Decolonization, citizenship, and identity: An overview of the relationship between the #UnitedStates and its territories
#USTerritories #BackInTheUSColony #PUERTORICO #Guam #AmericanSamoa #USVirginIslands #decolonization

Decolonization, citizenship, and identity: An overview of the relationship between the #UnitedStates and its territories
#USTerritories #BackInTheUSColony #PUERTORICO #Guam #AmericanSamoa #USVirginIslands #decolonization
Pedro Aires Oliveira wrote about the role of Basil Davidson's social activism in the liberation struggles in Lusophone Africa for a chapter of the book 'European Socialists Across Borders'.
Available in #OpenAccess: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/99221
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I Heard You Want Your Country Back (Bonus Track) from We Live Here (Deluxe)
by Bob Vylan
https://bobvylan.bandcamp.com/track/i-heard-you-want-your-country-back-bonus-track
They were dropped from #UnitedArtists agency, after Glastonbury. The same #TalentAgency that had quickly dropped Susan Sarandon, after she started speaking out strongly against genocide of Palestinians.
@sz_duras The violence of imperial centers is inseparable from the coloniality of power (#Quijano) : as long as force structures the world-system, any illusion of peaceful overcoming remains futile. To think post-politics (#Serres) is to aim for the real decolonization of the centers of world capitalism, its metropolises and its imaginaries.
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The real #critique should not focus only on #capital or the #state, but on the very matrix of #modernity / #coloniality itself, as #Escobar, #Lugones, #Mbembe, and #Mignolo argue. Only at this level can we hope for true #decolonization of #knowledge, #institutions, and #subjectivities.
Depois da RTP, também o @Publico convidou Pedro Aires Oliveira para fazer uma análise dos resultados da sondagem «50 Anos de Independências — A descolonização portuguesa e os seus legados», promovida pela comissão 50 Anos 25 Abril.
Podemos ouvi-lo no podcast P24:
https://www.publico.pt/2025/07/02/sociedade/noticia/feridas-abertas-descolonizacao-50-anos-2138621
Raquel Ribeiro foi entrevistada por Anabela Mota Ribeiro no programa "Os Filhos da Madrugada", da RTP 3, onde conversaram sobretudo sobre a descolonização portuguesa e como a vida e o trabalho de investigação da Raquel se cruzam nessa temática.
Para ver no RTP Play: https://www.rtp.pt/play/p15168/e860679/os-filhos-da-madrugada
No dia 20 de Julho, vamos assinalar o centenário do nascimento de #FrantzFanon com uma conversa que serve de mote para um ciclo que se realizará no início de 2026. Acolhe-nos a Casa do Comum do Bairro Alto e são nossos convidados/a Flávio Almada, Francisco Vidal, Vânia Sanhá.
ENTRADA LIVRE
Pedro Aires Oliveira esteve no 360º da RTP 3 para comentar os resultados da sondagem «50 Anos de Independências — A descolonização portuguesa e os seus legados», promovida no âmbito das comemorações do 50º aniversário da independência das colónias portuguesas em África.
Decolonizing surfing by learning Nuu-chah-nulth place names for surf breaks
https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2025-05-30/decolonizing-surfing-learning-nuu-chah-nulth-place-names-surf-breaks
Saying you support #decolonization but you really don't when you spend more time promoting & defending colonial government systems more than you promote & defend the peoples that current colonial governments abuse/oppress/target/repress. GTFO with your colonized #caucasity BS.
This other couple. They looked a bit more alty, some piercings, pink hair, but not too alty.
At one point the guy starts looking around the room. She pauses and she's like, What? He's like, "I'm looking for a bone." (I guess they have some bones around the house — like I said, alty.) Then he reaches under the camera and produces a wooden stick with some decorations. Turns out it's an African pipe. Unsure if it's for smoking or playing, but he tries to play it. As she starts the video again, he sort of just...... cradles it in his arms.
I'm serious y'all, Heilung is a mirror that just shows you all this stuff working in the deeply repressed collective unconscious of white people. These forbidden roots in us that are screaming to be heard, they just have no voice.
