Saw a relatively popular leftist being eurocentric on TikTok saying indigenous system is ineffective today within anti-capitalism because we lost.

I'm sorry what? We have gained more ground than you realise. (Restorative justice, legal personhood for land to stop privatisation etc)

If you believe that we lost despite the gains we have made you either are looking at it from a pro capitalist colonial perspective where you believe our gains are caused by "benevolent colonizers" Or a Eurocentric worldview that doesn't actually see us and all we have succeeded.

#leftist #eurocentric #leftwing #indigenous #anticapitalist

Many thanks to high-school senior Isaiah Shafqat for doing great work to help make the world a better place: He successfully advocated for a mandatory grade 11 #Indigenous #literature course across Toronto schools. "The purpose of making this class compulsory is to include Indigenous voices in the high school curriculum, to make it a little less #Eurocentric." https://torontolife.com/city/ive-had-friends-say-shakespeare-is-irrelevant-meet-the-grade-12-student-who-changed-the-tdsbs-english-curriculum/

#reading #hero #Bookstodon

Highly recommend this recording of today’s #NatCen & #KingsCollegeLondon seminar on making #deliberative #democracy part of everyone’s lives. To paraphrase @OliverEscobar

#Deliberation is a way of communicating as old as humanity, it’s not a #Eurocentric story

And Claudia Chwalisz from #DemocracyNext

Taking part in deliberative processes can have a transformative effect on people, it can ignite their sense of #agency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBxpVgVe6kc

#Inclusion #Involvement #Participation

" In remarkably #Eurocentric fashion, the #Commission seemed to have forgotten that there are parts of the world that see no reason to join a Western-imposed boycott of #Russia; for them, #military interventions are nothing unusual, including interventions by the #West for the West. "

#EU
#NATO
#US
#Ukraine

"However, we have reservations to the proposed title, the New #European #Bauhaus. We understand that the reference to the Bauhaus wishes to convey forward and interdisciplinary thinking, but we feel that the allusion to this school, its effects and their specific moment in history, counteracts the aims that this cultural #European #GreenDeal is trying to achieve. We are deeply concerned that the title #NewEuropeanBauhaus is inherently not inclusive. The Bauhaus’ significant cultural impact and short 14-year existence (1919-1933) made it into a predominantly #Western and #Eurocentric legend. The Bauhaus is perceived as the epitome of #Modernism, and a critical reading of Modernity inevitably ties it to a past of #colonial #extractivism and a future of industrial #capitalism."
https://janvaneyck.info/apply/letter-to-object-to-the-term-new-european-bauhaus/