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Tag Archives: Indigenous peoples
Chronicle of Cali, capital of the resistance
For those who may not of heard … Protests in Colombia that began in late April over a proposed tax hike have morphed into a generational outcry over the country’s deep-rooted inequalities. Fifty-eight people have died in six weeks of unrest … Continue reading
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Tagged colombia, General Strike, Indigenous peoples, insurrection
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From sea to sea
Indigenous struggles in canada … “From Sea to Sea”: Train Blockades, Colonialism and the Canadian Railways History (Contrepoints: Les temps fous, 15/02/2020) Canadian National Railway network has been paralyzed for more than a week by blockades in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en … Continue reading
Scenes from the class struggle: Argentina
The popular defense of State controlled social welfare is not in itself anti-capitalist. However, the State driven privatisation of social welfare, if placed within the context of broader forms of violent accumulation (e.g., land and resource dispossession, the imposition of … Continue reading
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Tagged argentina, Indigenous peoples, State and Capital, State and terror
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Traditions of autonomy: Kabylia
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro speaks of the indigenous as those who are still “tied” to a land for their well-being, as peoples whose “economy” is still significantly “local”; or indeed, who have no “economy”, as a separate and and dominate … Continue reading
Financialization, precarity and reactionary authoritarianism: From Roarmag
(art by penny) What would a politics look like that promised not to end but to embrace precariousness, not as an inescapable economic “reality” (which is what our current system of financialized austerity pledges) but as a socio-ontological sine qua … Continue reading
The Chicago Conspiracy: A film memory of chile’s 9/11 and beyond
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Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: Landed natives against State and Capital
For me, indians are all of those large minorities who are, in some way, on the outside of this capitalist mega-machine, of consumption, of production, of 24 hour a day labour, seven days a week. These planetary indians teach us … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, brazil, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Indigenous peoples, revolution
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Standing with Standing Rock
“State security services in North Dakota have used tear gas and water hoses against hundreds of activists protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Protesters also reported being hit with rubber bullets and percussion grenades on a bridge just north of … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, ecology, Indigenous peoples, Okupations, rebellion
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The Drumming of Rebellion: Idle No More and Beyond
Native protesters in canada's Idle No More movement speak of responsabilities to mother earth, the spirit of the ancestors, the creator; a language which resonates poorly with a secular and atheistic left and is often celebrated hypocritically by this same left in … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indian Movement, canada, Idle No More, Indigenous peoples
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Crossing the borders of struggles: In solidarity, in memory, with the Mapuche and Santiago Maldonado
The enslavement to capitalism occurs in multiple spaces and times. If commodity production and the submission to money homogenises and deterritorialises, the reproduction of capitalist social relations distributes human populations across differential, hierarchical and conflicting geographies and histories.