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officialjanetweiss · 6 months

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“In 2011, A Canadian police officer suggested to students at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto that ‘women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not to be victimized’. These comments instigated the first ‘SlutWalk’ march, which took place in Toronto on 3 April 2011. The marches spread around the world to places such as Las Vegas, Melbourne, Bhopal, and Sao Paulo. ‘SlutWalk’ was heralded as the third wave incarnation of Take Back the Night.

A Blogger for Ms. Magazine wrote about the march that took place in Los Angeles in 2012: ‘It’s that third wave-y feel - that individualistic empowerment - that has made “SlutWalk” popular among young women’, adding that the marches were ‘less emotionally intense than anti-rape rallies such as Take Back the Night, “SlutWalk” is more for spectacle’. This is a pretty accurate assesment, but ‘popularity’ and a lighter message do not necessarily translate into ‘better’, when it comes to radical movements.”

‘I do what I want, fuck yeah!’: moving beyond ‘a woman’s choice” by Meghan Murphy for Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism

#radblr #freedom fallacy the limits of liberal feminism #home and native land

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breadball · 8 months

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do you ever just see two twits weighed down by anxiety and family legacy and think "they should kiss about it" bc,,,,,,,,

#palia reth #palia jel #jel/reth #palia #palia fanart #help i've fallen and i can't get up #back into the pairings-with-little-to-no-content mines #my home and native land #there is so much potential for messiness and i'm so fuckin here for it

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marxism-leninism-meowism · 22 days

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pretentious cynical fucks that think solarpunk is an apolitical cozy pseudo-punk movement are so unimaginably stupid. like okay whatever go off and have ur glorious revolution. i'm gonna be here making community and planting a garden and dismantling systems of oppression brick by brick in the communities around me, building something new and beautiful in their place. maybe you should give it a shot.

#solarpunk #cripplepunk #as always i'm not anti-violence to the end but i believe we should all value people over destruction #you have your plans for the Revolution but have you spoken to your neighbors?#have you learned what crops are native to your area?#have you spoken with the indigenous people to the land you are living on?#do you know the history of that place you call home?#do you know how to live with the planet instead of using it like a tool?#do you know how to be kind?#do you treat disabled people with kindness and respect?#...or are disabled people on the margins of your ideals?#are we just a footnote? a 'this isn't about you' eye-roll follow up to a post about how Leftists Need To Work Out and Be Slim and Get Jacke #i have a lot of thoughts on this as you can maybe tell

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allthecanadianpolitics · 1 year

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"Jully Black says the subtle change she made to the lyrics of O Canada at Sunday's NBA All-Star game was the result of a long reflection.

"I sang the facts. We are walking, breathing, living, experiencing life on native land. On Indigenous land," the Juno award-winning R&B singer told The National on Monday.

Black performed the national anthem before the game in Salt Lake City, Utah, and altered one line to recognize the Indigenous peoples who lived on the land before European settlers.

Black swapped out the anthem's usual opening line "O Canada, our home and native land," with "O Canada, our home on native land," adding a slight emphasis to the word "on" when she sang."

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canadian politics #canada #canadian news #canadian #jully black #o canada #colonialism #ourhomeonnativeland #our home on native land

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shadowkoo · 8 months

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Every Child Matters

I try to share a similar post each year with the purpose of educating those who may not know about Canadian & American indigenous peoples and the struggles we have gone through generationally. But honestly, this year I am pissed off so my tone in some areas may read as such. I will not apologize for that.

I am angry that so many people don't know (not your fault, it's the media's fault and their lack of coverage up until recent years). I am angry at both countries' leaders for doing the bare minimum for many years. And I am angry that so much of my ancestor's history was removed and altered from the truth for centuries.

However, I am glad that with each passing year, more people are learning, and I truly appreciate those who care enough to show their support.

With that said, please mark your calendars and wear orange on September 30th! This is your official reminder! Please continue reading and consider sharing this post so more people are aware 🧡

September 30th is known as Orange Shirt Day, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, across Canada and North America in remembrance of those who suffered in US/Canadian Indian Residential Schools. We recognize the harm done to generations of children by the Indian Residential Schools and share our collective histories as an affirmation of our commitment to ensure that Every Child Matters!

