A Day for the World to Say Sorry

From Australia’s National Sorry Day Toward an International Day of Truth, Repentance, and Repair

A PeaceGrooves Reflection

There are words so overused that they risk becoming weightless. Sorry is one of them. We say it when we bump into someone in a hallway, when we answer an email too late, when we make an insignificant mistake. Yet there are times when sorry is not small at all. There are wounds so deep, so deliberately inflicted, and so long denied that the speaking of sorrow becomes an act of public truth.

Australia’s National Sorry Day, observed each year on May 26, is such a day. It remembers the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families, communities, languages, and cultures under government policies now associated with the Stolen Generations. The date marks the anniversary of the 1997 tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, the landmark national inquiry that gathered testimony from survivors and documented the devastation caused by these removals. The report called not only for recognition of what had happened, but for apology, healing, reparations, family reunion, access to records, and measures ensuring such violations would never recur.

National Sorry Day did not begin as a sentimental holiday….

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Retired academics, lawyers and writers in Canada, backed by conservative organizations, collaborate to produce a more positive version of the country's residential school history and create doubt about the harms caused by residential schools.

#indigenous #reconciliation #firstnations #residentialschools #truthandreconciliation

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/05/08/Who-Behind-Residential-School-Denialism/

May 5 marks the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people, also known as Red Dress Day.

#MMIWG2S #indigenous #indigenousyouth #firstnations #metis #inuit #everychildmatters #truthandreconciliation #mentalhealth #ymhc

Canada’s residential school abuse survivors face fresh battle to stop testimony being destroyed | Canada | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/canadas-residential-school-abuse-survivors-face-fresh-battle-to-stop-testimony-being-destroyed

> First Nation communities warn that government must act as accounts face destruction, risking central part of Canada’s reckoning with its colonial legacy

#TruthAndReconciliation can't happen if we keep burying the evidence.

Hope the fuck am I supposed to be proud of Canada if we keep doing this?

For me, this represents the absolute minimum. I want nothing less than #TruthAndReconciliation, with all who supported the lawlessness of the #TrumpRegime banned from public office.

Image reposted to include #AltText.

https://genomic.social/@JPummil/116076706698386713