Raymond Sheppard: Fed up with racist policing
Raymond Sheppard on the George Floyd verdict and why Canadians shouldn’t be smug about policing in Canada.
Black Lives Matter
Raymond Sheppard: All hands on deck to beat racists and racism
Raymond Sheppard: It is not enough just to speak the truth inside our homes or as a one-on-one with another African Nova Scotian. Action toward our true emancipation is crucial and critical.
Wayne Desmond: Will Black lives ever matter?
Wayne Desmond: “To those who are tired of hearing Black Lives Matter, imagine how exhausted Black people are of saying it, living it and fighting against the hatred that they experience.”
Wellness Within: Letter to Mayor Savage and Councillor Smith re racist violence by Halifax Regional Police
Letter from Wellness Within Chair Martha Paynter, to Mayor Mike Savage and councillor Lindell Smith, re the recent video showing a white Halifax police officer threatening the life of a Black man who has his hands up.
Making a difference – Charlene “Missy” Chasse: Primarily, my allies have come from the Indigenous communities
o celebrate African Heritage Month, the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour Anti-Racism/Human Rights Committee is focusing on African Nova Scotian activists who are making a difference and who share their work-related and personal experiences with us. Melissa Marsman interviews Charlene “Missy” Chasse, a proud member of the PSAC – UNE Local 80018 where she holds the elected position of Human Rights Officer.
Raymond Sheppard: Black Lives Matter 2020
Raymond Sheppard: African people did not develop racism and did not benefit from it, therefore the creators and beneficiaries of racism are the ones who must disassemble it.
Op-ed: ANSUT supports scholars strike for Black lives
The Association of Nova Scotia University Teachers (ANSUT), which represents over 1,400 full-time faculty, librarians and contract academic staff throughout Nova Scotia, supports Scholar Strike. ANSUT encourages faculty, administration and students to be aware of the movement and to stand in solidarity with actions that support racial justice, and protest anti-Black police violence and anti-Indigenous colonial violence.
PSA: Black Lives Matter picnic
Black youth on the South Shore are organizing a Black Lives Matter picnic with their supporters on August 30 at 3pm at Hutt Lake in Chester, please come. This picnic is a Black youth response to the hate crime that happened August 15, 2020 at Hutt Lake, a local swimming spot in Chester, NS when a group of families including a Black man and 9 year old child were threatened by local youth waving a noose and confederate flag who made racists threats in person and publicly online.
Policing Black lives in rural Nova Scotia, an interview with Jessica Bundy
In terms of racism and policing much of the focus has been on Halifax’s urban core, but what about rural Nova Scotia?. We talk with Jessica Bundy, a young African Nova Scotian academic who wrote about the policing experiences of Black residents of the Town of Digby and surrounding communities.
A license to kill: Wellness checks and the police
Judy HAiven: The Orwellian reality is that five people did not survive their “wellness check” carried out by police. There is no coincidence here: The police shot the five because of their race and because they could do so.