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The irony of Occupy Oakland being captivated by “branding” isn’t lost on Morning Star Gali, a Native American activist from Oakland who’s helping lead the name change effort. The Occupy movement, in general, shuns the corporatization of society.
More to the point, Gali says that for many Native Americans, especially those who came up in the “Red Power” movement in the 1960s, the term “Occupy” has a lot of baggage.
Native Americans tribes were brutally “occupied” by Spanish and English colonizers. Later, the United States government waged war on the Native American tribes and forced them into camps or reservations. More than 90 percent of North America’s indigenous population was wiped out by “occupiers,” either through war or the spread of disease.
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And Bay Area Native American activists believe the occupation continues. In California, many Bay Area tribes are still struggling to gain federal recognition as sovereign nations. In the absence of a treaty, or compensation for their land, Native American activists in the Bay Area say they continue to live under outside rule.—Queena Kim, Truthout:
The Campaign to “Decolonize” Oakland: Native Americans Say “Occupy” Terminology Is Offensive
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"Strong movements that achieve greater victories are those that stand in solidarity with all oppressed people of the world and never gain access to rights at the expense of other oppressed groups."
-Raúl Alcaraz Ochoa, A Letter to the DREAM Movement
Sobre mí
i'm an earlham college student.
My majors are Spanish and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
I dig activism, community, art, feminism, anti-racism, decolonization, performance, border studies, and positive sexuality.
I like to eat (macaroni and) cheese, falafel, toad in a hole, veggie burgers, pasta, spinach, burritos, and pizza.
I’d like to be a bad-ass teacher one day all up in that radical pedagogy and education as the practice of liberation.
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