[Fdu] York U Fac Association supports BLM-TO

[Cynthia Wright]

  YUFA supports Black Lives Matter

Posted by James Clark on July 13th, 2016

The Executive Committee <http://www.yufa.ca/about-2/executive/> of the 
York University Faculty Association (YUFA ) is proud to voice its 
support of Black Lives Matter-Toronto <http://blacklivesmatter.ca> 
(BLM-TO). As a labour union whose constitution and collective agreement 
are committed to equity, we advocate not only for our own members, but 
also for students and youth in Toronto and across Canada.

York University, like Toronto, has built its reputation on the diversity 
of its community—it encompasses and is comprised of many Racialised and 
Indigenous members, students and staff who are subject to racism, 
violence and the forms of policing that BLM-TO is critiquing through 
direct action.

YUFA encourages other university faculty associations to publicly 
support BLM-TO as a movement that defends the rights of Racialised and 
Indigenous peoples across Canada to be treated equitably and fairly 
within the workplace, education, the justice system, and/or Canadian 
society at large by actively rejecting and working to eradicate racism 
and colonialism in our public institutions.

YUFA represents approximately 1,500 faculty, librarians and postdoctoral 
visitors at York University. For more information, please visit yufa.ca 
<http://www.yufa.ca/>.

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