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raging-guanche · 1 year

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remember this fucking face

be careful googling his name, he's Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo.

He murdered in the streets, in daylight, a disabled black man called Alika Ogorchukwu who was just trying to sell his products.

Alika said to Giuseppe's fiancee if she could give him an euro or buy him any clothing, this garbage of human took that as harassment for some reason and took it as reason enough to murder and rob him.

Alika was knew by locals, he was kind and a hardworking father and husband, not problematic or a bad person, just a typical father of family.

Alika Ogorchukwu, Nigerian disabled man murdered.

this happened on july 2022, in Italy.

this is heartbreaking.

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this post has way more information about what happened, sorry, my English is very chunky and i was very mad while writing this post, i didn't know how to explain.

#blm #blm ally #bipoc issues #black lives matter #black lives are human lives #black lives still matter #blacklivesmatter

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nerdby · 8 months

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This was a really insightful commentary on racial tensions in the BIPOC community, and I loved seeing the dude call out white people's performative activism. It was a good reminder for me to be better. It was also a good review of the Rush Hour franchise and pointed out some things about the franchise that I wasn't aware of in the past. I really no had no idea, though, that the movie isn't well-known among white audiences.

That's sad -- y'all are missing out🤷🏻‍♀️

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sparksinthenight · 3 months

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Have a Heart Day 2024

This is a letter I wrote to the Canadian Government for Have a Heart Day 2024. I am asking the government to stop discriminating against First Nations children, to stop giving them inadequate services, education, and support, to stop treating them unequally compared to non-Indigenous children, and to stop taking them away from their loving families. I really hope that you read my letter and that you either copy paste it or write your own, and email the Canadian government yourself.

Hello. Our names are ____ and we are people from various parts of so-called Canada. We are writing to you to ask that you ensure the government stops discriminating against First Nations children, by signing a Final Settlement Agreement on Reform that meets and goes beyond the Agreement in Principle on Reform, and by following the Spirit Bear Plan and enshrining it into law.

First Nations children and families on reserves are being discriminated against in many ways. Most communities do not receive the same amount of and access to social services that non-Indigenous people receive. Most communities do not receive as good quality social services as non-Indigenous people. While there has been progress, Jordan's Principle, which is about meeting children's needs, is still not being properly applied. Most children don't have access to an equal quality of education as children off reserves, and many children receive very inadequate education services. And, very horrifyingly, children are being separated from families who love them and want to take care of them. This all needs to stop. We need to make, follow, and enforce laws that stop this discrimination.

First of all, let's talk about the fact that social services are inadequate on most reserves. As you know, the federal government funds services on reserves that the provincial or municipal governments fund elsewhere. The government generally funds services on reserves far less than services are funded off reserves. These include education, water infrastructure, housing, financial assistance, transportation, basic infrastructure, utilities, healthcare, mental healthcare, addiction support, job training, childcare, youth programs, cultural programs, recreation programs, libraries, child welfare, and more. These services are human rights and should be well-funded for everyone. It's not fair that non-Indigenous people have better services to better meet more of their fundamental human rights and basic needs while people on reserves don't.

The fact that people don't have access to the services they need is part of why there are high levels of poverty on reserves. Ongoing and historical racism, trauma, and discrimination have caused a lot of people on reserves to be poor. And this lack of services is part of that discrimination that is causing people to be poor. If people had the healthcare, education, housing, childcare, mental healthcare, addiction support, cultural support, job training, basic food and water, disability support, and other things they needed, they would be able to have the peace of mind, mental strength, knowledge, support, and resources necessary to pull themselves and their communities out of poverty. Also, since there is so much poverty on reserves, these communities need even more services to help meet their basic needs and human rights.

Services delivered need to be good and effective for the communities they are delivered in. This means that services need to meet each community's different needs. Because each community has different needs due to different connectivity to the outside world, poverty levels, local prices, etc. Service providers need to first see what services people need and how to best deliver them, then work out how much money is needed. Money should be the last thing considered. What each person, family, and community needs should be the first thing considered. And of course, services must all be culturally sensitive and relevant.

And part of why services are so low quality, as well as part of why so much discrimination and cruelty happens, is because Indigenous Services Canada has biases in its systems and people, and must be reformed. Indigenous Services Canada doesn't listen to experts about what communities need and how things should be done. They don't try to do their actual job, which is ensuring good services are provided to Indigenous people. They need to be reformed and communities need to lead their own service provision.

