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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #75 on: June 10, 2021, 01:49:08 pm »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/charlottesville-confederate-statues-removal/2021/06/07/ea741566-c7ca-11eb-a11b-6c6191ccd599_story.html

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RICHMOND — The Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously Monday night to remove statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from public parks, starting the clock ticking on the demise of monuments at the heart of the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in 2017.
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“It’s past time for those things to come down,” community leader Don Gathers said. Like many other speakers, he urged the city to move quickly and not to send the statues to another community.

Many mentioned that when neighboring Albemarle County removed a statue of a Confederate soldier from its courthouse last summer, the figure was relocated to a Civil War battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley.

“If my trash ends up in a neighbor’s yard, it’s still trash,” Gathers said. “Those things are like the Bat-Signal for white supremacists.”

This is what I have been saying. Merely relocating them makes no sense. Behead them all.

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #76 on: June 15, 2021, 11:56:50 pm »
Another good move by Lightfoot:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-mayor-changes-course-announces-233100704.html

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After initially saying it was too expensive, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced on Monday that Chicago will recognize Juneteenth as an official city holiday, the Chicago Sun Times reports.

“I, like many others, didn’t even know anything about Juneteenth until I was an adult. And that’s because it has never been treated with the reverence that it should be,” Lightfoot said at Chicago’s Daley Center Plaza on Monday.

“If you look at the history books that are used to teach our children, you may only see a passing reference, if at all. We must change that,” Lightfoot added. The city will start observing Juneteenth as an official holiday in 2022.

Last year, the Chicago City Council voted to recognize Juneteenth by making June 19 an annual day of observance, but the upgrade to an official city holiday will provide a paid day off.

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #77 on: June 17, 2021, 12:14:04 am »
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dbd48/people-in-canada-are-cancelling-canada-day

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A major Canadian city and at least one First Nation have formally cancelled Canada Day because they don’t want to honour “attempted genocide” against Indigenous peoples. 

The decision follows Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation’s discovery of 215 undocumented children, including some as young as 3, buried under a former Catholic-run residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. There are likely many more sites like it across the country.

“The history of our country’s genocidal relationship with First Nations has been once again revealed in a way that is painful,” Victoria mayor Lisa Helps wrote in a motion, following consultations with Indigenous leaders.
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Victoria city council announced Thursday it voted unanimously to cancel its planned virtual celebration. The city will instead hold an event in September to highlight Indigenous stories and histories.

Keewaywin First Nation in Ontario also declared on Thursday that it will no longer recognize Canada’s birthday.

“Keewaywin First Nation calls on the federal government to carry out exhaustive investigations of all former residential school grounds across the country,” the First Nation’s statement says. “Until then, Keewaywin will mark Canada Day as a day of mourning.”

According to the statement, July 1 will be used to pay tribute to residential school student and their families and to “acknowledge the role the Canadian government and the churches played in the attempted genocide of Indigenous people.”
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It’s hardly the first time people have called on  government officials to cancel Canada Day. In 2017, as Canada geared up to celebrate the country’s 150th birthday—the official celebration in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, costing upwards of $500 million—Indigenous folks all over and their allies abstained from celebrating.

“The fact that half a billion dollars was found to throw the party is no surprise—however it does come as a shock to those communities without drinking water who have been historically told infrastructure is just too damn expensive in remote communities,” writer Ryan McMahon wrote at the time.
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Way back when Canada Day was still “Dominion Day,” Chinese people referred to it as “humiliation day” and boycotted the event because it landed on the same day that the exclusionary Chinese Immigration Act, which banned most Chinese immigration, passed in 1923.

Instead of Canada Day, Idle No More, an ongoing Indigenous justice movement, has announced several rallies taking place across the country to honour “all of the lives lost to the Canadian State—Indigenous lives, Black Lives, Migrant lives, Women and Trans and Two Spirit lives—all of the relatives that we have lost.”

“We refuse to sit idle while Canada’s violent history is celebrated,” Idle No More’s site says.

