{"id":43693,"date":"2017-02-22T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=43693"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:12:42","slug":"black-history-month-at-brock-wraps-up-with-black-lives-matter-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/02\/black-history-month-at-brock-wraps-up-with-black-lives-matter-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month at Brock wraps up with Black Lives Matter discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A panel discussion will be held next week at Brock University to discuss racism that exists in the labour movement and how unions can and have supported Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Labour Studies and the Brock Social Justice Research Institute are hosting \u201c<em>I Can\u2019t Work if I Can\u2019t Breathe,\u201d <\/em>Tuesday, Feb. 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. in Thistle 240.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion will be moderated by Assistant Professor Simon Black and will include panelists: Yusra Khogali, Black Lives Matter Toronto; Idil Abdillahi, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Ryerson University; Azuhura Msofe, student activist, Brock Labour Studies; and Mark Brown, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.<\/p>\n<p>Black said he hopes the event will continue the conversation about racism that exists within the labour movement and\u00a0the role unions play in\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">the struggle against anti-Black racism in policing and the criminal justice system and society more broadly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cBlack workers face racism on the job and in the community,\u201d he said. \u201cOur event hopes to further the conversation between trade unionists, labour studies students and scholars, and anti-racism activists about how we build a labour movement and society free from racial oppression and inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Feb. 28 event is open to everyone in the Brock community and there\u2019s no cost to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel discussion will be held next week at Brock University to discuss the racism that exists in the labour movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4,38],"tags":[806,4956,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43709,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693\/revisions\/43709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}