(Interview) https://inthesetimes.com/article/art-commons-aja-monet-poetry-maroons-love-resistance-legacy

#AjaMonet #art #Commons #FirstNations #Maroons #Poetry #Resistance

Queensland former rugby league player Trevor Gillmeister charged over alleged assault

Queensland retired rugby league player and Seven News rugby league analyst Trevor Gillmeister has been charged after …
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #alleged #arrest #Assault #AU #Australia #Brisbane #brisbaneCBD #brisbanepub #Broncos #charges #Charlotte #court #Maroons #physical #publicnuisance #qld #Queensland #staffmember #stateororigin #stockexchange #street #TrevorGillmeister
https://www.newsbeep.com/255805/

Accompong Town Starlinked Hurricane #Melissa creates opportunity for #Maroons to build out #Internet infrastructure www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/11/10/a...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gk6rmhqrprzk5zwmt46lbndk/post/3m5fghajp3c2t

Accompong Town Starlinked - Ja...

Out of Context: *The Maroons of Suriname*

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9qcWBzpmP_s

"Deep within the rainforest of South America, live groups of people who have guarded their African traditions, language and spirituality for over two centuries. Known as Maroons, these escaped slaves defied a global empire to win their independence and become masters of their realm. Until recently, their lands were off-limits to outsiders, shrouded in mystery. Join us as we step into their world to tell the incredible story of the Maroons of Suriname.

References
Saamaka Dreaming, Richard Price and Sally Price, 2017
John Gimlette, Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge, 2011
John Hemming, Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, 2008
Charles C. Mann, 1491: The Americas Before Columbus, 2005
Charles C. Mann, 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World, 2011
McNeill, J. R, Mosquito Empires; Ecology and War in the Greater Carribbean, 2010
English colonies in Guiana and on the Amazon, 1604-1668, James A. Williamson, 1923"

#maroons #Surinam #Suriname #Saramaka #Marrons #dutch #slavery

@CA_Politics_Huddle

July 7th Daily Bulletin 🧵 14/14

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Left of Black | A World Beyond Policing with Celeste Winston on Black Maroons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0AwUXQjKc&list=PLBEF73A21DAA138AF&index=4&t=7s

#AbolishThePolice #marronage #maroons

A Different Revolution
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/04/a-different-revolution/
There were two original sins that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin. By Ace Thelin Special to Consortium News It’s long past time Americans face the truth…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Books #CivilRights #Commentary #History #HumanRights #IndigenousPeople #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Abolitionists #AceThelin #ColonialRulingClass #FoundingFathers #GeraldHorne #GloriousRevolution #IndependenceDay #Maroons #NedBlackhawk #Shay’sRebellion #SlaveOwners #SlaveTrade #ThomasJefferson #WarForIndependence

In Marronage Lies the Search of a World

by Malcom Ferdinand: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/1/182/294316

#reservations #silenciation #responsibility #emancipation #religions #whiteness #coloniality #modernity #separation #ecology #environmentalism #natives #indigènes #autochtones #maroon #marronage #MalcomFerdinand #AndreasMalm #Malm #wilderness #nature #decolonial #GreenSpaces #Maroons #colonization #imaginaries #systemicRacism #lynching #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #BlackMastodon #plantation #plantationism #agroForestry #structuralRacism #decolonialRead #longRead #gardening #Antilles #Caribbean #environmentalJustice

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Eddie Gerard ✧

Eddie Gerard (February 22, 1890 – August 7, 1937) was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he played professionally for ten seasons for the Ottawa Senators, as a left winger for three years before switching to defence. He was the first player to win the Stanley Cup four years in a row, fro...

#StanleyCup #OttawaSenators #Ottawa #MontrealMaroons #Maroons #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gerard

A Desolate Place For A Defiant People: The Archaeology Of #Maroons, Indigenous Americans, And Enslaved Laborers In The #GreatDismalSwamp

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/great-dismal-swamp/
#Maroons

It’s interesting that the land titles for active communities of descendants of escapees from chattel slavery, as is the case in #Jamaica, #Suriname, #FrenchGuiana and #Brazil, are the closest that many American countries have gotten to the hypothetical “40 acres and a mule”. #40AcresAndAMule #slavery #maroons #quilombola

Oh look, the Mennonites are still colonizing new rainforest land with help from militaries for purposes of farm cultivation and endangering the #Indigenous people and #Maroons now in #Suriname :blobcatangery:

[dutch lang] https://www.culturu.com/nieuws/suriname/mennonieten-in-suriname-vormen-bedreiging-voor-bos-en-bewoners-2/

A common tactic of anti-anarchist debate trolls is to demand examples of successful anarchist or non-state societies, their point being apparently that in the putative real world these would invariably become Mad Max or Somalia. Facts won't convince the aggressively ignorant, of course, but examples aren't hard to find. Just for instance maroons -- escaped slaves who established communities outside of state control -- in the Americas from the 16th century on are really interesting in this context and there's a ton of literature -- search "maroon" on libgen. I'm currently reading Daniel Sayers on marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp -- straddling the Virginia/North Carolina border -- from 1607-1860, which is fascinating. Here's a quote about one such community, maybe anarchist, maybe not, but definitely non-state and definitely persistent.

