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
Occupy Wall Street Stirs Up Radical Ideas in Indian Country
December 13, 2011 - Unsettling America
To Occupy or Decolonize? That is the Question… Is there an Easy Answer?
December 8, 2011 - Unsettling America
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
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
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
The Occupy Movement and Native People
Open Letter by Charles Laster
October 10, 2011
Letter to Occupy Together Movement
By Harsha Walia
October 14, 2011
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
More on Decolonization and Resistance
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
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 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