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Town of Shelburne councillor throws FaceBook tantrum after Black residents raise pollution fears

April 23, 2017 23 Comments

Town of Shelburne councillor Rick Davis says African Nova Scotian residents worried about pollution from a town dump need to stop playing the race card. That dump was a good thing for Black residents, he suggests, “after all, “the reality is, that many black people relied on that dump for a living, because they, unlike many others I suppose, were the only ones that would deal with the removal of town trash.”

Louise Delisle on the despair caused by environmental racism in the Town of Shelburne

April 21, 2017 2 Comments

This morning at the launch of the Environmental Bill of Rights Louise Delisle, a resident of the Black community within the Town of Shelburne, spoke about the damage done by pollution from the town dump placed right in the middle of the community. With her permission we publish that speech here.
“We were not allowed to speak. They would never speak for fear of repercussions, not being able to care for their families if they spoke up because they would lose their job.”

Proposed Environmental Bill of Rights to empower communities and tackle polluters

April 21, 2017

A proposed Environmental Bill of Rights for Nova Scotia is designed to empower communities and stop stonewalling by polluters and governments.

Carding ineffective and harmful, study shows

April 19, 2017 1 Comment

An extensive report by highly respected Ontario criminologists argues that carding in North America does much more harm than good. One more reason why carding should stop in Halifax.

45 years of activist history in eighteen boxes: the Lynn Jones African-Canadian & Diaspora Heritage Collection

April 10, 2017

I had a great time at SMU last week, digging through box after box of newspaper clippings, minutes posters, and brochures related to well over forty years of civil rights, labour and social justice struggles here in Nova Scotia and beyond. Lynn Jones has scissors, and she isn’t afraid to use them. Eighteen boxes of documentation have found a home at the St Mary’s archives.

Weekend video: On environmental racism and being white

April 7, 2017

A former member of the Dr. Ingrid Waldron’s Enrich project talks about growing up poor, becoming aware of white privilege, and the need to fight alongside communities in Nova Scotia who face environmental racism, all in the plainest of language.

Op-ed: Matt Whitman should resign

March 30, 2017 4 Comments

Matt Whitman should resign. Also, it’s not for white people to forgive him.

News brief: How secure is carding database? Halifax police isn’t saying

March 29, 2017

Any time police conduct a street check that information ends up in a database. We wondered how secure that data is, and discovered that Halifax Regional Police (HRP) is not very helpful.

That’s stopping people at random. Former Halifax City police officer Calvin Lawrence on carding

March 22, 2017

Calvin Lawrence, a former Black police officer who served with Halifax City Police in the sixties and seventies, has been following the discussion about carding from his current residence in Ottawa. He’s not happy with the Chief’s stance, and draws on his own experiences as a cop on the Gottingen and Gerrish beat to explain why.

All I am guilty of is being where the story was. Reporter Justin Brake on facing criminal charges

March 21, 2017

We talk with Justin Brake about the serious criminal charges he faces. Brake was the only journalist to report from the indigenous-led occupation of Nalcor property in protest of the Muskrat Falls development. “This is is more than an attack on my right to be a journalist, this is an attack on all journalists everywhere.”