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Solidarity between fellow victims of colonialism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 16, 2021, 11:06 pm
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Re: Solidarity between fellow victims of colonialism
By: Zea_mays Date: February 12, 2021, 10:29 am
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[quote]The unbreakable bond of Ireland and Palestine
[...]
Ireland in particular has been a vocal supporter of the
Palestinian cause. The origins of this solidarity come down to
both the similarities and differences between the Irish and
Palestinian national struggles.
‘Colonised people’
“The Irish people, as a colonised people living for centuries
under British occupation, have instinctively identified with
freedom struggles across the globe,” Gerry Adams, Irish
republican and president of Sinn Féin, the largest Irish
nationalist party in both the Republic of Ireland and the six
counties of Northern Ireland that still belong to the United
Kingdom (UK), told Middle East Eye.
[...]
In the late 1960s, the conflict known as “The Troubles” began,
with militants seeking the reunification of Ireland attacking
military and civilian targets, and the British army and
Protestant militants responding in kind. Adams himself recounted
his own memories of political activism and protest for the
reunification of Ireland, and against apartheid South Africa, in
the 1960s.
Speaking critically of the current Israeli government, he said
their “strategies and actions are aimed at imposing an apartheid
system on Arab-Israeli citizens; extending the occupation
through the building of settlements in the occupied territories,
as well as the separation wall; and physically and politically
dividing Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza and the
refugee camps in other states."
The current state of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process also
troubles him, he said. In December, Israel denied Adams entry to
the besieged Gaza Strip, and upon his return to Ireland, he was
“deeply worried”.
“I am particularly concerned at the approach of the
international community,” he told MEE, “which fails to hold the
Israeli government to account for its actions and its breaches
of international law.”
[...]
“International solidarity is vital for more than one reason,”
Najwan Berekdar, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and activist,
told MEE.
"Not only that gives hope for the Palestinians to continue their
struggle knowing they have support, but it also brings our
struggles closer together, as we have been learning new tactics
which were used by colonised people everywhere.”
The popular techniques used by the Irish and South Africans
serve to envigorate Palestinian efforts to resist Israeli
occupation, have led to innovative and interesting protests,
some of which, such as the “Love in the Time of Apartheid”
campaign, Berekdar organised.[/quote]
(HTM) https://www.middleeasteye.net/features/unbreakable-bond-ireland-and-palestine
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Re: Solidarity between fellow victims of colonialism
By: Zea_mays Date: February 25, 2021, 9:49 pm
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[quote]Just 16 years after their own “Trail of Tears,” the
Choctaw Indians raised money for Irish Famine relief.
[...]
In 1847, only 16 years after the beginning of Choctaw Removal in
1831 (a process which lasted through 1849), the Choctaw learned
of the plight of the Irish people 4,000 miles away. The Arkansas
Intelligencer and Niles Weekly Register (which syndicated the
article from the Intelligencer) recorded a meeting in
Skullyville (capital of the Choctaw Nation in the Oklahoma
Territory) where a collection was taken to assist the victims of
the Potato Famine in Ireland.
[...]
The only other 19th century reference chronicling the Choctaw
act of generosity to the starving Irish is found in The Voyage
of the Naparima, based on the diary of an Irish schoolteacher
from County Sligo. Gerald Keegan, with his fiancee, fled the
Famine in 1847. They took passage on the Naparima, one of the
many dilapidated hulls transporting Irish to Canada and the
United States on the Irish “Trail of Tears.” Keegan’s March 13,
1847 entry recounts how people in “the outside world” had
responded to the tragedy of mass starvation in Ireland.
[...]
Keegan’s final notation was: “Among the donations from various
parts of the world there is one that is singularly appreciated.
It comes from a small tribe of native North American Indians,
the Choctaw tribe from central western United States. These
noble-minded people, sometimes called savages by those who
wantonly released death and destruction among them, raised money
from their meager resources to help the starving in this
country. This is indeed the most touching of all the acts of
generosity that our condition has inspired among the nations.”
The modern links between the Choctaw and Irish, spawned by Mr.
