Anti-Racism Advocacy

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• Interview: racialized women “exploited” for work with seniors according to union leader (French) | Radio- Canada | April 2020 | https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/tout-un-matin/segments/chronique/166242/femmes-racisees-exploitation-chsld-cisss-centre-sud

• Persistent Inequality: Ontario’s Colour-coded Labour Market | CCPA |  December 2018 | https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/persistent-inequality 

• Canada’s blind spots on race, immigration and labour | Policy Options | May 2020 |  https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2020/canadas-covid-19-blind-spots-on-race-immigration-and-labour/

• The racial impacts of COVID-19: regularly updated news articles | embracerace | 2020 |  https://www.embracerace.org/resources/disproportionate-racial-impacts-of-covid#immigrantsrefugees

• COVID-19: your voices against stigma and discrimination | Voice of Youth | 2020 |  https://www.voicesofyouth.org/covid-19-your-voices-against-stigma-and-discrimination 

• Crimes Against Asians | Facebook campaign |  2020 | https://www.facebook.com/groups/crimesagainstasians/ 

• Five ways to take anti-racist action during COVID-19 | The Tyee | April 2020 |  https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/04/10/Five-Ways-To-Take-Anti-Racist-Action-During-COVID-19/

• There is no stopping COVID-19 without stopping racism | thebmjopinion | June 2020 |  https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/06/05/there-is-no-stopping-covid-19-without-stopping-racism/

• Racism and COVID-19: the world’s twin pandemics |  Foreign Policy in Focus | June 2020 | https://fpif.org/racism-and-covid-19-the-worlds-twin-pandemics/

• Anti-Asian racism must be stopped before it is normalized | Sahar Aziz | April 2020 | https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/anti-asian-racism-stopped-normalised-200412103717485.html

• COVID-19 and the rising cost of social distancing | National Post | April 2020 | https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/covid-19-rising-costs-of-social-distancing

 

 

Anti-Racism Initiatives (NGOs)

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• ACT2EndRacism | 2020 | https://act2endracism.ca/

• Reporting racism tool | Project 1907 | 2020 |  https://www.project1907.org/

• Reducing Stigma | CDC | June 2020 | https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/reducing-stigma.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fsymptoms-testing%2Freducing-stigma.html

• UNICEF’s Social Stigma associated with COVID-19 Factsheet | UNICEF | February 2020 |  https://www.unicef.org/media/65931/file/Social%20stigma%20associated%20with%20the%20coronavirus%20disease%202019%20(COVID-19).pdf

• COVID-19 – Racial Equity and Social Justice Resources | Racial Equity Tools | 2020 |  https://www.racialequitytools.org/fundamentals/resource-lists/resources-addressing-covid-19-with-racial-equity-lens

• Discrimination based on COVID-19 | The Manitoba Human Rights commission | 2020 | http://www.manitobahumanrights.ca/v1/education-resources/resources/pubs/guidelines/covid19guideline.pdf

• Guide to supporting marginalized communities | CNN | May 2020 |  https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/us/how-to-be-an-ally-guide-trnd/index.html

• COVID-19 resources that take race seriously | Embracerace | 2020 | https://www.embracerace.org/resources/resources?utm_source=EmbraceRace+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ec3e012c7e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_13_11_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_765f8c2a27-ec3e012c7e-

• #facesofthecure |reporting tool for healthcare workers | 2020 | https://www.facesofthecure.org/

• #racismisavirus initiative | Tremendous communications campaign | 2020 | https://www.racismisavirus.com/

• #becool2asians | Twitter Platform | March 2020 | https://twitter.com/becool2asians?lang=en

• Online reporting tool launched to document incidents of covid- 19 racism in Edmonton | CTV News Edmonton | May 2020 |  https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/online-reporting-tool-launched-to-document-incidents-of-covid-19-racism-1.4929101

• Site tracks incidents of anti-racism in Canada during COVID-19 | Now | May 2020 |  https://nowtoronto.com/news/racist-incidents-canada/

• Tracking website for COVID-19 racism in Canada | Fight COVID Racism |May 2020 |  https://www.covidracism.ca/about

• Fighting scapegoating-Chinese Canadians launch new website | The star | May 2020 |  https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/05/28/fighting-the-essence-of-scapegoating-facing-racist-violence-during-covid-19-chinese-canadians-launch-new-website.html

