When you fuck up enough to cause the Amish to hook up their buggies and come out to protest, you done fucked up.
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Wow. Thatās actually something. An actual tide has turned, if they are involving themselves in āEnglishā politics.
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Thatās what Adrian Dunn has been doing: re-imagining spirituals and gospel hymns as artistic memorials to those individuals. Hereās his composition for Philando Castile, for example:
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Chicago has been protesting since yesterday, including holding a car (for proper distancing) procession today from two different spots on the south side, and right now anyone who canāt be in one of those processions is honking and banging in support.
This is not a neighborhood that has been making noise for medical personnel prior to this. Itās easy, but also empty, to applaud people for doing the right thing. THIS, we know matters. This we will make noise for.
I cannot believe weāre still fighting for basic human and civil rights in the 21st century.
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Anyone got links for NZ or Canadian equivalents?
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That article is from 2014. The situation hasnāt changed.
The Saskatoon police initially insisted these were isolated incidents. But in 2003, police chief Russell Sabo admitted that there was a possibility that the force had been dumping First Nations people outside the city for years, after revealing that in 1976 an officer was disciplined for taking an Indigenous woman to the outskirts of the city and abandoning her there.[2]
I could keep going with suicide rates on reserves, the fact that a large portion of the population of Vancouverās Downtown East Side (DTES) is Indigenous (for those unaware, the DTES is the poorest postal code in the country, surrounded by some of the most expensive postal codes, including the high end shopping and hotels). The fact that water-quality issues on may reserves could rival Flint, Michigan, the open racism shown ā not just by white people mind, weāre just the worst for it ā to anyone Indigenous. I know someone who couldnāt even get people to consider renting to her when she used a last name that sounded Indigenous, but as soon as she changed to a white-sounding name, suddenly spaces opened up. This is not rare.
Just because weāre not rioting doesnāt mean we couldnāt be. Our countries have nothing to feel smug about.
ETA: letās not forget that the bulk of Canada is unceded territory. We are literally an occupying force on stolen land.
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Thatās just anti-Indigenous. We are also far more anti-Black and anti-Brown than our mythology would have you believe.
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Maori are 50% of the prison population while being 15% of New Zealandās population. One in 142 Maori are imprisoned.
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BTW: while general consciousness-raising stuff is good too, I was specifically thinking of fundraising and/or activism resources (like the FreeHer bail fund I linked) when I posted that bit.
Frustration over inability to affect the US situation got me thinking about trying to take action closer to home.
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Having trouble explaining all this to your kids?
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Another former President, showing what itās like to be a real leader:
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