Tag: Racism

Giving Thanks

Today, in Canada, it’s Thanksgiving Day. A day which is traditionally set aside for giving thanks. So rather than briefly touch upon a few of the mind numbingly abundant numbers of absurd reasons why such a practice is so misplaced — given the world in which we live, and the costs many are forced to pay to the few — I’ll merely cite one reason why I’m thankful.

I’m thankful for people like Bill Quigley, and his writings. Like the one, Nine Months After the Quake: A Million Haitians Slowly Dying, that showed up in my inbox today. This is something everyone needs to read and think, hard, about, today, of all days. Please, when you are giving thanks, consider someone else.

If you’re in a position to, of course, a donation to Partners In Health, for their work, on the ground, in Haiti, wouldn’t be the worst thing you could do…

Another Time

I’ll refrain from adding any comment to the bunch of words I’m urging people to read today. And, for the purposes of my point, I’ll say it’s a little late for this post — at least in relation to when the article was posted, being the beginning of last week — however the content of Tim Wise’s piece is not any less relevant today. Nor will it ever be at any point in the future. Please read Your House Is On Ground Zero (And Quite Without Permission) and actually consider what Tim wrote…

The Cost Of Freedom?

Today, via Stephanie over at Animal Rights & Anti Oppression, I was directed to a rather thought provoking article, labelled A Rant About Freedom. It’s really worth a read today, for my neighbours to the south, as well as this week, for my fellow Canadian’s — and, no, not for the ironic and barbaric crackdown on dissent, as an all too predictable result of the G20 Summit, provided by this needle-dick conference, but rather Canada Day.

By all means, these holidays mean something to a lot of you — fair enough — but not everyone is in quite the same position to share your “jubilation.” Please take a moment and consider the cost of the “freedom” you enjoy…

No More Relevant and Utterly Frightening Words

I, personally, have never come across a bunch of more relevant and utterly frightening words than the sentence Will Potter wrote to open Arizona’s “Show Me Your Papers” Law is About More than Immigration;

“Historically, as nations have made the slow, steady creep toward fascism—the closing down of an open society—two groups have been among the first to feel the tightening: dissidents and immigrants…”

And feedback this week (pt3: Letters, and specifically the response to The Armageddon Factor: pt2 of May 11ths show) on CBC’s The Current this morning suggests that not every Canadian is concerned about our Governments ideological shift more towards the right. Where this sort of paranoia and, using the American agenda pushing needle-dicks as my prime example, disgusting segregation, seem to be common place. And even endorsed.

What amazing times we live in…