Reminder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada

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The reigning monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who is also monarch of 15 other Commonwealth countries and each of Canada's 10 provinces. The person who is the Canadian monarch is the same as the British monarch

"Canada Day" = British Empire Day

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #78 on: June 17, 2021, 10:19:08 pm »
Status reports:

https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-research-finds-quarter-of-controversial-statues-removed-due-to-be-removed-or-under-review-since-edward-colston-monument-toppled-12326278

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Sky News contacted 44 councils in England, Wales and Scotland who share 84 controversial statues between them. All have been condemned for their ties to slavery and colonialism.

Of the 84 statues, 21 have been removed, are due to be removed or are under review since the statue of slave trader Colston was pulled down in Bristol last year.

Since the public toppling, a statue of slave dealer Robert Milligan was taken down by the local authority in the London Docklands - and the University of East London removed a statue of merchant and slave trader Sir John Cass.

It is now reviewing whether to drop his name from one of the campus buildings, whilst institutions like City University London have already dropped his name from one of theirs.

Cardiff Council has also voted to remove the statue of slaver and Waterloo war hero Sir Thomas Picton from the City Hall, but is waiting on the Welsh government for final approval.
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Among the monuments they will review and discuss are Scottish politician Henry Dundas, who "delayed the abolition of the slave trade to benefit slavers"
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Glasgow's review into statues and place names was already under way before the controversy began last year.

Members of the public there will be consulted on the future of statues in their city, such as 19th century military leader Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, who is accused of helping to set up concentration camps, and Sir John Moore, who participated in both the Royal African and East India Companies.

There is still a long way to go:

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Sky News heard from some of the councils who have kept their statues in place and have no plans to review their future.

In Plymouth, statues that have been deemed controversial have stayed put, but an additional slavery memorial has been installed to acknowledge the city's historic role in the transatlantic slave trade.

Some like Tavistock Town Council have kept their monument of Sir Francis Drake, but plans to install an information board next to the statue outlining the explorer's links to slavery are being explored.

Carmarthenshire County Council will likewise place information boards near the Sir Thomas Picton monument in Carmarthen with reference to Sir Thomas's military career as well as his links with slavery.
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When pressed on the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Westminster, which last year was vandalised by demonstrators at one of the Black Lives Matter protests, Ms Emelife says the former prime minister's presence encourages questions and debate.

"I don't think it should be taken down at all," says the art historian.

This next status report is written by our enemies:

https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2021/06/the-abolition-of-canada.html

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    The Ryerson Journalism department renamed two of its publications, the Ryerson Review of Journalism magazine and the Ryersonian newspaper, previously bearing the name of Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882).

    A statue of Egerton Ryerson on the Ryerson university campus was doused with red paint. The wall behind it was covered with graffiti, some of which told white Canadians to “go back to where you came from” and declared that the activists “hate all colonizers”. There were no arrests.

    A petition on change.org was started by Maaz Khan calling for the statue of Egerton Ryerson to be removed. At the time of publication the petition had 10,158 signatures.

    The City Council of Charlottetown voted unanimously to remove the statue of John A. Macdonald. It was removed at 6:30 in the morning of June 1st. All that remains is a plaque and a concrete pad with some red paint still on it from when the statue was last vandalized (no arrests were made for the vandalism).

    Cam Galindo, a trustee for Hamilton’s school board, is calling for Ryerson Elementary school to be renamed and has filed a motion to formally reconsider the names of all schools named after historic Canadians. Galindo declared that “all school names must reflect human rights, decolonization, anti-racism and anti-oppression principles”.

    Global News has reported that there are calls for all schools in Ontario named after Egerton Ryerson to be renamed.

    The Yellowhead institute, an aboriginal think tank at Ryerson University, has begun to use the name ‘University X’ as a protest to remove Egerton Ryerson’s name from the university. The Yellowhead institute declared that they are fighting “racist narratives that continue to oppress Black, indigenous, and racialized people generally”.

    Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi called upon the Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District to change the name of Langevin School and Bishop Grandin School.

    The Calgary Board of Education has renamed Langevin elementary School, named after Hector-Louis Langevin (1826-1906).

    Edmonton Catholic Schools is reviewing the name of Grandin Catholic Elementary School, named after Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin (1829-1902).

    Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman has decided to rename Bishop Grandin street. He has also created a committee to remove and rename “historical markers and place names” and “resolve the absence of Indigenous perspectives & contributions in the stories remembered/commemorated”.

    Three Ottawa councillors have called for the renaming of the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway.

    Grandin Fish and Chips in Edmonton is being renamed.

    Edmonton’s Mayor, Don Iveson, has decided to rename Grandin LRT station. A mural of Bishop Grandin within the LRT station will be covered in orange. The new name of the station will have to contribute to “reconciliation”. All civic signs in Edmonton bearing Grandin’s name will also be renamed.

    Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson has also declared that he is working to rename all place names celebrating past Canadians who “no longer reflect our diverse and inclusive community values”.

    The City of Edmonton has decided to rename the Oliver neighbourhood, named after Frank Oliver (1853-1933).

    Trustees at Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools have formed an ad hoc committee to review the names of all schools in the division including Vital Grandin Catholic School.

    Hamilton Bike Share has removed the name Ryerson from one of its recreation hubs.

    A portrait and bust of Egerton Ryerson has been removed from outside Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath's office at her request. It is now in storage.

    A school meeting will discuss the potential renaming of Ryerson Public School in London, Ontario.

    Calls are growing to remove the giant statue of John A. Macdonald statue in City Park, Kingston, Ontario. The Kingston City Council is considering the matter.

    The University of Windsor has decided to rename the Macdonald Hall student residence.

    Protestors used a truck and a rope to tear down the Egerton Ryerson statue in Toronto. Protestors then separated the head of the statue and hit it with a mallet. There was no police intervention or arrests. President of Ryerson, Mohamed Lachemi, said the statue would not be put back up.

    Newfoundland premier Andrew Furey has decided to change the province’s coat of arms which depicts two Beothuk warriors.

    Prince Edward County council has voted 13-1 to remove the John A. Macdonald statue from Main Street in Picton, Ontario.

    Hamilton public board votes to rename Ryerson Elementary School

    Two sports teams at Ryerson University have removed Ryerson from their names.

I especially like this detail:

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The head of the Ryerson statue now sits on a spike in the “Land Back Lane” native blockade in Caledonia

And we are just getting started! Hopefully we can do this to Churchill's head eventually!

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #79 on: June 19, 2021, 11:34:26 pm »
A good article on the importance of holidays:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/forget-fourth-july-time-celebrate-055220081.html

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As Juneteenth approaches this year, America confronts a resurgent conservative movement that appears somehow emboldened by Donald Trump’s defeat. They have attacked the Capitol, passed new laws to make it harder for people of color to vote, and have worked to outlaw the teaching of critical race theory, critical thinking, and the 1619 Project in schools.

The conservative response to the empowered communities of color that helped Joe Biden win the presidency has been the strategic denial of freedom and the silencing of voices of color. Their actions echo the philosophy of the Confederacy and those intent on destroying Reconstruction.

Their version of America cannot coexist with the criticism of America’s systemic oppression that will inevitably occur as people of color obtain more freedom and agency in American society. Instead they respond to criticisms that can reveal the truth about America by silencing dissent, and crafting a new narrative that depicts white Americans as the benevolent rulers of American society.
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For the rest of America, Juneteenth is an opportunity to finally celebrate freedom in our society, but it is also a blunt reminder of the perversity of the Fourth of July.

In 1852, well-meaning white Americans believed that it made sense for a formerly enslaved Black American to celebrate the Fourth of July alongside them and embrace the freedoms that white Americans had given themselves, yet intentionally denied to Black Americans.

When Black Americans vigorously celebrate white freedom and the Fourth of July, America creates a hypocritical double consciousness that normalizes white supremacy and impedes freedom. Through Black celebration, white and Black Americans are encouraged to believe in the existence of an equitable American freedom that has never existed. To create the freedom it’s promised, America must liberate itself from many of the lies we have long told ourselves.

Bonus:

https://twitter.com/joe_warmington/status/1405861334269534217

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The noose has been installed around SirJohn A MacDonald’s neck

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #80 on: June 22, 2021, 01:27:29 am »
I told you we'd be starting on buildings soon:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/carolina-home-white-supremacist-voted-off-landmark-list-75641385

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RALEIGH, N.C. -- The home of a former North Carolina newspaper publisher who helped orchestrate an 1898 riot in which at least 60 Blacks were killed was removed Tuesday from a list of local historic landmarks.

