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“Christopher Columbus is a symbol, not of a man, but of imperialism. ...
Imperialism and colonialism are not something that happened decades
ago or generations ago, but they are still happening now with the exploitation
of people. ... The kind of thing that took place long ago in which people were
dispossessed from their land and forced out of subsistence economies and into
market economies—those processes are still happening today.”

– John Mohawk,
Seneca, 1992

The Indians, Columbus reported, “are so naive and so free with their possessions
that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for
something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they offer to share
with anyone….”

From his base on Haiti, Columbus sent expedition after expedition into the
interior. They found no gold fields, but had to fill up the ships returning to
Spain with some kind of dividend. In the year 1495, they went on a great slave
raid, rounded up fifteen hundred Arawak men, women, and children, put them in
pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs, then picked the five hundred best specimens
to load onto ships. Of those five hundred, two hundred died en route. The rest
arrived alive in Spain and were put up for sale by the archdeacon of the town,
who reported that, although the slaves were “naked as the day they were born,”
they showed “no more embarrassment than animals.” Columbus later wrote: “Let us
in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.”

Mandarin	Danish
	Portuguese	Arabic
Polish		Tagalog and Farsi
Gott in Himmel!	Spanish and Tagalog
Expurgated version of our fêted "Bush is a Punk-Ass Chump" placard.	Congratulations, newlyweds!
It was a madhouse in front of the White House on Sunday! ( inside the White House too, lmao )


German	Bulgarian and Russian
Spanish	German. Check out those shades!
WTF?	WTF?	WTF?
Who can say the word "greed" and not smile?	Brand new sign in Slovenian! "Bush is a war criminal" You said it, Sister!	Brother showed up with homemade sign, picked a spot, and got the word out. Mad props out to you, my brother! We need more like you!
Korean	French
R.I.P. Writ of Habeas Corpus. Now that the fascists have gutted our Bill of Rights, it is legal to declare an American Citizen an "Enemy Combatant" and have him disappear. Death Squad specialist John Negroponte, after succussfully organizing death squads that killed tens of thousands in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Iraq, now has a free hand to operate his death squads in the United States of America. And can legally torture anyone he wishes before they disappear forever. It's the PNAC plan for global dominance.	Check out that unicycle.
	Swedish: Stop War!	Xaras! Guys with the same name…after a joke about being in Sweden and having the same name as everyone there!