The Spirit Bear plan must be properly implemented and properly followed. It must be enshrined in law and the law must be completely enforced. The Spirit Bear Plan is the following:

"Spirit Bear calls on:

CANADA to immediately comply with all rulings by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordering it to immediately cease its discriminatory funding of First Nations child and family services. The order further requires Canada to fully and properly implement Jordan's Principle (www.jordansprinciple.ca).

PARLIAMENT to ask the Parliamentary Budget Officer to publicly cost out the shortfalls in all federally funded public services provided to First Nations children, youth and families (education, health, water, child welfare, etc.) and propose solutions to fix it.

GOVERNMENT to consult with First Nations to co-create a holistic Spirit Bear Plan to end all of the inequalities (with dates and confirmed investments) in a short period of time sensitive to children's best interests, development and distinct community needs.

GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS providing services to First Nations children and families to undergo a thorough and independent 360° evaluation to identify any ongoing discriminatory ideologies, policies or practices and address them. These evaluation must be publicly available.

ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS including those at a senior level, to receive mandatory training to identify and address government ideology, policies and practices that fetter the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action." This information is from the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society.

Another huge factor contributing to the inequality faced by many First Nations children is the fact that Jordan's Principle isn't being properly implemented.

The federal government, not the provincial government, typically pays for the services on reserves. But many times disputes arise about who should pay for a service, and the children don't get the services non-Indigenous children would get as a matter of course. Jordan's Principle is named after Jordan River Anderson, a young disabled boy from Norway House Cree Nation who passed away in the hospital after the provincial government and the federal government couldn't decide which one should pay the costs of his healthcare. The Principle states that if a First Nations child needs something for their well-being, they need to be given that service first and payment disputes should get addressed later. This includes medical, psychological, educational, cultural, disability, and basic needs support. Non-Indigenous children get these supports without having to ask because they have access to many more and better services. These supports are human rights that everyone deserves, especially children going through generational and contemporary trauma.

Jordan's Principle is not being properly implemented, and this is hurting kids. Though there has been much progress, Jordan's Principle requests, which are for things children need, are often denied, which goes against children's rights. Indigenous Services Canada, which runs the Jordan's Principle approval process, doesn't have an adequate complaints mechanism to hold to account its provision of the Principle. The government isn't making data available on whether they're meeting children's needs. Many children have delays in getting help, including time-sensitive medical, psychological, educational, and development help.

The application process, though easier than before, is still difficult and many families don't have adequate help and guidance through it. As well, most doctors don't know which children are eligible for Jordan's Principle supports, 40% don't know which services are covered, and ⅓ don't know how to access funding through it.

Long term reform is needed. An Agreement in Principle on long term reform has been drafted by the government and First Nations advocates, and it looks promising. It talks about increasing funding for Jordan's Principle services and trying to root out prejudice in the system. But the Agreement in Principle is not legally binding. It's not something the government has to follow, or is following, but rather what they claim they might do eventually. Negotiations for the creation of a Final Settlement Agreement based on the Agreement in Principle were underway but have been on standstill for months. A Final Settlement Agreement would be legally binding and would if done right increase the chances of achieving change.

The school system is also horribly unfair. Many First Nations schools on reserves get less funding than schools off reserve, with an average of 30% less funding per school. They don't have adequate funding for computers, software, technology, sports equipment, field trips, labs, lab equipment, extracurriculars, cultural learning, job training, and the list goes on. They don't even have enough money to have adequate heating, good quality infrastructure, adequate and safe ventilation, enough textbooks, and reasonable class sizes. Many schools don't have a safe and appropriate learning environment. All children, including First Nations children, deserve good education.

There is no clear plan to eliminate education and employment gaps.

The government claims it's negotiating with Indigenous groups but there's no evidence that they're actually doing anything to lower inequality. They also claim that they're funding education on reserves equally but all the evidence says they're not. You need to actually, genuinely fund education on reserves adequately and equitably, and make sure that children on reserves are actually receiving a good and equal and equitable quality of education.

A lot of communities don't have self-determination over their own education systems, meaning they can't teach about the history of their people and other important cultural knowledge. First Nations children need and deserve to learn about their culture, about the ecosystems their people are connected to and how to interact with those ecosystems, their history, their language, their traditions. And if communities have self-determination over their own education systems, and they have adequate resources and funding from the government, they'll be able to teach these things so that children grow up proud of who they are.