The Raleigh City Council voted unanimously to strip the home of Josephus Daniels of the local designation, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported.

This means it can be destroyed at the discretion of a future owner, as our enemies fret over:

https://vdare.com/letters/a-nc-reader-says-the-city-of-raleigh-is-willing-to-allow-historic-buildings-to-be-paved-over-if-were-owned-by-white-supremacists

Back to original link, note current ownership:

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The house, called Wakestone, has been home to the Masonic Temple of Raleigh since 1950.

“Simply stated, ties to the Josephus Daniels’s legacy presents a dark cloud over the Freemasons/Masonic Temple of Raleigh organization,” Murray said, adding that the Masons worry about the property being the site of protests and unrest.

Too late! We already know who you are:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/freemasons-say-they're-needed-now-more-than-ever-so-why-are-their-ranks-dwindlin/

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #81 on: June 23, 2021, 10:42:31 pm »
Down goes Isabella!

https://colombiareports.com/colombia-removes-statues-of-columbus-and-spanish-queen-after-attacks/

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Colombia’s culture ministry removed statues of 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus and Spain’s late Queen Isabella amid fears they would be tumbled.

Government workers removed the statues from their pedestals in the capital Bogota on Friday after native Colombian protesters tried to tumble them on Wednesday.

The attempts triggered tensions with a fringe white supremacist group that subsequently tried to attack the protesters of the Misak people from southwest Colombia.
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The native Colombians celebrated the decision on Saturday by victoriously climbing the empty pedestals of the late Italian explorer and his Spanish financial patron.

The Misak people have been tumbling statues associated with the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the extermination of indigenous people since anti-government protests began in late April.

The statues of Spanish conquistadors have long been deeply offensive to many native Colombians but weren’t targeted by the native Colombians until this year.

The tumbling of the statues triggered mixed reactions as late conquistador Sebastian De Belalcazar is both the founder of cities like Cali and Popayan and one of the most notorious leaders of the 16-century holocaust of native Colombians.

In a statement, the Misak said Saturday that they would continue to assume their “ancestral responsibility to clean those  clean colonial wounds and seek the healing of all colonial wounds.”

OK, but if we can take down statues of Columbus, why are we still calling the country "Colombia" after Columbus? We need:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/name-decolonization/

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Some among Colombia’s white majority continue to consider Columbus and even controversial characters like Belalcazar as part of their cultural identity.

These are the only ones who should be called Colombians (and hence Western occupiers). The rest should choose a new name.

Before the Western colonialists came along, local statues looked like this:



There is more beauty in just this one piece than in everything from the Renaissance combined! (In fact it reminds me of: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TD-oiwjuL.png )

And yet the inferior were allowed to come over and build their Homo Hubris eyesore **** all over the place:







etc. etc.
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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #82 on: June 29, 2021, 12:06:39 am »
https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2021/06/27/40-50-people-gather-custer-falls-again-rally/5357925001/

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No elected officials from the City of Monroe are believed to have attended Friday's 'Custer Falls Again' rally at St. Mary's Park, which drew a crowd of about 50 people who shrugged off steady rain showers to protest the General George Armstrong Custer monument that has sat in downtown Monroe for over a century.

The crowd gathered in the park located just yards away from the 111-year-old statue to listen to traditional Native American songs, eat Indigenous foods, and hear from speakers who came from across the State of Michigan to denounce the monument and the man it depicts. 

Hosted jointly by local activist group Good Trouble Monroe and the Anishinaabek Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party, the rally was held on the 145th anniversary of Custer's defeat and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It was just the latest in a series of similar events in the city since local activist Katybeth Davis started a Change.org petition last June calling for the statue's removal, arguing that it represents the glorification of a man who led a genocide against Native Americans.

The petition currently has over 14,000 signatures.

It doesn't take 14000 people to pull down the statue. 40-50 might even be enough.

