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daanis @daanis.ca · 3h

I'm not opposed to them in general, they can be a great place to start and find a group to plug in with but they are also the illusion of work and don't change much because they don't threaten the system in any capacity.

daanis @daanis.ca · 3h

You're wacky because he already explained why these permitted marches don't actually change anything. I know we've just met and you probably aren't taking homework assignments, but expecting 1:1 tutoring is a little brash imho.

Google "liberalism" and re-read the thread. lmk how you make out.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 5h

Which isn't to say that people shouldn't participate, these kinds of marches can be valuable for building relationships and getting connected, finding a place to plug in. But they are not the work itself, on their own these marches do little but trick people into thinking the've done something

daanis @daanis.ca · 5h

we had a George Floyd solidarity march years ago. the organizer INVITED the cops who then knelt with the protesters for 8 minutes and I cannot take any of these people seriously because you know that once T is out of office they'll go back to brunch.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 5h

The op posted a link to a truthout article. You could start there and then read more things by truthout. Listen to the Movement Memos podcast. It isn't about creating a large scale protest movement. It's about building a movement. And there is lots of that going on.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 11h

A meaningful ceasefire is the floor. It is the beginning. Rebuilding and an end to the occupation is ongoing. #FreePalestine

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daanis @daanis.ca · 12h

Yeah. Patrick Wyman has a great series within his podcast Tides of History that looks at archaic humans and how much of them is still part of us in all kinds of ways.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13h

honestly I keep being surprised that it still exists.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13h

oh miigwech!

Becoming Kin was def written with a largely white audience in mind. For BIBC I followed Toni Morrison and wrote for Indigenous people. But I know that everybody will get something out of it. We survive together or not at all. 🔥✊

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JT Spartz @jtspartz.bsky.social · 1d

Just received my copy of BIBC, the new @daanis.ca -- first few pages and I already know it is going to be excellent. Becoming Kin was also great; highly recommend, even for (or especially for?) non-Native folks. #RequiredReading #nonfiction #books #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 5d

Patty Krawec will be there on Monday, November 17 for a talk on her incredible new book, Bad Indians Book Club!

attend.bpl.on.ca/event/14676798

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13h

haha, I once went to the petrified forest and freaked myself out thinking about the amount of time those trees laid there all by themselves slowly turning to stone. But yeah, reading Paulette Steeves' work and talking with her on M4R was mind blowing.

glad you're enjoying the book!

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13h

It is a lot to sit with, but it also provides some important context when we think about the societies that develop in the places where they are. And the length of time that we in the so-called Americas were somewhat isolated from everything going on in the rest of the world.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13h

I'm not opposed to later migrations coming from wherever they came from, joining w peoples who were already here which is what migration is. We move and connect and break apart. We are not a single river with creeks merging in. We are massive river systems branching and joining and branching again.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13h

So I appreciate the OP's reaction to thinking about human presence going back over a hundred thousand years and how very long ago that was. I am fascinated by archaic humans and the development of language and society. These long passed relatives are still part of us.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13h

I once went to the petrified forest in Arizona, and thinking about how long those trees laid there all alone with nobody picking them up for firewood, no bugs eating them, nothing at all, just turning to stone all by themselves. It freaked me out and we had to leave.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13h

Except the evidence, consistently derided when initially presented, continues to demonstrate that we've been here longer than they originally thought because it would suit the colonizers to imagine us as recent immigrants ourselves rather than whole people with ancient roots in this place.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13h

It is pretty mind blowing to think about that amount of time. We're a little more used to thinking about ancient cave paintings in France, but human presence here in the so-called Americas? That's got to be more recent right?

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daanis @daanis.ca · 13h

Cree Metis anthropologist Dr. Paulette Steeves writes that the evidence is often not found because it is not looked for, & she argues for Indigenous presence here on these lands going back a very long time.

We had our own neolithic revolutions. 2, possible 3 of them.

bookshop.org/a/84905/9781...

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daanis @daanis.ca · 14h

N'dadibaajim. I tell a story. Memoir is where we lift history in our own hands and tell the truths of our lives. This conversation is as much about the memoirs we are writing as those we have read. How do you reflect on a life still in motion?

www.thousandworlds.ca/ndadibaajim/

N’dadibaajim

I wrote Bad Indians Book Club with flash fiction at the beginning of each chapter, short stories about Deer Woman that I just made up. They are true to what I know of her story from other Ojibwe peopl...

www.thousandworlds.ca

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Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 5d

Patty Krawec will be there on Monday, November 17 for a talk on her incredible new book, Bad Indians Book Club!

attend.bpl.on.ca/event/14676798

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daanis @daanis.ca · 2d

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 4d

For anyone trying to figure out where to start when it comes to getting involved with organizing and activism, this zine is a helpful tool! It aims to be, as our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social writes, "the beginning of a bridge between information and action."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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