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What is Esencia and What Will Happen to Puerto Rico if This is Constructed?

Esencia is a massive $2 billion colonial development project aiming to seize over 2,000 acres of land, spanning three miles of beaches in Punta Melones, Cabo Rojo, by 2028. The United States has long justified its imperial presence in Puerto Rico under the guise of “progress” and “development.” With the complici

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abolitionmedia.noblogs.orgWhat is Esencia and What Will Happen to Puerto Rico if This is Constructed? – Abolition Media
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America was the 'Land of Opportunity' for the downtrodden Europeans suffering under the rich, so we went to America and unloaded that grief on the Indigenous people we slaughtered and the African people we abducted to serve us.

let's not make these mistakes again if we do make it out into Space, we can choose Elon's path or Star Trek.

Me pregunto cuando veremos el primer(?) "baño para negros" en San Juan, y a los boricuas unironicamente usar el "baño regular" en vez de el "de negros". Me pregunto si habrán discuciones sobre a cual baño le toca a cada quien en el grupo. Me pregunto cuan rápido se moverían los negocios boricuas si se instituyese una ley federal para segregar los baños.

Yeah, but these false charges stopped the Independence movement in it's tracks, so it was worth it in the British State's mind.
And they'll do it again should any of the Colonial possessions get above themselves.

news.sky.com/story/ex-snp-chie

Sky · Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon cleared in police investigation into SNP's financesBy Jenness Mitchell

The moral vacuum that is the Labour Party today.

Speaking of the SNP, now that Sturgeons political career has been destroyed, I see the charges have been dropped.
Funny that.
Mad how half of Scotland just accepts being a Colonial fuckbucket for posh fuckos down South.....

archive.ph/2025.03.20-171626/h

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PS:

to those who asked me about this pinned post,
mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1134

use this thread as an explanation to the very serious joke.

when #fascism happens to BPIOC it’s called #racism; but that racism is sometimes #sexism, #misogyny, #homophobia, #transphobia, #xenophobia, #antisemitism, #ableism, #eugenics ―and when against entire nations, #colonialism & #genocide.

so whatever you let the ruling classes with racism will come back to haunt you as fascism.

get it now?

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#fascism is often described as #capitalism turning #colonialism inward.

once the ruling capitalist classes run out of scapegoat minorities to colonize, they turn against the “buffer zone”, the so-called hegemonic working classes that separate & protect them from the colonized masses.

in USA #racism creates that buffer zone by allotting more money & access to a designated hegemonic segments of the working classes.

so let’s speak of this from a neoconfederacy perspective…

Slovakia’s protests prove the fight for Europe isn’t over

On March 7 tens of thousands took to the streets across #Slovakia for 3rd time this year to protest pro-Russian policies of Slovakian PM Fico’s government

They voiced concerns Slovakia drifting away from #EuropeanUnion &transatlantic allies.

kyivindependent.com/slovakias-

The Kyiv Independent · Slovakia’s protests prove the fight for Europe isn’t overBy Peter Techet

White folk in Britain should watch Steve McQueen's 'Small Axe' series and educate ourselves on how racist our State was/is.

A different sort of Racism from what we see in America, but institutionalised racism all the same.

theguardian.com/education/2025

The Guardian · MP calls for inquiry into labelling of black pupils as ‘educationally subnormal’By Aletha Adu

Just finished #reading Ali Meghji's book "Decolonizing #Sociology"--great analysis of how #colonialism affected the sociology discipline & theoretical #canon. He argues for subverting sociological imperialism, centering the process and effects of coloniality within sociological research, & embracing #autonomous sociologies. It's very readable & approachable, clear in argument but also in its advocacy for walking a new path. Highly recommended, even for students.

politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo

Canada and the RCMP did/do awful things to Inuit. One of these things was the widespread slaughter of dogs. Inuit relied upon these dogs for food, transportation, and protection.

An elder I know remembers the slaughter. Her father was out on the tundra with his dog team when RCMP came to her community and killed every dog.

He stayed out on the tundra alone with his dogs for months. He had to keep the dogs hidden from the cops or those dogs would've been killed too. He and his dog team kept that community fed all that time. Without his hunting, they would have starved. rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/173230 #Inuit #Canada #RCMP #DogSlaughter #SledDog #TruthAndReconciliation #genocide #colonialism

www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.caGovernment of Canada's apology for the Nunavik Dog SlaughterOn November 23, 2024, the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations apologized to Nunavik Inuit for effects of federal policies that resulted in the Nunavik Dog Slaughter from 1950 to the early 1960s.