…is worth all of the words spilled about colonization since Columbus “discovered” North America.

Every element of colonialism is present here: armed force against peaceful people; protection of corporate property used to pollute and destroy ancestral lands; confiscation, both de facto and de jure. From Watling Island, Bahamas, 1492 to Elsipogtog, New Brunswick, Canada, 2013.

[via Pam Palmater]