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VICTORIA A First Nation leader is standing up to racism by making art. Stuart Pagaduan, an elected councillor of the Cowichan Tribes First Nation, decided to create an image to stand up to racism towards his community after it was transparent in releasing information about COVID-19 cases. “We can talk about things, but what are we actually going to do to confront this?” he said. Earlier in January, the mayor of North Cowichan said he was disappointed and “pissed off” by some of the reactions he was seeing online in response to a cluster of COVID-19 detected among Cowichan Tribes members.
Stuart Pagaduan, elected councillor of Cowichan Tribes, created a raised fist poster the day North Cowichan Mayor Al Siebring slammed what he called fear-based racist comments directed at the First Nations community that has seen a huge increase of COVID-19 cases.