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August 9, 2019August 9, 2019decolonialatlas

The Racially Segregated US Coastline

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Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

January 14, 2019January 14, 2019decolonialatlas

Indian Country: Staying Connected, Overcoming Distance

February 18, 2018February 18, 2018decolonialatlas

500 Years of Black Resistance

December 9, 2017May 5, 2018decolonialatlas

Back-To-The-Land US Map Guide

October 9, 2017October 9, 2017decolonialatlas

Indigenous Peoples Day 2017

March 21, 2017November 5, 2017decolonialatlas

Tribes Spanning the US-Mexico Border

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It's hard to imagine that even traffic-congested, car-dependent cities like Atlanta once had robust public transit networks of trolleys (as seen in this 1946 map). Why would any society willingly dismantle their functional public infrastructure, and replace it with an expensive, inefficient privatized system? We owe that to General Motors and other car and oil companies which bought and destroyed trolleys in cities across the US as part of a larger strategy to push the country into automobile dependency.
“The food system was built on the stolen land and stolen labor of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and people of color. We are claiming our sovereignty and calling for reparations of land and resources so that we can grow nourishing food and distribute it in our communities.”⠀ ⠀ The Reparations Map for BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) Farmers was made by @soulfirefarm , a BIPOC centered community farm committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system. It features different farmers of color all over the US seeking reparations: “financial payments made today to help make good on the systemic injustices of the past 400 years.”⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/2SFGhZ8
Polar bears are struggling as sea ice declines. When there’s no sea ice platform, the bears end up moving onto land with no or minimal access to food.⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/37TPXUU
The Civil Rights Movement won us the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which eliminated many of the Jim Crow voting laws. But since then, there hasn't been much improvement. Voter suppression rears its head in every election, and it starts with voter registration. The US is one of only a few democracies in the world where the burden of registering to vote falls on the voters.⠀ ⠀ #AutomaticVoterRegistration #UniversalVoterRegistration
Moccasins: The vernacular design of indigenous footwear.⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/3bMp0EV
Jeanine Áñez, Bolivia's illegitimate self-declared president, believes that "the city is not for the Indians, they should go to the high plains."⠀ ⠀ Right-wing Christian fundamentalism is not for Bolivia. She should go back to Europe.⠀ ⠀ #ElMundoConEvo #GeneracionWiphala ‪#RenameReclaimDecolonize
An Roinn-Eòrpa anns a ’Ghàidhlig⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/3bQkXHJ
As the settlers moved across the continent, they covered the land with the names of colonizers, slave-holders, and committers of genocide. Its astonishing that these people are honored at all, let alone relentlessly.⠀ ⠀ #PresidentsDay #RenameReclaimDecolonize⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/39EXtDC
"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." - Harriet Tubman⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/2S5brJ8
It's Presidents' Day, so let's remember the Sullivan Campaign of 1779 ordered by George Washington to destroy the Iroquois Confederacy in Pennsylvania and Western New York, forcing them to flee their homeland. Washington, and all subsequent presidents, have henceforth been known in Seneca as Hanödaga:nyas - "Destroyer of towns."
In related news: "Do you speak Hindu?"
Immigrants settle in diverse US regions, often outside major cities, due to refugee resettlement programs, job opportunities, and kinship.⠀ ⠀ From @the.pudding - Countries, mapped to the US region with the largest percentage of its immigrants and expatriates among the total population.⠀ ⠀ https://pudding.cool/2020/01/diaspora/
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