Info on Genocide and Empire

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Introduction to Genocide in the Americas (/Turtle Island) and Globally
(for people who need to be convinced there is ongoing genocide in the US and the Americas)

 

*NOTE – this map cuts off many of the territories of many indigenous peoples whose ancestral land is on both sides of the present day US border. Despite that limitation, it is very well researched and of value. Map has info on how to order to support the makers.

• 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance   Letter-size PDF for printing by Gord Hill.
• Audio: A Little Matter of Genocide: Columbus Day Special with Ward Churchill on Democracy NOW!
• The Massacre For Which Thanksgiving Is Named (Update)
• The Massacre For Which Thanksgiving Is Named (Pt.2)
• Addams Family Thanksgiving Play Scene

• “Teaching (and Not Teaching) Thanksgiving” By Maya Mikdashi http://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/
• Film:The Power Principle: Empire and the Rise of the National Security State(http://metanoia-films.org/the-power-principle/)
• Books: Andrea Smith‘s Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide(see Intro, Ch 1, Ch2  ; Ch3 ; Ch4; Ch5; Ch6; Ch7; Ch8; endnotes; resource guide ; and index) Huanani-Kay Trask‘s From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i (also see Debate); Ward Churchill‘s A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present (1998); Greg Grandin‘s Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism ; Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1999)
• Zines: (Native Resistance Network) NRN Zine: Mother Earth – Manna-hata – A Native Perspective and NRN Zine: Turtle Island Notes
• Blog Posts: “Genocide in America” @ https://keywordgenocide.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/genocide-in-america/ and “American Indian Holocaust” @ http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/aiholocaust.html
• Article “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
• “Gold, Greed & Genocide in the Americas: California to the Amazon” by Pratap Chatterjee
• Duckduckgo search terms mining and industry and genocide and indigenous and americas @ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mining+and+industry+and+indigenous+and+genocide

Also, regarding genocides against various cultures residing in the “homelands” of the European empires prior to expansion into the Americas/Turtle Island (i.e. the history of the European crowns against those who would eventually reject their own people’s identities and struggles in exchange for the white agreement of genocide against the native populations of Turtle Island) see:

• The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Rediker and Linebaugh, 2000)
• Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation
  (Silvia Federici, 2004)
• The Real History of St. Patrick’s Day – http://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2011/03/st-patrick-defeats-serpents-nagas.html
• “How the Irish Became White” by Noel Ignatiev http://jroan.com/HtIBWhite.pdf\

Further materials:

• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities 
• Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy
  (Gabriel Kuhn, 2010)
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Charles Mann)
• 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created(Charles Mann)

More:

• Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed(James C Scott, ) @ http://zinelibrary.info/james-c-scott-seeing-state-how-certain-schemes-improve-humancondition-have-failed
• Struggle for the Land(Ward Churchill) @ http://zinelibrary.info/struggle-land-native-north-americanresistance-genocide-ecocide-and-colonization-ward-churchill
• Witches, Midwives and Nurses, A History of Women Healers(Enhenreich and English, 1979) @ http://zabalazabooks.net/2012/01/20/witches-midwives-and-nurses-a-history-of-women-healers/
• Film War on Our World @ http://documentaryheaven.com/war-on-our-world/
• “Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century” http://www.anti-politics.net/distro/
• “The School of the Americas and Guatemala” @ http://www.nisgua.org/themes_campaigns/impunity/The%20School%20of%20the%20Americas%20and%20Guatemala.pdf
• “Guatemala’s ‘Little School of the Americas’” @ http://upsidedownworld.org/main/guatemala-archives-33/3976-guatemalas-little-school-of-the-americas
• http://www.derechos.org/soa/guat-not.html
• “The School of the Americas, the CIA and the US-Condoned Cancer of Torture Continue to Spread in Latin America, Including Mexico” http://truth-out.org/news/item/9685-the-school-of-the-americas-the-cia-and-the-us-condoned-cancer-of-torture-continues-to-spread-in-latin-america-including-mexico
• “What is the ‘School of Assassins?’” @ http://www.ratical.org/ratville/WhatIsSOA.html
• http://www.disinfo.com/tag/school-of-the-americas/
• “The Case for Closing the School of the Americas” http://www.law2.byu.edu/jpl/Vol%2020.1/1Quigley.pdf
• PWC “2012 Americas School of Mines”http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/mining/school-of-mines/2012/pwc-mining-taxes-and-royalties-policy-and-disclosure-issues.pdf
• Close the School of the Americas https://www.youtube.com/user/closethesoa

More (websites):

• https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/
• http://lawofoccupation.blogspot.com/p/about.html
• https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/ and here
• http://preventgenocide.org/
• http://idlenomore.ca/
• School of the Americas Watch http://www.soaw.org/about-us
• World War 4 Report: http://www.ww4report.com/mission
• http://www.disinfo.com/tag/school-of-the-americas/
• “Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Towards a Practice of Decolonization” https://infrontandcenter.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/moving-beyond-a-politics-of-solidarity-towards-a-practice-of-decolonization/

• MiningWatch Canada @ http://www.miningwatch.ca/

• Duckduckgo search of genocide in the americas: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=genocide+in+the+americas
• Duckduckgo search of “school of the americas” and genocide: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22school+of+the+americas%22+and+genocide
• Wikimedia Commons “Indigenous Peoples of the Americas”:
  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
• Indigenous People wikispaces: http://indigenouspeople.wikispaces.com/

Occupation and Law

• Geneva Convention III: Articles 1-4
• Geneva Convention IV 1907: Section Three – Occupied Territories – Articles 47-56
• Geneva Convention IV 1949: Section Three – Occupied Territories – Articles 47-78
• Additional Protocols I and II
• Eyal Benvenisti, The International Law of Occupation, pages 3-31
• Adam Roberts, What is Military Occupation, 55 BYIL 249 (1985)

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