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A How-To Guide for the Settler Colonial Present: From Canada to Palestine to Kashmir

Azeezah Kanji / August 5, 2020

Today, on August 5th, Kashmiris mark and mourn the one-year anniversary of the “official” annihilation of their autonomy. It is one among many anniversaries marked by colonization in Kashmir and elsewhere. In this Brief, Azeezah Kanji recognizes the patterns of settler colonialism and the strategies deployed to make it invisible.

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Police Brutality in Canada: A Symptom of Structural Racism and Colonial Violence

Krista Stelkia / July 15, 2020

As the discussion of defunding police goes on, Krista Stelkia has written a Brief identifying how structural racism operates within the criminal justice and in Canadian institutions more generally. Can we hold systems accountable?

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Black-Indigenous Futures in Art, Literature and #BlackLivesMatter

Karina Vernon / July 7, 2020

How do we imagine Black-Indigenous futures, free from the violence of colonialism and racism? In this Brief, Karina Vernon looks, and asks us to look, to art and literature so that we can shape these new/old political realities.

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Abolish the Police: The Financial Cost of Law Enforcement in Prairie Cities

Emily Riddle / June 27, 2020

How much do Prairie cities, where there are growing Black and Indigenous populations, spend on policing? In this Brief, Emily Riddle breaks down the budget numbers and makes the case for police abolition as one step toward transformative change

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Carceral Redlining: White Supremacy is a Weapon of Mass Incarceration for Indigenous and Black Peoples in Canada

Rai Reece / June 25, 2020

Why are Black and Indigenous communities disproportionately imprisoned in Canada? Rai Reece makes the argument for carceral redlining: the practice of identifying and targeting racialized communities for criminalization in order to maintain a white (settler) state

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To Breathe Together: Co-Conspirators for Decolonial Futures

Sefanit Habtom / June 2, 2020

Indigenous communities have kept the cases of COVID-19 relatively low. Yet research by Yellowhead reveals that the numbers are nearly triple those reported by Indigenous Services Canada. This data discrepancy is rooted in a public health system that excludes Indigenous people.

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