#landback is vital

[didthekingdieyet]

if you are american and are celebrating thanksgiving, the least you could do is honor the people who died for the land you are on

[lesser-vissir]

Okay so I saw this post floating around, which echoes rhetoric I have seen a few times on this site.

I don't want to reblog the actual post cause this is clearly a result of anger and it would not help to try to make my point there but I wanted to make it anyways.

Indigenous people are not inherently less capable of environmental degradation and anthropocentric extinction. Like, at all lmao. There are dozens of examples of indigenous causes for the extinction of animals and unsustainable practices causing environmental degradation and civilization collapse.

Literally this rhetoric is just rehashed noble savage stereotypes but applied to environmental degradation.

[aux-squiggle]

I've made radfem centric pride flags everyone! Some are radfem only and some are for more than just rf's but will likely be used by mainly rf's.

Here's my favourite one I've made today:

Optimistic communist/socialist radical feminist flag. This flag is for any radfem post-capitalist (e.g socialist, syndicalist, communist etc) who has faith in a brighter future for women and the working class. Someone who believes the total destruction of the patriarchy is possible, and who believes the destruction of capitalism is likely/guaranteed.

The blue stripe is for disabled people and solidarity with same (particularly disabled women/female people). The colour blue represents wisdom, health, and medical affairs.

The purple stripe is small because it's a transitional shade for visual appeal. It stands for homosexual/same-sex attracted females.

The pink represents women, and is a striking/distinct colour to represent the distinctness of radical feminism from mainstream feminism. It also is one of the colours of the sunset and shows that women's possibilities are as high as the sky.

The yellow background is mainly for visual appeal, however it also represents the happiness and energizement of optimistic radical feminists. It also represents wealth and the redistribution of resources.

The sun itself represents clarity, paths to progress, "light at the end of the tunnel" and optimism in general. The sun also represents life and vitality. The "childishness" of the sun's corona represents safety for children.

The reddish-gold is goldish because of the sun shining on it. The reddishness represents anti-capitalism, and the struggle/will of the proletariat.

The golden-brown stripe is thin for visual appeal. It represents land/earth/soil and is a symbol of anti-imperialism, landback, and solidarity with the people (especially women) who live on colonized or ex-colonized land.

The brown stripe represents women of colour, especially black and brown women of colour. It is at the bottom because women of colour are at the foundation of radical feminism.

The hammer and sickle represents socialism/communism, and the female fist represents the undying thirst for liberation by female people. It's a widely accepted feminist symbol.

This one is the optimistic radical feminist flag. The red stripe still means anti-capitalism but this flag may be more suitable for optimistic radical feminists who are optimistic about culture change and significant destruction of patriarchy but not necessarily a total socialist revolution.

Here's the standard radfem flag I made. Brown means WOC, blue is disabled women, pink is women/distinctness from mainstream feminism, and red means anti-capitalism.

The land stripe and the homosexual female stripe unfortunately looked ugly on this flag and in terms of aesthetics this flag is mid. I think the meaning is powerful but I don't want to make it uglier 😭

Optimists, pessimists, neutrals and really any form of radfem may enjoy this flag.

This is the socialist/communist radfem flag, essentially a radfem who has more emphasis on post-capitalism. Neo-marxfem radfems may enjoy this flag.

This is another version of the above but it's a lil ugly 💀

Ok onto some sexuality flags! These are all febfem (female exclusive bisexual female) flags because I'm febfem and I wanted to focus on these. I'll def make more SSA and gnc women flags but I got tired today.

Standard febfem flag (made my own bc the ones online are strangely low quality).

I personally don't know what the individual stripes mean but it conjours thoughts of both the bisexual and lesbian flags because febfems are ofc, bisexual women. But also strongly decenter men like lesbians do. Being febfem is a distinct experience, thus the distinct colour pallette.

This is an asexual febfem flag! So female exclusive biromantic females who are on the asexual spectrum may enjoy this flag.

This is an aromantic febfem flag, so for febfems who are on the aromantic spectrum.

