Dina Gilio-Whitaker November is Native American Heritage Month, when we as American Indian people get to have the mic for a little while. So, I’d like to take my turn at the virtual mic to talk about settler privilege, something you likely have never thought of, or have never even heard of. What you have…
Category: Decolonization
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
Indigenous Action The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the “issues” they work to address. These nonprofit capitalists advance their careers off the struggles they ostensibly support. They often work in the guise of “grassroots” or “community-based” and are not necessarily tied to any organization. They build organizational or…
Uprooting Colonialism and Dismantling Colonial Ways in the Afrikan Community
Veli Mbele The author offers a detailed analysis on how to decolonise African minds and to fight against neo-colonialism, not only in South Africa, but also across Africa. Introductory remarks Siyacamagusha Mafrika! In the spirit of our ancestors, whose names are unknown and bodies were violently snatched from Afrika and scattered of all over the…
Emancipatory Communication or Colonized Homelands
Statement of the 15th Meeting of the Network in Defense of Humanity: “Emancipatory Communication or Colonized Homelands” The Network of Intellectuals, Artists, and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity expresses its solidarity with the people and the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in these moments when the sponsors of the media war and…
Warrior Societies and Land Defence
Sakej Ward (Mi’kmaw) My name is Sakej. I am Mi’kmaw and a Sma’knis, a traditional Indigenous warrior of the Mi’kmaq Nation. I want to speak from the most ancient system of knowledge in the world, the Indigenous worldview. I will speak a few words about the secret societies known as warrior societies. Since time immemorial,…
Debunking Tor
Surveillance Valley German leftwing magazine konkret published an interview with me on the the dark origins of the Tor Project, Jacob Applebaum and the normalization of sexual abuse inside the privacy community, the rightwing origins of the cult of crypto, the corruption of Internet activism, and lots of other topics. I have to give it…
Sakej Ward: Decolonizing the Colonizer
Real Peoples Media In this speech, Sakej Ward talks about decolonization in relationship to the original people of the land you are living in. He argues that a central aspect of any process of change requires the correct identification of the terms we use to describe ourselves. Ward seeks to dispel the illusions and resulting…
Towards An Indigenous Egoism
Cante Waste (Good Heart) Introduction I am an Indigenous person of the Oglala Lakota nation. My ancestors are from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South Dakota. Before then, they were nomadic and traveled freely across the entire area known as the Great Plains. I am also an individualist anarchist and, for better or…
Molefi Asante and Samuel B. Tindifa: Decolonising Our Universities
Session Nine from the Multiversity International Conference on Decolonising Our Universities held in Penang, Malaysia, 27-29 June 2011 under the auspices of Universiti Sains Malaysia and Citizens International. The conference brought together scholars, activists, students and journalists from Asia, Africa, the Mideast and elsewhere to address the problem of Eurocentrism in the universities of the…
