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‘Renewables Not Pipelines

Defend the Sacred’

Posters by ABCNT

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Welp.

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sometimes I just get so unbelievably pissed off about the English language and the British empire because for fucks sake I want MY LANGUAGE BACK

I'm decently fluent in Irish, which is an incredible thing to have imo, but it's not my first language and never will be. I call it my native language, my mother tongue, but the fact of the matter is I think in English first and translate to Irish when I speak.

I love Irish so much, but when I learn new words I have to know the meaning in English first. It's so important to me, but I can't take back the centuries of oppression of my language no matter how much I speak it or how much I love it.

If the British hadn't colonised Ireland, I could've been speaking Irish from the cradle, surrounded by native Irish speakers, had it be my first language. Yes, we still have the Gaeltachtaí but even there, Irish is scattered and English is commonplace because we now live in a society where English is the language of daily life. Speaking Irish is still seen as unusual and try-hard, and there's a legacy of shame around our language.

Shame! For Irish! For the beautiful language our people created and spoke and loved for more than TWO THOUSAND YEARS and because of colonisation and the Famine and the imperial oppression of our beloved home, there is national shame for our language.

I don't even know where I'm going with this post, what I even mean, but I miss Irish even when I'm speaking it and I want back what I never had in the first place and Irish is truly a part of my soul and I hate that my grammar is better in English and for gods sake why couldn't they just leave us alone

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THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS

Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.

This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.

THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.

If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.

CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.

Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.

I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.

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What "Land Back" means:

In my tribe we believe medicine belongs to everyone and I want you to be well.

In my tribe we believe every hungry person is entitled to food and I want you to be fed.

In my tribe we believe trans and two spirit people are sacred and I want you to be safe.

In my tribe we believe that human beings are here to care for the land and keep it healthy and I want you to have clean water to drink.

In my tribe we believe in caring for and venerating elders and I want care for you as you grow old.

In my tribe we believe that children should be cared for by the community and I want your children to grow up loved and supported.

In my tribe we wear really cool earrings and you should totally buy some. Eeeeeeeee

Land Back isn't about revenge. It's an act of love.

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native queers I love you 2Spirit fags and dykes I love you indigenous genderqueer people I love you third gender people I love you māhū I love you ahhhhhhhh

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lusila̱ks - light a fire inside, or, raven the phoenix. my sticker design for pride month 🏳️‍🌈🔥

i've gotten lots of comments on my 2021 art of raven as a two-spirit interpretation, here; i've continued to reflect on it as new people keep talking to me about it. i've esp thought about it in relation to how important transformation is as a concept in tsimshian culture and oral history. reflecting on the famous adaawx of him stealing the sun, i imagined the sun giving off its rainbow of light and enveloping him, and likened that to a phoenix, which are also symbols of transformation. i'm very proud of this design!

i'll be honest, it's been a weird month in an already weird year. my gf and i had a really close call in our first ever car accident a week ago. we're miraculously unhurt, but we easily could've been, badly. this and other events just have me reeling, and are humbling me. i'm grateful and lucky to still be here. lusila̱ksu - i'm building my fire inside. even when it's so, so difficult

if you'd like to support me this month, it's available on my patreon until the 30th. luk'wil t'oyaxsut 'nüüsm da txa'nii goo (thank you all for everything), and safe and happy pride 🧡

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very heartbreaking news, but actor jonathan joss was confirmed dead today. he was killed in a shooting after an argument with his neighbor, and the neighbor is in custody now.

jonathan joss was most famous for playing ken hotate in parks & rec and voicing john redcorn in king of the hill. he was also a musician, part of a band the red corn band. he was born and raised in san antonio, and he was comanche and white mountain apache. he was 59 years old. i know he’s had some struggles over the years, especially this past year when a fire claimed his house and the lives of his two dogs. but that’s why i wanted to choose a picture of him smiling - he was a comedian, and he was beloved for being so talented and full of humor.

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the land that disney properties are on should be repossessed and returned to the proper indigenous peoples.

