Retweeting again, because this morning has been nothing but facts🔥
Why the occupation in Haiti isn’t talked about as such, even though Haiti’s occupation is co-signed by “international community” + Western states who use Haiti to launch off other imperialist aggression in the region:
“Because Haiti is Haiti. Because Haiti is Black” and to acknowledge this would be to talk about white supremacy, occupation, etc — Jemima Pierre
How empire uses anti-blackness + turns it on its head in its favour —: we see this as it condones anti-Black violence in Colombia, trumps sovereignty in Haitian, and intends to use this language against Cuba

We ignore racial analysis at our own peril — Jemima Pierre
Nothing above is 100% verbatim, I was listening and then trying to tweet back from memory

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29 Aug
In reading about post-disaster-reconstruction in Haiti, I did consult this book on New Orleans which also experiences same outsourcing + privatisation dynamics post a disaster event (like a hurricane). Sharing given #HurricaneIda — where same dynamics will come into play
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29 Aug
What should I watch this tonight /this weekend on Netflix
*also to add, “Lupin”
Watching the Witcher tonight, was my first choice and seems to have been a good first choice acc Twitter poll + IG poll 😁👍🏾
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28 Aug
Anyway, Canada was the first to have boots on the ground during the 2004 coup in Haiti —making way for US troops to get into the country “safely.”This was always known, but more info came out about it this year.

sorry “Canada good” libs + leftists: breachmedia.ca/new-documents-…
“on February 29, 2004, Canadian special forces secured Haiti’s airport while Aristide was flown out of the country on a U.S. plane. Soon after, Canadian RCMP officers were training and vetting the newly reconstituted Haitian National Police.”
Side Note: Canada frequently “trains” police forces in the Caribbean. And in the 1970s and 1980s, Canadian training of violent state forces in the region was very extensive, given the “threat” of Black Power Movements 🙃
Read 9 tweets
28 Aug
People trying to assert China as a colonising / imperialist force in Africa + Caribbean keep using this (“infrastructure doesn’t mean imperialism isn’t happening”) as a retort to people pointing out their misunderstanding of imperialism + colonialism reads as empire apologia 🤢
Under direct colonial rule, empires “infrastructure” were only done for the purposes of extraction from the colony + ease of military control in the country (sole purpose: extraction + control). In too many instances, this meant that the “infrastructure” built was not useful
for ppl suffering + living under colonialism & later on imperial overreaches. This isn’t including the fact that afterwards, it was largely inaccessible & if good infrastructure was left by European empires, “development” + lack of access post “independence” wouldn’t be issues
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28 Aug
People saying “yes,” China is “colonizing” or “imperialising” Africa really just don’t know what imperialism or colonialism means. But, they’re super confident inserting themselves in these convos making loud + wrong (can’t be substantiated) proclamations about their *beliefs*
So that in large part, explains much of the back be forth, and also why people are putting China on equal footing with countries that have actually pillaged + directed state policy in African countries for centuries + continue to sanction said countries if orthodoxy is bucked
coming to that realisation is sad — since you would assume people talking about imperialism or colonialism actually knows what it is — but then again, it also explains why actual research will never be sufficient to some people that have been victims of western propaganda,
Read 6 tweets
28 Aug
Highlighting Canada’s activities in global south to inform “Canada nice” liberals + leftists: “Foreign companies from a range of countries compete in Africa's mining sector. But according to a number of measures, those from one country dominate: Canada.”

allafrica.com/stories/201304…
“Kneen explains that while countries such as the US have passed domestic laws that govern corporations' activities abroad, Canada has not done the same. The current Conservative government has actually voted down several attempts to increase accountability abroad.”
Canadian banks also benefit from lack of regulation abroad— and that fact occupied a big part of my dissertation analysis. One of the most cynical things about Canadian financial practices is that when they screw over Canadians in Canada, they face some regulation— BUT
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