna-hata (Info about the Lenape history of Manhattan)     Tequila Sovereign    October 2, 2011             Indian Country Today: Why I’m Occupying Wall Street     John Bird Blackfeet   October 11, 2011              Indigenizing Occupy Wall Street     Press TV   October 12, 2011' [The Occupy Movement and Native People] by Charles A Laster on Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 9:02pm

On the Doctrine of Discovery
Five Hundred Years of Injustice: The Legacy of Fifteenth Century Religious Prejudice Origins of the Doctrine of Discovery Essay by Steve Newcomb   '' When Christopher Columbus first set foot on the white sands of Guanahani island, he performed a ceremony to "take possession" of the land for the king and queen of Spain, acting under the international laws of Western Christendom. Although the story of Columbus' "discovery" has taken on mythological proportions in most of the Western world, few people are aware that his act of "possession" was based on a religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Discovery. Even fewer people realize that today - five centuries later - the United States government still uses this archaic Judeo-Christian doctrine to deny the rights of Native American Indians. ''

More on Decolonization and Resistance
 Two cultures, six 'killer apps,' one divide     by David McLaren    January 28, 2012                Confronting the Past on the Anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee: Why It Matters  Peter D'Errico By Peter d'Errico    December 29, 2011'               Earth at Risk Conference (Deep Green Resistance) [audio recording]     Derrick Jensen Interviews: Arundhati Roy, Waziyatawin, Aric McBay, Thomas Linzey, Stephanie McMillan, Lierre Keith    November 13, 2011 - Berkeley, CA        Decolonization ‘zine     by Zigzag & Keyway Long Hot Summer ‘99             Unsettling Ourselves: Reflections and Resources for Deconstructing Colonial Mentality     Foreword by Derrick Jensen, texts and guides from: Andrea Smith, Waziyatawin, Dee Brown, Ward Churchill, Elizabeth Martinez, Denise Breton, UM collective members, and others - a sourcebook compiled by the Unsettling Minnesota collective edited by and with contributions from the collective members    September, 2009           Unsettling Ourselves: Colonialism on the Ground     by Waziyatawin             Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory and Practice     Unsettling America is an emerging decentralized network of autonomous groups and individuals dedicated to mental and territorial decolonization throughout Turtle Island and the “Americas.”             Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism and Terrorism (Excerpt)     Book (2008) by Jack Forbes             Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to save the planet [video]     November 24, 2011       [http://zinelibrary.info/how-did-colonialism-dispossess-comments-edge-empire How Did Colonialism Dispossess? Comments from an Edge of Empire]    By Cole Harris, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia    An article that shows how the state, at the behest of capitalism and settlers, provided the framework for settler colonialism and the murderous state-capitalism alliance that rules our lives.             500 Years of Indigenous Resistance     originally published in OH-TOH-KIN in 1992        Native American Women, Past, Present and Future     Jacqui Popick University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Alberta Canada        Anarcha-Indigenism     Richard J.F. Day         A whole bunch of ‘zines !!!    Quiver distro                   '

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 Indians shut out of the courts of the colonizers    Carrie Garrow    November 17, 2011             Historical Development of Institutional Racism     A Working Paper by Robette Ann Dias    25 May 2006 

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