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The fact that Amerikans know more about Chernobyl than the Church Rock Uranium Spill is clear evidence of how ingrained anti communism and anti native racism is in Amerikan culture

The spill the country's "worst in terms of contamination" according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with over 100 million gallons of radioactive sludge and 100 pounds of solid waste spilled into Diné lands, communities and into the major water supply of the Rio Puerco. The US government even had the audacity of "testing" the area, and reported no increase in radiation, a clear lie that lead to the preventable deaths of many more Diné.

Yet we here not a word, few documentaries are made about it, Netflix does not make a dramatized historical fiction story about Church Rock, YouTube feeds are not filled with attention grabbing pop history/science videos on it, and no high school history class spends 1-3 classes on it. Yet the Diné are still dying from this spill, still suffering negative heath outcomes, birth defects and illnesses from this spill and all the other radioactive pollution caused by US mining on their lands, for which the Diné to this day have gotten no composition.

Why? because the perpetrator wasn't one of Amerika's foreign rivals and because the victims weren't white, but one of the prisoners kept by the Euro-Amerikan jailhouse. This isn't a crime of the evil Russian communists, but of the Euro-Amerikan occupation against its occupied victims, the Diné nation.

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call me a dirty communist radical but I think everyone should know if they live near toxic waste

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took me forever to get around to uploading everything but this is a folder with various pdfs i had access to thru the herbalist programs ive been in over the past few months, i havent read everything in it yet but i wanted to share it. if the link isnt working lmk and i will see what i can do about it

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actually here’s a bunch of aboriginal stuff for y’all to learn

don’t climb uluru (it’s sacred and incredibly disrespectful)

do NOT play the didgeridoo/yirdaki if you’re white/not aboriginal (ESPECIALLY if you’re a woman - women aren’t allowed to play the yirdaki in our culture due to the belief they will become sick/pregnant/infertile (it varies depending on nation)) the ONLY exception to this is if you’re invited in by the community

if you’re going to buy a boomerang, get one from the community and also know that not all boomerangs come back! and not all nations use them either! same goes for art/other cultural stuff

there are AT LEAST 250 nations with ~300 languages and ~700 dialects. don’t be ignorant and ask someone if they “speak aboriginal”

usually when we speak about our language/country, however, we just call them “language”/”country” (e.g. “i speak language”/”out on country”)

DON’T EVER ask “how much” or “what percentage” indigenous someone is - it’s incredibly offensive considering the australian government’s policy of kidnapping lightskinned indigenous kids from their families to “bring them up white” and “better the bloodline”. due to this + centuries of colonisation we can look like anything and we’re all STILL aboriginal. obviously there are still things such as white passing privilege but in an aboriginal context, there is a lot more nuance due to the stolen generations and extra sensitivity must be taken when discussing these topics

additionally aboriginal people are NOT the only indigenous australians, there are also the torres strait islanders who live in the torres strait islands in queensland. i’m not torres strait islander so i don’t have much to say here (feel free to add on if you are though)

in a lot of our cultures, we are not allowed to say the names of the dead or view photos/listen to recordings of them, as we believe it disturbs their spirit. if you come across content featuring a deceased aboriginal person, it is very appreciated if you warn us that they are deceased. people who are not indigenous don’t have to follow this tradition but it’s appreciated if you do

certain terms are seen as offensive by some, such as “aborigine”, so it’s best not to use them. we also have a series of regional terms such as koori/goori/murri/palawa/nyoongar etc.

contrary to popular belief, we weren’t all nomadic peoples - there’s fishtraps + evidence of agricultural and villages of thousands of people all over australia, as well as possibly the OLDEST astronomical observatory in the WORLD (wurdi youang)

don’t fucking appropriate the dreamtime (looking @ you white hippies/alternate lifestyles) - while we share some of these stories, a lot of these are exclusive and only for us and y’all are more than likely to bastardise the shit out of them. just don’t touch them.

anyway there’s a lot more i could add to this but this post is already really long so just send me questions/stuff if you want more thanks

and this always was, and always will be, aboriginal land

sovereignty never ceded

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Faten Elwan

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The crazy thing about intergenerational trauma is that, like. How do you explain to people who don't know what this is like that you have ptsd for something that didn't happen to you? And we have the science we know epigenetics is real and it's just hard coded into your dna. The body's keeping score from one to the next to the next. What happened to us is in my blood. This too is ghosts & it's going in my "grief as a form of haunting" compilation