I'm serious you could do a whole study on "white people first time reacting to Heilung on YouTube" that would completely expose everything about how whiteness works... and use these lessons to find the secret antidote.
A couple of notable moments today.
Two incredibly stereotypical middle class liberal white women watched Krigsgaldr, and the first words out of her mouth was: "Can you imagine if they work in an office during the day? Like 'hey Helga, what are you doing after work?' 'Oh I'm in a band, want to come see us?'"
She went immediately to the most familiar thing she knew and how harshly it contrasted with what she saw on screen. She had no other symbols or language to describe what she experienced. (Whereas I'd at least had some Wicca and Celtic lore under my belt for my first watching.)
Notably also is how they talked about the ancestral music of the "people of Norway and Europe," and I'm like THEY'RE YOUR ANCESTRAL PEOPLE TOO!!! (I left a comment to that effect, with fewer caps.)
It's like white Americans, we just sprung from nothing. No sense of connection to anything prior to 1776. That's part of the myth of whiteness. Yet still they *felt* their connection, even if they couldn't own it yet.
One category I haven't searched for in all the reaction videos I've watched is "White Evangelicals React to Heilung."
I doubt I'd find any? But if I did...
No próximo mês, o IHC e o CEIS20 promovem uma grande conferência para assinalar os 50 anos das independências das colónias portuguesas em África. O programa está a ser ultimado, mas podemos já anunciar que a conferência vai ter lugar na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/50-anos-independencias-colonias/
@carapace The problem with this video is that it is not honest about the fact that the method of gardening used here, the indigenous African #zaï technique, was interrupted due to colonization and that a farmer from Burkina Faso, Yacouba Sawadogo, is responsible for its revival. White ppl cause problems and then position themselves as saviors in remediating those same problems. The propaganda is maddening. #UnitedNations #USAID #gardening #decolonization #permaculture
Just a little tip from a white American living on stolen land to other white people trying to decolonize:
Use your powers of commerce for good. Track down your local tribal businesses and shift your purchases over to them. (I know you have some – even living up north of Seattle I couldn't help but notice some, so I'm sure you'll find them if you actually go looking, and if not (say if you live on the side of the Mississippi where indigenous people were OUTLAWED), find some online.)
Money is power, so give some of your power to people who will use it for better things than Starbucks investors do.
#IDPol
#decolonize
#decolonization
#antifa #LandBack #rewilding #Solarpunk
Oh!! And the huge convenience store which was where we stopped on the way home after our emergency visit up here last fall while making the decision to escape mom to up here, the one where I posted (or intended to post) a pic of the Bear Spray Recycling Bin, is owned by the tribe! I will be shopping there on purpose now. It's closer to where I live than down in Bonner's Ferry proper. Maybe I'll make that my main gas station.
I remember it was a REALLY nice convenience store. Rather huge, lots of lunch type foods, like real sandwiches. I was super in trauma-brain, so I can't describe my fragmented memories well, but I remember being quite impressed.
"When we talk about black culture, it’s normal to use terms that seems monolithic. Even using the term 'black culture' is an example of that. The Afro-Punk movie was subtitled The Rock’n’roll N***** Experience. We are constantly tempted to talk about black experiences as The Black Experience. Making #ShotgunSeamstress has been a way for me to keep myself company as one of few black punks in the various scenes I’ve been in, and it’s also been a mode of psychic liberation — maybe even #decolonization — for me. Telling varied stories of varied black outsider experiences has proven to me the vastness of black self-expression."
This is the best interview I ever did, 10 years ago with fellow punk writer & musician Jes Skolnik. I feel like it's going to disappear from the internet soon (some pics are already missing), so I may cut & paste it into my blog.
I wish I could show you inside my head, the maps of cultures, societies, timelines, history, organizations, themes and metaphors, collective symbols, worldviews, human psychology, all of it intersecting across each other like multidimensional cells in a Petri dish.
I *can* put this stuff into words, like in this thread, but there's so much I just don't have energy to go into. Or, sometimes that particular view that I'm looking at it isn't quite yet formed.
Stuff enough useless knowledge in there for 50 years and some patterns do start to emerge.