And what is perhaps the most horrible thing is that so many children are being separated from families who love them. This is the most traumatic thing that can happen to a child, and all children deserve and need to be with the families who love them.

At the height of residential schools, many children were separated from their families. Currently, 3 times as many children are in foster care, away from their families. One tenth of First Nations children have been in foster care. Children in foster care experience higher rates of physical and sexual abuse and do not get as much cultural immersion. Not to mention, even in the best circumstances, they're away from their families.

Most Indigenous children in foster care have loving families that try their best to take care of them, who they want and need deeply. But their families are poor or mentally ill or disabled, or have other factors that make it hard for them to meet their children's needs. Preventative support like financial, housing, health, and mental health aid could keep many families together. If child and family service agencies have the resources and the empathy to help families with what they need so that families stay together, that would be a great relief. Child and family service agencies need adequate money, infrastructure, and personnel to give families real help instead of taking children away. Most agencies do not have these. Programs that help the wider community such as healthcare, financial aid, housing services, mental healthcare, parenting classes, food support, community programs, youth programs, cultural programs, pregnancy support, and others would greatly decrease the number of children taken from their homes. Most communities do not have adequate levels of these programs.

Child and family service agencies need to be completely reformed, and should be led by First Nations communities themselves. Most child and family service agencies are not. This is especially important since there is bias against First Nations people in many agencies. Some communities are getting the opportunities to start their own child and family service agencies, but most communities do not have this opportunity. Canada needs binding laws to ensure child and family service agencies are led by First Nations communities and are based in the unique culture of each community, which they often aren't. Each community has unique needs depending on local prices, remoteness, poverty levels, and other factors. The way child and family services should be funded is by first seeing what services the children truly need, then seeing how to best deliver them, then determining how much money will be needed.

There is a promising Agreement in Principle on Reform, created by the government and First Nations advocates. It discusses increasing funding for child welfare services and trying to root out prejudice in the system. However this is not a legally binding agreement that the government has to follow. It's just something that they claim they'll maybe do in the future. A Final Settlement Agreement based on the Agreement in Principle would be legally binding. It would, if done right, enact more funding and reform. But negotiations for this have been on pause for months. Canada needs to implement evidence-based solutions to keep kids with their families. This means creating a legally binding and well-enforced Final Settlement Agreement on Reform that meets and goes beyond the Agreement in Principle on Reform.

Some communities are trying a new funding model for child and family services that may give more funding, allowing them to do more preventative services instead of taking children away. However, the results of this new funding model are not clear yet, and most communities do not have the opportunity to be funded by it. And there is no guarantee that the new funding model will be applied to all communities if it indeed does work. There is no guarantee that enough funding for prevention services will be given to all communities, whether or not the new funding model works.

The government often promises to create reform or adequately fund things, but they don't follow through on those promises. If the government does make progress, safeguards need to be in place to stop them from backsliding.

So here are our asks for you:

-Implement the Spirit Bear plan and adequately fund all social services on reserves.

-Make sure all services are available de facto just like they are off reserve.

-Fund cultural services and make sure all services are culturally-rooted.

-Eliminate all discrimination and bias in service providers.

-Listen to experts such as doctors and teachers, the community, and community-led service providers.

-Allow and help First Nations communities to lead their own social services rooted in their own cultural values.

-Keep funding flexible and adaptable to changing needs.

-Have adequate accountability measures for all service providers.

-Make a binding law to adequately fund all social services and have communities lead social service provision.

-Create a binding law to ensure that once you start adequately funding social services you don't stop.

-In a reasonable timeframe, reach a Final Settlement Agreement on Long-Term Reform that meets and goes beyond the Agreement in Principle.

-Make sure all Jordan's Principle requests in the best interests of children are accepted.

-Give presumptive approval for Jordan's Principle requests under $250.

-Support organizations and communities already providing Jordan's Principle services.

-Accept urgent requests within 12 hours and non urgent requests within 48 hours.

-Don't require more than one document from a professional or elder for making requests.

-Make data available on Jordan's Principle provision effectiveness.

-Make sure all supports are given in a timely manner without delays.

-Make it easy and convenient for families and professionals to make Jordan's Principle requests.