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Davis said that while she extended an invitation to every member of city council, only councilman Andrew Felder notified her that he would be unable to attend Friday's rally due to a prior commitment.

"I'm not surprised at all," Davis said of the elected officials' decision not to attend the rally. "They don't want to have to look Native Americans in the eyes. They don't want to have to be confronted, or even have to deal with that."
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The speakers at Friday's rally were united in calling for the city to remove the statue, with Anishinaabek Caucus secretary and Pokagon Elder Julie Dye saying "We're here to tell the citizens and government leaders that if your heroes are murderers and military failures, your values are grounded in white supremacy."

And what should be done with those with such values? (Answer: the same as is done to their statues.)

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« Reply #83 on: June 30, 2021, 12:14:46 am »
Good work!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/colombian-anti-government-protesters-topple-122840218.html

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Anti-government protesters in Colombia have toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus in the coastal city of Barranquilla.

The figure of the European explorer, after whom Colombia is named, was dragged from its plinth with ropes and vandalised.
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The Columbus statue is the latest to be pulled from its pedestal as part of the anti-government protests which have been sweeping through the country.

One of the first to fall was that of the 16th Century Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar in the south-western city of Popayán in September.

A group of Colombians from the Misak, Nasa and Pijao indigenous groups said that they had toppled the statue after putting Belalcázar on trial and finding him guilty of genocide, enslavement, torture, **** and stealing their ancestral lands.

Since then, another statue of Belalcázar in the city of Cali has also been toppled.

In the capital, Bogotá, members of the Misak indigenous group demolished a statue of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, the Spanish conquistador who founded the city in 1638.





Again, note the Turanian statue composition in the second picture.

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #84 on: June 30, 2021, 10:08:05 pm »
https://www.times-standard.com/2021/06/28/madison-grant-memorial-removed-from-prairie-creek-redwoods-state-park-over-his-racist-eugenics-beliefs/

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In keeping with a nationwide effort to remove monuments that have long honored racist figures, California State Parks officials recently removed a 1948 memorial honoring Madison Grant in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/congress-confederates-statues-house/2021/06/29/304f7960-d8db-11eb-9bbb-37c30dcf9363_story.html

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The House on Tuesday passed legislation to remove statues of Confederate leaders from the U.S. Capitol and replace the bust of Roger B. Taney, the U.S. chief justice who wrote the 1857 Supreme Court decision that said people of African descent are not U.S. citizens.

https://tnc.news/2021/06/29/a-timeline-of-every-town-that-has-cancelled-canada-day-celebrations-in-2021/ (chart at link)

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #85 on: July 02, 2021, 10:05:04 pm »
A good day:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57693683

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Statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II torn down in Canada

A prominent statue of Queen Victoria has been torn down by protesters in Canada as anger grows over the deaths of indigenous children at residential schools.

The protesters cheered as the statue at the legislature in Manitoba's capital Winnipeg was toppled on Thursday.

A smaller statue of Queen Elizabeth II was also upended nearby.
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The British government condemned the toppling of the two statues.

"We obviously condemn any defacing of statues of the Queen," a spokesman said.
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A group of protesters had marched on the Manitoba Legislature as part of a demonstration against the deaths of indigenous Canadian children at residential schools.

Monarch of the UK, Canada and other territories from 1837 until her death in 1901, Queen Victoria was on the throne during the founding of the Canadian confederation. The British Crown negotiated treaties with indigenous First Nations in Canada and the government enacted its residential schools policy during her reign.

At the protest in Winnipeg, the statue of Queen Victoria was daubed in red paint while a sign saying "we were children" was left nearby.

A survivor of a residential school, Belinda Vandenbroeck, told Canadian broadcaster CBC she felt no remorse about the toppling of the statue, which she had had no part in.

"She [Queen Victoria] means nothing to me except that her policies and her colonialism is what is dictating us right to this minute as you and I speak," Ms Vandenbroeck said.

Symbols of empire, colonialism and slavery have been targeted by protesters at demonstrations against racial injustice across the globe in the past year.

