Inspired by Nora Loreto [again], I am starting to frame my vision for what Canada should be after C-51, the TRC report and the October 19, 2015 federal election. Here are my initial thoughts: I’d love it for the very foundation upon which Canada [sic] is built, to crumble! We
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Dead Wild Roses: Biker Gang Violence – Race Just Isn’t A Factor
Filed under: Racism Tagged: Media Bias, Racism, Violence in Society
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: TRC report: Canadian party leaders avoided term “cultural genocide”
Last week’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission report called Canada’s residential school policy “cultural genocide”. Reacting, both Trudeau and Mulcair avoided mentioning the two loaded words. The post TRC report: Canadian party leaders avoided term “cultural genocide” appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Video: Manitoba government urged to recognize the genocide and help heal the trauma
Winnipeg, June, 5, 2015: At the Manitoba Legislative Building, Maeengan Linklater answers journalists’ questions about his proposed Manitoba Indian Residential Schools Genocide and Reconciliation Memorial Day Act. Photo: Paul S. Graham Now that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has completed its work, and the major federal political parties
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Mohawk Institute and the Disturbing Silence of Stephen Harper
After following Stephen Harper's bestial political career for so long, I didn't think anything he did could shock me.But I must admit I was stunned by his strange silence at the closing ceremony of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.I wondered why a Canadian Prime Minister wouldn't say something, anything, to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Truth, Reconciliation, and the Shame of the Con Regime
They are images that should haunt every Canadian. Native children taken away from the parents by the RCMP and sent to residential schools with more cemeteries than playgrounds.And even though our generation wasn't to blame for that story of brutality and attempted cultural genocide, we can't look away or ignore the problem.Because
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America’s Racist Revolution
“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: How Do YOU Fight for Workplace Justice?
How do YOU define determination? One of them gave birth the day before the vote. As soon as her baby was nursing properly and her bloodwork came back okay, she made the trip to the hotel to vote. via Inside a union drive at The Trump Hotel | Toronto Star.
Continue readingWhy the U.S. can’t solve its race problem
Is the Unites States a racist society? This is a question the nation wrestles with as one young black man after another is killed by the police. But the question may in a sense be irrelevant. The current turmoil may be due less to lingering racism than to the ignoring
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Black Mom’s Tell White Mom’s About “The Race Talk”.
Women will bring peace to the world (if men don’t destroy it first) and they shall do it through understanding and listening to each other. Listen to the power of their words. “Ten black mothers sat on the stage in an auditorium and looked into a diverse crowd of
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Sadistic Police and Their Entitlements
If you wonder why police are losing respect as a credible element in a peaceful, democratic, civilized society, watch this video [the slightly longer version is here]. Not only does a white shirt pepper spray an unarmed man at almost point blank range, watch what else happens. The white shirt
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: To See Ourselves as Others See Us
Ask anyone in the Third World where, if they had their druthers, they would choose to live and their top choice, hands down, would be the United States. Ask those same people which nation is the greatest threat to world peace and they say, you guessed it, the United States.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Bill McKibben argues that Bernie Sanders’ run for the presidency should have massive positive impacts extending far beyond both Sanders’ central theme of inequality, and international borders to boot. And Salon interviews Joseph Stiglitz as to how inequality and the economy will affect
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: An Analogy For Understanding Violent Protest In Baltimore
Let’s say you live in an apartment building, and the only way to buy groceries was to order them and have them delivered to your apartment. Everyone is told “To place your order, simply call this toll free number, state your name, address, and what you want to purchase.” The
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dennis Howlett reminds us that we can raise enough money to strengthen our social safety net merely by ensuring that a relatively small group of privileged people pays its fair share. And Seth Stephens-Davidowitz examines the glaring nepotism which festers in the absence
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Benjamin Netanyahu and the Apartheid State
Benjamin Netanyahu may have won the Israeli election, by using fear and racism to get people to vote for him.Like his good buddy Stephen Harper is trying to do in Canada.But it is tuning out to be a pyrrhic victory.For while he may deny he is a racist. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the New Racist Canada
The snow is finally melting on the waterfront. If I close my eyes and feel the warm sun on my face, I can almost dream that Spring is here at last.Which is a good thing, because there isn't much else to celebrate in Canada these days.Not when the country is
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: How You May Be Able to Be a Better Feminist
I don’t need to add anything here. If you like/hate what you read, click the link and get up to speed on the rest of it! White feminists: this is a call for you to get your shit together. The point of equality isn’t to claw your way to the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Tom Mulcair, Bill C-51, and the Monstrous Xenophobia of Stephen Harper
It was good to see Tom Mulcair finally take a stand against the Con regime's totalitarian anti-terrorism bill. Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair says the NDP will fight the Conservative government's new anti-terrorism bill when it goes before the House on Wednesday and pushed for the Liberals to do the same. After
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Looking for Heroes?
I’ve been watching The Book of Negroes this week. I have no words. I only recognize justice, integrity, brutality, acknowledgement, witnessing, story telling and a myriad of other foggy responses. It’s easy to also ponder qualities of heroes. Then I read this from earlier this week, and nodded. Do you
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