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Researching Alternative Visions #3: The Politics of Caring – Wages for Housework Activism in Canada

 In exploring Indigenous, racialized, immigrant/ethnic, and low-income women’s activism in Canada from the 1960s to the 1980s, we have...

Filed under: immigration, indigenous, racialized & women of colour, social & economic justice, work & labour

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Researching Alternative Visions #2: Indigenous, Racialized, Immigrant/Ethnic, and Low-Income Women’s Groups and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women

 The creation of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (RCSW) in 1967 was a watershed moment in Canadian women’s...

Filed under: immigration, indigenous, racialized & women of colour, social & economic justice

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Intersectionality, Reproductive Justice, and the Women’s Movement in Canada

 Reproductive justice was a concept developed by Black women activists in the United States in the 1990s in order...

Filed under: disability, health & reproductive rights, racialized & women of colour

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Researching Alternative Visions #1: A project on Indigenous, racialized, immigrant, and low-income women’s activism in Canada, 1960s-1980s

 by Margaret Little, Lynne Marks, and Sarah Nickel As feminist activists and scholars, we understand the importance of the National...

Filed under: immigration, indigenous, racialized & women of colour, social & economic justice

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Undated button of the Food and Service Workers of Canada (FASWOC). FASWOC represented the cleaners, almost all Portuguese immigrant women, who went on strike at the First Canadian Place in Toronto in 1984. After six weeks, the strike ended in victory.

Honouring Portuguese Immigrant Cleaners’ Activism on Labour Day

 Rise Up is pleased to encourage and facilitate the growing interest among current researchers, educators, and activists in the rich...

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The author, Debbie King, at the 2020 Walk Against Racism in Parkdale.

Spinning Our Wheels or Making Progress: The Race to Equity in Education

 Activism can feel like an uphill battle toward an elusive goal. Despite clear vision and strong resolve, the ongoing...

Filed under: education, racialized & women of colour

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Black Nurses Challenge Systemic Racism

 In 1990, seven Black and one Filipina nurse filed complaints of systemic racism against Toronto’s Northwestern Hospital at the...

Filed under: justice, racialized & women of colour, work & labour

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Celebrating Marlene Green

 Marlene Green is one of five Black activists celebrated through the Akua Benjamin Project: 50 Years of Black Activism.

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Angela Robertson, member of the Black Women's Collective, speaks at a protest against police violence. In response to the October 27, 1989, police shooting of 23-year-old Black woman Sophia Cook, the Black Women’s Collective organized the Women’s Coalition Against Racism and Police Violence. This coalition of 35 women’s and progressive organizations brought people together on December 16, 1989, to demand police accountability and an end to police brutality against Black people.

Sharing feminist history

 Sharing feminist history with new generations, students and researchers has always been an important goal for Rise Up! We...

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Some Black Women

 Claire Prieto’s film "Some Black Women" (1977) looks at the lives and roles of Black women in Canada during...

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Sisters in the Struggle

 The NFB documentary Sisters in the Struggle (1991- Dionne Brand, Ginny Stikeman) features a frank conversation among Black women...

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Making Movie History: Sylvia Hamilton

 Sylvia Hamilton first became involved with the National Film Board in the mid-1980s. In Making Movie History, she reflects...

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Rich Imaginings & Freedom Dreams in the Archive: Our Lives and the Black Women’s Collective

 The Black Women’s Collective’s statement on state violence resonates in our current historical moment.as present-day abolitionists continue to struggle,...

Filed under: racialized & women of colour, violence, work & labour

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In response to the October 27, 1989, police shooting of 23-year-old Black woman Sophia Cook, the Black Women’s Collective organized the Women’s Coalition Against Racism and Police Violence. This coalition of 35 women’s and progressive organizations brought people together on December 16, 1989, to demand police accountability and an end to police brutality against Black people.

Fighting Racism and Police Violence: Then and Now

 Rage and grief. Agony and anger. COVID-19 has exposed deep racial and class inequalities embedded in Canada, and now,...

Filed under: justice, racialized & women of colour, social & economic justice

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The (Re)Dress Code

 The passage of Bill 21 in the Assemblée nationale du Québec in June 2019 has meant a range of...

Filed under: politics & government, racialized & women of colour, spirituality & religion

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