Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Friday, July 24, 2015

Shane Koyczan Refuses To Perform 'We Are More' This Canada Day

Shane Koyczan isn't celebrating Canada Day on July 1 this year.

The award-winning Canadian spoken word artist took to Facebook to deny requests to perform his iconic poem "We Are More" for Canada Day. The poet explained he doesn't stand behind the poem anymore, which describes Canada as "an experiment going right for a change."

In the Facebook post, he goes on to explain that when he originally performed the poem at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, Canada "had not yet strayed so far down this dark path we now find ourselves on."
The B.C.-based artist notes several reasons for his decision.
"I'm not sure what country I'm looking at anymore. A country that labels Canadians as second class citizens. A country that kills its research and gags its scientists. A country that refuses to take a serious look into missing aboriginals despite being the same country that killed First Nations children in residential schools..."
Koyczan says his Canada Day will be on election day, which falls on Oct. 19.
Read Koyczan's full post here:
Every year around May, I start to get inundated with requests to perform "We Are More" for Canada Day. When I originally...
Original Article
Source: huffingtonpost.ca/
Author:  Maham Abedi
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