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Life among scissioners and their communities was as minimally alienating as one can imagine—but, more important, perhaps as minimally alienating as any people have ever managed to achieve in the modern world. These were not communes that lasted a decade or so but rather communities and metacommunities that persisted across several generations, even if they did change during that long period.

The archaeological residues of this long-vanished mode of communitization at one site in particular, referred to as the nameless site, have yielded unassailable direct evidence, and much more additional indirect evidence, for a Diasporic community of individuals who followed rules of their own making and acceptance; who maintained community organization and coherence by generating custom and tradition; who labored for themselves and their fellow scissioners; and who existed as beings possessed of true consciousness, in the Marxian sense of truthful or accurate comprehension of the world around them derived from critical awareness of its real social conditions.

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http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2CC9C4BD690D8CF9568796BD8E240CE9

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Slavery #Virginia #NorthCarolina #GreatDismalSwamp #Maroons #Marronage

But in better news, I finished #maroons by #adriennemareebrown last night. It was so good!! I can’t wait for the third book to come out. Now I’m listening to #TenStepsToNanette and it’s also excellent.

I finished #grievers by #adriennemareeebrown and started #maroons. amb is consistently one of the most engaging and thought provoking writers I’ve read - everything I’ve read of hers has shifted my thinking and helped me see the world differently. This series is so rich and full of so much emotional depth. #amreading #bookstodon

QUEENSLANDER!!!

#SOO #QLDer #NSWblues #Maroons

(Wallpaper by @maseydesign)

Tyson Fury is ready to come off the back fence for the Maroons next week, or, at the very least, bring back the biff. #tysonfury #maroons #qld #queensland #stateoforigin @tysonfury https://www.instagram.com/p/Csr44WXKnDv/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

https://archive.org/details/theycalledusbrigands

They Called Us Brigands: The Saga of St. Lucia's Freedom Fighters by Robert J. Devaux; Patrick A.B. Anthony

Topics
#brigandage, #brigands, #Ioüanalao, #Iyonola, #Hewanarau, #Hewanorra, #StLucia, #SaintLucia, #LesserAntilles, #Caribbean, #Martinique, #Guadeloupe, #maroonage, #maroons, #marronage, #blackchattelslavery, #war, #guerrillawarfare, #guerrillawar, #guerrillas, #Caribbeanhistory, #NègMawon, #britishimperialism, #frenchimperialism, #colonialism

The Black freedom fighters of the Lesser Antilles became known as “brigands” during the french revolution. Their fascinating story has never been written, perhaps because they have been dismissed as runaway slaves in a state of insurrection. The author believed that history has been unfair to the “brigands”. He felt indebted to them for sparing the life of his great-great-great-grandmother who was left in their care when the rest of the Devaux family fled to Martinique for safety. His gratitude motivated him to attempt to exonerate the “brigands” from the stigma of their history and present them in a different light, as freedom fighters caught up in a desperate situation.

https://archive.org/details/thedominicastory

The Dominica Story: A History of the Island by Lennox Honychurch

Topics
#Dominica, #Caribbean, #blackchattelslavery, #slavery, #history, #frenchcolonialism, #britishcolonialism, #Kalinago, #geography, #ecology, #folklore, #Waitukubuli, #maroons, #maroonwars, #marronage

The Dominica Story was first presented by Lennox Honychurch as a dramatised radio series tracing the origin and development of this often mysterious island from its volcanic formation up until its present. History has been interwoven with geography, ecology, folklore and social custom to produce a concise and colourful work which is not only vital to our knowledge of Dominica but to Caribbean history as a whole.

"Paradoxically, then, to minimize the negative impact of this contact with the larger society they had to create a web of connections to it in order to better protect their own interests, be they physical, mental, sentimental, familial, communal, or commercial. It was a complex, difficult balancing act."

-Silviane Diouf, Slavery's Exiles, p306
#maroons #slaveresistance

#maroons and #pirates as masterless #people? https://longreads.com/2018/10/30/the-masterless-people-pirates-maroons-and-the-struggle-to-live-free/ - should #ronins be mentioned here in masterless context?