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Let’s Talk Race: Video contest. Join the conversation. Create a video discussing your experiences with racism and win $500! See project page for more details.
Contest deadline has been extended to June 24, 2012. Check back soon for more details!
Looking to volunteer with Racism Free Ontario? CASSA is currently recruiting a team of volunteers to help out with the campaign.
We are looking for a team of volunteers to be responsible for assisting in event coordination, media relations, poster designs, community outreach to mobilize the community against systemic racism, management and other administrative tasks. These positions will work closely and report to the project coordinator.
Volunteers of all ages and backgrounds are welcome. Please email Deena Hai at deena@cassa.on.ca for all volunteer inquiries.
OCASI, together with MTCSALC and COPC has submitted a joint report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), for consideration by the Committee at its upcoming sessions. The report highlights the experience of exclusion and systemic discrimination faced by racialized Canadians including immigrants and refugees, and puts forward 25 recommendations for consideration by the Committee..
Upcoming Events
CASSA invites you to mark International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination through a Forum:
Racism Free Ontario Forum
Theme: Addressing Racial Inequities Faced by Our Children and Youth
Discussing the impact of racism on our children and youth and Identifying Strategies to address racial inequities faced by them in educational institutions, neighborhoods and workplaces.
WHERE/WHEN: On March 21st, 2012 (Wed) from 9am to 5pm at OISE (by St. George Subway Station)
Admission Free but Space Limited
Registration is now closed
Brought to you by Council of Agencies Serving South Asians, Colour of Poverty, Sociology in Education and Equity Studies and The Centre for Integrative Anti-racism Studies.
Colour Me: A FREE Film Screening and Dialogue
WHERE/WHEN: Wednesday, March 21, 2012. 12:30-3:30. 280N York Lanes, York University
In commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racism, the Centre for Human Rights, in collaboration with the York United Black Students Alliance (YUBSA), York University will be screening the documentary film Colour Me. This screening is free and open to the entire York community.
Daily Spotlight
Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, has been a driving force in securing rights for Aboriginal women in Canada. Challenging discriminatory provisions of the Indian Act, which deprived Aboriginal women of their status when they married non-Aboriginals, she was instrumental in bringing the case before the United Nations Human Rights Commission and lobbying for the 1985 legislation which reinstated the rights of Aboriginal women and their children in Canada.
Beverly K. Jacobs (Gowehgyuseh) is the current President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada. Jacobs’ work on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal women was inspired by her work with Amnesty International as the Lead Researcher and consultant for their Stolen Sisters Report. She successfully secured funding for Sisters In Spirit, a research, education and policy initiative aimed at raising public awareness about Canada’s missing and murdered Aboriginal women. In her role as NWAC President she has traveled extensively to raise awareness, rally citizens and inspire young Aboriginal women.
Arthur Miki, a sansei, has had a distinguished career as an educator and community activist. He has worked to promote improved race relations and to increase awareness of human rights issues in Canada. As president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians, Art led the negotiations to achieve a just redress settlement for Japanese Canadians interned during the Second World War.
Racism Free Ontario Forum
Racism Free Ontario Forum March 21 @ OISE, Register Now CASSA invites you to mark International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination through a Forum: Racism Free Ontario Forum Theme: Addressing Racial Inequities Faced by Our Children and Youth Discussing the impact of racism on our children and youth and Identifying Strategies to address racial…
Legacies of the Komagata Maru: Letters to our Elders
The workshop description and application can also be found online at: http://browncanada.tumblr.com/post/16189680555/legacies-of-our-histories Council of Agencies Serving South Asians and the Brown Canada Project Presents: Legacies of the Komagata Maru: Letters to our Elders *FREE 6-week creative workshop series for self-identified youth of colour, Indigenous and mixed-race youth *Including workshops on various forms of storytelling (writing, digital,…
Racism Free Ontario Forum Volunteer Team
COUNCIL OF AGENCIES SERVING SOUTH ASIANS (CASSA) 2401 Eglinton Avenue E., Suite 212, Toronto, ON M1K 2N8 Email: racismfreeontario@cassa.on.ca Website: www.racismfreeontario.com Racism Free Ontario Volunteer Posting (Part Time – Until March 21) Start & End Dates : February- end of March 2012 The Racism Free Ontario Initiative is a 100 day anti-racism campaign, across Ontario. During the campaign, community organizations, groups, individuals and…
Agenda for Racism Free Ontario Forum
Racism Free Ontario Forum Agenda Partners / Speakers / Workshops Hello everyone! This is just a friendly reminder and update…
Celebrating our Stories, Strengthening our Spirits / Generations of Change Leadership Series
Celebrating our Stories, Strengthening our Spirits South Asian women are celebrating International Women’s Day on Thursday, March 8th at 5:30pm at Bendale Library located at 1515 Danforth Rd. Join us if you want to share the stories of your daily struggles and successes, whether you are a community organizer, a homemaker or a professional…
Racism Free Ontario Forum
Racism Free Ontario Forum March 21 @ OISE, Register Now CASSA invites you to mark International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination through a Forum: Racism Free Ontario Forum Theme: Addressing Racial Inequities Faced by Our Children and Youth Discussing the impact of racism on our children and youth and Identifying Strategies to address racial…
See the event page for more details.
Anna Mae Aquash
Anna Mae Aquash was a Mi’kmaq activist, born in 1945, who became a member of the American Indian Mouvement in the early 1970′s. She was murdered in 1975, and the case of her murder is still going on today, over 35 years later. From the era of Native American political activism and militancy during the early 1970s,…
Sandra M. Lovelace Nicholas
Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, a Maliseet woman from New Brunswick’s Tobique Nation, has been a driving force in securing rights for Aboriginal women in Canada, and is also a wonderful example of the impact one woman can have when she sets out to correct an injustice. Sandra lost her status when she married a white man, and…
Beverly K. Jacobs
Beverly K. Jacobs (Gowehgyuseh). She is the current President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada. She was born into the Bear Clan of the Mohawk Nation on the territory of the Six Nations of the Grand River in Southern Ontario. Her traditional name, Gowehgyuseh means “She’s visiting.” Jacobs is a lawyer by profession and holds…
Starting December 10th, 2011, we will be profiling 100 People of Colour activists and organizations. Follow our facebook fanpage, tumblr, twitter and website for daily updates. You may submit using the contact form, facebook, send a tweet and of course, email. Read more.
