They stole the land. They bombed the beaches. They poisoned the water. But the people of #Vieques fought back—and they won.

For 60 years, the U.S. Navy used Vieques as a war playground, displacing families and turning paradise into a toxic wasteland. The people resisted with blockades, occupations, and mass disobedience—until they forced the empire to back down.

But colonialism doesn’t end when the soldiers leave. The land is still fenced off, contaminated, stolen. Sound familiar? #Gaza. Kanien’kehá:ka lands. Different places, same colonial script.

They want us to accept displacement as normal. We never will.

Read the full story + watch my short film: https://amplifierfilms.ca/vieques-colonialism-resistance-and-the-fight-for-liberation

I am a white, male, cis, straight-appearing person of German background.

And if you come for "them", whoever you decide is "them",

you'll have to come through me.

Hell, I even had a period of pre-Christian Pagan belief. Runes, all that shit.

You Nazi fucks, I am YOU, without the hate. To get to *them*, you come through *me*. Game on.

#TransLivesMatter #LGBTQIA #BlackLivesMatter #EveryChildMatters #LandBack #FuckFascists

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Mapuche community evicted in Bariloche, Argentina, to favor a forestry entrepreneur.

Last December 10, Javier Milei repealed the Indigenous Territorial Emergency Law, thus giving a free hand to the evictions of native communities and paving the way for the banishment, especially of the Mapuche people and especially in Patagonia.
#Indigenous #Mapuche #Argentina #Patagonia #LandBack
https://lavaca.org/notas/continua-el-destierro-mapuche-desalojan-a-otra-comunidad-para-favorecer-a-un-empresario-forestal/

I am a white, male, cis, straight-appearing person of German background.

And if you come for "them", whoever you decide is "them",

you'll have to come through me.

Hell, I even had a period of pre-Christian Pagan belief. Runes, all that shit.

You Nazi fucks, I am YOU, without the hate. To get to *them*, you come through *me*. Game on.

#TransLivesMatter #LGBTQIA #BlackLivesMatter #EveryChildMatters #LandBack #FuckFascists

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To everyone who's ever looked askance at my land acknowledgment:

❝
Mississaugas of the Credit filed the claim in 2019, alleging that Canada failed to protect it''s interests in 1820 when the First Nation surrendered 10,940 acres of its reserve land covered by Treaties 22 and 23.

The claim alleges that the land, which spans across modern day Mississauga and Oakville, was surrendered with the expectation that the government maintain it for the First Nation's benefit — which didn't happen. Instead, it was sold.
❞

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/treaty-claim-advance-payment-1.7472739

As a Native Hawaiian, I see in Trump's video is revealing the US empire's true goal in Gaza: build a giant tacky resort for millionaires on stolen #indigenous land, that doubles as military base. As the US has done in Hawaii, after banning our language and illegally occupying since 1898 #landback

Its #Throwback #Thursday Playing Mostly 80s 90s on this bitterly cold day. Come keep warm and smoke some Medicine let your worries float away. #Twitch #streamer #music #variety #Cannabis 420 friendly
https://www.twitch.tv/thestonedspider
#landback
#Native
#NativeMastodon
#NativeTwitter
#Indigenous
#IndigenousPeople
#IndigenousMastodon
#IndigenousTwitter
#FirstNations

Please don't say "our Indigenous people" or "Canada's Indigenous people." This is gross. We don't belong to you.

Jean L’Hommecourt Wants You to Know What the Oil Sands Are Doing to Her People and Their Land
Jean L'Hommecourt is a Dene member of Treaty No. 8. And she has a lot to say about the #oilsands and local pollution. #abpoli #landback https://albertabeyondfossilfuels.ca/jean-lhommecourt-and-the-oil-sands/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Fundraiser for #KleeBenally [updated February 2025]:

- Donations for #HaulNo!

