Dear comrades,
“I start with the recognition that we are at war and that war is not simply a hot debate between the capitalist camp and the socialist camp on which economic, political, social arrangement will have hegemony in the world. It’s not just the battle over turf and who has the right to utilize resources for whomever’s benefit. The war is also being fought over the truth. What is the truth about human nature, about the human potential? My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family, and the human family is to try to tell the truth. And that ain’t easy.
There are so few truth speaking traditions in this society in which the myth of Western civilization has claimed the allegiance of so many. We have rarely been encouraged and equipped to appreciate the fact that the truth works, that the truth works, that it releases the spirit and that it is a joyous thing. We live in a part of the world, for example, that creates criticism with assault, that equates social responsibility for naive idealism that defines the unrelenting pursuit of knowledge and wisdom as fanaticism.” – Toni Cade Bambara (an excerpt from ‘Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara’)
*wherever you see quotation marks on the name of a city, country, name, etc. it is out respect for the fact that most of these names are not the right names of these places, they are named after/by the colonizers who massacred the rightful people of those lands, always keep that in mind.
all my praise goes to The Most High Creator
If you are reading this you are most likely a settler/occupier on stolen land using tools (e.g. the electronic devices you are reading this off of) made from stolen resources either from the land you are on or from resources stolen from another land that your country/nation has probably robbed because of their self ordained superiority.
British officials considered Treaty 13 a “confirmatory” purchase for lands that now comprise, in part, the City of Toronto and surrounding area. In 1787, John Johnson, the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, held a council at the Bay of Quinte with the Anishinaabeg. There, he distributed gifts in recognition of their loyalty during the American Revolution and proposed the sale of lands near the Carrying Place at the mouth of the Humber River. While the Anishinaabeg accepted these presents to confirm their ongoing alliance, the Crown interpreted them as proof of payment for the land. 
But in the 1790s, colonial officials realized that the 1787 “surrender” did not meet their own legal requirements for a treaty. The “Deed of Sale” was blank (a common occurrence), with neither specific boundaries nor a price. The signatures of Anishinaabeg were on an entirely separate sheet of paper, and one of these signatories, Wabakayne (Waabikwanaye), had recently been murdered by a British soldier in Toronto. Doubts about the validity of the first agreement and the region’s growing importance led colonial officials to push for subsequent negotiations. 
In an effort to confirm the agreement, the Anishinaabe were offered fishing rights and reserve lands, and the Crown expanded the tract to 250,000 acres, expecting the community to accept $1 in return. Of course, the Mississauga did not and challenged the 1805 “purchase” over the next two centuries, resulting in a land claim settled in 2010. Several additional claims are outstanding, including for the Toronto Islands. 
While the Mississaugas continues to assert rights and some jurisdiction in Toronto, the city has also become home to the largest, most diverse Indigenous population in Canada, with some estimates suggesting that over 70,000 Indigenous people live and work in the city (Yellowhead Institute)

