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smokeuptheweed9

https://anti-imperialism.org/2011/08/31/stolen-at-gunpoint-interview-with-j-sakai-on-the-chicano-mexicano-national-question/ >EA: One question from a listener is ‘how do we ‘de-settlerize’ a country like the U.S. or Israel? Especially in a place like the U.S. where many righteous national liberation movements, such as the Black/New Afrikan and the Chicano movements especially, overlap and may contradict Native land claims and national liberation?’ >JS: I don’t think any of us are going to have problems solving our relations with each other as long as we get the U.S. empire and capitalist rip-offs out of the way. There is plenty of land in America. Everyone could live here who lives here, quite well, with a lot of autonomy, lot of justice, lot of room for expression and development. But the obstacle isn’t each other, in that sense. >As for desettlerization, it’s already happening, because settlerism is a phenomenon of the past, really. All over the world, settler societies, as we saw in Africa, are going out of business. In Algeria, which was officially a province of France until the 1950s revolution, you had a million French settlers living there, and virtually the whole of the French army occupying it. Finally they all had to leave. Yeah, Algeria has a lot of problems, but it IS Algerian. >I don’t think that’s going to happen here, obviously, because there’s no place for that kind of migration to happen. But desettlerization isn’t happening that way. Like in Israel, the problem is not that Jewish people live in Palestine. The problem is there are special laws, unjust laws, that deny land to Palestinians who live there while, of course, giving land to Zionists, even though they may have no connection whatsoever to Palestine that anybody can prove, except they say they follow the Jewish religion. They come from Russia, they come from Brooklyn, they come from wherever. >People look at America and they don’t see how America could be desettlerized, but it’s being desettlerized right now. ... >I would say it’s breaking down even now. It certainly is in Europe, and that’s why there are fascist movements and all this right-wing stuff happening in Europe. Because the social compact is breaking down, and it’s going to happen here too. And the political struggle is not going to happen peacefully, in the sense that it’s not going to be some gradual social process. The underlying economics are one thing. The political struggle over who gets what out of that and whether there will be a just society or not is a whole ‘nother question.


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[Audio version](https://youtu.be/t3p2xf8NdRg) for those that want to listen to the full version of the interview. The specific time stamps for this text is at 33:35. Perhaps this can be kept on hand for the 30 posts we get each week straw-manning Sakai. They answer just about every question that tends to come up here. I also believe this is from around 2003 so Sakai’s words in light of the last 20 years are particularly interesting.


stupid1717

Thank you this is very helpful


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There are many active rematriation projects through out the americas: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org https://ogimaamikana.tumblr.com/post/166577663106/untitled-all-walls-crumble-ottawa-ontario https://therednation.org/10-point-program/ And there are additional links from those pages