Unmarked
The residential school unmarked graves of innocent children are a stark reminder of what horrors can come when a neo colonial extractivist philosophy is valued above the lives of innocent children. Extractivism means you extract oil from the ground, and extract labour from the people, and extract land from people, all above the value of our own dear children in our own dear human family. In the power of this moment of anguish, where is the power of the notion of a “nation?” In what some call "Canada," July 1 used to be called “Dominion Day” as if some power is dominating another. This year on july 1 let’s just leave that day unmarked. When I see photos of our Earth from space I don’t see any borders, so, for once, let’s unite as one family in this climate crisis and leave all the artificial borders on Earth unmarked. We are all Earth’s children. We humans are leaving our mark on the Earth: What kind of mark is that? One of our own extinction? Will this planet