This is specifically a demisexual febfem flag.

This is specifically a demiromantic febfem flag.

Enjoy!

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Grist:

After decades of advocacy, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe will see 18 acres of land returned to them by the state of Minnesota. The move comes after lawmakers passed legislation last month to formally return state trust lands inside the boundaries of the Mille Lacs Band’s reservation.

Minnesota’s returning of Indigenous land is part of a much broader global landback movement that has been gaining momentum in part due to studies that show Indigenous guardianship leads to more effective ecological outcomes. As conserving biodiversity grows more critical amid rising global temperatures, Indigenous self-determination and traditions of relating to land and waters are increasingly recognized as vital climate solutions. 

“This is a great opportunity for us as the Mille Lacs Band to preserve that land in a way that is respectful of nature,” said Kelly Applegate, commissioner of natural resources at the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. He said the land transfer is expected to be complete over the next month. “Whatever we do, it’ll be in a lens of environmental protection.” 

The Mille Lacs’ lands in question are known as state trust lands. These trust lands, established at statehood, are grants of land from the federal government primarily created to support education and are found across the western United States. On the Mille Lacs reservation, those 18 acres represent only a fraction of the 2.5 million acres of state trust lands across Minnesota, including nearly 344,000 acres inside the borders of eight reservations. Trust lands in Minnesota typically generate revenue for education through mining, timber, and land sales, and for the 2023-24 school year, trust lands generated almost $49 million for public and charter schools. The trust lands on Mille Lacs, however, have only generated about $45 annually. 

Minnesota is one of 15 states that owns land within federal Indian reservations that generate revenue for non-Indigenous institutions. 

[joanofarcs-stigmata]

apparently i do not make my stances clear enough on here so!

a person who can get pregnant has the right to bodily autonomy.

as long as sex work is safe and consensual, it isn't my right to criminalize and police it. it isn't my right to criminalize and police a lot of things people do.

landback is a vital movement. yes including when indigenous people want to disband the usa.

Evangelizing and conversion focused faith is colonialist and wrong. we are called to be Christlike, not force Christ onto others.

people traumatized by the church have the right to hate it.

lgbtq people have an inherent place in gods kingdom just as we are.

women should be priests and virginal purity culture is despicable.

mental illness and disability is not a punishment from god

we do not get to use the idea of being 'one true religion' to be bigots, esp towards other religions

the anime catholic girls are just cute-ifying genocide, as most mission trips are just colonialism and cultural genocide

free Palestine. from the river to the sea Palestine will be free.

the church carries inherent racism, antisemitism, misogyny. we have to ACTIVELY dismantle that, not just say it's bad

[puc-puggy]

landback because I want to live in the food forests Europeans were too unsophisticated to even recognize

landback because indigenous american land philosophy asserts the dignity of all living things as kin & because we can see in real life the hard evidence that proves it fucking works. 85% of the entire planet's remaining biodiversity is protected by indigenous people. how about we give them the rest of their own fucking land and boost those numbers.

landback because indigenous people have been-for centuries- attempting to share vital truths about the ecology of this planet that the west is only now coming to discover. discoveries only pursued because our ignorant shortsightedness is threatening all life on earth

landback because white people Do Not Know Best and our confidence in our intellectual and technological superiority has wrought incomprehensible destruction to people and to the planet.

landback because we cannot in fact dig the ground out from beneath our feet and remain standing. there is a finite amount of physical material on this planet, and the selfishness of individualist consumerism is devouring our life support.

landback because there is no statue of limitations for genocide and we can ALWAYS seek to support the repair and restoration of what we've destroyed

landback because it's not our fucking land!

[apricops]

I have a vitally important question about manor punk. Are there horse nomads and/or pastoralists?

Oh you’d better believe that the future has neo-horse lords. Roaming groups of Appalachian raiders continue to fight with the “Suburban Samurai,” a large buffer zone on the East Coast that separates DC and New York from the… whatever the hell’s going on down there.