Mullan’s initial contact, continued to grow. In 1992, the Lord
Mayor of Dublin unveiled a specially commissioned plaque
(sponsored by AFrI) in Dublin’s Mansion House commemorating the
generosity of the Choctaw and Canadian Indians to the Irish in
1847. During that same visit, Irish President Mary Robinson
welcomed the Choctaw delegation and Chief Roberts’
representative conferred the title “Honorary Chief of the
Choctaw Nation” upon President Robinson (the only woman so
recognized in the history of the Choctaw). In May of this year
the President visited the Choctaw headquarters in Oklahoma, and
in a speech that once again linked the Irish and the Choctaw,
she said, “The pain and suffering and loss caused by the
dreadful famine in Ireland nearly a century and a half ago, have
created an indelible record in the folk memory of our nation. We
will always remember with gratitude, however, the compassion and
concern displayed by the Choctaw Nation who, from their distant
lands, sent assistance to the Irish people at that sad time. It
has been my great privilege to be made an honorary chief of the
Choctaw Nation and I am conscious that the honor bestowed on me
will help to keep alive, in your country and in mine, the memory
of their noble deed. … As the Choctaw people were so moved by
the Irish plight so long ago, let us today be aroused to extend
a helping hand to our brothers and sisters who are in
need.”[/quote]
(HTM) https://irishamerica.com/2018/03/the-choctaw-tribe-and-the-irish-famine/
[quote]For instance, the lore of the Choctaw donation is that
the tribe donated $170 to Ireland not long after the Trail of
Tears, when they were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma. But it
turns out the Choctaw of Skullyville, Oklahoma, donated $170,
while the Choctaw of Doaksville sent $150, and the Cherokee
Nation raised $200 for the Irish.
“It wasn’t a one-time donation,” he says. “Here were multiple
Indigenous communities imagining they’re in the same colonial
sphere as the Irish, both oppressed by imperialism. It was super
fascinating to find this out.”
[...]
A stainless steel, outdoor sculpture was dedicated in County
Cork in 2017 as a memorial to the Choctaw donation during the
famine.
But the connection didn’t stop there. During Ireland’s War of
Independence, the nation’s president Eamon de Valera traveled to
the U.S. in 1919 to drum up support for the cause. He ended up
going all the way to Wisconsin to meet with the Lac Court
Oreille band of the Ojibwe.
“He was made an honorary chief in front of 3,000 members of the
Ojibwe” Donnan says.
Tribal Chief Joe Kingfisher told De Valera he wished could give
him “‘the prettiest blossom of the fairest flower on earth, for
you come to us as a representative of one oppressed nation to
another,’” Donnan says.
During his speech, De Valera spoke in Gaelic and English to
highlight both the cultural oppression of both groups,
explaining how like the Ojibwe, the Irish have suffered under
English oppression.
“They gave him a headdress, and he gave them bunch of .38
caliber guns, and the Ojibwe still has them today,” Donnan
says[/quote]
(HTM) https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/kindred-spirits-irish-native-american-solidarity
Western-centric accounts of history continue to call it the
"potato famine", but in reality it was acknowledged by both
British and Irish at the time as being an intentionally
engineered ethnic cleansing, just like what happened to the
Choctaw. The British (and people in the US who wanted to bring
the US culturally closer to the UK), did not view the Irish as
"whites", but as racially-inferior "non-whites".
[quote]The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Clarendon, wrote a
letter to Russell on 26 April 1849, urging that the government
propose additional relief measures: "I don't think there is
another legislature in Europe that would disregard such
suffering as now exists in the west of Ireland, or coldly
persist in a policy of extermination."[191] Also in 1849, the
Chief Poor Law Commissioner, Edward Twisleton, resigned in
protest over the Rate-in-Aid Act, which provided additional
funds for the Poor Law through a 6d in the pound levy on all
rateable properties in Ireland.[192] Twisleton testified that
"comparatively trifling sums were required for Britain to spare
itself the deep disgrace of permitting its miserable fellow
subjects to die of starvation". According to Peter Gray in his
book The Irish Famine, the government spent £7 million for
relief in Ireland between 1845 and 1850, "representing less than
half of one percent of the British gross national product over
five years. Contemporaries noted the sharp contrast with the £20
million compensation given to West Indian slave-owners in the
1830s."[160]
Other critics maintained that, even after the government
recognised the scope of the crisis, it failed to take sufficient
steps to address it. John Mitchel, one of the leaders of the
Young Ireland Movement, wrote in 1860:
I have called it an artificial famine: that is to say, it
was a famine which desolated a rich and fertile island that
produced every year abundance and superabundance to sustain all
her people and many more. The English, indeed, call the famine a
"dispensation of Providence"; and ascribe it entirely to the
blight on potatoes. But potatoes failed in like manner all over
Europe; yet there was no famine save in Ireland. The British
account of the matter, then, is first, a fraud; second, a
blasphemy. The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the
English created the famine.[193]
Still other critics saw reflected in the government's response
its attitude to the so-called "Irish Question". Nassau Senior,
an economics professor at Oxford University, wrote that the
Famine "would not kill more than one million people, and that
would scarcely be enough to do any good".[193] In 1848, Denis
Shine Lawlor suggested that Russell was a student of the
Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, who had calculated "how far
English colonisation and English policy might be most
effectively carried out by Irish starvation".[194] Charles
Trevelyan, the civil servant with most direct responsibility for
the government's handling of the famine, described it in 1848 as
"a direct stroke of an all-wise and all-merciful Providence",
which laid bare "the deep and inveterate root of social evil";
he affirmed that the Famine was "the sharp but effectual remedy
by which the cure is likely to be effected. God grant that the
generation to which this opportunity has been offered may
rightly perform its part..."[195] [/quote]
(HTM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Contemporary
The Trump administration used the Covid pandemic to ethnically
cleanse "non-whites", including Native Americans who were sent
bodybags instead of the medical equipment they requested.
