Indigenous Solidarity and Outreach/resources
“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 the Occupy movement!
Articles, videos and resources related to #OWS
An Indigenous Platform Proposal for “Occupy Wall Street” Endorsed by Occupy Denver GA 10/8/11 Owe Aku International Justice Project http://www.oweakuinternational.org/Owe_Aku_IJP/Wall_Street_Proposal.html
Occupy Wall Street Stirs Up Radical Ideas in Indian Country December 13, 2011 - Unsettling America https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/occupy-wall-street-stirs-up-radical-ideas-in-indian-country/
To Occupy or Decolonize? That is the Question… Is there an Easy Answer? December 8, 2011 - Unsettling America https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/to-occupy-or-decolonize-that-is-the-question-is-there-an-easy-answer/
What is a colonized mind? Article by Peter d'Errico for Indian Country Today Media Network December 12, 2001 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ict_sbc/what-is-a-colonized-mind
Decolonize Oakland: Creating a More Radical Movement By Morning Star Gali on Occupy Oakland website December 3, 2011 http://www.occupyoakland.org/2011/12/decolonize-oakland/
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 http://poormagazine.org/node/4199
In solidarity, Occupy group joins with Native Americans November 25, 2011 - Boston Globe, article about National Day of Mourning http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/11/25/solidarity-occupy-group-joins-with-native-americans/uGgtpNbhAaYmKRNmLvnmTK/story.html?s_campaign=8315
Waziyatawin Speaks to Occupy Oakland [video] November 14, 2011 - Occupy Oakland http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=naY3VFdTKEc
Open Letter to The 'Occupy' Movement: The Decolonization Proposal [video] Video excerpts of the GA proposal to rename Occupy Oakland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_s3X0uW9Ec&feature=player_embedded
Decolonization: What it means to me in the context of Occupy Pensamientos de Luz November 28, 2011 http://luzcalvo.tumblr.com/post/13443334687/decolonization-what-it-means-to-me-in-the-context-of
Occupying solidarity with Indigenous rights By Krystalline Kraus October 28, 2011 http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/krystalline-kraus/2011/10/activist-communiqu%C3%A9-occupying-solidarity-indigenous-rights
(Un)Occupy Turtle Island October 19th - collection of articles on Unsettling America http://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/unoccupy-turtle-island/
An Open Letter to ‘Occupy Wall Street’: A Lenape Perspective From In Xinachtli, In Milpa 12 October 2011 http://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/an-open-letter-to-%E2%80%98occupy-wall-street%E2%80%99-a-lenape-perspective/
Decolonization and Occupy Wall Street Robert Desjarlait October 11, 2011 http://www.racialicious.com/2011/10/11/decolonization-and-occupy-wall-street/
The Occupy Movement and Native People October 10, 2011 - Open Letter by Charles Laster https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=267089106664784
Letter to Occupy Together Movement October 14, 2011 - By Harsha Walia http://rabble.ca/news/2011/10/acknowledgement-occupations-occupied-land-essential
OCCUPY WALL STREET: The Game of Colonialism and further nationalism to be decolonized from the “Left” By Jessica Yee September 30, 2011 http://www.racialicious.com/2011/09/30/occupy-wall-street-the-game-of-colonialism-and-further-nationalism-to-be-decolonized-from-the-left/
An Open Letter to the Occupy Wall Street Activists By JP Montano September 24, 2011 http://mzzainal-straten.blogspot.com/2011/09/open-letter-to-occupy-wall-street.html
Manna-hata (Info about the Lenape history of Manhattan) Tequila Sovereign October 2, 2011 http://tequilasovereign.blogspot.com/2011/10/manna-hata.html?spref=fb
Indian Country Today: Why I’m Occupying Wall Street John Bird Blackfeet October 11, 2011 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ict_sbc/why-i-am-occupying-wall-street
Indigenizing Occupy Wall Street Press TV October 12, 2011 http://presstv.com/detail/204127.html
Decolonization and Resistance Articles, videos and resources
Earth at Risk Conference (Deep Green Resistance) [audio recording] November 13, 2011 - Berkeley, CA Derrick Jensen Interviews: Arundhati Roy, Waziyatawin, Aric McBay, Thomas Linzey, Stephanie McMillan, Lierre Keith http://deepgreenresistance.org/earspeakeraudio/
Decolonization ‘zine by Zigzag & Keyway Long Hot Summer ‘99 http://unsettlingamerica.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/decolonization.pdf
Unsettling Ourselves: Reflections and Resources for Deconstructing Colonial Mentality September, 2009 - 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 http://unsettlingminnesota.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/um_sourcebook_jan10_revision.pdf
Unsettling Ourselves: Colonialism on the Ground by Waziyatawin http://blackmesais.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Colonialism-on-the-Ground.pdf
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.” https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism and Terrorism (Excerpt) Book (2008) by Jack Forbes http://www.scribd.com/doc/43900657/Columbus-and-Other-Cannibals-Jack-D-Forbes-EXCERPT
Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to save the planet [video] November 24, 2011 http://h4x0r3d.tumblr.com/post/13190448418/deep-green-resistance-strategy-to-save-the
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.
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. http://zinelibrary.info/how-did-colonialism-dispossess-comments-edge-empire
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance originally published in OH-TOH-KIN in 1992 http://zinelibrary.info/500-years-indigenous-resistance
A whole bunch of ‘zines !!! Quiver distro http://www.anti-politics.net/distro/
Native American Women, Past, Present and Future Jacqui Popick University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Alberta Canada http://www.lurj.org/article.php/vol1n1/running.xml