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Title: Edward Snowden Day Author: Jimmy Campbell Date: 11/27/2020 Language: en Topics: holidays Source: https://newworldoutlaw.com/blogs/news/snowden-day
I recently attended a seminar about the decolonization of our minds. One
of the topics discussed was holidays and how we blindly celebrate or
observe holidays and traditions based off lies, war, co-opting other
peoples religious beliefs/cultures and all sorts of questionable
origins. I’m not saying its a bad thing to partake in thanksgiving
dinner with your loved ones, but simply to acknowledge that certain
themes woven into the holiday should be tossed to the wayside.
I’m currently writing this on Black Friday 2020 after a long hike in the
woods, Last year my family and I decided to go for a hike on this day,
because the forest trails would be peaceful and empty, also, the exact
opposite of what Black Friday represents to us. We decided to make the
Black Friday hike a yearly tradition. A holiday just for us. Away from
the mindless consumer culture and commercial advertising. This blooming
new “holiday” has been such a success that I’ve decided to coin a new
holiday in honor of one of my heroes. June 6th will be forever known to
me, and hopefully others as Snowden Day. Marking the anniversary of June
6th, 2013 when Edward Snowden came public and released information to
the world about the American government spying on its own people.
I suggest you make some holidays for yourself as well. Whatever you
stand for and whatever people have inspired you deserve to be
celebrated.