Racial Advocacy for Inclusion, Solidarity & Equity (RAISE) is an undergraduate student and voluntary run service at @uwaterloo. Reach us: [email protected].
Waterloo, Ontario
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We are honoured and humbled to receieve this award. Thank you, @LauraMaeLindo, and thank you to the KW community. In solidarity. ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿
@LauraMaeLindo launches the
Inaugural Black Excellence in Leadership Academy (Bela) for advancing racial equity in the Waterloo Region.
2021 recipients: @UWRaise @ABS_Laurier #BlackBrilliance & Deepa Ahluwalia
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PSA: The Asian community in Canada, including our own #UWaterlooCommunity, is being targeted with scam calls in an attempt to extort victims for money. If you have received one of these calls or were a victim of this scam, report it. Learn more: bit.ly/3w2qcQA
It’s official! This year’s theme for XChanges is Cultivating Community! 🤎🖤 It will be taking place this Saturday, March 26 2022 ticketfi.com/event/4516/xcha…
Our amazing line up of speakers for our XChanges 2022 Conference: Cultivating Community! 🫂♥️
RAISE strives to highlight how these elements are crucial in cultivating community and fostering love, kindness, and unity.
Join us as we learn about the importance of community!
ALT There will be four interactive sessions: Cultivating Community: Nourishing One Another, Cultivating Community: Reclaiming Culture, Space and Land, Cultivating Community: Healing Hand in Hand, and Cultivating Community: Bringing Words to Life - RAISE strives to highlight how these elements are crucial in cultivating community and fostering love, kindness, and unity. Join RAISE and fellow community members as they gather and learn about the importance of community from their amazing lineup of speakers - keep an eye out on their instagram @uwraise for the release of the lineup.
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XChanges tickets are now live! Available for students, staff, faculty and the community. Register now!♥️
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#BlackFuturesMonth Panel - Black and Indigenous Resistance 23 February 2022 #Solidarity
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We must not tolerate intolerance. Beyond statements, we need solidarity actions opposing hate & naming the ableism, eugenics, transphobia, settler colonialism, homophobia, racism, creeping fascism & anti-Black racism centred in current far-right actions that avoid police sanction
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Former #BlackHistory130 students: I know y'all/wunna have completed some fantastic papers for me over the past little bit. Go and get yourself some cash in hand from @WaterlooHS
whs.ca/local-history-award/
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Have you heard?? 😨
UWBASE X UWASA Collab on Thursday, 7th of October. Our first in person event will be a Bonfire and Games night! Are you ready to meet new people and play amazing games? Don’t forget to tell a friend to tell a friend! 😉 Be there on Thursday! 🤩 – at Waterloo, Ontario
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On this day, September 30th of Truth and Reconciliation, join us in challenging @RegionWaterloo to transform the Charles St Terminal into an Indigenous Community Hub. #reallocatewr #EveryChildMatters #TruthAndReconciliation
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The Sankofa Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies is now live with our first issue, "B[l]ack to the Future"
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I've got so many people to thank for the support in getting this off the ground, mostly the students. It was an idea, and now here we are.
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Please read. Especially first year and other #BlackHistory130 students.
@uwaterlooHREI
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AYE SO BOOM! Happy Emancipation Day!
We wanted to take a moment to celebrate this monumental moment, and shed light on what brought us here! Join @susanne_nn as she breaks down some facts on how enslavement affected Black and Indigenous communities here on Turtle Island.
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***JOB ALERT***
"Black Excellence: Multiple Faculty Appointments Open to All Disciplines (Tenure-Track/Tenured)"
@BFC_UW @CCAWR @rlitchmore14 @RyersonDI @NHenryFundi @Nassisse1 @BlackatWestern @BlkCdnSA @trevorcharles @blcuoft @UWI_StAugustine @44paisley
uwaterloo.ca/provost/black-e…
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Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Hotline:
1-866-925-4419
Crisis Services Canada: 1-833-456-4566 or text 45645;
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868.
First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line: 1-855-242-3310.
Native Youth Crisis Hotline: 1-877-209-1266.
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Chief forensic pathologist, Michael Pollanen, is stepping in to review Soli’s case. The Faqiri family is cautiously hopeful that this development will provide a post-mortem report that reflects the reality of Soli’s final moments in 2016.
bit.ly/2TiogTd
#JusticeforSoli
Again, please feel free to reach out to us for support: [email protected].
Additional Resources for support:
Naseeha Mental Health Helpline: 1-866-627-3342
Amala the Muslim Youth Helpline: 855-95-AMALA
Nisa Helpline: 1-888-315-6472
Always in love and care,
RAISE