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<p>'''<span>Anti-</span><span style="">colonialism </span>'''<span>practices oppose colonialism </span><span style="">or current coloniality. Please review our page on [[decolonization]], which g</span><span style="">oes further </span><span style="">by presenting a critique of the oppressive system while proposing possible solutions to overcome it.</span></p>
<p>'''<span>Anti-</span><span style="">colonialism </span>'''<span>practices ''oppose ''[[colonialism]]'' ''</span><span style="">''or current coloniality.'' Please review our page on [[decolonization]], which g</span><span style="">oes further </span><span style="">by presenting a critique of the oppressive system while proposing possible solutions to overcome it. There are also further details on the forms it comes in on our definitions page for [[colonialism]].</span></p>


== Consequences of colonialism ==
== Consequences of colonialism ==
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Adrienne Maree Brown  <ref>https://transformharm.org/the-fictions-and-futures-of-transformative-justice/#:~:text=adrienne%20maree%20brown.,think%20that%20can%20be%20tricky.</ref>
'''Environmental degradation'''&nbsp;
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''"I tend to think of abolition as one result of transformative justice: abolition is the end of prisons; transformative justice is the methods people use to uproot injustice patterns in communities. I tend to think of abolition as a totality, and I think that can be tricky. People set out to abolish slavery and we ended up with the prison industrial complex because while there were surface and policy level shifts, the culture did not shift. That deep underlying racism and classism remains and is now roaring to the surface as we write this. So, while I identify as an abolitionist, I find speaking about the iterative tangible work of transformative justice makes more sense to me now–I don’t simply want the prisons gone, I want a radically different way of interacting with each other to grow."''
*For the first time since it's release, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) mentioned the term “colonialism” in its [https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/resources/spm-headline-statements/ 2022 report.]&nbsp; Leading climate scientists acknowledged that colonialism is a historic and ongoing driver of the climate crisis.
*Indigenous Peoples in Canada were forced off their territories, which they had been taking care of since time immemorial, so that settlers could make way for mass settlement. These settlements emphasized environmental degradation to make way for agricultural development, and for the over-extraction of resources for profit.&nbsp;
*The environmental impacts of colonialism are still seen today, with projects backed by the Canadian state and industry being forced through unceded territory (i.e. the CGL pipeline).
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*An unequal trading system has been imposed on Africa by Europe from the mid fifteenth century onwards. African countries have been exploited of sufficient national wealth to invest in their infrastructure since Europeans colonized Africa hundreds of years ago  <ref>http://revealinghistories.org.uk/africa-the-arrival-of-europeans-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/articles/the-underdevelopment-of-africa-by-europe.html</ref>
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*European dominance over most of Africa through the transatlantic slave trade lasted 440 years.  <ref>http://revealinghistories.org.uk/africa-the-arrival-of-europeans-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/articles/the-underdevelopment-of-africa-by-europe.html</ref>
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*Indigenous Palestinians have been fighting for their rights to the land which they inhabited long before Israel for decades. Between[https://imeu.org/article/quick-facts-the-palestinian-nakba 1947-1949]over [https://imeu.org/article/quick-facts-the-palestinian-nakba 750,000] Palestinians were displaced from their land. This displacement is continuing today.  <ref>https://ucsdguardian.org/2021/05/23/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-is-not-a-conflict-its-colonialism/</ref>
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== Examples of anti-colonialism ==
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Mia Mingus  <ref>https://transformharm.org/the-fictions-and-futures-of-transformative-justice/#:~:text=adrienne%20maree%20brown.,think%20that%20can%20be%20tricky.</ref>
'''Wet'suwet'en land defence against the CGL pipeline'''
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*Wet'suwet'en land defenders [https://www.yintahaccess.com/news/wetsuwetenresistance continue to exercise their sovereign rights on their unceded territory] to reside on and care for their land. They have been fighting for their rights to their territory, where CGL is building without their free, prior and informed consent, since 2020.
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*Haudenosaunee residents and land defenders [https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/the-standoff-at-1492-land-back-lane-one-year-later/ fought back against a developer who purchased land on Six Nations territory]. The blockades were held for extensive periods of time; and they won.
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''"I understand abolition to be a necessary part of transformative justice because prisons, and the PIC, are major sites of individual and collective violence, abuse, and trauma. However, transformative justice is and must also be a critical part of abolition work because we will need to build alternatives to how we respond to harm, violence, and abuse. Just because we shut down prisons, does not mean that these will stop. Transformative justice has roots in abolition work and is an abolitionist framework, but goes beyond abolishing prisons (and slavery) and asks us to end–and transform the conditions that perpetuate–generational cycles of violence such as rape, sexual assault, child abuse, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, intimate partner abuse, war, genocide, poverty, human trafficking, police brutality, murder, stalking, sexual harassment, all systems of oppression, dangerous societal norms, and trauma."''
*E.g. a statue of Egerton Ryerson, who helped establish Canada's [[residential schools]], was [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/statue-of-egerton-ryerson-brought-down-1.6055676 taken down by primarily Indigenous locals] outside of X University.
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| style="width: 80.3024%;" | Interpersonal harm is inevitable. Abolition imagines that ''"each moment where harm happens is an opportunity to transform relationships and communities, build trust and safety, and grow slowly toward the beautiful people we are meant to be, in the world we deserve."&nbsp;''<br>
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[https://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/fileadmin/Documents/research/sri/workingpapers/SRIPs-20_01.pdf environmental degradation]
, the [https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/conquest-and-disease-or-colonialism-and-health spread of disease]
, [http://revealinghistories.org.uk/africa-the-arrival-of-europeans-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/articles/the-underdevelopment-of-africa-by-europe.html economic instability]


, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/424898#metadata_info_tab_contents ethnic rivalries]


, and [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2649774?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents human rights violations]
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Anti-colonialism practices oppose colonialism or current coloniality. Please review our page on decolonization, which goes further by presenting a critique of the oppressive system while proposing possible solutions to overcome it. There are also further details on the forms it comes in on our definitions page for colonialism.

Consequences of colonialism

Environmental degradation 

  • For the first time since it's release, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) mentioned the term “colonialism” in its 2022 report.  Leading climate scientists acknowledged that colonialism is a historic and ongoing driver of the climate crisis.
  • Indigenous Peoples in Canada were forced off their territories, which they had been taking care of since time immemorial, so that settlers could make way for mass settlement. These settlements emphasized environmental degradation to make way for agricultural development, and for the over-extraction of resources for profit. 
  • The environmental impacts of colonialism are still seen today, with projects backed by the Canadian state and industry being forced through unceded territory (i.e. the CGL pipeline).
Economic inequality
  • An unequal trading system has been imposed on Africa by Europe from the mid fifteenth century onwards. African countries have been exploited of sufficient national wealth to invest in their infrastructure since Europeans colonized Africa hundreds of years ago [1]
Human rights violations
  • European dominance over most of Africa through the transatlantic slave trade lasted 440 years. [2]
Ethnic cleansing 
  • Indigenous Palestinians have been fighting for their rights to the land which they inhabited long before Israel for decades. Between1947-1949over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land. This displacement is continuing today. [3]

Examples of anti-colonialism

Wet'suwet'en land defence against the CGL pipeline

Six Nations land defence at 1492 land back lane
Taking down statues of colonial figureheads



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  1. ↑ http://revealinghistories.org.uk/africa-the-arrival-of-europeans-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/articles/the-underdevelopment-of-africa-by-europe.html
  2. ↑ http://revealinghistories.org.uk/africa-the-arrival-of-europeans-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/articles/the-underdevelopment-of-africa-by-europe.html
  3. ↑ https://ucsdguardian.org/2021/05/23/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-is-not-a-conflict-its-colonialism/
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