Monday, December 5, 2022 – Leave Twitter? Or stay and fight?

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Host: Shawn Spruce

For all its faults, Twitter is an effective means for sharing and discussing Native issues, culture, language, and business. But for many #NativeTwitter users, the social media platform is increasingly losing its luster after its takeover by Elon Musk. There are fears that un-muzzling far right and white supremacist voices is making it a hotbed of hate speech against people of color. Is that a good reason to leave? Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce reveals the results of our Twitter poll and takes your calls about the platform-in-transition with author Traci Sorell (Cherokee); Dr. Twyla Baker (member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation), president of Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College; Aylan Couchie (Anishinaabe from the Nipissing First Nation), interdisciplinary artist and writer; and Dr. Emily Haozous (Enrolled Chiricahua Fort Sill Apache), research scientist for the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.

Break 1 music: The Move (song) DDAT (artist) DDAT (album)

Break 2 music: Destiny (song) Mary Youngblood (artist) Feed the Fire (album)

Riley Caputo says

December 5, 2022 at 11:57 am

The left most always represents the causes of Indigenous peoples. But we are illegally occupied, in a fight for land back, and recognition of sovereignty. We need to use every tool possible to further this cause.

Furthermore, as a society, we need to be able to speak to each other again. With the population of our society being so high, and our lives being increasing digital, social media is the modern day public square. If these private platforms which are now so large they are basically infrastructure, were regulated as such; the public square; the censorship we see on social media would be illegal, as it is against freedom of speech (in the US), or freedom of expression most everywhere else.

Elon Musk is introducing a feature that lets Twitter users self-regulate posts with an age rating of ‘R.’ So people who can’t handle the politics of the world, can simply change their age rating down. I don’t like Elon Musk, but a couple things he’s said has basically resulted in him being targeted for regime change by the deep state. Because when it comes politics, and especially foreign affairs, the US wants to control the narrative.

With a million dead Iraqis’ over false pretenses, and the US being at war all but 14 years of its existence, we should know better that the US has agendas the world over. Americans are allowed to do as they wish regarding domestic politics for the most part, but not foreign affairs.

Even Bolivia, a majority Indigenous State, regarding the 1 year long coup there, the west legitimized it. Some on the left were on the right side of history, such as Bernie Sanders, and the UK’s Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party leader at the time). But in Canada, the NDP leadership Jagmeet Singh was on the wrong side of history. It took the NDP membership to force him to flip flop. It’s pretty hard to demonize Indigenous peoples. And it was an Indigenous leader, and an Indigenous political party that was overthrown over false claims of election fraud (which was proven in studies to have been a legitimate election, including by MIT, and CEPR). The coup was given initial legitimacy by the OAS, and US dominated organization, based in Washington.

So if they can get away with overthrowing a native government, don’t you think they would want to try to control the narrative on that? Well expect that and a lot more in other countries around the world (less so in Bolivia because they knew the chances of long term success was small being an Indigenous majority country, and the coup did fail after elections a year later).

Many of us like to believe that times have changed enough, that we are not in times of colonization anymore. That it’s a time of reconciliation. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Right here in so called Canada, they attempted regime change on an Indigenous Nation, whose government that’s existed since pre-contact times, and is recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada as the legitimate government:
‘Documents show that the purpose of the WMC [Wet’suwet’en Matriarchal Coalition] was not only to advance LNG, but also to delegitimize the hereditary chiefs by brainstorming new “decision-making” processes in relation to resource projects… The B.C. government and CGL each donated $60 000 to WMC to carry out workshops’
https://www.martlet.ca/wetsuweten-matriarchal-coalition-funded-by-b-c-coastal-gaslink-to-divide-and-conquer/?fbclid=IwAR1bCPjUJB69srfozNWmxa6RQxgGoZVC4JvrTT_C4w1RhJdh9T7Rxy8QFVA

And even the left leaning BC NDP government is arguing in court that the ‘Nuchatlaht Nation ‘abandoned’ its territory’ and therefore their Aboriginal Title is extinguished. Aboriginal Title is something that Canada’s courts made up to make it look like we can achieve justice in Canada, it’s a watered down version of recognition of land ownership. Yet Canada’s governments don’t even want to recognize that. Btw, the true form of ownership of land under international law is called Underlying Title (also known as Allodial Title).

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-nuchatlaht-title-case-undrip/

Comments

Riley Caputo says

December 5, 2022 at 11:57 am

The left most always represents the causes of Indigenous peoples. But we are illegally occupied, in a fight for land back, and recognition of sovereignty. We need to use every tool possible to further this cause.

Furthermore, as a society, we need to be able to speak to each other again. With the population of our society being so high, and our lives being increasing digital, social media is the modern day public square. If these private platforms which are now so large they are basically infrastructure, were regulated as such; the public square; the censorship we see on social media would be illegal, as it is against freedom of speech (in the US), or freedom of expression most everywhere else.

Elon Musk is introducing a feature that lets Twitter users self-regulate posts with an age rating of ‘R.’ So people who can’t handle the politics of the world, can simply change their age rating down. I don’t like Elon Musk, but a couple things he’s said has basically resulted in him being targeted for regime change by the deep state. Because when it comes politics, and especially foreign affairs, the US wants to control the narrative.

With a million dead Iraqis’ over false pretenses, and the US being at war all but 14 years of its existence, we should know better that the US has agendas the world over. Americans are allowed to do as they wish regarding domestic politics for the most part, but not foreign affairs.

Even Bolivia, a majority Indigenous State, regarding the 1 year long coup there, the west legitimized it. Some on the left were on the right side of history, such as Bernie Sanders, and the UK’s Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party leader at the time). But in Canada, the NDP leadership Jagmeet Singh was on the wrong side of history. It took the NDP membership to force him to flip flop. It’s pretty hard to demonize Indigenous peoples. And it was an Indigenous leader, and an Indigenous political party that was overthrown over false claims of election fraud (which was proven in studies to have been a legitimate election, including by MIT, and CEPR). The coup was given initial legitimacy by the OAS, and US dominated organization, based in Washington.

So if they can get away with overthrowing a native government, don’t you think they would want to try to control the narrative on that? Well expect that and a lot more in other countries around the world (less so in Bolivia because they knew the chances of long term success was small being an Indigenous majority country, and the coup did fail after elections a year later).

Many of us like to believe that times have changed enough, that we are not in times of colonization anymore. That it’s a time of reconciliation. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Right here in so called Canada, they attempted regime change on an Indigenous Nation, whose government that’s existed since pre-contact times, and is recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada as the legitimate government:
‘Documents show that the purpose of the WMC [Wet’suwet’en Matriarchal Coalition] was not only to advance LNG, but also to delegitimize the hereditary chiefs by brainstorming new “decision-making” processes in relation to resource projects… The B.C. government and CGL each donated $60 000 to WMC to carry out workshops’
https://www.martlet.ca/wetsuweten-matriarchal-coalition-funded-by-b-c-coastal-gaslink-to-divide-and-conquer/?fbclid=IwAR1bCPjUJB69srfozNWmxa6RQxgGoZVC4JvrTT_C4w1RhJdh9T7Rxy8QFVA

And even the left leaning BC NDP government is arguing in court that the ‘Nuchatlaht Nation ‘abandoned’ its territory’ and therefore their Aboriginal Title is extinguished. Aboriginal Title is something that Canada’s courts made up to make it look like we can achieve justice in Canada, it’s a watered down version of recognition of land ownership. Yet Canada’s governments don’t even want to recognize that. Btw, the true form of ownership of land under international law is called Underlying Title (also known as Allodial Title).

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-nuchatlaht-title-case-undrip/