-Fund schools on reserves as much as schools off reserve. This includes funding for computers, libraries, software, teacher training, special education, education research, language programs, cultural programs, mental health support, support for kids with special needs, extracurriculars, ventilation, heating, mold removal, vocation training for students, and more.

-Make sure all schools have the resources, funding, and support necessary to teach culture.

-Make a clear joint strategy to eliminate the education and employment gap.

-Make sure all school staff are non-discriminatory.

-Make sure communities have self-determination to create culturally rooted education.

-Adequately fund child and family services on reserves, and make sure they can hire enough people and have good infrastructure.

-Stop discrimination within child and family service agencies.

-Allow and help all First Nations communities to lead and run their own child and family service agencies that are based on their cultural values.

-Enact evidence based solutions to keep families together.

-Don't take children from families that love them.

-Have and fund adequate preventative services so families can take care of their children and no child is taken away.

-Keep funding for child and family services flexible and responsive to each community's needs, and listen to communities to learn what their needs are.

-Have adequate accountability in child and family services so that any underfunding, discrimination, or failure is stopped and remedied.

-Family support needs to start at or even before pregnancy.

-Fund culturally-based healing of people who have been harmed and are being harmed by the government's discrimination.

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Find your MP here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/members

justin.trudeau(at)parl.gc.ca- Prime Minister Trudeau

chrystia.freeland(at)parl.gc.ca- Deputy Prime Minister Freeland

patty.hajdu(at)parl.gc.ca- Minister of Indigenous Services

gary.anand(at)parl.gc.ca - Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations

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kithj · 3 months

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people that keep giving a platform to cait corrain should be ashamed of themselves, all she does is keep making excuses and blaming everyone else but themselves. first it was their fellow debut authors, then it was their fellow fandom buddies, now she's been on a tirade demonizing everything from addiction, depression, to autism with 0 pushback from the people interviewing her. we're really supposed to believe this time when she says that it's ADHD and her ADHD meds that apparently possessed her and made her racist. shut the fuck up

#sorry i have so many opinions abt mediocre racist white romantasy authors and she epitomizes like All of my issues with them #using ambiguous poc in her story for brownie points and pretending to care while still being extremely racist #and attacking her fellow authors (who are all bipoc) because her whiteness feels threatened by their success #she's literally doing interviews using progressive language in the most pathetic attempt to get out of accountability #saying shit like she didnt have any 'autonomy' like yeah interesting word choice im sure that was intentional. shut up

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dreamdropsystem · 1 month

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hating doing your hair/getting it done/ getting it cut from sensory issues

#shane #sensory issues #poc autistic #bipoc autistic #autism #autistic #autism spectrum disorder #actually autistic #autie #sensory

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chaos-in-one · 1 year

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Friendly reminder

Indigenous people do not owe you anything related to our race

We do not owe you what tribe we come from, "what percentage" indigenous we are, knowledge on our culture, our opinions and beliefs on every single topic related to us, kindness or understanding about colonization we underwent, sympathy for people who contributed to our oppression, anything.

Hell we don't even owe ourselves that! An indigenous person does not have to know what tribe they come from, or what percentage indigenous they are, or knowledge of their culture, to still be indigenous. Especially when the entire reason so many indigenous people don't know these things is because of colonialism. Because of the oppression our people where put under for decades, even centuries in many places. Colonists did this to us on purpose.

They didn't want us to know our own heritage, our own culture, because they didn't want any remnants of cultures other than their own to exist. They wanted to erase us from history, from existence. They actively tried to forcibly integrate our people into theirs so the blood and heritage of indigenous people was spread as thin as they could get it. Which is why blood quantity will never matter or make someone no longer indigenous. Because taking away someone's indigenous heritage is exactly what colonists wanted.

They wanted indigenous people gone. They wanted our heritage to be spread so thin that they could decide we didn't exist. By telling someone they aren't indigenous enough, you are doing exactly what colonists wanted to happen to indigenous people. And we have been saying this for years.

It isn't just indigenous people who are "barely indigenous" by your standards saying it either. It is all of us, who are trying to hold on to what remnants of our people we have left, no matter how "small" it is in your eyes. And it will never be a non indigenous person's place to tell us not to. To tell us that some of us don't belong in our own community, that some of us should deny our heritage and say we are one of you.

Saying that any of us should do that is helping to prolong the effects of colonialism.

Indigenous people do not owe you anything, but many of you owe us everything for the damage done to our people that is still carried on today through your words and actions towards us.

