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mix of political art, comics and rando-doodles

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Time to think outside the ballot box. 

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Settler colonialism is different from other forms of colonialism in that settlers come with the intention of making a new home on the land, a homemaking that insists on settler sovereignty over all things in their new domain. Thus, relying solely on postcolonial literatures or theories of coloniality that ignore settler colonialism will not help to envision the shape that decolonization must take in settler colonial contexts. Within settler colonialism, the most important concern is land/water/air/subterranean earth (land, for shorthand, in this article.) Land is what is most valuable, contested, required. This is both because the settlers make Indigenous land their new home and source of capital, and also because the disruption of Indigenous relationships to land represents a profound epistemic, ontological, cosmological violence. This violence is not temporally contained in the arrival of the settler but is reasserted each day of occupation. This is why Patrick Wolfe (1999) emphasizes that settler colonialism is a structure and not an event.

Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang, Decolonization is not a Metaphor (via decolonizefeminism)

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Teanau Tuiono, quote from “Fast Times at Anarchist High” in Imminent Rebellion no. 13. 

Portraits of colour (Fu Fighter Arts)

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From Portraits of Colour series.  

Portraits of radical indigenous/people of colour based in Aotearoa (”New Zealand”) across various social movements for revolutionary change because local voices are important too.

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There are a lot of well-meaning liberals who advocate for increasing the refugee quota by talking about how much they would contribute to the economy, or drawing attention to how many of them are doctors or engineers. It shouldn’t matter. Everyone deserves asylum and safety regardless of their class, occupation or labour value to capitalism.

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Challenging white supremacy in punk culture! 

You can read Sarsha's MA thesis "Outcasts and Orchestrators: Finding Indigeneity in Contemporary Aotearoa Punk Culture"

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Another from Portraits of Colour series. Ahi Wihongi from Gender Minorities Organisation Aotearoa http://genderminorities.com/

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You can follow Sina's blog: http://uriohau.blogspot.co.nz/

Quote from: https://tewhareporahou.wordpress.com/…/no-profit-in-prison…/

Te Wharepora Hou is a collective of wāhine Māori/indigenous women of Aotearoa (New Zealand). We are based mainly in the Auckland region but also have strong participation from wāhine living elsewhere in Aotearoa and the world.

Our collective strives to be a pro-active wahine voice on relevant issues and through any channels available to us. Our primary concern is the wellbeing of whānau, hapū, iwi and our planet. We reflect on our responsibility to protect Papatūānuku and to sustain our living systems.

We see ourselves as part of a global indigenous network particularly of women who are reasserting the place of women as leaders of change. We speak on a platform of indigenous solidarity worldwide.

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Nadia Abu-Shanab on "Why I Refuse to Talk about Child Poverty": http://twoarabgirls.tumblr.com/post/98999730890/why-i-refuse-to-talk-about-child-poverty 

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From Portraits of Colour series.  

Portraits of radical indigenous/people of colour based in Aotearoa (”New Zealand”) across various social movements for revolutionary change because local voices are important too. 

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White people appropriating indigenous struggles for xenophobia

We’ve seen it in Australia with “Reclaim Australia” rallies using the Aboriginal flag and now Pākehā leftists like Martyn Bradbury in Aotearoa are comparing Chinese people buying houses in Auckland to Māori experiences of colonisation. 

Dear Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury,

For Chinese people to do what Pākehā did to Māori in Aotearoa, we would have to impose a Chinese legal system and government, make a treaty in Chinese and English which has different meanings and then not honour either of them anyway by stealing and confiscating land, ban English and assault children who speak it at school, make practicing western biomedicine illegal, wipe out most of the population with SARS or something, and make sure criminal justice system disproportionately incarcerates Pākehā and that Pākehā have the lowest life expectancy and health outcomes. Just for kicks, any Pākehā seen as dissenting against Chinese rule will be chucked into prison under a law like Suppression of Rebellion or Terrorism Act. That's okay though because we would reserve four seats for you in parliament.

Looking forward to oppressing your people,

<Insert Chinese sounding name>

(On behalf of the Asian Invasion)

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In response to Phil Twyford’s comments.

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Ko te manu e kai ana i te miro,nōna te ngahere

Ko te manu e kai ana i te mātauranga, nōna te ao

The bird that partakes of the miro berry their domain is the forest

The bird that partakes of knowledge their domain is the world

“I later realised that the English-speaking White settler colonies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA routinely practice a collective national amnesia about the establishment of the State with the resulting dispossession and near genocide of Indigenous Peoples. Realising that shit can really politicise an 18-year-old.“

From “Fast Times at Anarchist High” by Comrade Tuiono: https://www.rebelpress.org.nz/files/imminentrebellion13.pdf

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Smug lyfe

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