• UBC equity and inclusion office response to COVID-19 racism | UBC Vancouver | March 2020 | https://equity.ubc.ca/news-and-stories/equity-and-inclusion-office-response-to-covid-19/

• #IamNOTAVIRUS campaign aims to curb negativity surrounding Asian American community during coronavirus outbreak | News8 | March 2020 |  https://www.wtnh.com/news/health/coronavirus/iamnotavirus-campaign-aims-to-curb-negativity-surrounding-asian-american-community-during-coronavirus-outbreak/

• Stop the Spread of Racism | Chinese Canadian Council for Social Justice | 2020  | https://www.stopthespread.ca/

• Stop AAPI Hate: A reporting mechanism for Asian Americans to report discrimination related to COVID-19 | Asian Pacific Policy and Planning council | 2020 | http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/  

• APCON Press release: 650 reported incidents in the first week | A3PCON | March 2020 | http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Press_Release_-Thursday_March_26_2020.pdf

• “COVID-19 Does not discriminate, neither should you” campaign| Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations | 2020 |  http://www.crarr.org/?fbclid=IwAR2Ux1CynAwnStlhh7Mp-p_XCnYukA3WgGdJDl1UkgMZEya4qyLd2X6k00k 

• CRARR Facebook Campaign | June 2020 | https://www.facebook.com/Center-for-Research-Action-on-Race-Relations-CRARR-258996297500425/

• #standtogether Institute of Canadian Citizenship (ICC): campaign to lower COVID-19 racism towards new Canadians | Regina Leader Post | May 2020 | https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/campaign-aims-to-lower-covid-19-racism-toward-new-canadians

• #healthnothate campaign | 2020 |  http://healthnothate.com/

• #washthehate initiative from United States supported by Canada | Reporting tool for hate incidents | 2020 |  https://www.washthehate.com/

• University of Toronto faculty of medicine students discuss #washthehate initiative | U of T | May 2020 |  https://medicine.utoronto.ca/news/rise-anti-asian-discrimination-during-covid-19-sparks-new-awareness-campaign

• COVID-19 does not discriminate: nor should our response | IOM | March 2020 | https://www.iom.int/news/covid-19-does-not-discriminate-nor-should-our-response?utm_source=IOM+External+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=89e1b0a0e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_19_01_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9968056566-89e1b0a0e4-43568813 

• Combating Xenophobia is key to an effective COVID-19 Recovery | IOM | May 2020 |  https://mailchi.mp/95b8e10b22ab/iom-reaffirms-un-call-for-cessation-of-hostilities-in-syria-in-wake-of-deaths-of-humanitarian-partners-4448653?e=ac4bc32981

• Initiative to confronting Anti-Asian racism due to COVID-19 initiative | Society of United Professionals | May 2020 |  https://www.thesociety.ca/confronting-anti-asian-racism-during-covid-19

• COVID-19 crisis from a feminine perspective: overview of different articles | WIDE | May 2020 |  https://wideplus.org/2020/03/26/covid-19-crisis-from-a-feminist-perspective-overview-of-different-articles-published/

• Inequality amplified by COVID-19 crisis | Canadian human rights commission | March  2020 | https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/eng/content/statement-inequality-amplified-covid-19-crisis

• ProjectHeal | BlackspaceWpg | 2020 | https://www.blackspacewpg.ca/project-heal

• Confronting anti-Black racism initiative | Toronto for all | 2020 | https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/97d4-community-conversation-guide-participants.pdf

• Anti-Black racism resources | leadnow.ca | 2019 | https://www.leadnow.ca/anti-black-racism-resources/

• Anti-Black racism and anti-racism resources | United Steelworkers Union in Canada | 2020 | https://www.usw.ca/news/media-centre/articles/2020/anti-black-racism-and-anti-racism-resources

• Canada’s economy won’t recover unless marginalized groups, women helped too: report | Global News | July 2020 | https://globalnews.ca/news/7226856/canada-economic-recovery-marginalized-groups/

• Resources for ending anti- Black racism | Canadian Women’s Foundation | June 2020 | https://canadianwomen.org/blog/ending-anti-black-racism/

• Responding to Anti- Black racism: resources to support parents and students | Ottawa- Carleton district school board | June 2020 | https://ocdsb.ca/news/responding_to_anti-_black_racism__resources

• Anti-Black racism: It’s everyone’s fight | PSAC AFPC | June 2020 | http://psacunion.ca/anti-black-racism-its-everyones-fight