When you meet somebody that made it through hard work and determination, ask them who's.
On September 30, communities across Canada will be commemorating ‘Orange Shirt Day’, an annual event that is helping Canadians remember the thousands of Indigenous children who died in Residential Schools, and to reflect on the intergenerational trauma that was caused by the Residential school system.
Similar school systems were also run in the US, New Zealand and Australia with terrible consequences for Indigenous children and communities.
Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation elder Phyllis Jack Webstad founded Orange Shirt Day in 2013, after she shared her childhood experience at the St. Joseph’s Mission residential school in William’s lake, British Columbia.
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Residential school staff stripped her of her favourite orange shirt the day she was taken from her family.
As Residential school survivor Vivian Timmins said today, “The orange day shirt is a commonality for all Native Residential School Survivors because we had our personal items taken away which was a tactic to erase our personal identity.
Maybe it was a piece of clothing, but it represented our memory that connected us to families.
Today is a time to honour the children and youth that didn’t make it home.
It’s a time to remember Canada’s dark history, to educate and ensure such history is never repeated.”
Crapitalism is not going to change it's stripes, dear reader, we need to address it's shortcomings.
Preferably before the next generation has to suffer through it.
On any given Tuesday the workers can short circuit this bankster dystopia by continuing to do the work while refusing to pay to get it back.
The workers trade their work for wages, then use those wages to buy back the goods they created, minus the crapitalusts' 'profit'.
Let's cut out the middleman, on Tuesday.
