When we talk about colonization and genocide in the Americas, we are often met with the same statement:
“This happened hundreds of years ago, get over it”.
Sure, it started centuries ago. But it didn’t end hundreds of years ago, or one hundred, or even 50.
When we talk about these issues, we don’t just mean small pox-infected blankets, or forced migration. We don’t just mean settlements, bounties on our heads, the physical attacks on our villages. We don’t just mean the residential schools, or the laws that banned our traditional languages and practices.
We mean:
- The Sixties Scoop, when Indigenous children were ripped from their communities to be placed with white families.
- Residential schools, the last of which only closed in 1996, where children were forced to give up their languages, culture, identity, and were abused horribly.
- The Millennium Scoop. The child welfare system in Canada is still ripping children from Indigenous communities. Despite only making up about 8% of the age demographic, Indigenous youths under 14 account for more than half of the foster system. (x)
- 80% of reserves in Canada have median incomes that fall below the poverty line (x)
- A vast number of reserves in Canada do not have clean drinking water (x)
- Indigenous rights and land titles are routinely ignored in order to create pipelines and sell off resources. (x)
- According to Indigenous women’s groups, there are approximately 4,000 cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The RCMP only acknowledge about 1200 of these. (x)
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“Between 1997 and 2000, the homicide rate for Indigenous women was nearly seven times higher than the rate for non-Indigenous women.” (x)
- A man literally confessed to the murder of Tina Fontaine, a 15 year old Indigenous girl, and he was acquitted. (x)
- Colten Boushie, a Cree man, was shot multiple times by a Saskatchewan farmer. A jury featuring no Indigenous people declared his murderer not guilty. (x)
- The Starlight Tours. Saskatoon Police routinely took intoxicated Indigenous men outside of the city in sub-zero temperatures and left them to find their way back. Several froze to death. The Saskatoon Police were caught deleting the article about this from Wikipedia. (x)
- Suicide and self injury are the leading cause of death for Indigenous men under 44. In addition, the rate of suicide in Indigenous women is seven times higher than that of non-Indigenous women, and the rate of suicide among Indigenous men is 5.25 times higher than that of non-Indigenous men. Suicide rates for Inuit youth are among the highest in the world, at 11 times the national average. (x) In certain communities, like Attawapiskat, suicides reach epidemic levels. (x)
These are just a few of the many legacies of colonization that impact us today.
This is colonialism. This is genocide.
It never stopped.
(please add more to this list)
Update:
- Starlight Tours have been recorded in Calgary as recently as mid-October 2018. Facebook posts about it have been vanishing from accounts soon after reposting.
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There are 17
counts mentioned in grimoires: Ayperor, Ayperos, Barbatos, Bifrons, Botis,
Camiel, Furfur, Ipes, Marax, Murmur, Orias, Raum, Renove, Ronobe, Saleos, Vine
and Zaebos. They are considered demons of Superior Order and they command
legions and servitors.
Electors of
Hell
It refers
generally to a planetary spirit, most of the grimoires agree that there are 7
Electors of Hell none of them agree on who those demons are but there are 5
names that appear on the list: Amudiel, Annixiel, Barbiel, Barfael and
Dirachiel. The following names are from others grimoires: Aciel, Amnixiel,
Amudiel, Aniguel, Anizel, Annixiel, Barbiel, Barfael, Baruel, Dirachiel,
Enediel, Ganael, Geliel and Geniel.
Emperors of
Hell
Typically there
are 4 emperors, one for each of the cardinal points. The 10 demons that have
been assigned the rank of emperor are Amenadiel ( West) Bairiron, Barma,
Carnesiel ( East) Caspiel ( South) Demoriel ( North) Lucifer, Padiel, Samael
and Symiel.
Earls of Hell
There are 20
names mentioned in various grimoires: Andromalius, Barbatos, Bifrons, Botis,
Caacrinolaas, Foraii, Forfax, Furfur, Glacia Labolas, Glassyalabolas, Halphas,
Ipes, Marax, Morax, Murmur, Raum, Ronobe, Saleos, Vine and Zaebos.
There are 89
mentioned kings in grimoires and those are: Abaddon, Abalam, Abrasax,
Adramaleck, Adramelech, Aesma Daeva, Agares, Aluga, Amaimon, Amaymon,
Amenadiel, Ammon, Amoymon, Amy, An, Andhaka, Arcan, Aseliel, Ashmodai, Asmodai,
Asmoday, Asmodeus Zavehe, Asyriel, Baal, Baalam, Bael, Balam, Bali, Balkin,
Barbas, Bayemon, Beball, Beleth, Bileth, Botis, Buer, Byleth, Caacrinolaas,
Caim, Carnesiel, Caspiel, Corson, Curson, Demoriel, Eemen, Egym, Emma O, Er Mo,
Forcas, Forfax, Gaap, Glacia Labolas, Goap, Gorson, Guayota, Haagenti,
Hiranyakashipu, Hiranyaksha, Igrat, Indiren, Kubera, Lavnasura, Madhu,
Mahasura, Malphas, Maymon, Morax, Nergal, Og, Oriens, Ose, Paymon, Pazuzu,
Purson, Raja Hantu, Ravana, Reahu, Sammael, Satan, Suth, Valac, Varsavarti,
Vine, Yama, Yen Wang, Zagam, Zapan and Zimimar.