#indigenous #indigenous rights #indigenous recognition #indigenous resistance #indigenous woman #indigenous education #indigenous issues #indigenous identity #indigenous american #indigenous activism #indigenous solidarity #indigenous history #indigenous communities #native #native american #native rights #bipoc

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raging-guanche · 1 year

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PLEASE BOOST!!

@yazid002 needs our help to pay rent on the orphanage, many children depend on this not only for home but for food too.

their cashapp and venmo is savegodprovides

we also made a discord support server, feel free to join and please dm when the link expires.

https://discord.gg/KEDcUbQ5

#signal boost #reblog to boost #urgent #kpop #bts #blackpink #aesthetic #lgbt #wednesday #enid #fundraiser #blm #black lives still matter #black lives are human lives #black children #save black children #bipoc issues

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nerozane · 8 months

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Maybe because I was spoilt by other character creator games, but it really does suck having facial options for your Tav be white, white, pretty white, hot white, black, Asian. Maybe lucky having a second vague Asian face.

And some of the smaller species don't have black or Asian faces which. feels bad. I wanted to make my eldritch knight fight, who is a Vietnamese half orc, but they are masculine body type but there's no Asian face for half-orcs.

Even for the male gnomes and dwarves have only white faces for those species and I'm >:/ and it sucks because Larian can make extensive facial options (dragonborn has so many I adore them), but for the others there's not any.

Paired with the fact that most of the origin cast + sidekicks and NPCs that visit your camp or play a huge part in each origin char is white. The only very significant bipoc characters to any arc is Wyll (black), Duke Ravengard(black), Thaniel(he's Asian tho you can interpret him as being white)... and Cazador(Asian). Which the latter is yikes since he's an abuser (and alluded rapist).

#bg3 critical #baldurs gate 3 critical #i fucking hated cazador as being asian simply because in a sea of white having an significant antagonist be asian featured is 😬#it wouldn't be an issue if again... there were more bipoc npcs that were humanoid #like theres so many opportunities and also like the characyer we have doesnt speak except in a few moments #its just bums me out whenever i try to get motivation to do another playthru but i just dont feel it #i am struggling with playing origin wyll #also like the norm being white black and asian is frankly so irritating in general for all video games #theres like bipoc that arent white african american and east asian

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sparksinthenight · 1 year

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Have a Heart Day Letter to Canadian Government to Help Indigenous Kids 2023

This is the letter I wrote to the government of Canada, asking them to stop discriminating against First Nations children and families on reserves, and asking them to stop taking First Nations children from their loving families. All the research is from the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, whose website is here: https://fncaringsociety.com

You can read the following letter and please, please, even if you don’t live in Canada send a letter of your own, either using this letter as a template or in your own words:

Our names are and we are from various parts of so-called Canada. We are writing to you to ask that you end the discrimination against First Nations children, so that all First nations children can grow up safe, healthy, well educated, and with their families who love them, who they have grown up with and grown attached to. We ask that you fund all services on reserves better, especially child and family services, Jordan's Principle services, and education. We ask that you ensure there is no discrimination in any of the services provided to First Nations people and that all organizations providing access to services on reserves are free of racism and discrimination. We ask that you implement the Spirit Bear Plan. And we also ask that you fairly compensate all children and families who have faced harm as a result of the Canadian government's unfair practices.

Child and Family services on reserves are underfunded. They are also prejudiced. This means that instead of helping families with what they need to in order to best take care of their children, they take children away from families that love them and put them in foster care. Families struggling with poverty or mental health or addictions or disabilities still love their children. These families should not be separated, they should be helped so that they can have their needs met. Indigenous children are 17 times more likely to be separated from their families compared to non-Indigenous children. But they are not more likely to face familial abuse. The reason why the vast majority of these kids are being separated is because their families are poor, struggling with mental illness or addiction or disability, or some combination of these factors. If child and family service providers were better funded and more culturally respectful, they would be able to help families meet their children’s needs instead of taking children away.

Most services on reserves, including services for disabled kids, healthcare services, and mental health services, are funded by the federal government. But these services are often underfunded, often severely. There are also many times when First Nations families living on reserves need to access provincial services. When this happens, there are often long disputes between provincial and federal governments about who should pay. This leads to children not receiving the healthcare and services they need, or having long gaps and delays in receiving healthcare and services.

