A-Dub 🥝Malnourishment is on the rise in Iqaluit, and experts warn numbers may actually be significantly higher than estimated. all of this is to Canada's eternal shame 🤡
A-Dub 🥝fucking hell. this primary school in Akwesasne was using small wooden boxes to put students in padded tight seclusion for "time outs". whoever was involved in any stage of this project should be fired forthwith
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/akwesasne-st-regis-school-time-out-box-9.7021697
prominent Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon has filed a 42-page human rights complaint to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination over "systemic discrimination" against Māori in New Zealand:
#NZpol #AntiMaoriRacism #ColonialNonsense #NeverVoteConservative
in New Zealand, human rights laws are currently being torqued to block Māori authority and constitutional transformation, says Auckland Law School Associate Professor Andrew Erueti's (Ngāti Ruanui, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi).
"Te reo is a taonga recognised by law. Under Te Tīriti o Waitangi, we have the right and responsibility to protect our language. We do so by exercising our waha to use te reo Māori as much as we can for the benefit of our ākonga. We do this because, as educational philosopher Paulo Freire teaches, education is never neutral. It either dominates or liberates. Choosing to diminish te reo Māori in our schools is choosing to dominate and silence."
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/im-a-teacher-and-i-cant-ignore-this/
fuck France. Kanaky was never French and it still fucking isn't. 🖕🇫🇷
the cost of colonizers taking te reo away from Māori in one region alone has been estimated and it is enormous:
https://e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/the-53m-cost-of-losing-our-reo/
mother from Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation fasts as she demands search of Regina, SK, Canada landfill for her daughter's remains
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/mother-fasting-demands-search-regina-landfill-1.7565665
Mother fasting as she demands search of Regina landfill for daughter's remains | CBC News
Michele Bear is fasting and says she will stay at the Regina landfill, which she believes holds the remains of her daughter, "as long as it takes." Clayton Bo Eichler pled guilty in 2016 to murdering Richele Bear in 2013, but her body has never been found.
FREE KANAKY!
"A Parisian appellate court has delayed the release of New Caledonia's Kanak pro-independence leader, Christian Téin, from custody following an appeal by prosecutors."
#FuckFrance #ColonialNonsense #Pasifika #FrenchPolynesiaWasNeverFrench
"a new report on the United States nuclear weapons testing legacy in the Marshall Islands highlights the lack of studies into important health concerns voiced by Marshallese for decades that make it impossible to have a clear understanding of the impacts of the 67 nuclear weapons tests"
