Monday, October 9, 2017

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day


If you remain neutral during times of injustice and oppression, then you too have chosen the side of injustice and the oppressor. Today is not a holiday to celebrate genocide, imperialism, and colonization. It is a day to celebrate Indigenous people across the world.

Transform Columbus Day!

CHALLENGE THE ROOTS OF RACISM IN AMERICA

  • Columbus is responsible for the murder of millions of indigenous people.
  • Columbus was a slavetrader in Africa before invading America. He began the slave trade in the Americas. He deserves no holiday, no parades, no statues.
  • Columbus Day celebrates the doctrine of discovery – the legal process that stole Indian people's territories, and that continues today.
  • Columbus brought a philosophy of domination to the Americas that persists today – domination of other peoples, domination of the environment, domination of other belief systems, domination of women by men (http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/).
A timeless piece to be shared and shared again by the Zinn Education Project:

Time to Abolish Columbus Day

Do what you can to decolonize, promote justice, and act in solidarity each and every day!!