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Anti-Black Racism
Oppression will try to steal your ability to dream. Don’t let it.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionately high impact on Black communities. It’s exceptionally difficult to produce a vision of freedom in such rough times. But we must keep freedom dreaming.
Hungry for more? Monitor resource list
Our favourite books, podcasts and articles exploring issues related to decolonizing the food justice movement, dismantling anti-fat bias and more!
Learning to raise and cook food from nana, not a book
Bress 'n' Nyam and the Black farmers who are returning to the countryside to steward the land.
Canadian landlords can be hostile to African food
In July 2019, I and two Black African friends settled into a new apartment in Ottawa. I quickly guessed that our “African food” would become a racial tinder box.
Not all retirement is made equal
A new CCPA report shows that retirement security is colour-coded in Canada
Centrist Complacency: The U.S.Capitol insurrection is a warning to us all
It is imperative that we face the threat that white supremacists pose to what are already weak-functioning Western democracies.
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