"Klee was deeply involved in Haul No! to stimulate actions of #resistance against #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain / #CanyonMine #UraniumMine, Energy Fuels’ #WhiteMesaMill, and related transport."

https://haulno.com/donate/

#IndigenousResistance #MutualAid
#LandBack #RestInPowerKleeBenally
#IndigenousAction #Fundraisers #UraniumMining #NuclearColonialism #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #Dine

"Red Road to the West Bank" was born out of conversations about a larger project when Clifton revealed he had archival footage from his 2016 trip to the West Bank. What started as a reflection on shared experiences under settler colonialism quickly became something bigger—a documentary that explores the ongoing nature of colonization and the power of solidarity.

Read more about how this project came to life & support the film:
amplifierfilms.ca/clifton-and-i-are-making-a-film-a-red-road-to-the-west-bank

Thank you! Over 10% funded in the first 12 hours!
We’re blown away by the support we’ve received since launching A Red Road to the West Bank—in just 12 hours, we’ve already passed 10% of our fundraising goal!
This project means so much to us, and seeing this momentum right out of the gate gives us hope that we can bring this story to life. Huge gratitude to everyone who has donated, shared, and spread the word—this is just the beginning, and we couldn’t do it without you.
Let’s keep it going! If you haven’t yet, please share the campaign and help us push even further.
Support the film: amplifierfilms.ca/redroad
#ARedRoadToTheWestBank #IndigenousSolidarity #FreePalestine #Decolonize #LandBack #Mohawk #Kanienkehaka #Resistance #SupportIndieFilm

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Clifton & I Are Making a Film – A Red Road to the West Bank

Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas and I have been friends for a long time. We’ve worked on films together before, but this is the first time that we’re truly co-directing a project—both of us taking the wheel. And it all started with a conversation about a much bigger film we want to make.

For a while now, Clifton and I have been talking about a documentary with the working title You Live on Stolen Land, exploring our shared experiences with colonialism—as a Kanien’kehá:ka from Kanehsatà:ke and as a Boricua from occupied Borikén. But in one of those conversations, Clifton casually dropped that he had all this footage from his trip to the West Bank in 2016. I was like, dude, what the fuck are we doing? We HAVE to do something with that footage.

So we started digging in, watching the tapes, talking through ideas, and what emerged was a powerful story—one that draws connections between the struggles of Indigenous peoples in Turtle Island and the Palestinian experience under the colonial state of Israel. Obviously, the histories and conditions are different—the colonization of the Americas started centuries ago and is in a different phase—but the core reality remains: colonization is ongoing.

That’s the main point we’re trying to make with this film.

And we don’t want to just make a film—we want to build relationships. We want to bring people from Palestine to visit Turtle Island, we want to do more interviews, we want to expand this story. But to do that, we need resources.

One of the biggest lessons I learned from working on Yintah was that if you want a film to reach a lot of people, you need to invest in the early stages. The development materials, the research, the pitch decks, the editing—all of it matters when knocking on doors to secure funding for a truly high-quality film. With Yintah, that process helped us get wide distribution, and I know we can do the same here.

So today, Clifton and I are launching our fundraising campaign to kickstart this project. This is just the first step, but it’s a crucial one.

Support the film & help us tell this story: amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

If this resonates with you, please donate, share, and help us get the word out. Let’s make this happen.

EVENT: Help Launch A Red Road to the West Bank!

Date: Saturday, 10 AM Eastern
Online – Wherever You Are!

Friends, we need your help to launch A Red Road to the West Bank—a powerful new documentary connecting Indigenous resistance in Kanehsatà:ke and Palestine.

On Saturday at 10 AM Eastern, we’re dropping the fundraising campaign, and we’re asking everyone who believes in this project to share the link and spread the word!

The link will be revealed at 10 AM sharp—so mark your calendars, set a reminder, and be ready to post, share, and amplify this story! Every share helps build momentum and get this film the support it needs.

I could use a pinned #introduction post.

I'm Arend!

I use the words #nonbinary, #trans, and #genderqueer more or less interchangeably to describe myself.

I'm #actuallyautistic (IYKYK we mean "actually" as in self-identifying).

I'm a professional #musician disabled by #longcovid / #fibromyalgia.

I'm still some kinda universalist #christian despite abusers' and homophobes' best efforts.

My politics most closely align with #anarchism. I'm for a #freepalestine, #landback, and #decolonization.