KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Tired of harassment by Department of Fisheries (FDO) officers and tired of both the federal and provincial governments refusal to recognize treaty rights and court decisions, some 50 Mi’kmaw fishers and their allies rallied at the entrance to the DFO offices in Dartmouth.

In August nine Mi’kmaw fishing boats had their lines cut by vigilantes, and fishers have been subjected to DFO hauling their traps and an increased surveyance by police and DFO officers altogether, clearly aiming to intimidate them. Chief Mike Sack of Sipekne’katik First Nation has been arrested, and DFO even handcuffed a 14-year old boy after it boarded a Mi’kmaw vessel. 

Matthew Cope is a fisher from Millbrook First Nation. He faces changes for fishing out of season and selling the catch. He’s confident that when all is said and done treaty rights will win the day.

“It’s insulting that I even have to stand in front of a judge.We’re being vilified and criminalized for doing something that our treaties allow us to do. We’ve been living up to our end of these treaties, but Canadian governments haven’t been living up to their end,” Cope said.

“I can’t wait for my day in the Supreme Court of Canada, there’s going to be some fireworks. And I want compensation for every single day that my traps are out of the water,” he said.

Cope is right, of course. The Mi’kmaq people have always had the right to conduct their moderate livelihood fisheries, and these rights have been recognized and protected by a variety of decisions by the Supreme Court.

In these decisions the onus is put on the federal government to prove that regulation is justified for reasons having to do with conservation. The feds have never even tried to make that case, likely because the Mi’kmaq are doing a fine job regulating themselves, and anyways, their harvest is minuscule compared to what commercial fishers pull in. A concern that soft shell lobsters are being taken has also been found to be unwarranted.

Melanie Peter-Paul, from Sipekne’katik First Nation, elaborated on the significance of treaties to the Mi’kmaq people.   

“A recently reelected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there’s no relationship more important to Canada than the relationship with the indigenous peoples. Yet, the Mikmaq in Nova Scotia are once again, fighting for our right to fish. Last Friday, September 17, it was 22 years since the Marshal decision, 22 years since the Supreme Court affirmed the Mi’kmaw treaty right to fish. Yet this government agency, the DFO, stifles any progress in reconciliation with this province, as they continue to defy treaties, which are the very foundation of this country,”said Peter-Paul. 

“The 1752 Treaty states that we have a right not to be hindered from and have free liberty to hunt and fish as usual, and to sell the skins, feathers, fowl or fish or any other goods. This tells me that the current fish buyers licencing and enforcement regulations are in direct violation of the 1752 Treaty and the Constitution, section 35. Mi’kmaw fishers should be free to legally sell their lobster or any other goods without harassment from the DFO or vigilante fishermen,” she said.

Noah Johnson, a lobster fisher from Potlotek First Nation, offered a glimpse of what DFO prosecution at sea looks like.

“DFO and the Coast Guard are working hand in hand. They’re out there 24 hours a day, blocking our boats from being able to retrieve our gear. They work as one boarding our boats aggressively. We’re not safe from the governments of Canada and Nova Scotia, who criminalize our treaties. They make it impossible for us to hunt, to fish, or to harvest,” Johnson said.

See also: Time once again to support the Mi’kmaw fishers

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I never thought I would be ashamed of having my name associated with my former high school; up until today. Considering the recent events of cultural appropriation, racism, and the blatant disregard of the issue by staff I feel it is my obligation to share my story as a Black woman about what really goes on behind the closed doors of Fredericton High.

When I first started at FHS I was extremely nervous.  At the time I didn’t think my nerves would have to be for the racism and cultural appropriation I would later experience. My earliest memory was in my ninth-grade science class, we had a supply teacher that day.  Row call ensued and my name was next. Quietly I replied, “Here” to which she asked, “What are you”?  This was a question I had heard umpteen times, however it felt different particularly coming from a person of colour. On this day, I had 24 classmates anticipating my reply. Having a confused look on my face did nothing to quash her nosiness, so she inquired again, “Is your mom Black or your dad, because you certainly aren’t white, and you aren’t fully black either?”  