All land acknowledgements are false unless they recognize KKKlanada and its settlers active role in Indigenous land left, displacement, cultural erasure, structural violence, forced labor, increased police violence and targeting, residential schools aka reeducation camps, the building of pipelines and dams, extraction of resources, poisoning of rivers and lakes, destruction of sacred lands, the theft and murder of Indigenous women and two spirit people, mass violence and killing of Indigenous children and the resulting unmarked mass graves, the foster care system designed as a tool for the further theft and erasure of Indigenous children and life , forced sterilizations, withholding of access to adequate and healthy food, water, air, medical care, and not to mention how this terrorist settler colonial government has broken every single treaty they have signed with Indigenous peoples over the centuries. Nothing good is built on genocide and land theft, KKKlanda like the rest of the settler colonies is that nothing good. Right now as we speak the klanadian governing class is further militarizing the arctic region in fear of russia and china as well as to secure their claws deeper into the minerals becoming more accessible due to the melting of the ice. Settler colonialism and imperialism has not died yet.
As Israel continues to commit genocide against the Palestinian people in order to further steal Indigenous Palestinian land, a genocide that the KKKlanadian government fully supports, arms, and commits in collaboration with the Israeli state, they also continue their reign of terror and occupation against Indigenous people on their lands here in Turtle Island. In occupied Palestine, the Israeli Occupation Forces are the real terrorists committing brutal acts of genocide and here it is the Royal Mounted Canadian Police, Toronto Police Services and every other government service acting as occupational forces, who are the real terrorists. Indigenous resistance to settler colonialism and racist capitalism is not terrorism, it is resistance, resistance to continued erasure, oppression and repression under occupation. In order for us to properly acknowledge Indigenous peoples and their lands we must deeply inspect our roles as settlers on this land and how very similarly to the Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine, we too occupy these lands, we too are enabling settler colonial expansion and all the benefits we receive here come at the cost of Indigenous blood, dignity and rightful sovereignty here as the first nations of these lands. Many of us here, especially racialized folks may not have come here by choice, whether the reason be due to our own displacement and enslavement from our Indigenous lands, or war, famine, disaster and many other forms of warfare of Western induced interference and violence, or the false promise of a better life and economic stability and surety, but nonetheless we are here, and because we are here I believe we have a responsibility to Indigenous peoples of these lands we occupy, to assist them in their over 500 year continued resistance to occupation by imperial forces, the same imperial forces occupying many of our own homelands. 
As someone Indigenous to Africa, who’s ancestors land has also been stolen and continues to be occupied, and whose ancestors were then kidnapped and scattered across the Western hemisphere and forced into enslavement in order to build their empires, I recognize how from the moment my ancestors reached these lands there were those who understood that their solidarity and loyalty was to the Indigenous people whose land they were displaced to and forced to work on and that in order to achieve liberation, solidarity between their groups was a necessity because their fight was one. I also recognize that there were those who from the beginning aligned with the colonizers, assisted them in their genocidal endeavors, and countered the resistance of Afrikans who were against their occupiers. These contradictions, these fights, these struggles, still continue today. For too long, we, Afrikans here in the diaspora whether we identify as Black, Caribbean, or Afro-Canadian have adapted to the settler mindset, we forgot where we came from, how we got here, and what we are supposed to be fighting for. For those of us of Afrikan descent who occupy these lands we must recenter ourselves and know that we are indigenous to Afrika and that no matter what this settler colonial state offers to us and how much it tells us that we are one of them, we are not one of them, we are not Canadians, and truly even for those of us who identify as Carribean I think it’s time we find a new name because, Caribbean comes from Carib which comes from the Spanish word Caribal, meaning “a savage, cannibal” which they, the Europeans referred to the Native people of these islands as, including the island I call home, known as Dominica, which the native Kalinago people named Wa’tu’kubuli, meaning “tall as her body”. We are Afrikans, and we are still fighting for our independence, on the continent and in the diaspora. Liberation for all Indigenous peoples from colonial occupation. Turtle Island is not free and Africa is certainly not free.
 Now more than ever we must understand our place and role in this struggle. No land acknowledgement can atone for the crimes that have been committed by this government and its settlers. So instead I offer a call to resist, a call to be in true solidarity with Indigenous peoples and their resistance because until this land is free and every other piece of land is free there will never be peace, nevermind peace, in the words of ancestor Kwame Ture, peace is the white man’s word, liberation is ours. All across the globe Indigenous peoples are fighting against colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and every other form of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual occupation and warfare. From the water, land and air defenders across Turtle Island in Wet’suwet’en, Grassy Narrows, and Standing Rock, to the Axis of Resistance in Western Asia in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, to the resistance in Kanaky and the Philippines, to the resistance in the Sahel and the Alliance of Sahel States, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, to Kenya, and Nigeria, to Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Cuba, and to Martinique and Ayiti where Haitian people are currently under KKKlanadian occupation amongst other imperial occupiers and to everywhere else occupation exists. We must support all resistance to occupation wherever they are and struggle to bring a better world into being. Across Turtle Island there are Native, water and land protectors, blocking pipelines, dams, railways, and every other instrument of colonial occupation and extraction, we must assist them in their fight whether that be by physically putting our bodies on the line, by providing financial, emotional, or spiritual support, or by educating ourselves about the histories and realities of this occupation and all occupations and putting that education into action by educating others and resisting against all forms of occupations through boycotts, divestments and sanctions of any state, company, organization or individual who is dependent on the theft of Indigenous life.
So unless we acknowledge all of the ways colonization continues, how we play an active role in their displacement and how Indigenous people still do not have sovereignty over their own land, none of our land acknowledgements are worthy and we should throw them in the trash. And as long as we enable this government and its genocidal nature by going about business as usual rather than being principled and disciplined in our solidarity with Indigenous resistance and existence in any of its many forms, we are not worthy.
we all have blood on our hands
let’s name some of these organizing bodies that are currently causing the brunt of the erasure of life:
the united snakes of amerikkka
isntreal
kkklanada
the u.kkk
the french
germany
the dutch
spain
the whole european union
The United Arab Emirates (UAE)

the Organization of African Unity (OAU)
The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
Organization of American States (OAS)
the United Nations (UN)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
The Internation Monetary Fund (IMF)
The International Criminial Court (ICC)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ)

United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
United States African Command (AFRICOM)
United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM)
United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM)
United States European Union Command (USEUCOM)
United States Central Command (USCENTCOM)

yes the united snakes have areas of military command in literally every segment of the world
they west is the worlds biggest terrorist organization

