"OUTSIDE AGITATORS" NOT ANARCHISTS BUT WHITE RACIST MILITIA BOOGALOO

NOW COMPARE PROTESTS, WHERE PROTESTERS ARE UNARMED, WITH THESE ARMED INSURRECTIONISTS, WHO HAVE ALSO INFILTRATED THE MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTS AS BOOGALOO MILITIAS, BURNING THE NATIVE CENTRE IN THAT CITY BURNING THE LIQUOR STORE BLOCK THAT INCLUDED A LATIN DANCE CLUB 
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THEY WERE THE  TARGETS  OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS

 BOTH THE LT GOV OF MINNESOTA AND US AG BARR BOTH REFERENCED THE VIOLENCE CAUSED BY "OUTSIDERS" AND "OUTSIDE AGITATORS" WERE THOSE ARRESTED EQUATING ORGANIZED WHITE SUPREMACISTS WHO ARE BURNING BUILDINGS AS A EFFORT AT CREATING A RACE WAR, WITH ANARCHISTS, BARR HAS SAID HE IS MOBILIZING THE STATE AGAINST THE ANARCHISTS NOT THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS YOU SEE IN THIS VIDEO 

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Trudeau: Canadians watching US unrest and police violence in ‘shock and horror’

Prime minister condemned racism and called on Canada to ‘stand together in solidarity’ against racial hate as protests continue in US

Leyland Cecco in Toronto THE GUARDIAN Fri 29 May 2020
 

Justin Trudeau in Ottawa, Canada, on 29 May. 

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Canadians are watching unrest and police violence in the United States in “shock and horror”, Justin Trudeau said on Friday – but the prime minister cautioned that his country also has entrenched problems with racism.

The city of Minneapolis has been rocked by a third night of violent protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, after a white police officer knelt on his neck as he lay on the ground following arrest.

“Many Canadians of diverse backgrounds are watching, like all Canadians are, the news out of the United States with shock and with horror,” Trudeau told reporters at a daily briefing.

“Anti-black racism – racism – is real. It’s in the United States but it’s also in Canada and we know people are facing systemic discrimination, unconscious bias and anti-black racism every single day,” said Trudeau, calling on the country to “stand together in solidarity” against racial hate. “We have work to do as well in Canada.”

Racial inequities continue to persist throughout the country – a grim reality that is often apparent during interactions with police.

In December 2018, the province of Ontario released a landmark report that found black residents in Toronto – the country’s largest city – are 20 times more likely to be shot dead by the police than white residents.

“It’s a very Canadian tradition to speak in platitudes, to refer to the underground railroad and to speak about Canada as a haven and a place that acknowledges its past mistakes,” said Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives. “But we continue to see similar structural harms and structural kinds of violence as we do in places where leaders make more overtly vitriolic statements towards black communities.”

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Last month, 26-year-old D’Andre Campbell was shot dead by police inside his own home, north of Toronto, after Campbell himself called 911.

Earlier this week, the family of Regis Korchinski-Paquet said a police officer shoved the young woman over the balcony of the family’s 24th-floor apartment, where she fell to her death. The case is currently under investigation by an arms-length police watchdog.

Maynard also pointed out the coronavirus pandemic continues to have a disproportionate impact on black and indigenous residents, who are overrepresented in the country’s prison population.

“We continue to see prisons and jails being epicentres of outbreaks,” she said. “Yet there is failure on the part of the federal government to meaningfully release to release prisoners.”

Trudeau’s unprompted remarks marked a notable departure for a leader who has gone to great lengths to avoid irritating his US counterpart, Donald Trump.


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Canadian prime ministers have traditionally refrained from discussing political and social turmoil in the US – Canada’s main ally and largest trading partner.

Justin Trudeau has long spoken about the need to tackle racism, but his re-election campaign was marred by pictures of him in blackface as a young man.

Canada is hailed for its tolerance but is it ready to confront its racism?

Critics say common narrative obscures realities of how race relations really play out in country as a fledgling conversation is finally under way

Ashifa Kassam in Toronto THE GUARDIAN Tue 12 Jul 2016

 

A member of the Black Lives Matters movement speaks to members as they stage a sit-in at the annual Pride parade in Toronto. Photograph: Mark Blinch/AP

They sat calmly on the hot pavement; their black and gold outfits a jarring contrast to the sea of rainbow flags and banners surrounding them. Minutes earlier the parade – the crown jewel of Toronto’s month-long Pride celebrations – had been in full swing, its floats heaving through the city’s main arteries alongside thousands of revellers.



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Now it had come to a standstill. “We refuse to move,” said a member of Black Lives Matter Toronto, her voice crackling as it came through the megaphone. “We are calling you out.”