My heart sank.  I had never been so humiliated in my life. Naturally I came home telling my mom what had happened earlier in the day, and we decided to email the Principal and the Vice-Principal requesting that she be removed from the supply teacher list. I was thrilled to be told that she was no longer permitted to work at my school but disappointed to see her there a month later. In that moment I didn’t feel looked after or as though they “had my back” it became apparent that their actions were a short-term solution to get us to stop complaining.

When tenth grade began my English teacher chose to read To Kill a Mockingbird. As she passed the books around, she loudly and proudly announced that, “We shouldn’t feel obligated to say ‘Nigger’ as it’s consistently used throughout the novel” but that she would be saying it because its ‘just a word’. She went on to explain how ‘[her] grandmother would walk down the street, walk up to a Black man and say ‘Hey Nigger’ to get his attention simply because she could. I was appalled to hear an educated professional not only use this type of language that has generational trauma associated with it but also openly share such a disgusting story with me sitting right in front of her. After discussing the situation with my mom, she made the recommendation of emailing said teacher and sharing my upset and frustration. However, I felt differently; I was terrified of retribution and even more scared of what else she would say. To this day, I refuse to read that novel.

My last year of high school was supposed to be an exciting time, experiencing fun filled graduate activities. For me, that was not the case. I had this white boy in my class, the type of boy I could look at and know he would say something about race, unfortunately my premonitions were correct. We had multiple courses together, and our initial interactions were filled with him asking stereotypical questions such as ‘was I from the hood’, ‘if I can give him cornrows’, and asking me to show him gang hand symbols. From there he moved on to stereotypical assumptions such as me being in a gang, how my father wasn’t in my life because he was Black and so on and so forth.  

I voiced my concerns to teachers on multiple occasions but alas, nothing was done. From there, he escalated to saying “Hey ma Nigga” or “What’s up ma nigga” as an appropriate method of greeting me. When I voiced my dislike of him saying “Nigger” he informed me that because he has Black friends that means he himself is ‘basically’ Black and therefore he is permitted to say “Nigger”. 

I had finally had enough, I was tired of being called ‘Nigger’, being shown videos of Black men being shot, and listening to his stories of his hyper sexualization of Black women. So, I took matters into my own hands and spoke to the teachers. Much to my dismay they informed me that “because [they] didn’t hear him say that directly, it’s my word against his and [they] can’t be sure if he said those things or not”.

I graduated a month later and have loathed the day I will have to walk back in those doors as I don’t feel protected or safe. The vision and mission statement of Fredericton High is to “focus on leaders in academic excellence and an inclusive education [including but not limited to] diversity, respect and responsibility. Through the promotion of inclusion and collaboration, [the]celebration of diversity by recognizing [how] our differences enrich our community and by creating a safe, supportive and respectful environment.” These statements have been around for many years and will probably stick around for many more.  I like to believe in human decency and educating oneself on touchy subjects but in my opinion (based on my personal experiences) Fredericton High has and always will be a white privileged school.

See also: Chronicles of a mixed girl – Nanny edition

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KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Ross Gray encountered racism once too often, and he is fully committed to seeing that there are consequences for the perpetrators. He hopes others will follow his example. 

In mid-July we reported how a condescending commissionaire falsely accused Gray, who is Black, of riding a bicycle on the pedestrian lane of the Angus L MacDonald Bridge. Gray was spoken down to and bluntly told that he was lying when he explained he walked all the way across the bridge, bicycle in hand. The commissionaire even falsely claimed they had footage of Gray cycling on tape.

Later Halifax Harbour Bridges (HHB) acknowledged that the accusation had no basis in fact, and apologized. HHB also said it would implement a policy to address a future repeat, and suggested that the commissionaire would receive counselling. HHB did not acknowledge the potential tole of racism in the incident.

“Too much of this is going on, and nobody ever does anything. They all just talk. Until the next time that it happens, and then it happens again. It just keeps going,” Gray said at the time. “This apology is worthless, as far as I’m concerned, because nobody is held accountable, ever.”

The ordeal shook Gray to the core, and left him determined to seek justice.

