Fundamental Political, Cultural, Historical Context for Understanding

These concepts and understandings are not easy for a lot of people in and outside of the USAmerican Settler Colony to accept. They are grounded in historical reality, though are constantly pushed back against to allow systems of oppression and exploitation to continue to operate without substantive  resistance.  That said, many individuals and organizations, movements do accept and operate with consciousness and principled integrity within these contexts which allows them a level of effectiveness in their work toward justice, liberation and freedom that others can and will not achieve.

• The USAmerica is a christian imperialist European settler colony founded in violence, genocide, land theft and brutal chattel enslavement.
• European capitalist colonialism and imperialism continues to devastate Indigenous peoples, the Global Majority, poor people everywhere and the Earth's ecosystems.
• White supremacy, racism and patriarchy are intersecting systems of violent oppression sustained within European colonialism to secure power, labor, land and resource access.
• Racism and patriarchy are global intersecting systems of power and control that empower and privilege European/white people and men while limiting access and autonomy to others. White people and men are negatively affected in differing ways. Whiteness is a problematic and damaging dynamic/identity. Men and masculinity can shed and heal from problematic behaviors and associations.
• Freedom and liberation require the dissolution and dismantling of oppressive ideas, systems, structures and (anti-)cultural processes. Peace will not be achieved without justice. Justice requires the liberation of humanity and all of Nature, the Earth.

Please contact me, as always, by email - ukumbwa@gmail.com - to talk about an introductory informational meeting to inquire about and begin work together 1-to-1 or with your organization, group or community toward the work that must be done and the outcomes we know in our hearts are necessary for the health and development of empowered social change. Thank you.

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