Jordan’s Principle was implemented to ensure that all children receive timely and adequate healthcare and services first and payment disputes are resolved in a way that doesn’t affect children’s access to services. But this principle has been implemented in a very narrow way by the government and many children who needed services and healthcare under Jordan’s Principle did not receive those services. Many children who did receive services did not receive them in a timely manner.

Education on reserves is also underfunded, and First Nations children on reserves do not have access to safe, comfy schools and high quality education. They do not have environments where they can learn all that they can and reach their full potential. This is horrifically unfair, since every child has an equal right to education and every child has an equal right to good quality education where they can learn, grow, thrive, and reach their full potential.

Education needs funding. You need to have enough teachers, small class sizes, and heating in classrooms. You need books, textbooks, school supplies and a library. You need a whiteboard, markers and erasers. You need good bathrooms. It really helps to have smartboards like settler schools have. You need a gym, sports equipment, art supplies, and a safe playground. You need a lab with equipment. You need therapists, nurses, counselors and educational assistants. You need money for field trips. You often need snacks. You need learning toys like base ten blocks for younger kids. First Nations children cannot afford everything that they need to learn effectively.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the government of Canada to stop discriminating against First Nations children. It has ordered that Canada stop taking children from their loving homes and that they stop denying services and healthcare to children who need them. The government has mostly not listened to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s rulings.

An Agreement in Principle is not a binding agreement. It simply is a set of promises that may or may not be turned into a binding agreement. The Canadian government created an Agreement in Principle with First Nations groups including the Assembly of First Nations to fund and support First Nations child and family service providers adequately so that these service providers could help struggling families instead of separating them. They also agreed to fund and support Jordan’s Principle better so that every child who needs services or healthcare can receive it. The government promised to conduct regular reviews of First Nations child and family service providers and Jordan’s Principle providers to check for discrimination, and to have accountability measures for any discrimination that occurs. They promised to reform Indigenous Services Canada to be less discriminatory and more culturally respectful.

While all these ideas are great, these are just ideas at this point. There is no binding agreement yet. The government promised to do these things but no one knows if they’ll keep these promises. A Final Settlement Agreement on reform, which will be legally binding, is being worked towards. But that Agreement has not been made yet and we do not know what the Final Settlement Agreement will include, if it will stay true to the promises made in the Agreement in Principle, or if it will be effective in keeping children holistically healthy and with their families.

The Canadian government has created a Final Settlement Agreement on compensation where it will compensate some of the victims of Canada’s discrimination against First Nations children and families. While this is good, many victims will not be given the $40 000 in compensation that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has stated that all victims must receive, and many victims will not be compensated at all. Victims that will not be compensated include children who were placed in provincial programs after being separated from their families, the estates of deceased parents or caregiving grandparents, and many people who were denied the help they needed under Jordan’s Principle. There is only $20 billion set aside for compensating families who were discriminated against, which may not be enough to give everyone the $40 000 they are entitled to. And if you want to opt out of the Final Settlement Agreement on compensation and instead claim your $40 000 ordered by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, you only have until February to opt out, and people don’t have the information and guidance they need in order to decide if they want to opt out or not.

It’s not only education, healthcare, child welfare, and disability support services that are underfunded on reserves. All social services on reserves are underfunded. This includes housing services, childcare services, after school programs, utilities services, mental health and addictions support, welfare, and more. This means that families living in poverty have less help and support in order to pull themselves out of poverty and the cycle of poverty continues. It also means that families that need mental health supports don’t receive them. This is bad for children because living in poverty or with bad mental health is not something any child deserves and also because poverty and mental health are often the reasons why children get ripped away from their families and put into foster care. And obviously, being separated from your family is way worse than living in poverty is.

You must ensure that you do the following things:

-Fund First Nations Child and Family Service providers as much as each service provider needs in order to help families to stay together and have their needs met. For example, if a family is suffering from poverty, child and family service providers need to have the money needed to support that family financially instead of taking the child away. If a family is living in bad housing, child and family services needs the funds to improve their housing instead of taking the child away.

-Ensure that all First Nations child and family service providers - and service providers on reserves in general - are non-discriminatory, are routinely and thoroughly checked for any discrimination within the organizations, and that there is accountability and consequences for any discriminatory conduct, policies, or attitudes that are ever found or reported in these organizations.

