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Decolonization, Reinhabitation, and Resolution.

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The so-called United States of America, as well as Canada, have always have been settler colonial states that can only exist through the subjugation and genocide of native people. Now is the time for decolonization.

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a screenshot from twitter of the usa department of homeland security account with the text "A heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending. American Progress - John Gast", along with said painting
July 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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an image of Peter Berg standing in front of a smog covered industrial dam with the following text imposed over the background: "The environmental movement is over. I actually believe it ended on Earth Day in 1972, and in fact historians will probably say that. Environmentalism had always been the handmaiden of late industrial society. It was a way to preserve the material benefits of industrial products and processes while mitigating the effect of developing those products and carrying out those processes. Clean water and clean air were the epitome of the environmental movement. We had rivers that caught fire and air that was caus- ing cancer. Even ordinary environments were visibly affected by industrial processes. It’s not surprising to me that a lot of old-line environmentalists have felt assailed by the deep-ecology, bio- regional, whole-systems perspective because single-issue environ- mentalism was a way to get through the day. It was a way to deal with that soft-shoe planet-murder. You could take a bath in your environmentalism and feel good. Environmentalism simply won’t be a twenty-first century consideration." - Peter Berg, Bioregionalism Comes to Japan 1998
April 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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a picture of abdullah ocalan, with the text "When we cease to produce for profit, we will have achieved the liberation of the world. This in turn will be the liberation of humanity and life itself." - Abdullah Ocalan, liberating life 2013
March 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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To authentically pursue reinhabitation, decolonization, and resolution, we have to take a holistic approach. Humans are part of nature, and human culture must be as diverse and abundant as the land we inhabit. We cannot live in a world without our trans siblings.
The cascadian flag, designed by alexander baretich in 1994, with the trans pride colors in the background
December 19, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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a picture of Abdullah Ocalan with the following text: "Nationalism and the nation-state are nothing more than the most reactionary idol running roughshod over the whole of humanity" - Abdullah Ocalan, Sociology of Freedom
November 23, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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From Chinuk Illahee to the sea, Palestine will be free.
a cascadian flag and palestinian flag hang side by side in a lush forest
November 22, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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A picture of Peter Berg with the following text: "Living-in-place is an age-old way of existence, disrupted in some parts of the world a few millennia ago by the rise of exploitative civilization, and more generally during the past two centuries by the spread of industrial civilization. It is not, however, to be thought of as antagonistic to civilization, in the more humane sense of that word, but may be the only way in which a truly civilized existence can be maintained -Peter Berg, Reinhabiting California"
November 7, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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A photo of Abdullah Ocalan with the following text: "Indeed, to kill the dominant man is the fundamental principle of socialism. This is what killing power means: to kill the one-sided domination, the inequality and intolerance. Moreover, it is to kill fascism, dictatorship and despotism. We should broaden this concept to include all these aspects. - Abdullah Ocalan, Liberating Life: The Woman's Revolution"
November 7, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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An image of Murray Bookchin with the following text: "Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. - Murray Bookchin, Desire and Need 1967"
November 7, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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An image of Peter Berg with the following caption: "The principal Planet Drum workshop is to talk to people about the difference between belonging to a nation and a state and belonging to a bioregion, and then helping them see where they live in bioreigonal terms by making a map. Well a bioregion is a cultural idea of a place where you live in ecological terms. It's necessary to say it in a new way, bioregion, because since the industrial era people have been so displaced from their natural surroundings that they don't have a sense of where the water comes from, where the soil is, where their food comes from. - Peter Berg, Maps With Teeth"
November 7, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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An image of Peter Berg with the following text: ""The colonialized part of the planet is the most dislocated. Australia for example, almost all of the borders for the districts of Australia are straight lines, and that's the result of colonization. And think of the straight lines in North America, the Canadian border with the US. It runs from the great lakes to the pacific, probably the longest straight line on the planet, and defoliated every year by treaty arrangements so there can be clear sight for a hundred yards across it in wilderness areas. It is insane. - Peter Berg, Maps With Teeth"
November 7, 2024 at 6:45 AM
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An image of Peter Berg with the following text: "There is a need for a cultural concept of a "bioregion." If the biosphere is the issue then how one lives in place (because places are the anatomical parts of the biosphere) becomes a primary consideration. Your head can be any place, but your feet have to be some place. Bioregion is a cultural concept, really, not a scientific concept. It should be up to the people to define a bioregion rather than having it come down from the institutional scientific elite. There should be a planetarian feel to it: that we will become reinhabitory people and we will begin redefining our locations in planetary terms for ourselves. The goal of reinhabitation in a bioregion would be to succeed at living in place, a future primitive planetarian mode. - Peter Berg, Bioregion and Human Location, Spring 1983"
November 7, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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An image of Peter Berg with the following text: "I can think of myself as a citizen of the city of San Francisco, in the state of California, in the United States of America, or, as inhabiting the Shashta bioregion at the mouth of the Sacramento river estuary, on the north pacific rim of the pacific basin, in the universe. I opt for that identity. I'm not going to buy into the other one. - Peter Berg, Ecology Emerges.
November 7, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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An image of Peter Berg laid over a nature portrait with the following text taken from his book "Bioregionalism: an introduction (2002): "Because it is a cultural idea, the description of a specific bioregion is drawn using information from not only the natural sciences but also many other sources. It is a geographic terrain and a terrain of consciousness. Anthropological studies, historical accounts, social developments, customs, traditions, and arts can all play a part. Bioregionalism utilizes them to accomplish three main goals: 1) restore and maintain local natural systems 2)practice sustainable ways to satisfy basic human needs such as good, water, energy, housing, and materials; and 3) support the work of reinhabitation. The latter is accomplished through proactive projects, employment and education, as well as by engaging in protests against the destruction of natural elements in a life-place."
October 26, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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This group has been on the decline for a long time and it seems lately Brandon has decided to destroy all good will and bioregional intention of the group. Supporting crypto and web3 nonsense is completely against the concept of bioregionalism. We denounce and distance ourselves from Brandon.
A screenshot of a tweet from the Cascadia Dept of Bioregionalism. It's an ad for a crypto coin and web3 venture capitalist with some previously unheard of groups.
October 26, 2024 at 6:20 PM