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Dear Tamil Canadians - Pierre Poilievre doesn’t care about our communities plight
Pierre Poilievre doesn’t give a sh*t about human rights violations of QTBIPOC in CANADA and I’m supposed to believe he cares about Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka? — please, amma and appa didn’t raise no fool.
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.
The role of solidarity when all you've known is scarcity
Today, on this auspicious day for the Tamil community (Happy Thai Pongal!) I thought I'd take a second to write about the importance of solidarity, even when all you've known is scarcity.