“What happened to me is a systemic thing. I’m a 57 year old man, and my accuser is probably in her thirties, but she was talking to me as if I was a child, I felt like a damn dog. You don’t talk to a human being like that,” Gray explains.

It’s also left him deeply shaken, so much so that it is affecting his ability to sleep. And he’s not the only one who is affected, inevitably it also touches those close to Gray.

“I can see the change in my son’s face when I’m talking to him about it. I have always taught him to treat people with respect. And now I find myself trying to build a wall around him, and he senses that,” Gray says.

Commissionaires employed by HHB as traffic officers receive limited policing powers. What if someday in the future they will be allowed to carry firearms, Gray wonders. “You’re going to see not just police shooting Black people, you’re going to see other authorities doing the same damn thing,” Gray says.

I ask Gray what he would say to white people who want to shrug off what happened to him as just a run in with a grouchy commissionaire, without the racist overtones. 

“I encounter racism all the time, I see it when I enter a grocery store,” Gray says, “just like a white person might feel uncomfortable when walking into an all-Black club. Except that the Black person may get shot, because there is a power imbalance in the mix. Just look at what happened to the young Black mother accused of shoplifting before she even left the Walmart store.”

See also: Protesters rally at Walmart in support of Santina Rao 

Meanwhile, any efforts by Gray to seek accountability have been unsuccessful.   

Questions emailed by Gray to HHB, about the process to lodge a racial profiling complaint, how many such complaints have been filed before, whether there is diversity training for staff, have not yet received a response. 

When the Nova Scotia Advocate asked similar questions earlier on we were told that “We believe this to be a matter between Mr. Gray and HHB.” 

“Things need to change in this province. I’d be happy if only one person who reads this story decides to speak up. Others will see that, and it will snowball,” Gray says. 

“The long and short of it is, if you’re a racist then you should be fired, And anyone who is condoning that atmosphere should be fired as well,” Gray says. “That would cut out all this bullshit talk about sensitivity training, counselling, and all these other stupid phrases that they use to cover up what’s actually going on.”

See also: Woman alleges racial profiling at Halifax store

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September 18, 2021

Today, the Canadian Council of Imams and leaders of the Muslim community in Nova Scotia called for the resignation of Steven Cotter as a candidate from the Conservative Party of Canada. This was after the apparent decision of Mr. Cotter to meet with local and national faith leaders, and then refuse to answer any question during the discussion.

We also have been in dialogue with the Conservative party and appreciate that other candidates have been asked to resign for Islamophobic stances.

After learning of Mr. Cotter’s past Islamophobic and anti-immigrant messages online, his apology, and then his repeated refusals to engage in real dialogue with local Muslim faith and community leaders in Nova Scotia, we have no choice but to call for Mr. Cotter to respond appropriately by Mr Cotter.

National Council of Canadian Muslims

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Press Release 2: Local and national Muslim community leaders call for Steven Cotter to resign immediately from the Conservative Party of Canada as an MP Candidate in the riding of Central Nova, Nova Scotia.

On Sep. 5th, 2021, Mr. Cotter issued a public apology on on his Facebook page for past Islamophobic messages. He wrote “In the past I have shared social media posts without thinking about how these posts might hurt or offend others. I have deleted these posts and apologize unreservedly.

I recognize that what I was posted was not simply hurtful  – it was animated with Islamophobic and anti-immigrant tropes.

Islamophobia has no place in Nova Scotia – and I promise that I will take time to engage in reflection and learning. Specifically, I will be reaching out this week to my local mosque to begin that process.”

As Muslim community leaders, we deeply appreciated the commitment to engage with our community. We recognize that everyone makes mistakes, and the best of us repent from our mistakes. Our only question was: is this apology sincere or was this entirely an attempt at damage control?

Unfortunately, after our engagement with Mr. Cotter, we have little choice but to believe the latter.

When Mr. Cotter virtually met with local Muslim community leaders on Sep. 15th, he began by repeating his apology even more briefly than his written statement. He then refused to say anything else.