FASCISM HAS ALWAYS BEEN HERE

READ BLOOD IN MY EYE BY GEORGE JACKSON
George Jackson Blood In My Eye
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ahem,
this is my call for Pan-Afrikan unity and solidarity with the indigenous folks of Turtle Island (the western hemisphere) as well as Indigenous people everywhere
from Afrika to Muscogee to Wai’tukubuli to all of Turtle Island
i think pretty much all land acknowledgements are useless and self serving, however a better land acknowledgement would state that “we are all illegal settlers on stolen land reaping the benefits of said stolen land while the indigenous inhabitants of the land are being murdered at disproportionate rates (missing and murdered indigenous women/two-spirit) as well as not being allowed access to the land and their possessions so that we the settlers can continue to drill up the earth for gas and other minerals to fuel our egos and our pockets so that we can launch humanity into oblivion”
i am currently a settler on the lands of the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas (now known as the “greater toronto area”) my history on this land (that i know of) dates back to the mid to late 1970’s when my mother’s family first immigrated here from Wai’ tu Kubuli (Dominica). For additional context in my case i was born in the Muscogee Nation now known as “georgia” in the united snakes of amerikkka. i am a descendant of Africans that were taken mainly from western and central Africa. in a true sense i dont know exactly where my original ancestors are from but i have a better idea of the ways in which they were moved across the globe when they were stolen as cargo. i know that on my father’s side they were moved through what’s now known as the “caribbean” on islands such as “jamaica” and “trinidad” and eventually moved to the “carolinas” in the newly established united snakes of amerikkka and then eventually moved further south to “georgia” where my father’s side has lived ever since. On my mother’s side i know a little bit less about my family’s movements but what i do know is that our family was at some point in time moved to the island of “Dominica” orginally named by the indigenous inahbitants of the island, the Kalinago people, as Wai’tu Kubuli, which means “tall is her body”. My mother’s father, my grandpa was also born on the island of “St. Lucia” and before that his family came from “Antigua”, and before that, I have no clue. “Dominica” is now our home and our “dominican” identity. In the context of both “atlanta” and “dominica” we have become inhabitants of these lands through centuries of slavery and forced displacement. Our existence has become intertwined and our blood runs deep throughout the land (literally). It’s not our land to begin with but we also didn’t come to the land by choice. When speaking about my families existence in “Canada”, our relationship with this land is much more brief. My family chose to come here because they seeked a better life than what they were seeing in “Dominica”. They came in the 70s while PM Trudeau senior was pushing his policies of “multiculturalism” which was really a way to import more cheap human labour and as to sanitize “canadas’“ genocidal history and get us to the point now where this country is seen as some magical land of diversity. it’s not, it’s a fascist state in a denim tuxedo. read blood in my eye by george jackson. Whether my family knew it or not that choice to come here also made them settlers on this land. We have contributed financially, materially, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually to the project that is the settler colony of “canada”. We have been fooled and accepted the idea of this supposed “multiculturalism” that is “canada”, more specifically “toronto”. We fed into the idea that this country was a haven and its promise to save us from servitude and oppression. This country is no friend of ours. Those of us of Afrikan descent here in these occupied northern turtle island lands should never and I mean should never identify as “canadian”. Unless you’re satisfied with furthering settler colonialism. We have enabled and protected this genocidal state in more ways than we know. My “american” family has also enabled and protected the terrorist state that is amerikkka in more ways than they know. From when we started calling ourselves “american” to when we started rooting even harder for this idiotic country because they put somebody that looks like us in office. lets call a spade a spade. Obama is a war criminal. and if Kamala wins well congrats to the first amerikkkan black women war criminal in chief. black faces in high places wont save us. always remember that. the devil you know. (update yes Trump is evil and everything his administration is doing is evil but never forget how the democrats

interlude – the devil you know by aja monet

In both cases of “dominica” and “atlanta” my ancestors were moved as product to a land that was not theirs while the occupiers of these lands have and continue to erase the original inhabitants and stewards of these lands. In both of these cases of “dominica” and the city of “atlanta” my ancestors and my people (Afrikans) are now the dominant demographic. In both of these cases we were forced to adapt in order to survive and we made do with what we had and out of it our indigenous cultures have birthed new cultures and ways of existence that now often exist in separation from each other rather than the whole we are apart of (Afrika). We are all Afrikan PERIODT
NO MORE DIASPORA WARS. CUT IT OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No matter how far they take us from the continent we will always be Afrikans, but that doesn’t mean we have to just leave behind the identities (e.g. my dominican and atlien identity) that have been forged through the fight to exist in spite of genocide, but it also doesn’t mean we need to be blindly nationalistic and rooting for the devil themself just because they are black. We must be critical of ourselves and our places in this world and the ways in which we too contribute to the displacement and erasure of indigenous folks on the land we now call home and our own indigenous folks on the land that we used to call home.
LAND BACK NOW

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all occupied territories must be returned to their rightful owners which means those of us currently occupying space that is not ours either need to get with it and join indigenous folks in their war against the state or get the fuck out and go somewhere else (hell)
our relationships with the land we occupy vary as in my case of dominica and atlanta which means that the path to indigenous sovereignty as well as Afrikan unity will look different in every place.
it’s up to the indigenous people of each land to decide the future of the land. if you are a settler it is not your choice so get with it or get out!

interlude – I’m a African by dead prez