Comments on: What’s in a Name?

By: russell olausen

russell olausen — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:07:28 +0000

There are not too many places on this planet that the ghosts of victims of robbery and displacement are not howling.This past winter I happened on a couple of Palestinian demonstrations over the Gaza slaughter where the lyrics of one song went : “Words. Just words.” Over and over.That is why Halifax, Cornwallis, and Amherst were remembered, they went beyond words. Better the names stay for those who accurately are not afraid to remember.

By: b99

b99 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:59:27 +0000

Mostly true – but not quite all the French were evicted. (Those evicted became the New Orleans Cajun population.) Some remained, especially in Cape Breton. Essentially however, it was part of a war between two imperial powers over what had been Injun land. Many of the French settlers – or ancestors – were from Brittany and Normandy – the poorer margins of France. In the scheme of things, they were part of the colonial effort – but also its victims.

By: Annie Ladysmith

Annie Ladysmith — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:20:57 +0000

Was not Nova Scotia a French settlement before the British kicked every French farmer, woman, and child out during the winter, and stuffed them in boats to various destinations, and then slaughter their animals and burn their homesteads?? Was this place not called Acadie?? Why not tell the tragic story of the Acadiens also.
I think the island has been cursed ever since that time.

By: The carpenter

The carpenter — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:26:36 +0000

I enjoyed the article. More like it should be hammered home everywhere, every day!

By: United-Socialist-Front

United-Socialist-Front — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:04:06 +0000

LET’S BE ARCHITECTS OF OUR OWN DESTINY, AND LET’S SAVE THE USA. IN ORDER TO SAVE OUR SELVES, WE MUST SAVE THE WHOLE COUNTRY !!

All of you here who love USA and the world try to think about the great need of saving USA from zionist-capitalists. I created a new blogger about how to create a United-Socialist Front for the 2012 Presidential Elections.

And don’t tell me “buts” and “no”, in our active-nihilist world view, we don’t know the words: but and no. I know that a Third Party reaching power sounds like crazy, but politics is not an exact science and any thing is possible with the help of God and human will power

This blog will be specifically to debate how can we create a United Socialist Front, composed of small socialist, communists, social-democrats, humanists and progressive political parties in United States, as a tool and vehicle for the 2012 Presidential Elections, so that each American Citizen who is tired of the corruption of the zionist-capitalists of the Democrats, and Republicans would have a real alternative to increase their living standards and to get out of poverty.

Socialism is the only way that we can get out of poverty. So please think about a United Front in America as only goal of saving USA from poverty, bankruptcy and economic-collapse.

By: Michael Kenny

Michael Kenny — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:58:39 +0000

What’s in a name, they say. The American continent was never de-colonised and, nowadays, probably never can be. It wasn’t the native peoples who took back their countries from the invaders, as happened elsewhere, it was the colonists who declared Rhodesia-style UDI. From pole to pole, every country on the American continent is fruit of the poisoned tree of European colonialism and there are places of all sorts named after the colonial conquistadors all over the place. Re-naming places may be a good alibi for paleface’s souls, but it won’t change very much! The inhabitants of the continent need to free themselves from the idea that “Europeanness” equals superiority. Europeans got over that delusion in the 1960s.

You’re caught between a Europe that doesn’t want you back and an American continent that your ancestors stole. It will take more than names to square that circle.