Overview

During the 2020 Annual Meeting, ETFO launched a social justice video titled, Anti-Racism and the Fight for Black Lives.

This video features social justice activist Alejandra Bravo interviewing Sandy Hudson, founder of the Black Lives Matter movement presence in Canada and Black Lives Matter – Toronto, and Phillip Dwight Morgan, Toronto-based journalist, writer and activist.

It is a candid and powerful discussion focusing on a number of significant issues impacting Black lives. Defund police and police presence in schools are some of the topics explored in this dynamic and critical dialogue that asks each of us to move from a position of supporting Black Lives Matters as a movement towards a call to action.

Members have access to this video in the links below in 4 separate sections:

Part 1 – Centering Black Lives
Question: What does it mean to center black lives? How does this concept shift your thinking?

Part 2 – Why Defund Police
Question: Where does the call to defund police come from? Why has it gained momentum now?

Part 3 – What is the Role of Schools?
Question: What forms of anti-Black racism, racial profiling and bias need to be addressed in schools and in other spaces?

Part 4 –Awareness, Action and Media
Question: How will changing individual behaviour make Black lives better? And what does that do for changing institutions and systems?