[lit-ideas] Re: Canadian aboriginal women
- From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:26:48 -0400
You _do_ have girlie writing. The guy at the store even would have agreed
with me if you hadn't threatened him. You forgot Lakeshore. We went down
to Lakeshore also. That was where we saw the guy on the floor in the subway
station, remember? Anyway, I'm impressed. I didn't think you had noticed
any people, what with your preoccupation with making goose noises.
=)
Erin
Toronto
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 1:02 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Canadian aboriginal women
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 10:54 AM
> 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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