Sentences with phrase «on systemic racism»

On Wednesday, Dr Carrie Bourassa, a Meti researcher from Canada who was recently appointed as the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institute of Aboriginal Peoples» Health, will speak on systemic racism and its impact on health, canvassing unethical research and the historical legacy of colonisation.

Mandatory reading for officers, including books on racial profiling, the Ontario Human Rights Commission's 2003 report «Paying the price: The human cost of racial profiling,» the 1995 report of the Ontario Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System, and several Toronto Star series on carding, including2003 report «Paying the price: The human cost of racial profiling,» published in September.

New modules of education were added to the OCJ regional programs, such as a session organized by Justice Rebecca Shamai on systemic racism and sessions that focused on child protection issues.

We can go even further back to 1993, and the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System, which described a widespread and prevalent prejudice against blacks as follows:

We're going to keep fighting against the capitalist system, which is based on systemic racism and oppression,» he said.

Not exact matches

Believing he has been blackballed for his controversial on - the - field protests against police violence and systemic racism, Kaepernick's legal team has filed a grievance against the NFL, accusing league owners of colluding to prevent him from working in football anymore.

But by the time my semester came to an end, I learned some wholly unexpected lessons about the transformative power of prayer in a jail setting; about the effects on the body of such personal transformation; and about this country's systemic racism and how it is in some ways coterminous with the attempt to prevent or repress such transformation.

Early in January, The Guardian published an interview in which Brown expressed his thoughts on everything from how systemic racism is embedded within our education system to the notion that sports are a mechanism for societal control.

I wish I had an opportunity to sit on my hands, listen, and learn about systemic racism, and and began the (still going) process of unpacking my own white fragility.»

[If you are white] do not start your transracial adoption journey until you've sat on your hands, listened, and learned about racial mirrors, systemic racism, and the importance of seeing color as well as cultures.

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

In a wide - ranging speech on «ending systemic racism,» Hillary Clinton presented a $ 125 billion plan to assist poor and minority communities with job training, education and re-entering society after incarceration, part of an effort to speak directly to African - American voters as the Democratic primary contest heads to South Carolina.

Michael — I seldom find any point on which to defend the DOE but I do not think the issue is systemic racism.

This week on the Campbell Conversations, a conversation with Angela Hattery and Earl Smith, two researchers who have written a new book about the systemic racism in the criminal justice system.

Instead, he argued that police are forced to to take on responsibilities that should be spread across multiple social agencies to deal with issues arising from systemic racism and white privilege.

As a commentary on the American Dream and systemic racism, it's years ahead of its time.

As Deadline reports: «Boal has been researching and working on the project, which explores systemic racism in urban Detroit, for more than a year.

The effect one white American Olympic participant had on another may not be as substantial a story to take up the 24 - hour news cycle as the issue of systemic racism highlighted by the Rodney King beating and the O.J. Simpson trial, which happened before and after the main events of this film, but it works to sell one of the film's notable points.

Likewise, one can not separate this film from a larger conversation about the white entitlement and systemic racism that remains a muddy stain on this country's history.

Zoom out to promote understanding on the systems level: Explore whether there are larger systemic forces that underlie the challenges students have touched on (such as racism, sexism, or lack of access to resources).

Themes our Peer Leaders have taken action on in the past include systemic racism, homophobia, and bullying.

In 1998, under the leadership of Executive Director Steve Jubb, BayCES changed its name to the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools to emphasize our focus on addressing disparities among student groups that we believe arise from racism, classicism, language bias, and other forms of systemic bias.

Leading Educators strongly values equity and challenges historical inequity with a persistent focus on dismantling systemic racism.

Where they have the opportunity to act on expectations, we see instead deteriorating infrastructure, inadequate staffing, disrespect for the teaching profession, highly disparate funding levels for schools, and an unwillingness to even acknowledge the systemic racism that creates and ossifies the gaps.

At the NYC Leadership Academy, we believe in meeting districts where they are, supporting them in having the hard conversations about the existence and impact of personal and systemic racism on students, and then helping them develop strategies for making and maintaining change that will work for their communities.

Racism --(1) any individual or systemic belief, attitude, action or inaction, which grants or denies groups access and / or opportunity based on their race.

«Despite Iowa's impressive civil - rights history on the books, the state has grappled with racial prejudices and hostility and systemic racism that have stilted the growth and development of its black population and legal community,» she said.

Similarly, Kara Walker's large tempera and watercolor collage, «Four Idioms on Negro Art # 1 Folk» (2015), is a scene of stereotype and systemic white racism.

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The Law Society has produced ZERO evidence that the SoP's intrusion on licencees expression is rationally connected to its objective of reducing «systemic racism in the profession» (whether it exists or not), and whether it is proportionate response to such a problem.

The Law Society has not proven that racism is systemic in the legal professions in Ontario, regardless of whether the test is beyond a reasonable doubt or on a balance of probabilities.

The writer argues in his letter that (i) the evidence does not support the conclusion that there is systemic racism in the legal professions, (ii) the claim of systemic racism vilifies lawyers and paralegals by labelling them as racist, (iii) the 13 recommendations are a form of unauthorized social engineering, (iv) racism and bullying are just part of life and should be simply be endured and overcome by racialized licensees as others have done before them, (v) the true problem is economic class not race, (vi) white privilege is a ridiculous concept as it relates to white and racialized lawyers and (vii) racialized lawyers who join legal associations based on race or ethnic origin can not complain that they are not treated equally.

The Retention of Women in Private Practice: The Challenge is Intersectional While the CLA's report on the retention of women illustrates the various ways female lawyers are impacted by sexism, it is relatively silent on other forms of systemic discrimination female lawyers experience, particularly racism experienced by women of colour and Indigenous women.

on Working Together for Change: Strategies to Address Issues of Systemic Racism in the Legal Professions

Meanwhile, the Northern Territory News today reported concerns from leading Darwin kidney specialist Dr Paul Lawton, who was also involved in the Indigenous Patient Voices event, about systemic racism in the health system that means Aboriginal people are missing out on kidney transplants.

And so, the LIME Connection Keynotes drew us on a journey, from race and racism through the need for organisational and systemic change.

Identify, promote and build on good practice initiatives to prevent and reduce systemic racism.

There are many similarities between cultural safety and cultural responsiveness, such as: providing guidelines to health practitioners to improve their capabilities; putting the onus on change onto non-Indigenous systems and employees; debunking the myth that culture is the «problem», as opposed to racism and systemic inequity; and progressing the conversations beyond cultural awareness or sensitivity, to create real change.

While he spoke again of the shocking abuse at Don Dale, there is no mention in his speech of the impact of racism, systemic and personal, on health and wellbeing.

The CTG Campaign submission lays out the significant impacts of racism and discrimination — both interpersonal and systemic — on the physical and mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

In the report, AIDA expresses concern about the frequency and range of racism occurring, but also about the degree of normalisation and acceptance of racism in the workplace, both on an individual and systemic level.

Racism and discriminatory public policy have created systemic barriers that result in women of color disproportionately relying on Medicaid.