Knights of
Hell
There are 4
demons holding the official rank of knight and these are: Chamo, Eligor, Forcas
and Leonard. Abigor and Eurynome are described as appearing before their
summoner dressed as knights.
Marquis of
Hell
There are 22
marquis with this rank and those are: Aamon, Ammon, Andras, Andrealphus,
Carabia, Cimejes, Decarabia, Firneus, Forneus, Kimaris, Leonard, Leraiel,
Marchosias, Naberus, Orias, Phenex, Renove, Ronobe, Sabanack, Samigina, Scox
and Shax.
Presidents of
Hell
There are 27
demons with this rank and those are: Adramaleck, Aim, Amoymon, Amy, Barbas,
Beur, Botis, Buer, Caacrinolaas, Caim, Caym, Foraii, Foras, Forcas, Forfax,
Gaap, Glacia Labolas, Glassyalabolas, Goap, Haagenti, Malphas, Marax, Marbas,
Morax, Ose, Ualac and Zagam.
Prime
ministers of Hell
There are 6
demons with this rank and they are: Abezethibou, Agares, Akikel, Baalzephon,
Beelzebub and Lucifuge Rofocale.
Princes of
Hell
For Johann
Wierus there are 69 princes of hell but Samuel L. MacGregor in his “ The
Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King” added 3 names to that list so now
there are in total 72 princes and these are: Abalam, Adramaleck, Aeradiel,
Amaymon, Amoymon, Andras, Arias, Ariton, Armadiel, Aseliel, Ashtaroth,
Asmodeus, Assyriel, Astarot, Asteliel, Ayperor, Ayperos, Baal Beryth,
Baalzebub, Balberith, Barfael, Barmiel, Baruchas, Beball, Belail, Belian,
Bidiel, Bitru, Buriel, Busas, Bydiel, Cabariel, Caim, Camuel, Dorochiel, Duma,
Emoniel, Euronymous, Eurynome, Gaap, Garadiel, Gedeil, Goap, Hydriel, Icosiel,
Ipes, Iuvart, Lucifer, Lucifuge Rofocale, Macariel, Machariel, Malgaras,
Malphas, Mammon, Marchosias, Maseriel, Mastema, Manadile, Meresin, Merihim,
Meririm, Merizim, Moloch, Monadiel, Musuziel, Negarsanel, Oliver, Orcus,
Oriens, Orobas, Padiel, Pamersiel, Pekat, Perrier, Pirichiel, Pithius, Pruflas,
Pyrichiel, Pyro, Python, Rahab, Rasiel, Rhotomago, Rimmon, Rosier, Samael,
Samil, Sammael, Sariel, Satan, Seere, Sitri, Soleriel, Stolas, Suriel, Symiel,
Sytry, Uriel, Usiel, Vassago, Verrier and Yomael.
Source: Theresa Bane -
Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures
Source: Michelle Belanger -
The Dictionary of Demons
Image: Hans Memling - Detail from the Last Judgment
If every working-class person in the world decided this afternoon to install solar panels on their roofs and started biking instead of driving, the ice caps would still melt and the human race would still die off. It simply isn’t possible to end climate change while working within a system that sends all your products overseas in massive supertankers wrapped in unrecycled plastic that will be thrown in a landfill the moment it hits land - and practices like that aren’t going to go away because of your purchasing habits.
Nor are we gonna hit some magical point where using clean energy and reducing waste are suddenly the cheapest or most profitable option and so all the world’s big companies fall over each other to switch over. That has never been the case and never will be - the “free market” isn’t going to save us.
The fact of the matter is, this system needs to be torn down if our species is to survive. We don’t have time to delay the revolution anymore. Capitalism is extinction.
The human race will die out, and sometimes I’m glad- the earth has given us life for so long and what have we done- destroy it
No, a handful of rich people are destroying it. A far, far larger number of people are fighting to protect it, and I don’t want them to suffer and die because we give power to the most greedy and least caring. We need to take that power away and put it in the hands of everyone equally, and build a society that cares about nature and about human lives more than it cares about profit. And we can do it too if we drop the defeatist attitude and get to work
Mankind has existed on this Earth for at least 200,000 years and we’ve been civilized for nearly 10,000. Butit wasn’t until 500 years ago that some people started fucking-over the environment on a widespread scale in pursuit of fleeting material wealth
So if human existence doesn’t directly cause environmental devastation, then what IS causing the devastation? INDIVIDUAL GREED
Good fucking God, how many levels of stupid can someone be to despise their own species and wish its own destruction?
