April 5, 2017 http://www.eesti.ca/thougths-a...

To "what's the point", there may be at least two. What would it take to add to Wikipedia what is missing, on Estonia, or on Canada, e.g. "enemy aliens" in Canada (not just the U.S.), and how those many deported from Estonia were constructed as enemies and/or aliens? This requires some careful knowledge of the subject of deportation. What could be cultivated on this basis, since it cannot be achieved mechanically, is the ability to integrate information, i.e. communicate. “Let us all remember” – who is “all”? How are the “victims” of the title of the EL notice distinguishable from “pariahs”?

An interesting thing about the other link is that the Indian Removal Act “should not be confused with the Indian Relocation Act of 1956.” History is with us today. “Overall, the program had devastating long-term effects.[10] Relocated tribe members became isolated from their communities and faced racial discrimination and segregation. Many found only low-paying jobs with little advancement potential, and suffered from the lack of community support, and the higher expenses typical for urban areas. They could not return to dissolved reservations.”

How, for that matter, are we measuring whether and how the community organizations/organizers are fulfilling their roles/ doing their jobs? Have these changed since their inception? What are the current job requirements? Who has the necessary qualifications?

Are you suggesting that others have also suffered, so we shouldn't commemorate and mourn our own?