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I feel sick to my stomach.
For a whole bunch of reasons, that are pretty tied together.
I'm watching the stuff going on in the US and I'm wondering about the size of their army, and when it's going to start rolling over our borders, or if they're just going to "buy" a lot of stuff, demand we give it to them for free, and sue the government any time we don't want to (see: Kinder Morgan).
I'm concerned about the well being of my queer and brown relatives in New York state - though my auntie has Canadian citizenship, specifically in order to have an escape route for the lot of them, which is good.
I feel like writing to (or faxing) my own politicians is unlikely to do anything. I do it anyway, but I feel a bit like it won't do much beyond establishing a paper trail that says "I'm already disgusted with you, Justin Trudeau, you lair" and won't make a lot of actual change happen.
I became a (very low-budget) monthly donor to the First Nations Caring Society because a big part of their mandate is to keep indigenous kids out of the foster system and to reunite the ones who've been taken with their families & communities.
I don't know if No One Is Illegal still has an Ottawa chapter (their website hasn't been updated in 2 years), but the Toronto site is still being updated. If you want to get involved in peace activism locally (Ottawa, ON), the Network to Oppose War and Racism site might be one to check out. Not sure if their most recent organizing meeting was early May of this year or last year, though. >.>
You might also be interested in groups like White Noise, which is a group for white people who want to build strategies for leveraging white privilege in order to act as "accomplice[s] to race-based resistance here in Ottawa" and to challenge white supremacy in white spaces.
For a whole bunch of reasons, that are pretty tied together.
I'm watching the stuff going on in the US and I'm wondering about the size of their army, and when it's going to start rolling over our borders, or if they're just going to "buy" a lot of stuff, demand we give it to them for free, and sue the government any time we don't want to (see: Kinder Morgan).
I'm concerned about the well being of my queer and brown relatives in New York state - though my auntie has Canadian citizenship, specifically in order to have an escape route for the lot of them, which is good.
I feel like writing to (or faxing) my own politicians is unlikely to do anything. I do it anyway, but I feel a bit like it won't do much beyond establishing a paper trail that says "I'm already disgusted with you, Justin Trudeau, you lair" and won't make a lot of actual change happen.
I became a (very low-budget) monthly donor to the First Nations Caring Society because a big part of their mandate is to keep indigenous kids out of the foster system and to reunite the ones who've been taken with their families & communities.
I don't know if No One Is Illegal still has an Ottawa chapter (their website hasn't been updated in 2 years), but the Toronto site is still being updated. If you want to get involved in peace activism locally (Ottawa, ON), the Network to Oppose War and Racism site might be one to check out. Not sure if their most recent organizing meeting was early May of this year or last year, though. >.>
You might also be interested in groups like White Noise, which is a group for white people who want to build strategies for leveraging white privilege in order to act as "accomplice[s] to race-based resistance here in Ottawa" and to challenge white supremacy in white spaces.
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