On Canada Project Media
Today is Mullivaikal Remembrance Day or Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day
May 18 commemorates the 2009 genocide of Tamils by the government of Sri Lanka, and the global failure to intervene on behalf of human rights, yet again.
If you don't know what we're talking about, it is because, like nearly all stories of human rights violations against BIPOC (in Canada and around the world), this story didn't get the news coverage it deserved until the Tamil community in Canada took their cry for help to the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.
5 Considerations for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is for non-Indigenous folks to sit with the truth and reflect on the work that has to be done – not just on Sept 30th, but every day of the year. The problem is, on October 1st, most non-Indigenous folks take off their orange shirts and go back to their day-to-day lives, ignoring Indigenous peoples and our countri’s violence towards them.
Internalized Racism & Me
Last week I had the privilege of speaking in front of 1300 Ontario Public Service employees at the Ontario Anti-Racism Directorates’ event to acknowledge International Elimination of Racial Discrimination Day. I made many speaker notes, some of which I didn’t get a chance to share. Here is some of what my notes had to say.