On Friday, October 11th, 2002, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh will be attending festivities in Fredericton. This is a call to all politically and socially conscious residents of eastern Canada, and abroad, to manifest ourselves in Fredericton on O11 to oppose the presence of an outdated, racist, regime.

Royal Descent - Unwelcome the Queen and the Duke on 011

On Friday, October 11th, 2002, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh will be attending festivities in Fredericton, New Brunswick to celebrate the colonization of Canada, and the maintenance of British imperialism and its glorification.

This is a call to all politically and socially conscious residents of eastern Canada, and abroad, to manifest ourselves in Fredericton on O11 to oppose the presence of an outdated, racist, colonial regime on this land. This is an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist action to confront and challenge the existence, and position of power in Canada that the British monarchy maintains.

The presence of the Queen's institutions and traditions here today does a massive injustice to the diverse population that this land harbors. As if the colonial aspect of British representation, lined with broken treaties with First Nation communities in Canada wasn't bad enough, now newcomers to this land who have been forced out of economic disparity to leave their homelands, likely because of exploitation by Western multinational corporations, now can live in a nation which adheres to the supremacy of the Queen in all our endeavors.

The tens of millions of dollars that our government spends every year to promote British colonialism is abhorrent given the poverty which runs rampant in Canada. The high rates of homelessness in urban areas, massive incursions of student loan debt, and numbers of children living on or below the poverty line is disgusting in this capitalist paradise to the world, especially when money is being as irresponsibly spent as it is on monarchal influence in Canada.

The glorification of a regime which collaborated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in Germany before World War II must be halted immediately. Such mindless ethnocentrism and forgiveness of horrid crimes committed by the wealthy and elite must not be tolerated. The celebration of mass genocide on our own continent even, financed and supported by the British royals, is a disturbing comment on the dismissal of attention towards the murder of entire communities, cultures, and ways of life that existed here for tens of thousands of years before white settlers arrived.

As well, this will be a public display of opposition to the Anglo-Society of New Brunswick. This bigoted organization, run by Matthew Glenn and Laurie Daley, promotes a Eurocentric agenda, and launches propaganda attacks on French communities in New Brunswick, accusing the provincial government to be in cooperation with a secret French conspiracy. The Anglo-Society has also been chronicled as disrupting Acadian festivities in the city, and shouting homophobic and anti-Catholic slurs in public. Although this group garners little if any respect in public, they are nonetheless ignorant purveyors of intolerance who must be opposed whenever they rear their empty heads.

For more information, please contact roya...@ziplip.com Register now for free accommodations and food from the 10th to the 12th of October in Fredericton to attend the Unwelcoming of the Queen.