[news] The Right to Return & Missile Defense: Vikings, Kalaallit Nunaat & "The Discarded"

[Resist!ca]

"What currently remains of the antiwar movement in many places-- in particular Canada-- has rightly seen an importance to discussing Ballistic Missile Defense, or BMD, as an antiwar issue in the age of the 'War on Terror'. However, there are issues involving BMD not even being discussed by the antiwar movement that sorely need exposure, education and hopefully, organization. And it all begins where the first European settlers, the Vikings, ended: on the largest island in the world. The foreign affairs minister of Denmark spoke to Colin Powell at a ceremony that received next to no fanfare on August 6, 2004, and the attention it did receive was unduly celebratory. One can imagine what kind of celebration was going on here, when FM Per Stig Moeller stated 'It was from here the Vikings went out to discover - and civilize - America'.1 To say this while standing on the Inuit island homeland of Kalaallit Nunaat (still usually referred to as "Greenland") it is clear the colonial mindset is alive and well."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/11/213733/598