Remembering the 150,000+ Indigenous children who endured physical, mental, and sexual abuse at these residential schools; trauma that continues to be felt to this very day by survivors and their families.

Children were stolen around this time of year to attend these ‘schools’. Parents who fought to keep their kids would often be arrested and/or beaten, it was nearly impossible for them to keep their children once the police and school officials showed up to take them. And even once the school season was over, they were not returned to their families.

We knew many children had likely suffered and died from the abuse, but could have never guessed the atrocious number of remains that we are now finding.

As of May 2022, The remains of over 6,000 children have been recovered from unmarked graves at the locations of these former residential schools within Canada, and 500 have been discovered at 19 schools in the US. However, the Interior Department said that number could climb to the thousands or even tens of thousands.

For reference to help you digest how large the numbers will become when all schools have been properly investigated, there were approximately 139 schools in Canada and so far only (as of May 2022) 36 investigations have been completed in Canada. The US has identified more than 400 schools that were highly supported by the U.S. government during their operations, and more than 50 associated burial sites, a figure that could grow exponentially as research continues.

This wasn’t as long ago as you might think. The last residential school in Canada closed in 1998, only twenty-five years ago. As of 2020, 7 off-reservation boarding schools continue to be federally funded.

“Kill the Indian, Save the man” was a common phrase in these schools. Being Indians was savage, but we were ‘savable’ in the eyes of their Christian / Catholic God if we were stripped of the things that made us indigenous.

I am lucky enough to know survivors. I am alive because of survivors.

Survivors taught us younger generations about the horrors they dealt with in residential schools. Beaten, tortured, murdered. Watching other children die from diseases grown in their unclean living situations. ‘Forgetting’ what tribe a child is from and giving them to another reservation to care for until the following year when they’d be taken away again. Raped girls who survived traumatic births at a young age only for their babies to be thrown in the furnace. Sterilizing boys and girls so that if they were released they couldn’t create any more ‘indians’.

These children were ripped from their homes, watched their parents die if they fought to keep their children, were forced to cut their hair (our hair is as sacred as our traditional clothing), and beaten if caught speaking in their native languages. As a 'reward' for good behavior in school, certain children were sent away to live with white families as slaves to 'learn the white way' during long breaks between school periods.

Keep the families of those who lost loved ones who never returned and the survivors who lived through unimaginable trauma in your hearts. On September 30th wear orange. Join a protest. Support indigenous peoples every day, but especially on September 30th (National Day for Truth and Reconciliation), June 21st (Canadian National Indigenous Peoples Day), and October 8th (American Indigenous Peoples Day). Share our stories. Educate yourself on our history, not the false history written in books by white men, churches, and governments that supported and endorsed these institutions.

Because Every Child Matters.

Resources where you can learn more:

Orange Shirt Society

CBC News - scroll to find the map

NPR

CBS News

CNN News

The Indigenous Foundation

#every child matters #🧡🧡🧡#orange shirt day #september 30th #national day for truth and reconciliation #support indigenous peoples #support first nations #support native americans #bring them home #protect native rights #protect native land #important #boost #native americans #indigenous

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saintharrowhark · 18 days

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smoked our weed right before we hit the border crossing and saw this bear !!!!! and a porcupine. canada win on the books

#o canada ! our home and native land

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goldiipond · 3 months

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maybe this is me having too much faith in the people calling for the extermination of an entire ethnic group but idk. i feel like the fact that israel has the most powerful settler colony on the fucking planet bending over backwards to defend them from literally every other country should be enough to make at least some zionists realize that they are not the good guys

#skye's ramblings #i dont know man im just. so tired. im so fucking angry all the time. i want this to end #i dont understand how people dont see that this is literally just textbook colonialism. and how some do know and simply dont care #i dont have enough contact with the native side of my family to feel justified saying 'as a native person-'#and i certainly dont want to speak over palestinians but fuck man. this just cuts so deep. white people have been doing this for centuries #they dont care about the lives the history the rich beautiful culture they dont fucking care about anything that lacks 'pure western values #they dont fucking care all they fucking do is destroy and steal because everything belongs to them in their eyes #israel is an illegitimate state composed of europeans living on stolen land that they say is theirs bc they're 'gods chosen people'#the 'savages' are now 'terrorists' but the sentiment remains that they are a stain that must be erased to make way fr the good white people #your philosophy is a poorly disguised recreation of manifest destiny that uses judaism as a shield #as if your religion has any relevancy to the fact that people fucking hate you for gleefully slaughtering families and stealing their homes #i dont know. i grieve the lack of connection to that side of my culture and these people are having theirs ripped away from them as i speak #i dont know how people can support this. i dont know. i feel sick.

