A protestor is dragged off 15th Street in Denver, Colo. on Saturday morning Oct. 6, 2007 by police during attempts to halt the annual Columbus Day Parade. Demonstrators poured fake blood on the street to protest the parade. (AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)

Fake blood on the street?! That’s so perfect!

DENVER - About 75 protesters, including American Indian activist Russell Means, were arrested on Saturday after blocking Denver’s downtown parade honoring the Italian-born discoverer Christopher Columbus, an event they denounced as “a celebration of genocide.”

From transform columbus day:

Columbus is responsible for the murder of millions of indigenous people.

Columbus was a slavetrader in Africa before invading America. He began the slave trade in the Americas. He deserves no holiday, no parades, no statues.

Columbus Day celebrates the doctrine of discovery – the legal process that stole Indian people’s territories, and that continues today.

Columbus brought a philosophy of domination to the Americas that persists today – domination of other peoples, domination of the environment, domination of other belief systems, domination of women by men.

Berkley renamed the “holiday” Indigenous People’s day. All across Kansas, many want the same name change to occur in their communities.

Here is a great column called: How Columbus Day harms American Indians. It is very well written and completly worth your time.

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