[lit-ideas] Re: Canadian aboriginal women
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 12:02:13 -0500
Having spent a day and a half in Toronto, I can tell you with great
confidence that there are no indignant women or men in Canada. Well, at
least not in Toronto. Well, at least not in the bars I was in. And we're
talking many. Everybody was pretty happy, I'd say. I don't know where
Amnesty International comes off calling
people "indignant" anyway. They seem to be the indignant ones. And yes,
the Canadian police ignore aboriginal women, just as they ignore aboriginal
men. Artists should be left alone to do their thing. Only in the U.S. do
we remove nude Bushes from public view
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3728930.stm Canada appreciates
nude Bushes and those who paint them. My tour guide, Erin Holder, happens
to be a very original Canadian woman and she never disappeared on me nor did
she go a get herself murdered. I don't know what Amnesty International is
talking about. And as for brutality, look out! Erin's a one way street,
I'm telling you. She said my signature was "girlie". Me! Mr. Mechanical
Contractor -- "a girlie man." That's brutal! Don't you worry about those
original Canadian women being brutalized. Pray for the males.
My report is based on extensive research in about 10 or 12 bars along Yonge
St., Queen St., Prince Arthur St., Bloor St., the Annex, that area -- full
of very original people and not at all indignant.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Canadian aboriginal women
> Question about Canada:
>
> What about this? Anyone know?
>
> (since I started reading about Canada...to try to figure out Bush's
> attitude, you know...but still, no great loss without some small gain,
> after all..)
>
> Marlena in Missouri
>
> From Amnesty International:
>
> Aboriginal women in Canada have largely been ignored by police and other
> officials, contributing to "an appalling state of racial discrimination
> and
> social marginalization," according to an Amnesty International report
> released
> Monday. Over the last 30 years, over 500 aboriginal women have disappeared
> or
> been murdered, Amnesty said.
> In its report, "Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and Violence Against
> Indigenous Women in Canada," the human rights group condemned what it
> says is a
> "terrible official indifference and apathy" toward native women,
> particularly
> those who end up in the sex trade.
>
> Indigenous women's organizations have long tried to draw attention to
> what
> they call an epidemic of violence against indigenous women and children.
> The
> National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence, based in Ottawa,
> praised
> Amnesty for raising awareness.
>
> "Any form of violence is warfare against our women," said Susanne Point,
> a
> member of the aboriginal group in a press release on Thursday. "And the
> degree
> to which Canadian society tolerates the sexual and physical abuse against
> our women and children is an indication of this warfare."
>
>
> The incidence of poverty and homelessness among Indigenous people in
> Canada
> is extremely high, according to Amnesty, and prostitution often seems the
> only option for Aboriginal women. The resulting vulnerability of these
> women,
> the report says, "has been exploited by Indigenous and non-Indigenous men
> to
> carry out acts of extreme brutality" against them.
>
> Amnesty officials called on Canada's government to act quickly to remedy
> the
> situation. "Internationally the Canadian government has taken the lead on
> many human rights issues," said Amnesty's Secretary-General Irene Khan at
> a
> press conference on Monday. "Canada must implement at home that which it
> implores others to do abroad."
>
> The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the federal ministry of aboriginal
> affairs have yet to comment on the report to the press.
>
> --Robin Hindery
>
> For more information:
>
> Green Belt Movement: - http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/
>
> Amnesty International-- - Canada STOLEN SISTERS - Discrimination and
> Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada: -
> http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR200012004
>
>
>
>
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