Video:

https://twitter.com/APTNNews/status/1410753619431919618





In theory, it is not yet too late to topple the actual Elizabeth, who is one of the rare colonialists with statues who are personally not dead yet. Such an action would be of infinitely greater symbolic power than merely toppling her statue.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/'royal'-family-hate-thread/

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #86 on: July 10, 2021, 11:56:40 pm »
It was a long wait, but it was worth it:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/charlottesville-remove-confederate-monuments-saturday-173505420.html

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A Confederate monument that helped spark a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, leaving one person dead, came down Saturday.

Dozens of people lined the block and cheered as the bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted off its pedestal. Streets were blocked off, and there was a visible police presence.

"Taking down this statue is one small step closer to the goal of helping Charlottesville, Virginia, and America, grapple with the sin of being willing to destroy Black people for economic gain," Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker said during a speech before the monument was removed.

The statue of Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson came down soon afterward.
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"We've waited for this day for more than four years – for 100 years, really," said Kristin Szakos, a former Charlottesville City Council member and community activist. "Of course there’s still a lot of work to do to bring real racial equity, but this is an important step."

We have been waiting for over 500 years for Western civilization to die. I hope at least some of us here live to see it happen.

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #87 on: July 11, 2021, 10:14:10 pm »
One more:

https://nypost.com/2021/07/10/charlottesville-takes-down-sacagawea-statue-after-confederate-removals/

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The city of Charlottesville, Va. followed up its removal of two controversial Confederate statues Saturday with the lightning-fast toppling of a third local landmark: a monumental tribute to explorers Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea.

In an emergency meeting called with 20 minutes’ notice, the Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously to cancel another piece of public art targeted by left-wing activists.

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #88 on: July 12, 2021, 11:23:11 pm »
https://www.thecollegefix.com/walt-whitman-statue-a-target-of-protests-to-be-removed-from-center-of-rutgers-camden-campus/

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Rutgers University-Camden will remove a statue of the famous poet Walt Whitman from the center of campus as a result of activists’ petitions and a recommendation from a committee of scholars.

The statue of Whitman, featured prominently in the front courtyard of Camden’s Campus Center, will be “relocated to a historically relevant site on campus and contextualized,” interim Chancellor Margaret Marsh recently announced in an email to students and employees.

That new location has yet to be announced by campus officials.

A petition circulated last year stated that “the statue of Walt Whitman glorifies a man who we should not hold such a place of honor on our campus. … He instead stood for white supremacy and racism against Black and Indigenous Americans.”

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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #89 on: July 13, 2021, 10:34:09 pm »
This is why it is not enough to topple statues. More importantly, we must terminate the bloodlines that might rebuild these statues:

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/two-damaged-queen-statues-manitoba-165229745.html

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WINNIPEG — Statues of two queens that were torn down by protesters on the Manitoba legislature grounds will be rebuilt, Premier Brian Pallister said Wednesday.
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Pallister's remarks on Canada's history, however, were criticized.

"The people who came here to this country ... didn't come here to destroy anything. They came here to build," he said.

"They came to build better ... and they built farms, and they built businesses, and they built communities and churches, too."

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs called the comments abhorrent.

"To minimize, romanticize and celebrate the settler colonialism that displaced First Nations from their ancient and sacred lands in the most brutal and heinous ways, the way he did in his comments, is unconscionable and a desecration to the graves of the ancestors on which the legislature is built and on which the City of Winnipeg now lies," interim Grand Chief Leroy Constant said in a prepared statement.

Nahanni Fontaine, who is Indigenous and the justice critic for the Opposition New Democrats, said Pallister was revising history.

"Reconciliation is impossible when you have a settler at the helm denying, romanticizing and minimizing colonization," a message posted on Fontaine's Twitter feed said.

"Canada was forged in the blood of our Peoples, on the bodies of our women and children, and in the theft of our lands."

Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont said in a prepared statement that Pallister's remarks were shameful and tone-deaf.

"This is the hard truth: Canada’s prosperity was built on Indigenous suffering and an indifference to Indigenous lives and rights."

So what is our ethical duty in response to this? It is certainly not "reconciliation" with the oppressors. Anyone who calls this:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/canada-residential-schools/

is "building better" is no better than the perpetrators themselves, and should be treated as if they were the direct perpetrators.
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