#colonialism

faab64@diasp.org

#France admits it’s lost control of parts of #NewCaledonia, the world’s third-largest producer of critical EV metal nickel

The French government is moving to regain full control of the Pacific territory of New Caledonia, High Commissioner Louis Le Franc said, as extra security forces arrive in the archipelago to end a week of violent protests by pro-independence groups.

Le Franc said new security deployments, after French President Emmanuel Macron’s government declared a state of emergency, would help reassert control following violence that left behind burned cars, torched stores and improvised barricades along roads.

PS. It's truly disgusting to see them refer to a country only based on their export./Farhad

#Colonialism #Politics #Uprising #Oceana

https://fortune.com/asia/2024/05/17/france-lost-control-new-caledonia-producer-critical-ev-metal-nickel/

faab64@diasp.org

#France declared a state of emergency on the Pacific island of #NewCaledonia after clashes broke out between authorities and pro-independence protesters. At least four people have already been killed. Three of whom were Indigenous people, and the fourth was a French gendarme.

Protesters have been seen carrying heavy firearms, with reports of live rounds being fired at police.

Multiple buildings have been set on fire, and several supermarkets have been looted. White French residents have also formed armed groups to confront the Indigenous protesters.

Under the state of emergency, French authorities have imposed a curfew, banned #TikTok, closed schools, and placed restrictions on movement.

They have also deployed an additional 500 police officers, adding to the 1,800 police and gendarmes already on the island.

Protests erupted after French President Emmanuel #Macron introduced plans to reform New Caledonia’s electoral system, which would grant more French residents in the territory voting rights. Protesters believe this would unfavorably shift political representation in the country. The Pacific archipelago, home to the Indigenous #Kanak people, is rich in minerals and has been under French control since 1853.

#Colonialism #Politics #Economy #Uprising #Oceana

faab64@diasp.org

Pro-independence riots have broken out in New Caledonia

As a colony the island is a retreat for French citizens
But with 'decolonization' only native Kanak people could vote, barring those arriving from France

Now Paris is empowering French residents to vote after only 10 years

The French Government is using it's army to quash indigenous locals who are rising up against the colonisers.

Authorities also decided to ban video app #TikTok, which the government during a bout of riots on France's mainland last summer said helped rioters organise and amplified the chaos, attracting troublemakers to the streets.

#France #Colonialism #Politics #NewCaledonia #Censorship #Oceana #Uprising

faab64@diasp.org

So far, 11 police officers and 35 firefighters have been injured in the unrest in New Caledonia.

French President #Macron declares a state of emergency in New Caledonia

The situation in the archipelago escalates into an insurrection with numerous blockades, fires, looting and live fire after the adoption of the constitutional reform, which is condemned by the Kanak separatists as a re-colonization of the territory.

At least four people were killed, including a gendarme who was shot. The High Commissioner of the Republic fears a “civil war”.

#NewCaledonia #France #Colonialism

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

#AjamuBaraka #Europe #UnitedStates #empire #colonialism #imperialism

https://twitter.com/ajamubaraka/status/1762293845457338739

hudsonlacerda@diasporabr.com.br

Must See: Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy on Israel’s Mental Problem

https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2023/11/10/must-see-israeli-journalist-gideon-levy-on-israels-mental-problem

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy: Israeli society has surrounded itself with shields, walls, not only physical, but also mental. I will simply give three principles that allow us Israelis to live easily in this harsh reality.

First. Most, if not all, Israelis deeply believe that we are the chosen people. And if we are the chosen people, we have the right to do whatever we want.

Second. There have been more brutal occupations in history. There have been longer occupations in history. But never in history has there been an occupation in which the occupier presented himself as a victim. The other day Professor Falk spoke about this double strategy of Israel: to be a victim on the one hand and to manipulate on the other.

And finally, I come to the third set of values ​​that allow us Israelis to live in peace with occupation. This is perhaps the most important and worst of them. And this is the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians.

Because if they are not like us, then there can be no talk of human rights. And if you scratch every Israeli, you will find it there. Almost no one will treat the Palestinians as equal people, as themselves. After all, how many Israelis have ever tried to put themselves even for a moment in the shoes of the Palestinians, for a moment, for a day?

VIDEO: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=kTaErJCfwcw

#israel #GideonLevy #Palestine #Palestina #apartheid #colonialism #genocide #democracy #politics

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

Rape has played a role in the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians since 1948. Many families fled their homes over concerns their women would be raped by Zionist forces. Unlawfully detained Palestinian political prisoners are also subjected to rape and torture. There are several prominent detailed accounts from prominent Palestinian women, among them freed prisoners who have documented the deliberate use of rape and sexual torture against them. [source How colonizers weaponize rape: reflections from the Palestinian case – Mondoweiss]

-- CodePink https://www.codepink.org/conversationguide

#CodePink #EthnicCleansing #rape #torture #colonialism #settler-colonialism

hudsonlacerda@diasporabr.com.br

Milícias sionistas atacam manifestantes em israel

https://twitter.com/AJEOficial/status/1743706273156043249

#sionismo #zionism #israel #apartheid #colonialism

anonymiss@despora.de

#Nations don't get rich by plundering other nations

source: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/nations-dont-get-rich-by-plundering

Anyway, there are two more sophisticated cases you can make for the “imperial plunder” #theory of national wealth. The first is that continuing plunder is responsible for income differences between countries. The second is that plunder was necessary to initiate the process that eventually led to industrial #production and modern science. The first of these arguments is wrong; the second can’t easily be disproven, but there’s major reason for doubt.

#colonialism #imperialism #economy #history #politics #wealth #poverty #south #north #resources #finance #news

harryhaller@diasp.eu

2024 Anniversary: The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, (43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the United States Congress that granted U.S. citizenship to the indigenous peoples of the United States. While the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution defines a citizen as any persons born in the United States and subject to its laws and jurisdiction, the amendment had previously been interpreted by the courts not to apply to Native peoples. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act
#usa #history #1924 #2024 #indians #injuns #natives #indigenes #colonialism #imperialism #lebensraum #racism