1. Happy Black People Zoo Day! When my mother was a little girl in Port of Spain, Trinidad, before Independence, May 24th was still known as Empire Day. On that day, the schoolchildren got out early to march in front of the white colonial officials. Waving Union Jack flags, the children, descendants of people enslaved […]
An Injury to All
What the teachers' strike shows us about reparations, and what the reparations movement teaches us about educational justice.
On Friday, teachers in Nova Scotia walked out in a historic strike. Locally, the teachers’ resistance is a blow against the Liberal Government’s “war on labour.” As Larry Haiven writes: Eager to balance the provincial budget by the end of its first term, the Liberal government has declared war on labour. It introduced a spate of […]