We needn’t ignore reality and then accept indoctrination.

So while slavery was going on, this was also going on, but the USA doesn’t identify as a colonized nation.  Should we talk about this?

https://twitter.com/AmericanIndian8/status/1596622300887289856       –These are actual tiny child handcuffs used by the US government to restrain captured Native American children and drag them away from their families……..

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From Remaloeb  —  https://www.facebook.com/rema.loeb/posts/pfbid0TyvktZ8MvLuX5DGYx3dDkgLL2HGhFnMbgxezh8ShzEJaYc8n9C3X1foUkJc2tMEil

Humanity is harmed when we forget the reason for the Seasons

From popularresistance  —  https://popularresistance.org/why-im-thankful-for-500-years-of-indigenous-resistance-2/              –These Papal Bulls sanctioned European Christian Nations to “capture, vanquish, and subdue the saracens, pagans, and other enemies of Christ, to put them into perpetual slavery, and to take all their possessions and property” and were authorized “to take possession of any lands discovered that were not under the dominion of any Christian rulers.”

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https://madmimi.com/p/00cc151?pact=33738-170612887-12747276216-aafde045e05bd5b927a9ef7035df3961b152926e   —

Standing on holy ground

The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address

Stalking the elusive adder’s tongueThe brilliance of seedsElegant, wild, mysterious: loving iris

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The topic of colonization of North America is ignored while concern for the Russia-Ukraine War is substituted.  Howie Hawkins has chosen to address this issue.  A link from the ACLU follows that further explains the issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnxurwL34_Y                 —

#GreenSocialist Notes #100!!!!! (Since the end of the campaign)

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On the topic of the Ukraine-Russia War, some people believe NATO members including the USA intentionally badgered a dangerous situation by pretending innocence that NATO influence in Ukraine which is a border of Russia as Canada is with the USA, geographically speaking, has surprised NATO members by a response.  To refuse to acknowledge this, even in light of the Russia travesty against Ukraine, seems like another travesty.  In other words, this situation seems less nation against nation than world-wide oligarchy against local communities.

It seems evident that those injured are local community members.

https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/icwa-a-law-that-protects-native-families-is-at-risk —

“Keep Our Families Together”: A Law That Protects Native Families is at Risk

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From portside  —  https://portside.org/2022-11-26/rebellion-against-legalized-robbery?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email      —

Our Task? To Inspire the Rebellion Against the Legalized Robbery of People and Earth, Even if it is Too Late

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We can call it legalized robbery, or organized crime, or fascism.  When campaign donations buy politicians byway of Citizens United, who pass the laws under which the public is exploited, it surely isn’t a democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.

From popularresistance  ….as long as we’re talking about legalized robbery, organized crime, and fascism, all of which are propelled by propaganda, remember MSM  –https://popularresistance.org/media-serve-the-governors-not-the-governed/  —Media Serve The Governors, Not The Governed  —

“In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government.”

That’s what WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have been doing since 2006: censuring governments with governments’ own words pried from secrecy by WikiLeaks’ sources—whistleblowers. In other words, WikiLeaks has been doing the job the U.S. constitution intended the press to do.–end of popularresistance info–

From popularresistance  –https://mailchi.mp/popularresistance/5lzczv955p?e=1b0a9c0541           —

German Military Preparing For Potential War With Russia

Tanzanian Farmers Mobilize For Agroecology, Food Sovereignty And Pan-Africanism

Haiti: A Political Economy Perspective On The Urgent Crisis Of Imperialism

United Furniture Industries Fires All Employees Overnight

The Pentagon Fails Its Fifth Audit In A Row

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From MRonline  —  https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=2833cdb99b&u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7&id=3ce3216a12                 —

In Malay, orangutans means ‘people of the forest’, but those forests are disappearing: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)

German military preparing for potential war with Russia, leaked internal report reveals

“I was screaming and he was smiling”: DeSantis ran Guantanamo torture

Supreme Court orders reparations for sex workers serving U.S. Military

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****As one who would be perfectly contented to retain the Senate if they adhered to Oaths of Office more than to Citizens United campaign donations, one is interested in a topic raised as to the reason we maintain the US Senate—-

 This is a reminder of how much we don’t know.  This brings one around to Howie Hawkins, who continues to impress with original thought.  We also could acknowledge Hawkins often speaks to censored information.
One such topic about which one would never have even considered, is whether the USA needs The Senate.  Apparently The Senate is little other than expensive window dressing, promoting hierarchical interests, and too often placed in positions of power by big-money via Citizens United.  But the public gets to fund this curiosity of pompous supremacy.  Who knew?
The Democratic Branch of the Republican/Democratic Duopoly are especially functional in voter suppression—–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNbdkuU1edw          —#GreenSocialist Notes #76
Howie Hawkins brings up the concept of whether the USA needs the Senate.  Apparently according to some people, the Senate isn’t necessary.  This brings up the blockage from the Senate of many bills that would benefit We The People.  Combined with Citizens United that promotes big-money interest choice of Senators, in which laws are passed that benefit big-money interest rather than We The People, and that We The People support economically, the members of the Senate, this seems a good topic for discussion.
The US Constitution doesn’t seem to sanction elections run by political Parties, and to permit control of political debates by political Parties seems equally corrupt.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ7kn2-GEmM       —

Ross Perot in 1992 on NAFTA and the “Giant Sucking Sound”

Centralization is the lifeblood of the R&D duopoly.  It’s the way to enforce capitalism onto workers in 2022.———————–We can do better———-

That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.
    https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”

WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FROM FINAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE–end of lwv info–Murray Bookchin, who founded social ecology, a theory that strongly influenced early Green Socialist thought, strongly advocated the discussion and study group as the first step of any revolutionary movement. A group of individuals meets to expand their knowledge of radical thought and form a radical intellectual community; through the give and take of discussion, can eventually form ideas for next steps in organizing and political activity. According to Bookchin, study groups help create solidarity and a shared language — with a shared coherent vision — for building a mass, organizing, political movement!