What do you call "Decolonization" where the colonizer keeps control over the land, natural resources , never pays reparations & continues to extract colonial debt from the "former" colony?
I'm releasing a report today on police spending between 2017 and 2021 in Canada's ten largest cities/regions. The report shows how, despite politicians promising a "racial reckoning" in 2020, cities have continued to boost police budgets - some much more than others. 1/7
#WaterlooRegion Council voted to give themselves lifetime benefits before their last day in office, while providing the rest of us superfunded police surveillance and a pipeline to criminalization in lieu of life affirming services-in other words, a death sentence.
Horror is so so so unfairly maligned, when it's one of the most effective genres to explore grief, fear, anguish and trauma. Just wild how some of y'all broadly discard it as trash cinema.
“You and your friends fill your mouths with big words–Social Justice, Freedom, Revolution–and meanwhile people waste away, they fall ill, many of them die. Speeches don’t feed people. What the people need are fresh vegetables, and a good fish broth at least once a week.
For some, it seems their leftist/ communist politics are nothing more than a mere aesthetic they don online or a byproduct of inflated egos, not actually being reflective of their personhood or indicative of how they treat others. Basic compassion is at the crux of these ideas.