They are the bellwethers of our generation. Water protectors at Standing Rock ushered in a new era of militant land defense. In 2019, the mainstream environmental movement - largely dominated by middle- and upper-class liberals of the Global North - adopted as its symbolic leader a teenage Swedish girl who crossed the Atlantic in a boat to the Americas. The path forward is simple: it’s decolonization or extinction. But as we show here, it’s the soundest environmental policy for a planet teetering on the brink of total ecological collapse. “Land back” strikes fear in the heart of the settler. Vigilante, cop and soldier often stand between us, our connections to the land and justice. We have been made “Indians” only because we have the most precious commodity to the settler states: land. Ĭolonialism has deprived Indigenous people, and all people who are affected by it, of the means to develop according to our needs, principles and values. This is an abridged excerpt of the introduction to The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation, originally published at the Progressive International’s Wire.
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