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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 3h

13 year old Alison Bridges remembered a game warden "grabbed me by the hair and he started to slam my head into the log."

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 3h

On this day in 1965, a fish-in upholding Treaty rights is held at Frank's Landing, Nisqually territory. Women and children are among those arrested. Photos and footage of the game warden's brutality leads to increased support for the fishing struggle. anticolonialhistory.com/event/239/

Puyallup Tribal Historical Preservation Department

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Full-scale nuclear weapons testing did not resume after the protest.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Western Shoshone National Council the year prior issued a worldwide plea for help in putting a stop to nuclear testing on Native lands. Shoshone leaders were concerned because the cancer rate among their tribe living at the site is 42 percent higher than the national average.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Demonstrators also included survivors of nuclear bombs dropped on Japan during World War II and US veterans who were exposed to atomic fallout while in the military.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Demonstrators included representatives of Indigenous peoples from the former Soviet republic of Kazakhastan, one of two places used for nuclear testing in the former Soviet Union.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They planned actions and demonstrations, eventually using culverts and other means to enter the Test Site where 530 were arrested by Wackenhut Security forces on charges of trespassing.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

At the invitation of the Western Shoshone Tribe and Corbin Harney, an anti-nuclear activist and spiritual leader for the Newe people, ~3,000 protesters from 12 different countries gathered for "Healing Global Wounds".

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

On this day in 1992, thousands attend an anti-nuclear protest in solidarity with the Western Shoshone people at the Nevada Test Site. anticolonialhistory.com/event/273/

Newe Segobia (Western Shoshone lands) damaged at the Nevada Test Site

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Although best remembered for his civil rights work, Gregory understood intersectionality and put himself on the line for myriad causes including anti-nuclear work, against Apartheid South Africa, and prison reform. He was married for more than 50 years and had 10 children.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In 1966 he was arrested for assisting the Nisqually in asserting their Treaty rights to fish, for which he was sentenced to 6 months unlike another celebrity, Marlon Brando.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

He was influential in the struggle against the Vietnam War and is remembered as a celebrity who not only put his money and reputation on the line but put his body on the line, being arrested many times alongside the people he struggled with.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Gregory toured to raise funds for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s 1964 Freedom Summer and participated in a 1965 freedom rally on the last night of the Selma to Montgomery March.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

He was an ally and friend of Medgar Evers and of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who described his contributions to the civil rights struggle as “so dedicated and significant” that the movement would “always remain indebted to [him].”

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

On this day in 1932, comedian and activist Dick Gregory is born in St. Louis. A successful comedian who broke barriers, he used his platform and influence to raise awareness on various political issues from civil rights to Native sovereignty. anticolonialhistory.com/event/363/

Dick Gregory, image from the New York Daily Times

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Bogle and another leader George William Gordon were hanged for their part in the uprising. Beyond Bogle being remembered as a national hero in Jamaica for his resistance leadership, the uprising also led to major changes in the government structure in Jamaica.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In the aftermath of the uprising, the governor declared martial law, sending troops who destroyed Stony Gut and Bogle's chapel, killing more than 400 persons outright across the parish, including women and children and arresting more than 300 people.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The protesters set fire to the courthouse and nearby buildings. When those inside tried to leave, several were killed by the angry mob outside; a total of 25 on both sides died that day.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

On 11 October 1865, there was a meeting of opposition in the Court House. Bogle and hundreds of followers, armed with sticks and machetes marched to confront them. The authorities had mustered a volunteer militia, who fired into the protesters after stones were thrown, killing seven men.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Two days later warrants were issued for Bogle and other's arrest for rioting. Police arriving in Stony Gut to make the arrests were met with resistance and forced to retreat to Morant Bay again.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

