Following the seize of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro by U.S. navy forces on Saturday, January 3, President Donald J. Trump has revived his threats of annexing Greenland, at the moment a semi-autonomous area of Denmark. That very same day, he was quoted in The Atlantic as saying “We do want Greenland, completely. We want it for protection.” Then, on Sunday, he reiterated his stance to reporters aboard Air Power One.
Now, Björk has shared an announcement calling for Greenland’s independence. “[C]olonialism has repeatedly given me horror chills up my again,” she wrote on Instagram, “and the prospect that my fellow greenlanders would possibly go from one merciless coloniser to a different is simply too brutal to even think about.” Learn her full message beneath.
Björk’s residence nation of Iceland was dominated by Denmark till 1944. “We did not unfastened our language (my kids could be talking danish now),” she famous. Björk additionally referenced the lawsuit introduced in opposition to the Danish authorities by 143 Greenlandic ladies who claimed to have been fitted with IUDs with out their information or consent, and the “parenting competency exams” administered by Danish authorities that led to Greenlandic mother and father being separated from their kids.
On Sunday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen responded to President Trump in an announcement posted to Fb: “[O]n the facet of the US, cease the threats in opposition to a traditionally shut ally and to a different nation and one other individuals, who’ve very clearly acknowledged that they aren’t on the market.” Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has additionally known as Trump’s remarks “very impolite and disrespectful.”
In September, Björk joined the continuing No Music for Genocide marketing campaign, which calls on musicians and labels to geo-block their music from streaming in Israel. She shared her newest album, Fossora, in 2022.
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