A post-Canada Day reflection on resistance to colonial celebrations. Interviews with two Indigenous organizers, one about “Canada Day” here in Kingston, Ontario, and another on “Australia Day,” also known as Invasion Day, which meets massive protests across Australia each January.
Links:
Background on the resistance to colonial birthday parties in Kingston.
Idle No More Kingston (facebook link!)
Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (also a facebook link!)
Canada Day actions in Kingston in 2016, 2017, and this year.
Some background on “Australia Day” and corporate media coverage of Invasion Day.
