The Colours of Resistance Archive is a collection of analysis and tools for liberatory organizing and movement-building.

Topic: colonialism

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Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Towards a Practice of Decolonization

North America’s state and corporate wealth is largely based on the subsidies provided by the theft of Indigenous lands and resources. Colonial conquest was designed to ensure forced displacement of Indigenous peoples from their territories, the destruction of autonomy and … Continue reading

Lucky Country?

In 1788 down Sydney Cove, The first boat people land Said “sorry boys, our gain’s your loss, We’re gonna steal your land” (Kev Carmody, Thou Shalt Not Steal) Recent news about the Curtin and Port Hedland “Immigration Reception and Processing … Continue reading

Indigenous Perspective on the War on Terrorism

About a year ago, I went to an event that featured two people, one Palestinian and one Israeli, who were both speaking about the continued occupation of Palestine. They displayed a map of the West Bank on an overhead projector … Continue reading

Bringing It All Back Home: Anti-globalisation Activism Cannot Ignore Colonial Realities

“We are faced with a two-fold challenge, to struggle as best we can to deal with the immediate consequences of globalisation. Secondly, and more difficult, to contextualise those problems within the 500-year-and-more history of the culture of colonisation.” – Moana … Continue reading

Statement of Leonard Peltier on the FTAA

Dear Brothers, Sisters, Friends and Supporters, I know many of you are already familiar with the FTAA, NAFTA, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank. I know many of you are working hard to expose what these organizations and … Continue reading

Same Beast, New Name

In the long sad history of colonization in Indigenous America, only one side has been told consistently. The colonizer version is written and published for public consumption. Many of the lies have become so entrenched in the psyche of the … Continue reading

New Wave / Old Wave: Aotearoa New Zealand’s Colonial Continuum

“Colonisation is colonisation, whatever new name we may like to give to it. Globalisation, free market, neoliberalism, profitability, capitalism, it is all fundamentally about colonisation. The privatization agenda in this country did not start with the 1984 Labour government or … Continue reading

Don’t Call This Country “America” How the name was hijacked and why it matters today

If ever there was a time to break the habit of calling this country “America,” as if no other nations existed in this hemisphere, it is in the current era of Permanent War and arrogant empire-building. If ever there was … Continue reading

Resistance Without Reservation!

As hundreds of thousands gather in New York to protest the Republican National Convention at the end of August, a smaller and less historic but perhaps more profound convergence will be taking place in the interior of British Columbia. More … Continue reading

Building a “Canadian” Decolonization Movement: Fighting the Occupation at “Home”

The following address was delivered by Nora Butler Burke, a member of the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement (IPSM) in Montreal, on August 20, 2004, as part of an evening of speakers, film and music in support of the Kanehsatake Mohawk … Continue reading

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