Fuck Canada Day

[sabotabby]

 I'm never, as you might have guessed, big on Canada Day, or any performative act of patriotism. This year, I'll be spending it at a march to commemorate the children who died at residential schools and to honour the survivors of those schools.

Yesterday, the ʔaq̓am community of the Ktunaxa Nation found another 182 unmarked graves using ground-penetrating radar. As far as I know, it's the impoverished Indigenous communities themselves that are paying for these investigations—both the wealthy Canadian state and the wealthy churches that ran these death camps would be happy to let those kids lie buried and be forgotten altogether.

Anyway. Land Back. Decolonize. Tax the churches and make them pay. Put the surviving culprits on trial for their crimes against humanity. Bring the kids home. Truth first, then we can talk about reconciliation.

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[gingicat]

Amen.

[sabotabby]

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[nyctanthes]

Yes.

[sabotabby]

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[minoanmiss]

YES.

[sabotabby]

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[kore]

Amen indeed.

[sabotabby]

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[rdi]

✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

[sabotabby]

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[symbioid]

That's the thing that really gets me, and yes I know the US has its share of issues with native rights that we need to deal with, even if our perception is "it's in the 1800s trail of tears, we're all fine now" (we're not)...

But this is a clear genocidal act into the 80s, and yes you need to bring these fuckers to justice.

Is it true churches are burning? Or at least a church? that's pretty nifty. would be a pity if there were more.

[sabotabby]

Yes, multiple churches have been set on fire. Justifiably so.