Press release: A coalition of community organizations are demanding that the new premier rescind the $5 million “investment” that Stephen McNeil announced for Sandpiper Ventures on February 5, 2021, and invest that money towards increasing capacity at women’s shelters and improving the affordability of childcare in the province.
A Halifax mutual aid group has been building and distributing small crisis shelters for people with nowhere warm to sleep. The response of the municipality and some of the city councillors has been disappointing, writes Solidarity Kjipuktuk – Halifax, and the group offers some suggestions of things that could have been said instead.
Press release: Activist group Solidarity Kjipuktuk/Halifax will hold a demonstration to call attention to how Clearwater Seafood’s megafishery operation threatens Mi’kmaw livelihood fishing. Protestors will gather Thursday, November 5 from 7:30am to 9am at the Clearwater Seafood retail location on the Bedford Highway.
The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission (NSHRC) has been derelict in its duty to support and protect the human rights of Nova Scotians, with African Nova Scotian people being disproportionately impacted.
Scott Neigh does such a wonderful job highlighting activist work all across Canada. Whenever his podcast Talking Radical touches upon Nova Scotia he generously allows the Advocate to share. Here is Scott talking about the Halifax Workers Action Centre with Sakura Saunders and NS Advocate writer Lisa Cameron.
People who get paid the least and work in the most unstable jobs are often the people most vulnerable to abuse by their bosses. And without a union or money to get legal help, these workers usually have nowhere to go. In Halifax at least that situations has improved a bit. There is now a Workers Action Centre (WAC) that you can turn to for answers to your questions and for concrete support.
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.
Solidarity Halifax asks us not to forget about the Black janitors who worked at Founders Square and were fired when the cleaning contract was flipped by Armour Group. Here is something we can do, friends.
News release: Some 20 Haligonians rallied at the Emera building on Lower Water Street in Halifax in solidarity with the Muskrat Falls Day of Action at Parliament Hill in Halifax. I added some photos I took.
The people of Labrador opposing Muskrat Falls, tired of having their voices ignored, and are happy with the response for a day of action at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday May 7. Solidarity actions are happening in many cities, and we are glad to see Halifax among them.