Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

Colonialism,

tribal nation,

elimination,

all, form,

manifestation,

alien,

domination,

foreign, military,

occupation,

mob, settler,

violence

Columbus Day is the U.S. federal holiday commemorating explorer Christopher Columbus’ landing in the New World on October 12, 1492. It also celebrates the cultural heritage of Italian Americans, since many scholars believe Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy.

Columbus Day has been an annual holiday in the United States since 1937. Initially celebrated on October 12, it was moved to the second Monday in October to give workers a long holiday weekend.

Mindful remembrance,

hopeful enjoyment,

one day,

free, final,

self-determination

Some localities in the United States have decreed alternatives to Columbus Day to honor the original inhabitants of the islands where the explorer landed. In California, the cities of Berkeley, Sebastopol and Santa Cruz have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. South Dakota renamed the holiday Native American Day, and Alabama celebrates a combination Columbus Day and American Indian Heritage Day. Hawaii calls it Discovery Day to commemorate the arrival of Polynesian settlers. The Census Bureau estimates the population of Native Americans and Alaska Natives at 5 million.

Columbus made four trans-Atlantic voyages between 1492 and 1504 under the sponsorship of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. These voyages changed the map of the world. By opening up the Americas to European settlement — and exploitation — they also altered history.

A full suite,

human-being, rights

🔖 A Proclamation on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, 2024

The history of America’s Indigenous peoples is marked by perseverance, survival, and a deep commitment to and pride in their heritage, right to self-governance, and ways of life.  Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have built and sustained powerful Tribal Nations, cultivated rich cultures, and established vibrant communities.  And their discoveries and knowledge still benefit us today.

 On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we recognize that it is hard work to heal the wrongs of the past and to change course and move forward, but together, nothing is beyond our capacity.  May we take pride in the progress we have made to establish a new era of Tribal sovereignty and Indigenous self-determination — one grounded in dignity, respect, and friendship.

- Joseph R. Biden Jr.

So many,

unorgasmic,

organs..

The subsidiary organs of the General Assembly are divided into categories: Boards, Commissions, Committees, Councils and Panels, and Working Groups and others.

Reviewed today,

six main ‘Committees’

• First Committee (Disarmament & International Security)

• Second Committee (Economic & Financial)

• Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian & Cultural)

• Fourth Committee (Special Political & Decolonization)

• Fifth Committee (Administrative & Budgetary)

• Sixth Committee (Legal)

Each Member State may be represented by one person on each Main Committee - there are six in total - and on any other committee that may be established upon which all Member States have the right to be represented.

Listened fourth’s,

joint general debate,

‘decolonization items’

🎥 Fourth Committee, 7th meeting - General Assembly, 79th session | Special Political and Decolonization Committee

The Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) considers a broad range of issues covering a cluster of five decolonization-related agenda items, the effects of atomic radiation, questions relating to information, a comprehensive review of the question of peacekeeping operations as well as a review of special political missions, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Israeli Practices and settlement activities affecting the rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories, and International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.

🔖 In line with General Assembly resolution 66/246

Colonialism incarnate!

monsters and money,

mainstream project!

Zionist enterprise,

Palestinian peculiarity,

white saga, settlement!

declared, independent,

desire, more land,

and fewer Arabs..

When the United Nations was established in 1945, 750 million people - almost a third of the world's population then - lived in Territories that were non-self-governing, dependent on colonial Powers. 

Since then, more than 80 former colonies have gained their independence. Among them, all 11 Trust Territories have achieved self-determination through independence or free association with an independent State. Former Non-Self-Governing Territories ceased to be on the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories due to their change in status or as a result of their choice of independence, free association or integration with an independent State. Today, there are 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories remaining and fewer than 2 million people live in such Territories.

Former linear path,

➊ anti-colonial struggle

➋ independence

➌ new nation-state

world-ruling, childish man,

brutal conqueror,

foolish emperor,

audience arranged,

Europe's people,

principal achievement,

imperial presumption!

settler-colonial!

settled, Palestine!

Arab-chained prisoners,

slivers of territories,

entangled myths,

controlled,

circumvented,

public opinion,

global finances

Nazism founded,

ideology,

aura, legitimacy,

framed, vaguely,

illegal, Israeli,

settlements,

expropriated land,

physically-controlled,

separation wall,

stolen homes,

demolished villages,

second-class,

citizens,

institutionalized,

racism,

halt Palestinians,

stateless nation,

progressive path..

🎥 Karim Makdisi on Israel’s war on Lebanon and desire to remake the Middle East | The Listening Post

Al Jazeera English | Oct 13, 2024

As Lebanon falls under relentless fire from Israel, we spoke with Karim Makdisi about Israel’s psychological warfare and the desire among the political and media class to ‘remake the Middle East.’ Karim Makdisi is an Associate Professor of International Politics at the American University of Beirut and co-host of the Makdisi Street podcast.

Captive still,

pre-1948,

colonial hate

@mondoweiss

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

―Martin Luther King Jr.

@mohammed_alassar

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