” 100 Years of Loss” The Residential School System in Canada
Save OMNI Campaign
#SaveOMNI Petition On May 7, 2015, during Asian Heritage Month, Rogers Communications Inc. (Rogers) announced the elimination of all newscasts on its OMNI TV Stations. This decision was made without consultation of community members and leaders, who have watched and benefitted from OMNI TV for decades. Rogers has abandoned the spirit of OMNI TV’s license…
ACLA Member, Winnie Ng Receives Pioneers of Change Award
http://sharenews.com/peter-sloly-among-recipients-of-pioneers-for-change-awards/ Migrating for a better future for their children, parents make huge personal sacrifices that sometimes take decades for them to recover. When Toronto Police Services deputy chief Peter Sloly’s parents made the decision to leave Jamaica in 1976, they were successful professionals. Bringing their three boys to Toronto, however, came at a price as…
ACLA participants in City of Hamilton’s Road to Justice Exhibit and Educational
The City of Hamilton is currently displaying a special exhibit entitled “Road to Justice” which highlights the legal struggle for equal rights for Chinese Canadians. The exhibit, curated by the Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, has been on display since the beginning of April. To draw attention to this important piece of…
ACLA on Talking Radical Radio
Pro-Worker, Anti-Racist: The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance By Scott Neigh http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2015/04/pro-worker-anti-racist-asian-canadian-labour-alliance On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Anna Liu and Patricia Chong. They are both long-time labour activists and members of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (ACLA), a network of Asian-Canadian labour and community activists with chapters in Ontario and…
Globe and Mail: Op-Ed by Avvy Go, Dora Nipp and Winnie Ng in Response to UNB Professor
What This UNB Professor Practices Is Intolerance, Not sociology By Avvy go, Dora Nipp and Winnie Ng Ricardo Duchesne’s intolerant statements will run the risk of inciting fear and resentment toward Canadians of Asian heritage by reinforcing stereotypes Avvy Go is clinic director of the Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic; Dora Nipp…
KOMAGATA MARU WEEK YEG
http://www.komagatamaruweek.com/ The Continuing Legacy of the Komagata Maru/May 23, 2014 A century ago on May 23rd in 1914, the Komagata Maru, a ship of migrants from India sailed into the western shores of what is now called British Columbia, Canada, in the traditional territories of the Coast Salish groups of First Nations Peoples. Upon the Komagata Maru’s…
Asian Canadian Labour Alliance statement on Marie Clarke Walker’s Open Letter
The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (ACLA) stands in solidarity with Marie Clarke Walker and all trade unionists in our on-going struggle for a society free of all forms of oppression. Unfortunately, sometimes the organizations meant to affect positive social change, such as the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), instead replicate and reinforce the inequalities we stand…