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SUMMARY:Bringing Down Barriers: 2SLGBTQ+ In Prison
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/973407346730903 \n\n\n\nAdvance registration required. Register at the Zoom link provided in this event posting. April 2021 is the 20th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month\, a time to honour the voices and experiences of victims and survivors\, and to bring awareness to issues relating to sexualized violence. Everyone has a role to play in ending sexual assault\, harassment\, and abuse. This year\, Avalon has partnered with other community organizations working to support survivors of sexualized violence\, to bring people together for conversation\, learning and strategizing on bringing down barriers to service access.  \n\n\n\n“2SLGBTQ+ In Prison” is the first of these conversations.2SLGBTQ+ people (Two Spirit\, Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender\, Queer/Questioning\, plus (+) other ways individuals express their gender and sexuality outside heteronormativity and the gender binary) experience high levels of policing and criminalization\, arrest and incarceration. Once inside prison\, 2SLGBTQ+ people are subjected to violence by both prison staff and other prisoners.  \n\n\n\nIn Nova Scotia\, very little is known about the experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ within the Nova Scotia criminal justice system\, which is why Coverdale launched a research project exploring just that. The key findings will be discussed and presented\, as well as recommendations on how our communities can advocate for justice and transformation within our justice system. Project participant\, advocate and survivor Sara Tessier will share her first-hand knowledge of violence inside prison and shed light on the ways in which sexualized violence permeates carceral settings. \n\n\n\nAsh Avery (she/her) is a queer feminist writer\, advocate and mother. She has been working with and for criminalized and incarcerated women and gender diverse folks in Nova Scotia since 2015. She is the Executive Director of Coverdale Courtwork Society\, a Halifax based non-profit organization that provides supports and services to women and gender diverse people involved in the criminal justice system. For the past two years she has been researching the experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ individuals in the criminal justice system\, with the guidance of Dr. Rachel Zellers and El Jones. Her work to support the exodus of provincial prisoners from jail during the COVID-19 pandemic won the Michael McDonald access to justice award. Recently\, Ash founded “Caitlan’s Place” –a 6 bed bail house for women and gender diverse individuals in Halifax. \n\n\n\nSara A. Tessier (she/her) is a social justice advocate with lived experience who has spent the last 5 years working with and on behalf of some of the most marginalized\, victimized\, criminalized\, and institutionalized men\, women and youth in Canada. She has worked on the JEC Housing project with John Howard\, Elizabeth Fry Mainland Nova Scotia\, and Coverdale Courtwork Society in supporting people exiting provincial jail during the Covid-19 pandemic. She is an advisor for African Nova Scotian Affairs Mobilizing Partnership Program\, a committee member for YWCA’s Trafficking & Exploitation Services System LGBTQ+ cultural group and sits on the CAEFS Lived Experience Committee. She is currently a Peer Mentor with Coverdale Courtwork Society and also works with the G.A.T.E team with the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia. \n\n\n\nThe Avalon Sexual Assault Centre is a feminist organization working to eliminate sexual assault/abuse\, and to change the current socio-political culture that fosters sexism\, social injustice and other forms of oppression. \n\n\n\nOnline: us02web.zoom.us
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/bringing-down-barriers-2slgbtq-in-prison/
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SUMMARY:Equity Watch rally to tell Nova Scotia Human Rights commission\, do your job!
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, April 8\, Noon to 1 pm \n\n\n\nWhere: Park Lane Mall\, 5657 Spring Garden Rd (MASKED AND SOCIAL-DISTANCED!) \n\n\n\nThree and a half years ago\, Christine Shupe of Halifax left her job at Beaver Enviro because of what she claims was sexual harassment by the boss. \n\n\n\nShe filed her complaint at the NS Human Rights Commission\, but the Commission dragged its feet – as usual — in pursuing the case.  Finally the case moved forward after Shupe contacted the NS Ombudsman’s office. \n\n\n\nThe Commission sent her case to a public Board of Inquiry. But last month the Board dismissed her complaint because the company had not been named correctly.  Though Beaver Enviro is the name on the building\, the company’s registered name is 2557617 Nova Scotia. In fact\, the problem with the name was identified just 3 months after Shupe approached the Commission. \n\n\n\nBecause of this technical mistake\, Shupe’s case of sex discrimination was tossed. The Commission is not allowed by law to alter its original complaint\, and because the harassment incidents had taken place more than 12 months before\, the Commission could not file a new complaint. \n\n\n\nSays Equity Watch spokesperson Judy Haiven\, “That would not have happened\, for example\, in New Brunswick whose Human Rights Act allows: ‘18(2) The Commission may extend the time for the filing of a complaint if\, in the opinion of the Commission\, the circumstances warrant it.’ \n\n\n\n“Equity Watch is not happy to hear of yet another case of the NS Human Rights Commission dragging its feet\, and losing the chance to pursue violators. This shows that Nova Scotia’s human rights regime is way past due for an overhaul.” \n\n\n\nEquity Watch’s report “Justice Impeded: A Critique of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Regime” details case after case of the NS Human Rights Commission not doing its job – and dismissing cases on a technicality\, or through sloppiness or ignoring timelines.   \n\n\n\nEquity Watch is asking the NS Human Rights Commission and the Nova Scotia government to simply do their job. That is the least they owe Nova Scotians. 
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/equity-watch-rally-to-tell-nova-scotia-human-rights-commission-do-your-job/
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SUMMARY:Memorial for Eishia Hudson
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/189201386141175 \n\n\n\nPlease join us at the Halifax Police Headquarters\, at 1795 Gottingen St\, in remembering Eishia Hudson\, a 16 year old Indigenous girl\, who was murdered by Winnipeg police one year ago. We are joining her family and community in demands to the government for a public inquiry of the Winnipeg police and their responsibility in her murder.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/memorial-for-eishia-hudson/
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SUMMARY:The Cost of Poverty in the Atlantic Provinces Release
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/512351456803863 \n\n\n\nJoin authors and community partners as they discuss the findings of the soon to be released\, The Cost of Poverty in the Atlantic Provinces.This report is being released in partnership with The New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice\, the Human Development Council\, the Social Justice Cooperative of Newfoundland and Labrador\, the MacKillop Centre for Social Justice\, PEI Coalition for Poverty Eradication and the Nova Scotia Action Coalition for Community Well-Being. \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcempqDMvHNV8_IyTUxy_LCDaXqfZmpfW
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/the-cost-of-poverty-in-the-atlantic-provinces-release/
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