A Summer of Protest
Four organizers from the Prairie provinces reflect on the world they’re fighting for.
By Melissa Fundira
Four organizers from the Prairie provinces reflect on the world they’re fighting for.
By Melissa Fundira
The realities of anti-Blackness on the Prairies became hypervisible in the summer of 2020.
Massive protests catalyzed by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis swept across Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta, bringing renewed attention to the many Black and Indigenous victims of police violence in Canada.
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The YYC Justice for All Victims of Police Brutality protest on June 3, 2020, began in Calgary’s Kensington area. The march then moved through downtown toward city hall. (Leah Hennel for CBC News)
Allendale woman raising money to put Black Lives Matter bricks at site of controversial statue
A lack of representation for people of color is inspiring Jessica Miller to bring that representation to the Veterans Garden of Honor in Allendale Township. The garden is the site of a controversial Civil War statue, which features a Confederate soldier and slave child. Over the past several months there have been calls for its removal, its future is still undecided.
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ALLENDALE TWP., Mich. â A lack of representation for people of color is inspiring Jessica Miller to bring that representation to the Veterans Garden of Honor in Allendale Township.
Indigenous communities must show support for Black- and POC-led movements without centering ourselves
Graphic provided by the Native Students Union.
In the past year, the Black Lives Matter movement has regained significant momentum and has been pushing for international change and the eradication of white supremacy. White supremacy is a system and a mindset that has infected the minds of many on Turtle Island and abroad.
Though some may not like to admit it, there are often examples of anti-Black racism and the pushing of the white supremacist agenda in Indigenous communities. One of the most recent examples of this has been during the Black Lives Matter movement. The burgeoning statement of ‘Indigenous Lives Matter’ is one example.
The proposed changes are driven by a need to reduce the overincarceration of minority groups, and by the Black Lives Matter and Indigenous Lives Matter social movements, Justice Minister David Lametti said
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