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23 Oct, 12 tweets, 4 min read
The colonial playbook.

1492 Landback Lane. Wet'suet'en. Mi'kmaki. Oka. Standing Rock. Africville. Abdirahman Abdi.

It's all connected. We begin with an update from @KarlDockstader and then continue our discussion with @robynbourgeois

soundcloud.com/patty-wbk/1492…
Decolonization is not a metaphor

jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/…
The Haldimand Tract

rabble.ca/toolkit/rabble…
Land Back, a Yellowhead Institute Red Paper:

redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org
The final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls:

mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
The Calls to Action from the TRC:

trc.ca/assets/pdf/Cal…
The Inquest following the murder of Andrew Loku:

mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca/english/Deathi…
Modernity and the Holocaust:

wiley.com/en-us/Modernit…
Enough to keep them alive:

jstor.org/stable/10.3138…
Property and Dispossession:

cambridge.org/core/books/pro…
And keep an eye on daanis.ca/blog/ for transcripts as I get them uploaded.
Transcript is up: daanis.ca/2020/10/25/149…

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25 Oct
I don't reject violence as a strategy.

I don't reject non violence as a strategy.

They are strategies. Not ideologies.
But I deeply resent, and reject, the demand that in order for our cause to be just we must be nonviolent.

Demand that the state be nonviolent.

Demand that they prove the justness of their cause by rejecting all forms of violence.

Demand that it be their ideology.
I also reject the premise that our violence either provokes or legitimizes their violence.

How many videos of police or nurses murdering us do you need?

Why doesn't their violence legitimize ours?
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So these signs are going up all over Caledonia warning people about Black Lives Matter coming in from Toronto and violence planned by Indigenous people. My oldest messages me to find out what's going on because a woman he knows is freaked out.
She's a settler in the area and her husband is staying home with guns to protect his house and my kid asks me what's going on. Nothing. Nothing is going on.

And all I can think, is what did we ever do to you?

In 150+ years of Canadian history what did we ever do to you?
Did we put you in residential schools?

Sell you as slaves?

Contain you to reservations?

Starve your communities?

Fill our jails with your sons and daughters?

Do we destroy your fishing boats? Burn down your warehouse?

What did we ever do to you?
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24 Oct
While it is true that stable housing, food security, and adequate mental health treatment would significantly reduce crime, that analysis misses out on the nature of criminology.

Criminology is social control.
We can have all the mental health treatment, housing, and food, but until we get a handle on white supremacy and the colonial project Black and Indigenous people will continue to fill jails and they will just find other ways to criminalize us.
Which is not to say that we shouldn't fight for these things. We absolutely should. They are necessary and important.

But they aren't the goal.

Abolition is the goal.
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22 Oct
The OPP are firing rubber bullets at 1492 Landback Lane

".. the name was changed to ‘rubber bullet’ to give a ‘slightly humorous image’ and persuade the media that they were ‘nothing more than harmless toys,’"

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The injunction has been made permanent, along with an injunction forbidding the blocking of roads in Haldimand County.

Skyler Williams' material was rejected by the judge with odd reasoning.

aptnnews.ca/national-news/…
Judge Harper says you can't disobey a court order and then expect the court to make an order.

Everything Skyler submitted has been rejected because he wasn't there. Because there's a warrant for his arrest, so if he goes he gets arrested.
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From Ojibwe Legends from Lac Seul, told by Christine Ningewance, written by Patricia Ningewance

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Which I already wrote.

To Kill a Mockingbird is racist garbage too

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