(HTM) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/native-american-health-center-asked-covid-19-supplies-they-got-n1200246
The Irish responded by raising donations for Native American
communities which were especially hard-hit by the pandemic:
[quote]A fundraiser for two Native American tribes hard hit by
the coronavirus pandemic has received tens of thousands of
dollars from donors in Ireland, which many say is payback for
tribal support during the Great Famine.
Hundreds of comments on the GoFundMe page raising money to help
the Navajo and Hopi nations cite a donation by the Choctaw tribe
to Ireland in 1847 as the inspiration for their donation, which
has collected over $4 million so far.
“The Choctaw Nation sent the Irish monetary aid during the Irish
Potato Famine. During this dark period in Irish history over 1
million Irish died while they were abandoned by their British
rulers. But the Irish never forget, and we are repaying the
generosity of the Choctaw Nation now in 2020, not forgetting
that they, too, were suffering greatly under British rule during
this period also,” reads one comment from late May.
“Thank you for the help that Native American people showed to
Irish people at our time of struggle. It is fitting that their
descendants can return that wonderful act of good will and
kindness,” reads another.
The Irish/Native American connection might seem like an unlikely
alliance to the casual observer, but not to history doctoral
candidate Conor Donnan. He has spent his academic career looking
at the Irish diaspora in the United States ,and in the process
uncovered stories highlighting the transatlantic solidarity
between Ireland and Native nations dating back to the 1800s.
[...]
As for the GoFundMe raising money for the Navajo and Hopi
tribes, which have the highest rates of COVID-19 infection
outside of New York and New Jersey, Donnan has spoken to people
who have organized it and who have donated.
“There are so many cool things about it. There are over 73,000
donors and most of the donations are $10, $20, $30. It’s a
grassroots movement,” he says.
The people of Ireland became very aware of the Choctaw donation
after the sculpture installation in 2017 and when the Prime
Minister Leo Varadkar visited the nation in 2018.
“It became a story of transatlantic solidarity that took the
hearts of a lot of Irish people, and when they heard about the
Navajo and Hopi plight, they thought, ‘This is our time to give
back,’” he says.
He says he hopes something productive will come from the renewed
attention. The Irish prime minister has said he wants the
Choctaw to come to Ireland for university and will give free
tuition. Donnan says maybe Irish politicians could create
stronger transnational links with Native American businesses or
work to help tribe members get room and board as well at Irish
universities.[/quote]
(HTM) https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/kindred-spirits-irish-native-american-solidarity
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Re: Solidarity between fellow victims of colonialism
By: Zea_mays Date: March 14, 2021, 6:09 pm
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In 1777, Morocco became the first state to recognize the
independence of the USA.
US-Moroccan diplomatic relations were strengthened when US
diplomats Thomas Jefferson and John Adams signed the
Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship with Sultan Muhammad III
in 1786. The treaty is still considered to be in effect and is
the longest unbroken treaty in US history.
(HTM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan%E2%80%93American_Treaty_of_Friendship
Prince Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori from Guinea was enslaved and
brought to the US in 1788. Sultan Abd ar-Rahman of Morocco
petitioned the US for his release. US President John Quincy
Adams Secretary of State Henry Clay negotiated with his "owner"
to release him without payment, although the terms of his
release stipulated that he would be deported from the US. White
Supremacist Andrew Jackson ran against John Quincy Adams for the
presidency, using Prince Sori's release as a talking point in
his campaign.
(HTM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_Ibrahim_Ibn_Sori
While nations like the UK were favorable to the Confederacy in
the US Civil War, Morocco was strongly aligned with the Union:
(HTM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco%E2%80%93United_States_relations#American_Civil_War
By 1920, Ho Chi Minh became a leading figure in the Vietnamese
independence movement. He joined an organization which
petitioned the victorious powers of WWI for Vietnamese
independence under their principle of "self-determination". The
request was denied, since "self-determination" in the wake of
WWI was merely a pretense to dismantle the defeated powers and
"balance" the distribution of power in Europe by dividing
populations along ethnic lines.