We asked Mr. Cotter questions about how his views have changed towards Muslims and immigrants. We asked what he would do as an elected representative to address Islamophobia, racism, and discrimination against immigrants in the community. However, Mr. Cotter responded with nothing but silence.

As local and national community leaders, we have never experienced such a refusal to engage.

Despite repeated attempts by different community leaders to invite Mr. Cotter to ask any questions he had, to share any of his thoughts, to discuss any ideas, Mr. Cotter repeatedly refused to say anything at all. We were left with no choice but to understand his silence as a refusal to engage and learn as he had promised he would do.

However, even after this meeting, we still wanted to give Mr Cotter another chance. When local and national Muslim leaders reached out to representatives of the Conservative party to communicate our disappointment in Mr. Cotter’s refusal to discuss anything at all with us, and to express our openness to meet again, to find a way forward together, including the suggestion that we could invite him to a more informal conversation in person over tea, we were turned down.

Local and national Muslim leaders acknowledge recent action that the Conservative Party of Canada has taken under Erin O’Toole’s leadership to condemn Islamophobia and to support human rights. However, silence as a response to Islamophobia, racism, and hate is unacceptable in our community and from those seeking to represent us in Parliament.

Therefore, we call on Mr. Cotter to resign as a candidate today.

Signed,

The Canadian Council of Imams

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KJIPUKTUK (HALIFAX, NS) – Child welfare in Nova Scotia is in a state of crisis. The crisis is rooted in the colonial policies that sought to separate Indigenous children from their families, to control and surveil Black families and the legacy of intergenerational trauma and poverty. Anti-black racism, colonialism, trauma and poverty continue to impact children and families today.

The Child Welfare Advocacy Coalition (CWAC) is a new, community-based organization committed to advocating loudly and independently to the public and government for a radical, progressive approach to child welfare.

“It is clear that current fiscal and social policy has failed to address structural inequalities that undermine the well-being of families,” says CWAC spokesperson Haley Heist “We must do much better for children in this province.”

It is CWAC’s position that the scale of this crisis is too great to be addressed merely through internal review or even reform. A radical new model for child welfare services is the only chance to halt the crisis and build a new hope for children and families in our province.

Part of the problem is that Nova Scotia’s policies and programs that directly serve children and youth have continuously lacked their voices. As a result, programs and services have fallen short of their intended outcomes. The changes to the Child and Family Services Act i 2017 have led to a more intrusive system embedded in social control and surveillance rather than a commitment to eradicating child and family poverty, providing culturally relevant trauma focused mental health and substance use services and robust disability supports. This has negatively impacted the well-being of Nova Scotia’s most vulnerable population.

One of CWAC’s first acts will be to formally request a meeting with the newly appointed Minister of Community Services to discuss the urgent need to implement all provincial recommendations involving child welfare from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action, to ensure that when a child is brought into care the family doesn’t lose the Canada Child Tax Benefit, and to follow through with the recommendations from the Inquiry into Home for Coloured Children to create a Child and Youth Advocate Office.

“With a government who is focused on health care and mental health, we need to ensure that vulnerable children and youth have the support to lead a quality life. Adverse Childhood Experiences like those experienced by children involved in the child welfare system are as statistically relevant to developing a complex mental health issues as smoking is to cancer ” says CWAC spokesperson Haley Hiest.

CWAC is guided by a Coordinating Committee, which is comprised of stakeholders from various professional disciplines, services and supports that impact child protection.

Members of this committee include but are not limited to:

• Liz Wilson
• Haley Heist
• Jackie Barkley
• Peter Duke

Membership to CWAC’s larger membership group is open to the public and should reflect the intersecting identities, and various professional disciplines, services and supports that impact child welfare. Members may participate in the Coalition as individuals or on behalf of another organization.

To learn more about CWAC, please visit www.childwelfarens.org or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

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No One is Illegal – Halifax/Kjipuktuk is a community organization that is committed to working in radical solidarities with undocumented migrants and those with precarious immigration statuses. Our mission is to advance migrant justice across Nova Scotia and beyond to ensure equal rights, dignities and decencies for all. You can read more about our work, such as our Migrant Worker Program, on our website.