-Ensure that a broad implementation of Jordan’s Principle is carried out so that every child who ever needs any services, healthcare, or support always receives it.

-Ensure that the system for providing Jordan’s Principle services to people is well-funded, easy to navigate, and non-discriminatory.

-Create a Final Settlement Agreement on child and family service reform and Jordan’s Principle reform that goes above and beyond everything suggested in the Agreement in Principal on reform.

-Ensure that all children, parents, and caregiving grandparents, living or deceased, who have been discriminated against in any way by the Canadian government receive their owed $40 000 compensation. This includes children who were placed in the provincial care system and everyone who did not receive the services they were owed through Jordan’s Principle.

-Fund all services on reserves so that the needs of every person living on reserves can be met.

-Implement the Spirit Bear Plan.

-Fund education on reserves better so that it is of the same quality as education off reserves.

Thank you for reading our letter and please take our concerns to heart.

You can email your own letter to the following ministers:

Prime Minister Trudeau: [email protected]

Deputy Prime Minister Freeland: [email protected]

Minister of Indigenous Services Hajdu: [email protected]

Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relationships Miller: [email protected]

And your own Member of Parliment, who you can find here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en

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storm-of-feathers · 9 months

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Idk how to even express this in a way that's as strong as I feel but I am So Fucking Over fake online activism. I am so over especially people thinking that tumblr of all goddamn places is activism. Like that you Have to reblog every issue you see or you're Bad.

Just. Holy shit. People are naturally going to talk ab things that affect them directly more than things that don't? The biggest reason I seem to only talk about American politics is because I'm American. Christ.

#whats esp frustrating ab this #is people to say/reblog shit like this #but then are extremely and noticeably silent on bipoc issues #like. so by your own morals...#from the drafts #im cleaning out my drafts bc we hit 350 so i gotta get rid of some of these #i'll probs keep rbs off on most of them bc i dont rlly wanna argue or nothin

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fagnumopus · 2 months

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Ppl are really weird for hating on Brooklyn 99 for being "cutesy cop propaganda" when they literally built up the whole series to a conclusion of "the police force is inescapably corrupt and built on a foundation of violent racism, and trying your best as an individual may be the best thing you can do to ensure civilians have at least one cop out there that won't shoot first and ask questions later, but your efforts will only go so far as that individual and you can never fix this rotten corporation with anything but efforts to destroy it"

This isn't to say that the first few seasons don't have some genuinely fucked up moments that are complete oversights whose punchlines are a cop committing some form of power abuse, but the writers of the show literally learned more as the show went on, tackling even more complex issues and criticising the police more and more. They delayed the last season because they didn't want to release a fucking cop show season during the height of protests against police brutality against Black and brown people that didn't address the systemic way police are corrupt, and rewrote major aspects of the season to touch on not only anti-Blackness and corruption cover-ups, but also on how useless and especially selfish white guilt is when faced with the reality of systemic oppression

#elliot speaks #sorry i actually get rly pissed when ppl make dumb fucking assumptions abt b99 #i saw someone say it was like The Office but worse #and as someone who watched BOTH of these shows i wanted to chew their fucking kneecaps #B99 has problems and i think we as fans can ALL admit that its copaganda regardless of its intent #but they genuinely tried. like they legit tried to fckn write abt the systemic oppression that the police is built on #to dismiss it as just “cutesy propaganda” completely dismisses the fact that they centered queer and BIPOC actors #when addressing the systemic issues in the police that specifically targets these ppl

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emdotcom · 1 year

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Did I tell y'all I passed by this damn article the other day that said something along the line of "Doctors Are Now Asking if Refusing to Treat Overweight Patients Counts As Discrimination"?

Damn. 's like. The exact definition of discrimination is excluding a group of ppl for an aspect that is out of their control, so, yeah? Yeah, it really fucking IS discrimination, & you took a fucking oath to Specifically Not Do That, You Dip-Fuck.

#gale chatter #fatphobia #fatphobia ment #girl.......#like that don't scratch the surface of discrimination in medical #heaven & hell forbid u be fat trans disabled &/or bipoc & go to a doctor's office.#as u can see. hos mad. & I'm hos #for context i saw that article while looking to see if anyone has a compendium of doctors who are Not Weird About Fat Ppl #bc i want to see a doctor & have my issues taken seriously #& bc of the state of medical fields you have to fucking hunt for somebody like that rather than ppl simply #treating their patients being the default

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