On 7 October 1865, Bogle and some supporters attended a trial of two men from Stony Gut. One was convicted and sentenced to prison on charges of trespassing on a long abandoned plantation. Bogle and supporters took to the market square where the police were severely beaten and forced to retreat.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A main leader of the uprising was Paul Bogle, now a national hero to Jamaica, a Baptist deacon and activist concentrated on improving the lot of the poor.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In 1865 in Jamaica there was widespread poverty and racial injustice. While emancipation had been enacted on 1 August 1834, many Black Jamaicans were essentially unable to vote due to poll taxes and oppressed in nearly every possible way by the upper class.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

On this day in 1865, the Morant Bay rebellion against poverty and state repression began in Jamaica. anticolonialhistory.com/event/337/

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

His execution triggered international outrage and led to Nigeria's suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations for more than three years. In 2009, Shell agreed to an out-of-court settlement of US $15.5 million to victims' families.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

At the peak of his non-violent campaign, he was tried by a special military tribunal for allegedly masterminding the murder of Ogoni chiefs at a pro-government meeting, and was hanged in 1995 by the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Initially as a spokesperson, then as the president, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by international oil companies, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Ogoni people's homeland, Ogoniland, is in the Niger Delta and has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s, suffering extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

On this day in 1941, Ogoni Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and social rights activist, Kenule (Ken) Beeson Saro-Wiwa is born. anticolonialhistory.com/event/382/

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This treaty led to Lord Dunmore's War, which was a short war of resistance against the settlers and land speculators flooding the area south of the Ohio River.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

However, other Native inhabitants of the area were not consulted nor did they agree with opening this area to settlement. Namely, the Shawnee, Lenape, Mingo, and Wyandot peoples were not signatories.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Haudenosaunee leaders and the British hoped this would end border hostilities between the settlers who were encroaching into the area anyway and the Indigenous peoples whose land it was.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Later, in 1768, at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, Haudenosaunee leaders and Great Britain agreed to move the Proclamation Line to follow the Ohio River, opening much of what would become West Virginia and Kentucky to settlement.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

At the conclusion of Pontiac's Rebellion, the Proclamation Line was established (1763), creating 'Indian Country' and meant to keep settlers on the east side of the Appalachian's.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The battle was fought between the Virginia militia and Shawnee and Mingo warriors led by Hokoleskwa (Cornstalk). Hokoleskwa was previously involved in Pontiac's Rebellion, which was a major factor in Lord Dunmore's war.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

On this day in 1774, the Battle of Point Pleasant takes place, the only major battle in what's known as Lord Dunmore's War. Although the Shawnee and Mingo resistance in this case was unsuccessful it laid the stage for the Northwest Confederacy and future wars. anticolonialhistory.com/event/121/

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/10/2026

#OtD 10 Oct 1922 Puerto Rican strike leader and women's rights advocate Luisa Capetillo died of TB aged 43. She had taken part in many strikes, including the highly successful sugarcane strike of 1916 which won 13% pay increases stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8244...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/10/2026

#OtD 10 Oct 1947 a strike began by Black African railway workers. The strike spread throughout the whole of French West Africa (Senegal, Benin, Ivory Coast & Guinea). It lasted 5 months till workers won many concessions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8246...

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*Clarification: She moved back to America just before the Civil War broke out and then recruited Black soldiers during it.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

After her husband died in 1860, she and her children returned to the United States. During the American Civil War, at the behest of the abolitionist Martin Delany, she served as a recruiting officer to enlist Black volunteers for the Union Army in the state of Indiana.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In 1858, she was a member of the Chatham Vigilance Committee that fought to prevent former slaves from being returned to the United States and brought back into slavery (or people who were never enslaved falsely accused of being escaped slaves), such as in the case of Sylvanus Demarest.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

She encouraged Black Americans to relocate to Canada to fight the institution of slavery from there.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, she and her family immigrated to Canada. In 1853, she started The Provincial Freeman, a newspaper focused on Black issues in Canada and anti-slavery work in America.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Notably, she wrote a letter to Frederick Douglass in which she critiqued the tendency to be focused on much talk, but little action.

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Her parents were free Black abolitionists active in the movement and used their home as a stop on the Underground Railroad. From a young age, she was involved with her parents in educating young Black children and she wrote for Black newspapers.

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