{"id":279,"date":"2011-04-01T17:54:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T21:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalcomponent.com\/press\/?p=279"},"modified":"2011-04-01T17:54:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T21:54:42","slug":"standing-together-against-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Standing together against racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-280\" href=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?attachment_id=280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/againstracism.jpg\" alt=\"Standing together against racism\" width=\"541\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/againstracism.jpg 541w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/againstracism-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geoff Ryan, ARVP for AB, NWT and NU taking part in an anti-racism protest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>March 21 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. This day reminds us that racism still exists in our society \u2013 and that is unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>On March 18 and 19, the National Component was holding a regional seminar in Calgary. For the past few years, a white supremacist group called Blood and Honour has held \u201cwhite pride\u201d rallies to coincide with the International Day for the Elimination of Racism in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>That morning, when I read the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/prairies\/calgarys-in-your-face-neo-nazis-take-to-the-streets\/article1948346\/\">article in the Globe and Mail<\/a> describing the white pride rally and the leader of Blood and Honour, I became angry \u2013 angry that there are people who feel that they are better than everyone else because of their skin colour or their religion. I was angry that these people felt they could go march the streets to spread their message of racial supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>I had to do something; I could not let this go. I asked members at the western seminar if they would join me in protesting the white supremacist rally. I was happy have about 30 National Component members join this anti-racism protest. We met up with about 170 other like-minded folks who shouted slogans towards the Blood and Honour group for about an hour. At least I felt like we had done something positive.<\/p>\n<p>Racism in any form is just wrong. We all have a responsibility to help eliminate racism, whether it is taking part in an anti-racism protest, speaking up against inappropriate jokes, or just accepting people as individuals and getting to know them a bit better. Talk to someone who is different than you and you will learn about that person \u2013 you will also be helping to make our society a better place for the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Geoff Ryan<br \/>\nAssistant Regional Vice-President for the Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut Region.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"530\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"51\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-281\" href=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?attachment_id=281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/flickr.png\" alt=\"Flickr\" width=\"39\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">More photos are available on our new FlickR site! Please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/element_national_component\/sets\/72157626405466484\/\">click here<\/a>!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 21 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. This day reminds us that racism still exists in our society \u2013 and that is unfortunate. On March 18 and 19, the National Component was holding a regional seminar in Calgary. For the past few years, a white supremacist group called Blood and Honour &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=279\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Standing together against racism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,9,12],"tags":[27,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}