The group had joined the parade as an honoured group. Now it was staging a sit-in as a dozen or so protesters argued that Pride in the city had become the antithesis of the principles of inclusion – a space for white, gay males.

Black Lives Matter Toronto brandished a list of demands, ranging from increased funding and support for black and South Asian groups at Pride to the removal of police floats and booths from future events.


The sit-in dragged on for nearly 30 minutes before Pride organisers stepped forward to sign the list of demands and the parade moved on.

Last week’s blockade of Pride was the most high-profile – and most contentious – protest so far by the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter. It prompted a vociferous debate in Canada’s media, but while much of the discussion has focused on the sit-in, others have stepped back to point out what they say is a remarkable shift; after years of Canadians shying away from the topics of race and racism, a fledgling conversation is finally under way.

Canada is celebrated around the world for its diversity, tolerance and multiculturalism, often held up in contrast to the UK’s recent Brexit vote and the rise of Donald Trump as a political candidate south of the border. For many this narrative has obscured the realities of how multiculturalism in Canada plays out on the ground.

Statistics paint a far bleaker picture: between 2005 and 2015, the number of black inmates in federal prisons in Canada jumped by 69%. In Toronto, 41% of children and youth in the care of child welfare services are black, despite making up just 8% of the youth population in the city.

Suicide rates for young indigenous males are 10 times higher than those of non-indigenous youth, while for young females the number climbs to a staggering 21 times higher.


People in Canada generally will do anything to avoid talking about raceDesmond Cole, journalist

Last week Muslims across the country denounced an increase in hate crimes directed at them, with the number of reported incidences doubling between 2012 and 2014. In Vancouver and Toronto, more than half of those living in poverty belong to racial minorities.

“People in Canada generally will do anything to avoid talking about race,” said Desmond Cole, a journalist who has long chronicled race issues in Canada, including his personal experience as a black man who has been subject to random police checks more than 50 times.

“The most frequent way that we do that in Canada is to say we are not the United States. The United States is the place where racism exists, so any conversation about race ought to be about the United States and not Canada.”

Despite this, glimpses of the cracks in the system have at times been laid bare for the world to see. Many First Nations communities continue to struggle with what their leaders call “third world living conditions”, from a lack of clean water to overcrowded houses riddled with mould.

Toronto – known globally as one of the world’s most diverse cities – also elected the late Rob Ford as city mayor, despite his vitriolic outbursts towards Jews, black people and the LGBT community.


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“How is it that a person like Rob Ford could preside over a presumably multicultural city like this and be celebrated even as he attacked minority groups?” Cole asked. “That’s your multiculturalism.”

The mere existence of a Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter suggests all is not well in Canada’s approach to race, said Janaya Khan, one of the group’s founders. Efforts are also currently under way to start chapters in Vancouver and Montreal.

In recent days the group has been bombarded with hate mail and death threats over their actions during Pride. They have also received messages of support for their strong stance on police floats and booths.

“If police officers want to be present, particularly LGBT officers, that’s fine,” said Khan. “But they should not be in uniform, they should not be armed. They should not be representing an establishment that actively seeks to eradicate certain populations of people. That feels fair to me.”

The Toronto chapter was launched in 2014, and the founders initially came together as a reaction to events south of the border, including the death of Michael Brown, the black teenager fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri.

But events closer to home – such as the death of Jermaine Carby, a 33-year-old shot dead after being pulled over by police in a municipality near Toronto – convinced the group to formalise their presence in Canada, seeking to spark a similar conversation on race, privilege and power north of the border.

The group has since taken on carding – random police checks that disproportionately target black people – and challenged Toronto police over the death of Andrew Loku, a mentally ill 45-year-old man shot last year by police at a subsidised housing complex after he refused to drop the hammer he was holding.

Their efforts have helped yield promises of a public consultation from Ontario’s premier, a city council vote to review the police investigation unit through a lens of anti-black racism and a coroner’s inquest into the death of Loku.

“What we’re seeing is a real shift in the narrative of how people understand racism in Canada and, more specifically anti-black racism in Canada,” Khan said.

But the persistent idea of Canada as a colourblind country means the group must often start by countering this idea.

“We often end up finding ourselves having to disprove before we can prove,” she said. Little data exists on racialised groups – as minorities are at times referred to in Canada – and the small number of black people in the country means the movement must seek out allies. “One of our most powerful mantras is Black Lives Matter on Indigenous Land.”
FacebookTwitterPinterest First Nations protesters sing as they take part in a ‘Idle No More’ demonstration in Toronto. Photograph: Reuters


It’s a nod to another group whose frontline activism has helped pry open a space for discussion on race in Canada. Idle No More, the indigenous-focused protest movement, was born out of a frustration with the public’s lack of interest in the many reports, commissions and court cases highlighting the devastating effects of racism on indigenous peoples.


