1/9 Hunger as a weapon: testimonies of residents who survived occupation Using food as a means of pressure, the occupiers aim to sow despair and hopelessness among Ukraine's peaceful population #Occupation #UkraineResilience #HungerAsWeapon #Testimonies #Ukraine #UkrainianView

#Free #Decolonial #OpenAccess #Research Paper.

Building the #SettlerColonial Order: #Police (In)Actions in Response to #Violence Against #IndigenousWomen in #Canada

Abstract:

In this article we focus on missing and murdered #Indigenous women, girls, and #2SLGBTQQIA people in Canada. We theorize narratives that police employ to respond to this violence. Using a broad data sample of #testimonies across Canada, this article contributes to understanding how police (in)actions make sense of, justify, and dismiss violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. We draw from 48 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Indigenous peoples in Toronto and other Canadian cities and 219 testimonies from the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (NIMMIWG). The #analysis finds that police repeatedly use similar frames (topics), styles (linguistic and behavioral strategies), and storylines (narratives) to respond to violence against Indigenous peoples. While framing Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people as deviants helps police make sense of and explain violence against them, the use of verbal and behavioral strategies (indifference, callousness, and lack of information) and storylines (“they were [insert pathologizing frame]” and “there’s nothing we can do”) allows police to dismiss and justify acts of violence. We argue that the frames, styles, and storylines employed by police perpetuate violence. Police (in)actions are fundamental to achieving settler #colonialism’s ideological and material dimensions.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08912432231171171

#RecommendedReading for #Decolonial #Education. #Free #OpenAccess report.

About Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is an #uncensored #record of the planned #extermination of #IndigenousChildren in #Canada’s murderous Indian #ResidentialSchools. It is issued as a corrective #CounterReport to the miscarriage of #justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” #TRC. Based on eyewitness #testimonies and #archival #documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the #genocide of #IndigenousPeople began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: – Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened – This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare according to a prescribed monthly “death quota” – Evidence of these crimes and their intentional nature has been continually destroyed by the RCMP and the #Catholic, #Anglican and #UnitedChurch since at least 1960 – The same genocide continues today, is aimed at indigenous women and children, and is driven by foreign corporate interests hungry for #NativeLands and resources Murder by Decree is issued by The International Tribunal for the Disappeared of Canada (ITDC), an international #coalition of #jurists and #HumanRights groups. The ITDC was formed in December, 2015 to investigate the disappearance of people in Canada, prosecute those responsible and prevent a further #whitewash by Canada of its #CrimesAgainstHumanity. This report is an answer to these #crimes and an urgent summons to the world and to all #Canadians to live no longer under #genocidal #regimes.

Published by the #ITDC Central Offices in #Brussels and #Toronto. For more information write to angelfire101@protonmail.com .

http://murderbydecree.com/

The #DoubleStandard of #Christian #Testimonies

#KristiBurke #atheism #atheist #deconversion #deconstruction #fear #hell #god #christianity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5z1Pf8HyRI

#In this episode I discuss how our once Christian testimonies become weaponized against us when we leave the #church, and how to gain a fresh perspective on life after leaving, even when everyone in the church wants to disregard your story.

Given the propensity of folks these days to brutalize one another; Palestine, Hamas, cops on US college campuses, perhaps we should all watch this movie together and adjust our behaviors and thinking.

#Testimonies is a film by #IdoSella that was shown at the #Brookline #JewishFilmFestival back in the 90's which I attended and remembered. The film takes footage of horrific behaviors on the part of IDF soldiers during the Intifada and shows these films to the soldiers doing the brutalizing. The filmmaker then interviews the soldiers and asks them to discuss what they were thinking when they took these actions and how it affected them since.

Incredibly powerful and it should remind us of what all of these people will experience when they look back at their actions today. Hamas terrorists, IDF soldiers and the US cops beating college students, all of them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZrWXDMGXLI

@msquebanh @LALegault

I wonder when Ido Sella will do his next documentary;

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZrWXDMGXLI

That's his first one where he shows IDF soldiers brutalizing Palestinians film of themselves doing it and then asks them about doing it. They're also brutalized and now it's happening again. Perhaps if more people had watched #Testimonies the first time this wouldn't be happening now.