During WWII, the US and the pro-independence Viet Minh
organization had close ties and supported each other in the war
against Japan. Supposedly, President Roosevelt and General
Eisenhower both supported an alliance with Ho Chi Minh for a
post-WWII Vietnam, although things never worked out. In 1945,
after WWII had ended, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's
independence and quoted from the US Declaration of Independence.
(He also quoted from the 1791 French Rights of Man, highlighting
the hypocrisy of the French colonialists.) Unfortunately, the US
had become strongly Westernized by this time and did not ally
with Vietnam, offering them no alternatives expect communism.
(HTM) http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5139/
(HTM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Vietnam_relations#Before_1945
Apparently President Grant had promised an alliance with Vietnam
in the 1870s when they were being invaded by France, although
Congress refused. Vietnam had become completely colonized by the
1880s. Vietnam remembered the times the US at least tried to
offer solidarity, but the US unfortunately forgot its past and
became the victimizer instead.
(HTM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Vietnam_relations#19th_century
Ironically, today Vietnam has good diplomatic relations with the
US and relatively poor relations with China (who helped them win
the US-Vietnam war), further demonstrating the stupidity of the
US's role in the Vietnam war. For additional irony, Americans of
Vietnamese descent (most of whom fled South Vietnam) are a
strongly rightist and Trumpist demographic!
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Re: Solidarity between fellow victims of colonialism
By: guest5 Date: April 11, 2021, 2:07 pm
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Akon Says Africa is Better than USA Europe but Only if It Breaks
Its Chains and Unite
[quote]Akon makes a speech during is Announcement that he is
building a New Akon City in Uganda. He says Africa is Better
than Europe,USA, Middle East but Only if It Unites
#AfricaSpeech​ #CandidAfrica​[/quote]
(HTM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e83Yw_CobUI
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Re: Solidarity between fellow victims of colonialism
By: Zea_mays Date: July 20, 2021, 9:02 am
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The Iroquois nation has their own lacrosse team and used
Haudenosaunee passports when travelling to sporting events. They
refused to use US or Canadian passports, even when it meant
being denied entry into the UK and forfeiting their games.
(HTM) https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-iroquois-nationals-and-the-2010-world-lacrosse-championships-feature
The Irish lacrosse team gave up their spot in the 2022 World
Games so the Iroquois team could play:
(HTM) https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/917033527/ireland-lacrosse-bows-out-of-2022-world-games-so-iroquois-nationals-can-play
[quote]Lacrosse has its origins in a tribal game played by
eastern Woodlands Native Americans and by some Plains Indians
tribes in what is now the United States of America and Canada.
The game was extensively modified by European colonizers to
North America to create its current collegiate and professional
form.[/quote]
(HTM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lacrosse
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Re: Solidarity between fellow victims of colonialism
By: Zea_mays Date: December 16, 2021, 7:36 pm
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Mural of Gaddafi in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
(HTM) https://i.imgur.com/EKJZVFF.jpeg
[quote]Living here, I can tell you that the Loyalist murals are
far more threatening; they're in black and white while the
Republican ones are usually in colour. You'll also notice way
more Loyalist murals in commemoration of certain people, more
often than not people who committed Sectarian murder, rather
than soldiers or police officers. Republican murals don't focus
on this as much and usually have a much more international
perspective (pro-ANC, Pro-Palestine, Pro-Cuba, Pro-Catalonia
etc).
New Republican murals are especially tame (generic Pro-Ireland,
anti-Racism stuff). Loyalist murals seem much more bleak and
hopeless. Honestly, nowadays you see way more Pro-Palestine
messages than Troubles related graffiti about in Republican
areas.[/quote]
(HTM) https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/61l0yy/images_of_peace_walls_and_murals_in_northern/dffft0m/
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Re: Solidarity between fellow victims of colonialism
By: Zea_mays Date: December 29, 2021, 7:50 pm
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Re: Solidarity between fellow victims of colonialism
By: Zea_mays Date: April 6, 2022, 9:24 pm
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Re: Solidarity between fellow victims of colonialism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 29, 2022, 11:09 pm
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What I like to see:
(HTM) https://twitter.com/darshnasoni/status/1572173720801935360
[quote]“We are from one family. We settled here in this city
together, we fought the racists together, we built it up
together. The recent violence is not who we are as a city.”
Joint statement on Hindu / Muslim tensions in Leicester[/quote]
See also:
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