People are dying, we have murdered and missing indigenous women … Racism impacts us in a very direct wayPamela Palmater

“Idle No More said, if people aren’t going to listen, we’re going to show you,” said Pamela Palmater, a member of the group and head of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Toronto’s Ryerson University.

“We don’t want to live this way any more. People are dying, we have murdered and missing indigenous women, our kids are in foster care, we’re overrepresented in prison. Racism impacts us in a very direct way.”

Some four years after the movement launched, the conversation remains confined to mostly indigenous people, racialised minorities and a few key allies, she said. “I don’t think that Canadians are actually fully engaged in a conversation about racism.”

The push to take this conversation from the margins to the mainstream is set to be bolstered by the Ontario government in the coming weeks. On Thursday, the province will hold the first of a series of public meetings aimed at tackling systemic racism.

“When you look at employment, when you look at poverty, when you look at incarceration, when you look at academia, there’s a stark contrast between some particular groups and others,” said Michael Coteau, the provincial minister at the helm of Ontario’s recently created Anti-Racism Directorate.

“And I think it’s our job to ensure that if there are barriers that are identified, that

If violence isn't the way to end racism in America, then what is?

Arwa Mahdawi
The uncomfortable truth is that, sometimes, violence is the only answer left

 A man rides a bicycle past a burned out building Friday after a night of protests and violence in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

A riot is the language of the unheard

When you are oppressed there is no acceptable way to fight against your oppression. You get branded “unpatriotic” for peacefully taking a knee to protest against police brutality. You get vilified for using boycotts as a non-violent tool of resistance. You get called “THUGS” when, after the murder of yet another unarmed black man by the police, you protest in the streets.

The sickening video of George Floyd being killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, which followed the murders of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, has sparked demonstrations across America. In Minneapolis some of the protests have turned violent: buildings (including a police precinct) have been set on fire and a Target store was looted. Donald Trump reacted by promising bloody reprisal, tweeting: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Others have reacted with hand-wringing. There have been a lot of cries that “violence is never the answer!” and “rioting is counter-productive!”

But if violent unrest isn’t the answer then what is? How exactly do you go about ending police brutality and systemic racism in America? Should protesters go home and write sternly worded letters to their representative? Should they emulate Madonna and post videos of their kids dancing in protest? Should they peacefully take a knee? Should Americans simply vote Trump out and vote Joe Biden in instead? You know, the guy whose 1994 crime bill significantly contributed to mass incarceration in America? Should people patiently wait for incremental change?

“A riot is the language of the unheard,” Martin Luther King Jr said in a 1967 speech that is currently reverberating through social media for obvious reasons. “And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that … the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality and humanity.”

That speech was 53 years ago and America still isn’t listening. The uncomfortable truth is that, sometimes, violence is the only answer left. We like to pretend otherwise, which is why civil rights movements are often conveniently sanitized. The women’s suffrage movement, for example, is often celebrated as “non-violent”. It wasn’t: if went through a very militant phase. “If men use explosives and bombs for their own purpose they call it war,” the British suffragette Christabel Pankhurst wrote in 1913, “and the throwing of a bomb that destroys other people is then described as a glorious and heroic deed. Why should a woman not make use of the same weapons as men?”

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not glorifying violence – that’s what the president of the United States is doing. And I’m certainly not calling for violence. I’m simply saying we must interrogate what we call “violence” and what we call “policy.” Many of the people yelling “violence is not the answer” about the riots in Minneapolis are the same people who wholeheartedly support America’s endless wars. Many of the people condemning the looters in Minneapolis are the same people who venerate billionaires. Loot a TV and you’re a dangerous criminal; loot a country and you’re an enterprising capitalist.

America has no problem with riots or looting as long as it’s the “right” people doing it. And we’re all forced to pay for this worldview: American taxpayers have paid an average of $8,000 each and over $2tn in total for the Iraq war alone, according to a January report from the Brown University Costs of War project. Which raises the question: if violence is never the answer, then why does America spend so much money on it?

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Teachers can legally refuse to return over health risk, says union

Exclusive: NASUWT threatens legal action to defend teachers against forced restart on June 1
Richard Adams and Sally Weale
Fri 15 May 2020
 

NASUWT general secretary Patrick Roach/ Photograph: Simon Boothe/NASUWT/PA

Teachers can legally refuse to return when schools reopen unless they get the same protections against coronavirus as other frontline staff, one of the UK’s leading teaching unions has warned.

In a letter to local authorities seen by the Guardian, the 300,000-strong NASUWT threatens to invoke legal action to defend teachers against being forced back into schools on 1 June because of the risk to their health.

