Voting is Not Harm Reduction An Indigenous Perspective February 2020 ā www.indigenousaction.org Zine format printable PDF download:Ā Voting
Great read for those who believe that we will liberate ourselves as marginalized peoples or reduce violence against us by engaging in US Imperialist democracy and voting blue this election.
āThe idea of a ballot being capable of reducing the harm in a system rooted in colonial domination and exploitation, white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, and capitalism is an extraordinary exaggeration. There is no person whose lives arenāt impacted everyday by these systems of oppression, but instead of coded reformism and coercive āget out the voteā campaigns towards a āsaferā form of settler colonialism, weāre asking āwhat is the real and tragic harm and danger associated with perpetuating colonial power and what can be done to end it?ā