The reason why we’re writing is to invite you, your organization and members to our free community event on September 12 at 1-3pm at the Halifax Commons (behind the Pavilion). For over a year, community members across Halifax came together to build a series of life-sized, collaborative and radical artwork centering migrant justice and solidarity-building. We’re inviting you to join us in challenging the pervasive xenophobic narratives imposed on migrants in our communities, whose stories are made invisibilized due to Canada’ racist two-tier immigration system.

There will be free food, activities for children, beautiful life-sized art, poetry readings, and an impressive silent auction. More importantly, for those who are able to donate, every single dollar raised at this event will go directly to migrants in Nova Scotia requesting emergency support. If you don’t already know about our mutual aid Migrant Solidarity Fund, you can read more on our website and make a monthly/recurring donation as low as $2/month.

We really hope to see you on Sept 12.More details can be found on our Facebook event.

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KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – The RCMP is refusing to join the Halifax Regional Police in apologizing for the damage done by its racist street checks, Michael Tutton of the Canadian Press reports.

In an email to The Canadian Press the agency “acknowledges the disproportionate harm that street checks have caused to marginalized communities, particularly African Nova Scotians,” Tutton reports. “However, we are also part of the broader RCMP, and RCMP national policy still supports the use of street checks as a policing tool.”

How you can recognize that what you were doing in Halifax is harmful but not apologize because you continue to do it elsewhere, that’s something I find hard to understand.

But then again, Halifax Regional Police did apologize, but found ways to continue the practice despite the provincial ban. 

See also: Loophole allows illegal street checking practice to continue in Nova Scotia 

In Halifax we have a Board of Police Commissioners that doesn’t provide the required oversight of Halifax Regional Police and RCMP in HRM. After all, it was a journalist, and not a Police Commissioner who got the ball rolling on street checks in the city.

But lately, in Halifax at least, there are citizens, journalists and advocacy groups who report and comment on all of the Board’s inactions. 

For me the RCMP’s refusal to apologize serves as a reminder that that same RCMP continues to police pretty well all of rural Nova Scotia’s towns and municipalities.

And it does so without real scrutiny. With journalists becoming a scarce commodity in the province, that’s only going to get worse.    

We got a bit of a taste of what these rural policing experiences are like in Lynn Jones’ encounter with Truro police, and in those parts of the Wortley report that deal with the experiences of Black people in Lucasville, the Prestons, and elsewhere. 

A year ago I spoke with Jessica Bundy, a young African Nova Scotian academic who documented stories of Black residents of the Town of Digby and surrounding area while writing ‘Nova Scotia’s Best Kept Secret’: African Nova Scotian Perceptions of the Police in Digby for her MA thesis at Acadia University in 2017.

See also: Policing Black lives in rural Nova Scotia

Of the nine Black residents Bundy interviewed, when asked if they felt that all members of Digby, Black and white, are treated the same by police, eight answered no. Several participants also stated they would not call the police, no matter how severe the situation was. 

There’s no reason to think policing elsewhere in Nova Scotia is much different. And that’s a terrible thing.

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KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Between the 50s and 80s a number of African Nova Scotian newborn children were removed from their families where it was deemed that the mother was unable to care for her child, this coupled with the stigma of not being married. 

Although some of these children for a short period were cared for in their home communities, eventually they were removed and placed/adopted into other homes, towns, cities and even provinces. 

For example, my sister’s children were said to be adopted in Ontario. 

Theresa Viola Brown was born at St Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish on January 15th 1972 and James Arnold Brown, was also born at St Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish on June 28 1969. These two children  my family has never had the opportunity to know and love or even see.  My sister, the mother of these two children passed away in August 2016, without ever knowing what became of her children.

From 2012 to 2916, I travelled to Ontario ten times to seek information from Adoption Services of Ontario, before doing so I contacted Nova Scotia Adoption Services to seek information, to no avail. Adoption Services of Ontario would always inform me that there was nothing they could do and that it was the home province that was responsible for providing the information that was being sought and that Nova Scotia was one of the few provinces without open files. 

Adoption Services of Ontario also had taken down my information and that of the children’s mother and stated that if the children ever came seeking to contact their birth mother they would have the information on file. 

