{"id":59068,"date":"2019-06-27T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=59068"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:45","slug":"black-and-fenton-canadas-labour-movement-must-take-a-stand-against-the-saudi-arms-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/06\/black-and-fenton-canadas-labour-movement-must-take-a-stand-against-the-saudi-arms-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK AND FENTON: Canada\u2019s labour movement must take a stand against the Saudi arms deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Assistant Professor of Labour Studies Simon Black recently co-wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canadas-labour-movement-must-take-a-stand-against-the-saudi-arms-deal-118510?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2026%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2026%202019+CID_b33ff97cb3a6612118f81c3c7d580a54&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Canadas%20labour%20movement%20must%20take%20a%20stand%20against%20the%20Saudi%20arms%20deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece published in <em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> about the Canadian Labour Congress&#8217;s failure to take a meaningful stand against Canada&#8217;s arms deal with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The article was co-written with Anthony Fenton, a PhD candidate from York University.<\/p>\n<p>Black and Fenton write:<\/p>\n<p><em>As Canada\u2019s largest labour organization and the political arm of the labour movement,\u00a0the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)\u00a0has long been a voice for peace, human rights and social justice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But on one of the most controversial issues in Canadian politics,\u00a0Canada\u2019s arms deal with Saudi Arabia, it has failed to take a meaningful stand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners are waging war in Yemen. The war has plunged the country into what\u00a0the United Nations calls \u201cthe world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to\u00a0a recent UN report, approximately 70,000 Yemenis have died since the beginning of 2016. Hospitals, schools, markets and mosques are common targets for Saudi coalition airstrikes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canadas-labour-movement-must-take-a-stand-against-the-saudi-arms-deal-118510?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2026%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2026%202019+CID_b33ff97cb3a6612118f81c3c7d580a54&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Canadas%20labour%20movement%20must%20take%20a%20stand%20against%20the%20Saudi%20arms%20deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Assistant Professor of Labour Studies Simon Black recently co-wrote a piece published in The Conversation about the Canadian Labour Congress&#8217;s failure to take a meaningful stand against Canada&#8217;s arms deal with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[8053,110,3856,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59068"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59069,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59068\/revisions\/59069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}