As one pure-bred Marxist at the public university described it to me, Bolivia has to "decolonize" from the imperialist powers. From Wordnik.com. [Nathaniel Loewentheil: A Ballot of Bolivian Identity: Today's Presidential Election] Reference
Morales built his campaign on promises to nationalize natural resources and "decolonize" the economy, code words for rolling back the rules of gringo-sponsored capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Calculated Contradictions] Reference
The new constitution seeks to give the central government greater control over natural resources and "decolonize" the country by redistributing wealth and recognizing new rights for Bolivia's majority indigenous population. From Wordnik.com. [Bolivians Projected to Approve New Constitution] Reference
An official vote count will be announced Feb. Morales says the charter would "decolonize" Bolivia by championing indigenous values lost since the Spanish conquest. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
In the absence of an effective S aureus vaccine, many clinicians recommend various topical, intranasal, or systemic antimicrobial agents for patients with recurrent MRSA skin infections in an effort to "decolonize" them of MRSA. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
"decolonize" South America's poorest country by recovering indigenous values lost since the Spanish conquest. From Wordnik.com. [- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community] Reference
Any bid to decolonize all of Israel is not acceptable. From Wordnik.com. [Selling Out My Birthright | Jewschool] Reference
To decolonize or to embrace American and European civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Nathaniel Loewentheil: A Ballot of Bolivian Identity: Today's Presidential Election] Reference
So this war to decolonize Euro-empires will go on until the Middle East is decolonized. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Only Good News?] Reference
Europe did not conscientiously decolonize just to become a part of other people's empires. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Crisis] Reference
We need to decolonize our thinking and examine the underlying truths in more than just movies. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
At the same time, we will have to decolonize parts of the commons that have come under corporate control. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Cray: Galbraith and Challenging the Conventional Wisdom] Reference
Rather, he seeks to decolonize these institutions, and this means bringing them under the government's leash. From Wordnik.com. [How Obama Thinks] Reference
But for too many others, I feel the need to point out that we must decolonize our feminist view of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Decolonizing Feminism: International Women's Day] Reference
Privileging certain bodies has become a naturalized phenomenon and it takes a conscious effort to decolonize your mind. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
"To decolonize our minds we must not see our own experiences as little islands that are not connected with other processes.". From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH BY MINISTER GERALDINE FRASER-MOLEKETI ON THE SPEAKERS DEBATE: AFRICAN UNITY] Reference
As one grad student said: “When we started we wanted to save the university; today we want to transform it, to decolonize it, to open it up.”. From Wordnik.com. [Class Conflict] Reference
His central theme was that no new African nation, trying to decolonize itself, needed any political system that would permit division and bickering. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
Rather, it must support healing and capacity building within First Nations 'communities as well as endeavor to decolonize and repair the relationship with the Canadian state. From Wordnik.com. [Jamaal Bell: $10 Million Not Enough To Restore Justice and Dignity for Indigenous Women in Canada] Reference
The emerging African independent states, the colonial powers and practically all the rest of the world demanded of South Africa to fall in line with everybody else and decolonize. From Wordnik.com. [Détente in Africa] Reference
Doing anti-racist work is difficult enough without also expecting us to decolonize white minds that they can become better allies in the struggle against systemic racialized oppression. From Wordnik.com. [issues of abandonment. « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference
Evo Morales also said things Lincoln or any other U.S. president could or would never say, things like, "Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity" or "We need to decolonize internally and externally.". From Wordnik.com. [Roberto Lovato: The Importance of Being Evo Morales] Reference
And some three decades ago, the political leaders of modern Africa identified three major objectives as they became the first post-colonial African rulers: to decolonize the entire continent to promote unity to effect economic and social development. From Wordnik.com. [Bottle-Necks of Development in Africa] Reference
My first Sembene film was Camp de Thiaroye, quite subtle and lyrical in its exploration of ironies in the life of the colonized and the heavy price one pays to decolonize the mind, as in this historical account of a Senegalese brigade's uprising against the French colonials during World War II. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Only in Europe do we still need to decolonize our minds. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
We have to decolonize our territory and declare it free of Coca-Cola and Monsanto. From Wordnik.com. [Stop The ACLU] Reference
First Nations 'communities as well as endeavor to decolonize and repair the relationship with the Canadian state. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
The commons offers analyzing tools that arise from categories different to those of capitalism, therefore the concept helps to "decolonize our thinking.". From Wordnik.com. [OnTheCommons.org — Everything] Reference
A lot of the indigenous people with whom I've worked have said to me that the first and most important thing any of us needs to do is decolonize our hearts and minds. From Wordnik.com. [Orion Magazine Articles] Reference
The significance of this coup is that not only did it inspire other countries to revolt, it also lead to the suez canal being nationalized which caused the suez crisis which forced France and Britain to decolonize. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
TM system was designed to rapidly decolonize the noses of patients carrying the MRSA superbug, reducing the rate of MRSA transmission by a patient to their own surgical incisions as well as to other patients and healthcare workers. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
We must liberate socialist critical thought from bureaucratic-despotic Marxism and, at the same time, we must decolonize it from Eurocentric modernism and its ideas of progress, development, history, science, technology and knowledge, among others. From Wordnik.com. [Venepoetics] Reference
"decolonize" Bolivian society. From Wordnik.com. [t r u t h o u t] Reference
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