My question was what if the children do not know they were adopted and what if their names have been changed?  The reply was, if the birth mother is seriously ill and we have a medical form filled in, we may be able to do a search. My sister received the forms and before she could have doctors caring for her fill these forms in, she passed on.

Over the years, the Nova Scotia Government has indicated that they were going to open their adoption records, this has yet to happen.

I don’t know how many African Nova Scotians are faced with similar situations, personally I am aware of five families.  

The reason having access and information on our adopted children is so important is because of their heritage, culture and lineage. Their medical history and the medical history of their family may also be important. Knowing the adoptive child’s whole story is paramount. 

Unless there is some sort of violence involved, there ought to be openness between birth parents and adoptive parents for the betterment of the child and his/her development.  

In my sister’s case, she only wanted to know that they were ok and if she had grandchildren. She did not want to disrupt or interfere with their lives unless they wanted her in their lives. 

In Canada and beyond, there seems to be a growing interest 

in having some degree of openness and information on adoptive children from the biological family and the adoptive parents. It simply serves to complete the picture by letting the children’s birth and history be part of their understanding and indeed their story.

Many studies on adoptions including one from the Adoption Services of California found that openness reduces the fears of adoptive parents and improves the overall mental health and well-being of birth mothers.

When many African Canadians adoptees/Persons of Color realize they look different from others in the adoptive family, especially if they have been adopted by families of European descent ,this can lead to disruption in the adoptive household, especially if the child/children do not know they have been adopted. 

It becomes more catastrophic when these children enter the school system and are called names like the n-word and are unable to comprehend why they are being called this when they have white Parents. And the concerns continue on!

Although my sister has departed to the next realm, my remaining family and I still strongly want to find our out of touch loved ones, therefore I would strongly encourage the Nova Scotia Government to do the right thing and open adoption records.

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KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Steven Cotter, the Conservative candidate running in Central Nova, is a xenophobe who’s Facebook page was found to contain all kinds of vile posts about Canadians who happen to be immigrants, Muslim or both.  No need to repeat it, CTV wrote about it here.

When found out he issued one of those non-apologies we see so much of these days.

“In the past I have shared social media posts without thinking about how these posts might hurt or offend others,” Cotter writes on his election Facebook page. “I have deleted these posts and apologize unreservedly to those I have offended.”

That apology is revealing in itself. Writing hateful comments without recognizing that the targets are actual living and breathing individuals is a defining characteristic of this type of racism.   

After the story broke, former Central Nova MP Peter MacKay, rather than condemn Cotter, had himself and his entire family photographed while on a friendly visit with the racist candidate. 

We shouldn’t forget that there’s a lot of hate and racism among too many members of the Progressive Conservative party, and its leadership seems to be just fine with that.

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A decision made is a direction. A decision steers and maneuvers future actions towards certain ports of call and leaves other harbours in its wake. Politicians are often caught holding onto untenable positions erupting from poor decisions and it is those who are most impacted by those poor decisions that catch them in the act. Not the elected officials. The voices of the people that are twittering and TikToking about the absurd insensitivity – the complete embarrassment of insensitivity regarding this appointment are even labelled as ‘emotional’ by our new  Premier. He assured us that he understands the emotions of ‘it’. Well, if you understood, you wouldn’t have done it, Tim. Who told you that democracy works best when people elected are put into positions of responsibility? Representation is your job. Listening is your job – power with not over.  

The decision to suggest a white man represent African Nova Scotians points in a direction that is worn out, pitted, rutted, dangerous and shackled to the past. Don’t get me wrong, as an old white woman I share eras of patriarchy with Pat Dunn, I was there.  One of the initiatives that came out of those eras – decades ago, was a movement called ‘Take Back the Night”. To refresh our memories, “Take Back the Night” is considered the earliest world-wide movement against sexual violence. It was all about reclaiming the night and the space that is associated with gender-based violence. Well, Pat, in this case, as those old white folks, we are the night. Let’s wake up and get out of the way.

Resign.

kathrin winkler
in peace and friendship

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