
Independence day. This year celebrating with a "twist".
Independence day. This year celebrating with a "twist".
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation" -Alasdair Gray
Because although these are the painful final days of the halfway-decent nation we once knew, they're also the early days of the better nation we finally can become – if we don't surrender hope. If we work for it.
The United States is dead. Long live the United States.
This is the best #FourthOfJuly thread. The best one. If you're demoralized (and who isn't?), please please read this bracing tonic from @sarahtaber for your own sake:
https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/114797147296327900
Whether or not you celebrate the #FourthOfJuly, you can read and write about it on #Medium:
https://medium.com/tag/fourth-of-july
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Some of the most effective #FourthOfJuly#Reparations#IndigenousMutualAid you can do is buying #Native#Indigenous#Art AND subscribing to Native Patreons
Tom Myer @myerman is a great Contemporary Native Digital Artist with a new Patreon that really needs your help, subscribe today!
https://patreon.com/myerman
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Some of the most effective #FourthOfJuly#IndigenousMutualAid you can do is buying #Native#Indigenous#Art
@Tzipporah's @CvkvlvBeadwork
https://Cvkvlv.com
They need income to pay rent, survive etc. and you get cool jewelry, every piece tells your world you support #Reparations
Ideas for #FourthOfJuly#Reparations
#DigitalBack#NativeSocialMedia
A. Donate to TurtleIsland.social Mastodon & TurtleIs.land Bluesky PDS
https://ko-fi.com/TurtleIsland
https://cash.app/$Yehuda1491
https://venmo.com/Yehuda1491
B. I rarely ask for myself, but if you want to help me support my grandkids (5 of them) put a note TIP or something. Anything I can do to equip them with educational tools and experiences to achieve parity, I am most grateful for.
#Native#Indigenous
good morning Americans
if you wish to engrave something upon your heart, first inscribe it with your hands and profess it with your voice.
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#FourthOfJuly
I don't talk much about the damage the #Colonization of North America and the subsequent #Independence of the #UnitedStates has done to my personal family. And I probably never will, but it has been substantial, even to this very day.
Certainly I confront what the land and resources theft, what the genocide and enslavement of millions of people has done to my people more than my mother or grandmother, who were much more shell shocked than I am.
#Native#Indigenous
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