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stromer · 6 months

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there can never be a drama free canucks vs leafs game ever and for that i am extremely grateful! GO CANADA!!!!!

#OH CANADA!! OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND!#legiterally always some shit happening… now imagine this game with subway surfers on the side #canucks lb

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ahaura · 5 months

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stealing library books because the connection between native americans and palestinians makes people "uncomfortable"...

#'uncomfortable' damn it's almost like the u.s. empire and its military base treat the people who were their first the exact same way!#the way palestinians talk about the land and olive trees and their homes is the exact same way natives talk about it here #i hear manifest destiny speak coming from the mouths of settlers #'we were meant to be here nobody was here when we got here but if there was #anyone here WE make the land livable and fertile and civilized'#i hear those words coming from settlers and im transported back to the time where my mother had that said to her face #and for fear of being misrepresented and seen as the bad guy my mother could do NOTHING. say NOTHING.#the same 'justification' used to steal land to kill our language to nearly wipe out the religion people already had to KILL & erase natives #the legacy of colonization haunts my mother's family it robbed her of so much to the point where speaking about it physically hurts her #so when parallels are drawn between native americans and palestinians i say YES i say it's the same thing just different place and time

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petoskeystones · 26 days

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guy who might be going to college in canada. lmao. lol.

#podium #everyone ignore all that stuff i said about being a michigan girlie 4ever... o canada my home and native land. et cetera.

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sexi-lou · 12 days

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I love writing out Salish names and then having spellcheck tell me I’m wrong. Hey little guy, you don’t even know Puyallup or Suquamish okay? Don’t make me second guess the spelling of words I’ve seen and used my entire life.

#I’m both very good with spelling and also horrible #personal #I am not native #I was born and raised in this area which is duwamish land and heavily populated by salish people specifically suquamish #cuz that’s like 20min drive from home

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loud-italian-fangirl · 7 months

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Sometimes I forget that non-Canadians can be fans of Canadian things/people/places and I make a Canadian joke and it doesn’t land online and I get sad………… *sighs in canadian*

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shiroikabocha · 23 days

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it’s like they designed JFK airport’s international arrivals hall to make me ask myself, Why did I come back

#honeymoon #almost home now #like seriously #a mere ten hours ago I was in a well-labeled multilingual airport #staffed by ppl who were not necessarily happy to be there but didn’t get fucking MAD at you for not knowing where stuff is #all the signage was clear and concise and in multiple languages #here in the land of the free? English-only small-text mislabeled lines unclear instructions #and I’m a native fucking speaker #maybe it was just travel-fatigue but I was kinda ready to punch the gate agent in the face #when she started irately saying ‘I SAID NEXT CUSTOMER-you need to PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE’#in ENGLISH #at the INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS DESK #I WONDER WHY PEOPLE ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY FOLLOWING YOUR DIRECTIONS MAAM

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kontextmaschine · 1 year

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So do people complaining about Canada's "MAID" thing with doctors essentially prescribing suicide to tough-luck "no particular sickness, life just sucks" cases want to return to the status quo ante of "doctors see them, acknowledge that there are no immediate or even intermediate expectations their life will become net positive, and tell them to come back next year"?

(The American status quo without universal government-funded healthcare is "lol those people don't see doctors")

Or that they should instead somehow treat the life-suckage, even where it essentially comes from being down-and-out or superfluous? Cause the people I see pushing this line don't normally seem like "the problem with Canadian single-payer healthcare is it's not backed by a full-spectrum government welfare state or reconstruction of the social order" types

#their home and native land

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teledyn · 8 months

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Honest Government Ad | Canada 🇨🇦

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I knew we'd make the grade sooner or later! Thank you juicemedia for doing our troubled news agencies' work for them so they don't have to feel they've been impolite!