canada day
happy canada day bitches. i came across this flyer in the dundas subway station so read and discuss!
canadian apartheid pie
-take one beautiful land of First Nations Peoples
-add european troops and settlers
-beat slowly using a big stick until white
-mix in alcohol and disease
-separate original peoples from land and place on reserves
-reduce at a low cost until barely visable
-back with lots of propaganda for several hundered years or until the colour changes
-remove from debate and sprinkle with new immigrants, foreign aid, and peackeeping to sweeten for presentation
-serves most of the population except original peoples
and just for shits the radical cheerleaders version of o canada (the only one i ever sing)
o canada
our home ON native land
we dont want education
sold to a major brand
we'll learn the history
of mc donals
and how great nike shoes are
and we'll never learn of exploitation
of workers near and far
join us in the streets
fight until we're free
o canada, why did you pepper spray me?
o canada, fuck of and let me be
so here are my thoughts 2 hours into this canada day:
its funny how man made borders can shape the world so radically. lines are drawn on a map and with those lines identies are drawn. us not them. battles are fought for those lines. people live and die for lines. im a candian but what does that really mean? that i like beer and hockey? that im not american? just because i happened to be born within a certian set of lines i have so much privledge. i have free health care and relatively affordable education. i have the right to be critical about my country without being hung for it. my queer friends can express their love through marriage if that is their choice, and speaking of choice canadians women have access to free and safe abortions. of course its not like queer folk and pro-choice women are considered canada's finest...im also white (or pass for white...), straight, middle class woman who grew up in the suburbs. if i had been born somewhere else would i still be the person i am? would i be so vocal if the stakes were raised? although these lines on the map called canada have been good to me i cant forget that this country is built on blood, on slaughter and on apartheid. so this canada day while you are all getting shitfaced, remember you're just celebrating lines on a map. maybe there is nothing wrong with that, im not really sure. if you think canada is the best country on earth then do something to help other countries get to our standard, if you think canada is the worst country on earth do something to fix things at home. i may legally be a citizen of canada but id rather be a citizen of a group mobilizing for change, to be the group that errases the lines on the map.
peace out from "the true north, strong and free"
liz
canadian apartheid pie
-take one beautiful land of First Nations Peoples
-add european troops and settlers
-beat slowly using a big stick until white
-mix in alcohol and disease
-separate original peoples from land and place on reserves
-reduce at a low cost until barely visable
-back with lots of propaganda for several hundered years or until the colour changes
-remove from debate and sprinkle with new immigrants, foreign aid, and peackeeping to sweeten for presentation
-serves most of the population except original peoples
and just for shits the radical cheerleaders version of o canada (the only one i ever sing)
o canada
our home ON native land
we dont want education
sold to a major brand
we'll learn the history
of mc donals
and how great nike shoes are
and we'll never learn of exploitation
of workers near and far
join us in the streets
fight until we're free
o canada, why did you pepper spray me?
o canada, fuck of and let me be
so here are my thoughts 2 hours into this canada day:
its funny how man made borders can shape the world so radically. lines are drawn on a map and with those lines identies are drawn. us not them. battles are fought for those lines. people live and die for lines. im a candian but what does that really mean? that i like beer and hockey? that im not american? just because i happened to be born within a certian set of lines i have so much privledge. i have free health care and relatively affordable education. i have the right to be critical about my country without being hung for it. my queer friends can express their love through marriage if that is their choice, and speaking of choice canadians women have access to free and safe abortions. of course its not like queer folk and pro-choice women are considered canada's finest...im also white (or pass for white...), straight, middle class woman who grew up in the suburbs. if i had been born somewhere else would i still be the person i am? would i be so vocal if the stakes were raised? although these lines on the map called canada have been good to me i cant forget that this country is built on blood, on slaughter and on apartheid. so this canada day while you are all getting shitfaced, remember you're just celebrating lines on a map. maybe there is nothing wrong with that, im not really sure. if you think canada is the best country on earth then do something to help other countries get to our standard, if you think canada is the worst country on earth do something to fix things at home. i may legally be a citizen of canada but id rather be a citizen of a group mobilizing for change, to be the group that errases the lines on the map.
peace out from "the true north, strong and free"
liz