Asian Canadian Labour Alliance

ACLA BC presents: ASIANS STILL FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE – Celebrating 20 years of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance

RSVP: https://asiansfighting4justice.eventbrite.ca/  Given the COVID-19 pandemic, rise in white supremacy, and the current political climate where the rich become wealthier while working people continue to suffer, there is an immediate need for Asian workers to come together in a multi-racial struggle towards liberatory justice. What are Asian workers doing to organize their workplaces, unions, and…

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Solidarity with 1492 Land Back Lane Land Defenders

The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (ACLA) stands in solidarity with the 1492 Land Back Lane Land Defenders and allies currently resisting attempts by the Canadian colonial state to forcefully take land that rightfully belongs to the Haudenosaunee people. The Haudenosaunee Land Defenders and their ancestors have lived in this territory since time immemorial and have…

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Event – A Conversation about Anti-Blackness: A Dialogue for self-identified East and South East Asians

August 27, 2020 from 4:30-6:00 PM EDT. Register here. ***NOTE: This is a focused webinar discussion organized for community members who self-identify as East and Southeast Asian. Are We Complicit? Join us for a conversation where we’ll be discussing anti-Blackness among East and South East Asian communities and how this can perpetuate anti-Black racism in…

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What Can Unions Do To Stop Environmental Racism?

What Can Unions Do To Stop Environmental Racism? Learn more by joining this webinar. Register at ACWinfo@yorku.ca

Event – Asian Solidarity with Black Lives: Dismantling Racial Capitalism

June 29, 2020 from 4:30-6:00 PM EDT. Watch the entire webinar here. To learn more about this issue, check out our resources list here. Anti-Asian and anti-Black racism and oppression are pieces of Canada’s concealed histories, which continue on today. At this pivotal time, solidarity, particularly among racialized groups, is needed more than ever. With…

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Event – Anti-Asian Racism & The Pandemic: Solidarity In A Time Of Crisis

May 28, 2020 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. EDT. Watch the entire webinar here. To learn more about this issue, check out our reading list here. Featuring: Tony Wong, Columnist, Toronto Star Jennifer Mak, Workplace Human Rights Investigator Elene Lam, Executive Director, Butterfly – Asian & Migrant Sex Workers’ Network Justin Kong, Executive Director, Chinese Canadian National…

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Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en

The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (ACLA) stands in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en peoples and allies currently resisting the attempts by the Canadian colonial state to extract natural resources and to infringe on the aspirations and desires of the Wet’suwet’en people’s on their unceded territory by poisoning their land, their water and destroying their way of…

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ACLA Calls for Education and Solidarity in Response to Coronavirus

A version of this article was published in Our Times Magazine The scene today is eerily reminiscent of the one nearly 20 years ago: Toronto’s Chinatowns were virtual ghost towns. Food aficionados and shoppers steered clear. Mass hysteria, xenophobia and racism levelled near-catastrophic losses for local businesses because the clientele stayed away, fearful of catching…

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2019 ACLA YEAR END MESSAGE

Dear ACLA Members and Allies,  As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance, we take this opportunity to reflect on the activism, organizing and resistance that continues across Canada and across the globe. Protests across Asia are putting forth demands for democracy and protests locally have put a clog into the machine…

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ACLA Statement on Cuts to Legal Aid Ontario and Community Legal Clinics

The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (ACLA) strongly opposes the Ford government’s decision to cut legal aid funding by $133 million, representing over 30% of Legal Aid Ontario’s (LAO) budget. ACLA also denounces the government’s directive to prohibit provincial funding for immigration and refugee law services. Canada’s refugee and immigration system is complex and nearly impossible…

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