Seriously? We're gonna start doing this shite in Canada? And why the term 'pro-Palestine' instead of 'anti-genocide'? Telling. "In a letter to parents, Bell High School principal Jane Conrod said... “I am writing to acknowledge and express my deepest apologies..." Shameful. Let her know. #Genocide - ThreadSky

wokenojokewarrior.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Seriously? We're gonna start doing this shite in Canada? And why the term 'pro-Palestine' instead of 'anti-genocide'? Telling.

"In a letter to parents, Bell High School principal Jane Conrod said... “I am writing to acknowledge and express my deepest apologies..."

Shameful. Let her know. #Genocide

Reposted from Charlie Angus

Elizabeth Yao was chosen to be a valedictorian because she is a natural youth leader. She is being punished by the Ottawa school board for speaking up for her classmates concerned about the genocide in Gaza.
Shame on the Ottawa Carleton School Board.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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lesjfrie.bsky.social•4 days ago

I see Bells Corners hasn't changed one iota since I grew up there in the 1960s.

wokenojokewarrior.bsky.social•4 days ago

Email contact for Jane Conrod via link below courtesy of David Webster:

wokenojokewarrior.bsky.social•5 days ago

Note: I shouldn't have said, "We're gonna START..." as there was another Canadian valedictorian last year who also landed in hot water after he dared suggest in his speech that maybe medical associations shouldn't be silent about Gaza. Cuz you know, being doctors and all.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/valedictory-speech-fallout-umanitoba-reax-1.7212044

wokenojokewarrior.bsky.social•5 days ago

And in trying to answer my own question, "And why the term 'pro-Palestine' instead of 'anti-genocide'?" I came across the article below, and was especially struck by the last paragraph. Worth a read. #Gaza #Genocide #DontBeAfraidToUseTheWordGenocide #MediaBias

https://dalgazette.com/opinions/the-canadian-media-will-not-use-the-words-palestine-or-genocide/

amyklassen.bsky.social•5 days ago

😭 Israeli propaganda. I don't understand why they have so much power in the world. It's sick. If you haven't seen this it's worth a watch. It resonated with me as my people were displaced from our land, our leaders murdered, and our women are still experiencing genocide 😔
https://youtu.be/IcVR3qwdkgM?si=nKq8JUIilSUVhi0x

wokenojokewarrior.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just finished watching this, and yes, definitely worthwhile as it provides a greater context. I can see how it resonated, and how it would resonate with other groups experiencing what's called 'forcible transfer' - a pattern we don't always notice when we focus on individual populations. This 📚 👇

wokenojokewarrior.bsky.social•4 days ago

Jesse Wente's Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance, was a great read.

From front flap: Wente argues that “reconciliation” is a flawed concept: peace between First Nations and the state of Canada can’t be recovered through reconciliation because no such relationship ever existed.

wokenojokewarrior.bsky.social•4 days ago

May add a few quotes from it tomorrow (time for bed) that I took down. The last chapter, 15, was especially hard-hitting.

Thank you for sharing the video. Appreciate it!

amyklassen.bsky.social•4 days ago

You are welcome! Thank you for the book recommendation 😊 So many books, so little time!

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