The union’s letter marks a significant hardening against the government’s push to reopen primary schools in England from 1 June. It comes as one academy chain says it is aiming to invite pupils back on that date.

Signed by the NASUWT’s general secretary, Patrick Roach, the union’s letter threatens to delay that start date by forcing the government and local authorities to consider their legal obligations.

The union says it has “fundamental concerns” about guidance issued by the government this week, saying it was inconsistent with guidance given to other workplaces, including care homes and the NHS.

“Stringent guidance has been issued for the NHS, for care homes and for employers across the UK. It is unacceptable that this has not been the case for schools,” it says.

“The NASUWT believes that teachers and other school staff have the right to the same consideration and protections, and to be confident that their health and welfare, as well as that of pupils, is at the heart of any planning for wider opening.”

The union said it had to warn local authorities as employers, and the government, that they risked legal action for “breach of duty of care and personal injury due to foreseeable risk, and any other legal recourse available” if efforts were made to force teachers into classrooms during the epidemic.

“The NASUWT recognises that schools and employers have been placed in a situation where the wrong decision will result in people becoming seriously ill and dying, and will therefore appreciate that there can be no compromise on health and safety.

“If this means that schools are unable to open safely before September, because they are unable to make arrangements to safeguard their staff and pupils, then that position must be accepted,” Roach said.

It comes as councils in England call for the power to close schools and nurseries to protect vulnerable families in the event of local Covid-19 outbreaks, as pressure grows on the government to reveal its scientific evidence on transmission.

The Local Government Association (LGA) – which represents nearly all of England’s councils – says that “local flexibility” is needed to reopen primary schools, as well as the ability to close them if testing reveals clusters of new Covid-19 infections.

The association said a major concern was the likely impact in areas with more vulnerable residents, including “communities where there is higher risk, such as those with a high proportion of black, Asian and minority ethnic residents”.

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Home schooling boosts parents' interest in teaching as a career

Survey of 2,000 people in lockdown across the UK also finds a growing respect for teachers among parents of school-age children

 The survey found that 3% of respondents had thought of switching to teaching during lockdown - enough to solve a generation of staff shortages. Photograph: Alamy

School closures have turned the UK into a nation of temporary teachers since the coronavirus lockdown – and that may have inspired some people to seek new careers in the classroom, according to a new survey.

the coronavirus lockdown – and that may have inspired some people to seek new careers in the classroom, according to a new survey.

Now Teach, the charity co-founded by the former journalist Lucy Kellaway, encourages older workers to change careers, and has found that the lockdown has increased the status of school teachers among the population at large, as parents have come to appreciate the joys of designing scientific experiments that impart knowledge rather than just make a mess in the kitchen.

The survey of 2,000 UK adults found that 3% said they had “been thinking about becoming a teacher and I wasn’t before the coronavirus lockdown”, while a further 5% agreed that they had been “already thinking about becoming a teacher before the coronavirus lockdown but I’m thinking about it more seriously now”.

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“The leap in interest in teaching is exactly what I’d hoped would happen during this wretched time,” said Kellaway, who left her post as a columnist at the Financial Times in 2016 and is now an economics teacher at Mossbourne Victoria Park academy in east London.

While 3% might not sound significant, Kellaway points out that across the UK population as a whole that would amount to more than enough recruits to solve any teaching shortages in Britain’s schools for a generation.

Now Teach said it has seen a 70% rise in applications for its training programme between March and May this year, at the height of the lockdown.

One of those, Aisha Singleton, who worked in publishing in Norwich, said: “My previous industry had so many opportunities and I have many great memories of it, but the bottom line is, I don’t feel I’ve really helped anyone.

“When coronavirus broke out, I thought, ‘I want to inspire young people, I want to be giving back.’ This pandemic has given me the final push in that direction.

“When children go back to school in September, they’re going to need support, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.”

The survey found that despite some high-profile complaints, 64% of parents have enjoyed the experience of home schooling and only 9% reported a negative experience – which Kellaway thought might help explain the new attraction of a career in teaching.

The desire to change careers was strongest among workers who are still in full-time employment, according to the survey, rather than those who had been furloughed or were unemployed during the lockdown.

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“I co-founded Now Teach four years ago because I hoped there were other professionals out there who, like me, wanted to do something more useful with their lives. The pandemic has made this point more powerfully than I ever could. It has shone a light on the emptiness of some jobs and made people want to do something that really matters,” Kellaway said.

The survey also found that respondents with school-age children – who have spent the past two months home schooling – “overwhelmingly reported increased gratitude to teachers and respect for what they do”, compared with just 4.5% who said their respect had lessened.

This came despite high-profile attacks on teaching unions by some in the media and government, over their concerns about the safe return of pupils into schools.