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March Day 26, the King of Cups

[theleftycanadianradical]

Canada's NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh asks the reporter, "why is this even a question?" about getting clean drinking water to First Nations reserves in Canada. He is right, if it were the suburbs somewhere, it would not be a question.

[theleftycanadianradical]

We are 2 years and 1 day, from the anniversary of Trudeau's Blackface scandal.

It wasn't even the scandal, as much as how little Liberals cared and the paternalistic ways they spoke to me about how good I had it, that cemented my vote with the #NDP. The LPC is not an ally to Black people.

Voting Liberal to defend against racism is like the Liberals who haven't met a climate target in 29 years, even after adopting Harper's weak ones; saying we're building pipelines for climate change. We have a systemically racist Police Chief from #Scarborough-Southwest who made a career our of targeting Black Torontonians, Liberals appointed him Public Safety Minister.

We have a tone-deaf Liberal MP from #Winnipeg North who spent $3,000 to draft a petition to make criticism of police akin to hate speech. When Indigenous and Black people and other POC are likely to be overpoliced and at the receiving end of excessive force.

We have a Prime Minister, who when trying to explain how progressive he is, talks about learning about racism and privilege in university, and then went on to wear my skin colour as a costume, multiple times after that then claimed to be blinded by privilege.

We have a Liberal MP from #NorthYork who insisted that Black people like me, felt flattered by this mockery. I'm sorry, Judy, I don't. If you wear shredded clothing, stuff your pants and paint your skin black, as a costume, that's an insult. Don't get me started on how the Liberal Party maintained Stephen Harper's mandatory Minimums for 6 years, then made their own changes to the CCC that the Bar Association and CCLA et al. said weren't evidence-based and are systemically racist. https://vice.com/en/article/paxknk/how-the-governments-new-crime-bill-could-screw-over-people-of-colour…

Delayed water progress, increased arm sales used in genocides in Yemen, spending more than Harper battling First Nations in court, 3 failed grades on the MMIWG, backing coups in Bolivia that oppressed Indigenous people... I can go on. Vote Liberal by all means. Just don't say you're doing it for me, because you're not.

[theleftycanadianradical]

Trudeau says the George Floyd verdict was a wake-up call for systemic racism. K.

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Clean Water, Broken Promises

APTN News

Today is World Water Day and Canada's First Nations communities are still without water. Here is a good storymap by APTN highlighting a lot of the issues many people don't know about, facing the water crisis on First Nations reserves. Can't recommend it enough.

[t-narihara]

Sidibe - First Water (Lyric Video)

[mywalkabout40]

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My first hike of 2024 finds myself in the Sonoran desert just outside of Lost Dutchman State Park. I’ve found a way to access the trailhead for free. I hope to have less than ten years until I retire, and so any way I can save money these days…. Hiking is pretty much my only form of exercise these days. I take in the sweet, cool morning air, and trek through a few miles of desert beauty.

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