Waziyatawin Speaks to Occupy Oakland

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Education

Tags:

• occupy oakaland
• environment
• decolonize
• resistance
• green
• native
• indiginous
• indian
• american

[529dsk]

this woman's speech is powerful! she is eloquent and direct in her delivery. how many people can i forward it to??? :) and as i listen to her i am reminded of another speech by russell means, 'welcome to the reservation' as well as deskaheh's last speach. i hope more and more american indians will continue to speak up for change of language for this movement. DECOLONIZE! because 'occupy' = colonial occupation = genocide and the destruction of mother earth. shout it out! i stand with you!

[TomVeeTV]

@529dsk Thanks for your comment :)

[artofcoffins]

wow, thank you for posting, she is incredible.

[richie22147]

Thank you sister for your informative words. May the evolution of human perspective be blessed and expedient.

[ST0NEBEARS]

I am totally against changing the name. I would rather change the meaning of Occupy to those offended by it because it can mean many things, but decolonize only one. We have had 30 years of divide and conquer. I do not want to start changing this revolution from unifying to one of separation. I understand the point made, but we are on a global scale now. To only think of ourselves and our own history does not help unifying the 99% of the world in danger of being trivialized and disenfranchised.

[konnichiwa53]

@delipark Understood, and she does it with sheer racial Marxism, read her recent article "understanding colonizer status", rebuffing Europeans is her modus operendi, this attitude is not in my imagination. Anyone can understand and stand in solidarity with the native cause, though she takes it too far and imagines her race as something more exalted than others. If we could build bridges between cultures rather than making life more binary and divided we would better our world.

[delipark]

@konnichiwa53 Did she say anything about Native people being somehow more "wise" or is that just your imagination? She's not rebuffing Europeans, but a system of race and class domination which Europeans forcibly imposed. @6:06 she quotes Samir Amin (she misspoke and said Amir) to make the link between colonialism and capitalism. She didn't need Rousseau or Marx here, but since you mention it, many post-Marxists do take race seriously -- take Stuart Hall or Gill Hart for example.

[urborg74]

Narcissism and greed...until humanity overcomes them this garbage is never going to stop.

[konnichiwa53]

This has nothing to do with racism it has everything to do with class and the architecture of the system itself. Indigenous English were incredibly abused and oppressed by their governments. Indigenous people of North America were not the first affected, and their perspective should not be vaulted above others. It is almost like she imagines an all wise Native people who were pure and innocent, a victim of the theories of Rousseau and Marx, herself the product of European thought.

[TomVeeTV]

@SarahBEtv Thanks.