An African Nova Scotian wish list for 2019
Raymond Sheppard on what would make 2019 a better year than 2018.
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Attacker of Nhlanhla Dlamini should be charged with attempted murder, hate crime, say rally organizers
About 80 people rallied this afternoon at the the Maritime Centre, home of the Department of Labour and Advanced Education. They were there to protest anti-Black racism in workplaces anywhere, and especially to support Nhlanhla Dlamini, the young Black man shot with a high velocity nail gun by a co-worker employed with PQ Properties Limited of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia on September 18. The man who shot Dlamini should be charged with attempted murder and hate crimes, rally organizers say.
′I still can′t sleep′ – When bedbugs infest your apartment
New author Kathryn Jones Cleroux with a touching story about a mother, her daughter. bedbugs and landlords.
This day: African Liberation Day
Tony Seed on the significance of African Liberation Day, and some personal memories and observations on previous celebrations in Halifax.
Weekend video: The Legacy of Four the Moment
This weekend’s weekend video features an interview with Delvina Bernard, one of the founders of Four the Moment, the excellent and unabashedly political a capella band that appeared at many rallies and events in Nova Scotia throughout the eighties.
‘Novalea IS Gottingen, plain and simple.’ How a rigged survey triggered a name change and humiliated a community
Gottingen Street, one of Halifax main thoroughfares, used to extend into the far North End. But in 1981 Halifax Council voted that the northern segment of Gottingen Street, beyond the Young Street intersection, now be called Novalea Drive. The reasons behind that decision were tainted by racism and prejudice, and a survey of residents’ opinions conducted by the City purposely excluded most residents who lived along the street. Maybe it’s time to make things right again.
Sad and angry: The Not So Silent Vigil in Halifax North End
Elizabeth Goodridge attended last night’s Not So Silent Vigil in the Halifax North End and wrote this heartfelt report
The autism research that’s really needed
Frequent contributor Alex Kronstein describes how autistic people, as a community, possess a great deal of truth and knowledge that they’ve figured out by themselves and for themselves. “I know this because I’m autistic myself,” he writes. “Autistic people have plenty of valid knowledge, and we by and large are fed up with non-autistic researchers claiming to have “discovered” this knowledge.”
Premier McNeil’s Bill 148 takes us back to the dark ages
Larry Haiven on Bill 148:| “Unions and collective bargaining and, yes, strikes, are part of the price we all pay for living in a democracy, convenient or not. Bill 148 takes us back to the dark ages and workers, again, will have to take matters into their own hands.”
Prison is a storage unit: Halifax community meeting on Prisoners’ Justice Day
I went to yesterday’s Prisoners’ Justice Day event in the Halifax North End public library. Two full hours of information on prisons in Nova Scotia, not easy to summarize, and I am not even trying, to be honest. I just offer some fragments here, there is so much to learn.