Funny you should ask - when I started Manorpunk I knew I would be tempted to overthink everything and draw some consistent through-line of material conditions to ‘properly explain’ the future, so I threw in the Iowan Khaganate with the rationale of “there is no non-silly explanation for a polity to be named the Iowan Khaganate.”

Speaking tangentially of horses and pastoralism, I bring to you some good news from the future: the Neo-Comanches — a bunch of drunken Swedish teenagers who thought it would be fun to just larp as spaghetti-western injuns - were so utterly Cringe that after being defeated at the Battle of Wind River by actual Indigenous people (Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho specifically), a wave of public support and sympathy led to a series of massive legal and political wins for indigenous activists which culminated in the creation of the Landback Federation.

I am posting this now and stopping myself from going “oh I should include fifty more things here and never finish it”

[titleknown]

This is a really good article on the basics of the intersection of leftism and landback, that I urge you to take a look at.

Cause like, while I tend to get bitchy about the technophobia and refusal to care about the necessity of innovation in our tools and how we use and produce them in the cause of global justice I see in the left...

...I also think it's not only important but vital to stand with LandBack-type movements for that very reason, because those new tools and humanity-over-capital-centered uses thereof will never take off as long as people in power feel it easier and cheaper to steal Other People's Everything instead, and what Landback is doing is vital to the process of pushing back against that theft.

This post articulates that, which is why I brought that up, but it also details so many other reasons and debunking so many misconceptions about Landback* that I urge you to read it.

Like, to summarize another good point, they don't give a shit about your house, they want things like the big stupid colonizer heads gone from their mountains and their water not constantly being stolen or poisoned.

And I think it would do well for some people to remember that...

*Note that it's from a ML-perspective as the writer is a Vietnamese native, but I think her ideas are more broadly applicable and her husband's an anarchist for what it's worth.

[lilies-of-the-fields]

I'm sure indigenous folks have said this before & better but it bugs me that a lot of the #LandBack content I see circulating talks about how indigenous ppl take care of the land and returning stewardship to them is vital to counter the worst of the climate crisis but like

Anytime you use a utilitarian argument, the second the desired result no longer provides benefit, then there's no longer a reason to support the result.

Indigenous folks shouldn't have to save the planet to be able to reclaim their homes

[yogawithavery]

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[our-abstract-nature]

My main goal in the last few years is to fundraise for landback projects. This is a cause dear to my heart. I've sat with many Indigenous folks, farmers, Herbalists, inventors & Artists without land access to bring their visions to life. Personally, I've been day dreaming of permanent space to grow food & medicine & welcome community to retreat & create since I started working with plants 12 years ago. Yet being a landless grower comes with multiple hurdles. I'd say the main one being: land access uncertainty. Staying motivated after having to move many times & starting new gardens has been a challenge. Heart Seeds Creative was born out of my desire to acquire land for folks who will respect it & hold space for community care. I was given permission & encouragement to utilize the land to acquire it through various people & experiences. I have been doing my best to stay aligned to the seed planted in my heart. All the proceeds have been tucked away for the last 5 years & we've been able to donate to amazing causes. I've been working the same garden plot for 2 years & gained 2 more last year. Upon receiving more space, I made the goal of growing garlic to sell. It was a big undertaking that I never believed in before. I hadn't even planted garlic in the past because I was always unsure if I'd still be able to garden in the same spot the following year. But I was determined to have a food crop to fundraise with this year. Long story short, I planted 20 lbs of garlic & ended up loosing 2/3 of it to land access changes & too much shade. But you know what? I am so happy with the garlic we have for our family. I do not regret the hope I had. My financial goals were met in other ways & I had fun. It reminded me yet again that man's relationship with the land is the vital. How we view & interact with the land ripples through our entire life & the community around us. This simple perspective informs the work that is initiated through my hands. The work I do with it cannot go unrewarded because working the land nourishes me deeply. This week I brought home more bounty than I could carry. I am grateful for the abundance in my life & that this project is thriving🍃✌️ (at Victoria, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCtpBPJjCBk/?igshid=ioj1d24i95wx