by blacklivesmattervancouver | Jun 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Black Lives Matter Vancouver Calls on the City to Dismantle Systems of Violence and Oppression George Floyd Nina Pop D’Andre Campbell Breonna Taylor Regis Korchinski-Paquet Abdirahman Abdi Ahmaud Arbery Abdi Gani Mahamud Hirsi Tony McDade David McAtee Andrew Loku...
by blacklivesmattervancouver | May 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Earlier this week in Surrey, two male police officers slammed a 16-year old Black girl to the ground and handcuffed her. The officers (edit: one white, one South Asian) approached her while she was waiting for the bus, assuming she was someone else. When she told them...
by blacklivesmattervancouver | Jan 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
We at Black Lives Matter are dedicated, vocal supporters of intersectional feminism. We have not been contacted in any way by the organizers of the Women’s March in Vancouver. We are pleased to see that the list of speakers includes Indigenous people and women...
by blacklivesmattervancouver | Sep 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
CONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault, Suicide, Death/dying The screening of The Birth of a Nation this weekend is an opportunity to counter the harms of misogyny and rape culture within and external to our communities and engage with the realities of intersectionality....
by blacklivesmattervancouver | Aug 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
Black Lives Matter at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival This year we are thrilled that the VQFF has recognized the importance of including Black and Indigenous stories in their programming. We are encouraged to see that some organizations are focusing on groups that...
