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Journal, -  Apr 06, 2018

Journal 2018-04-06 – Nobody owns the land

Journal 2018-04-06

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbCar3aGadc&feature=youtu.be John Trudell on European tribes and what happened

How to forgive myself and my ancestors for becoming the colonizers – because we were the colonized. He describes how captured people first submitted their bodies, then submitted their minds and beliefs – and then all is lost.

http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/israel-just-american/#sthash.F2e6PJXM.gbpl

American Jews are harshly criticizing Israel. Finally.

“Right to exist” is questioned. Well it should be. One nomadic pastoral people, Jews, millennia ago, decided to settle down on land occupied by another pastoral people, Palestinians whatever they called them then. I believe God told them to do it. They claimed ownership of the land.

Nobody owns the land.

This is the first and fundamental mistake.

Like Europeans entering the Americas, claiming it because the inhabitants knew better than to objectify and “own” it – it’s not exactly the same but worth mentioning. The Doctrine of Discovery is closer – Christians have the right to kill and dispossess everybody else… Jews, the Chosen People, have that right.

Like Europeans enclosing the commons, so a person could not live off the land as they had done for generations, – but here it’s by race, not only by class.

May this awakening continue. May American Jews remember what Judaism really means, and may they remember that we are wanderers on the face of the earth.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/04/04/news/transcanada-shuts-down-keystone-after-oil-seeps-surface

And the Keystone pipeline refuses to behave properly. I thought, “Is it possible that the earth herself is rising up?”

https://returntonow.net/2018/02/28/trees-talk/

Trees talk to each other and support each other. Forester Suzanne Simard. I look forward to the day she gets the Nobel Prize, because she already deserves it. EVERYONE IS A SENTIENT BEING!

https://www.gq.com/story/patagonia-trump-lawsuit

Patagonia is suing the Trump administration for undoing monument protection for several lands. There has never been a legal case on this before. I was just encouraged. And I’ll look into buying from Patagonia, the next time I actually buy new stuff.

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