{"id":7627,"date":"2020-02-10T15:55:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2020-02-10T15:55:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:55:32","slug":"black-history-month-celebrating-our-members-celine-ahodekon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=7627","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month \u2013 Celebrating our Members: Celine Ahodekon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dsc_0076-web_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7628\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dsc_0076-web_1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dsc_0076-web_1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dsc_0076-web_1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dsc_0076-web_1.jpg 903w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>February 7, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Celine works for Parks Canada at the Fort Langley National Historic Site as a heritage presenter, telling visitors about our shared history \u2013 something she is very passionate about.<\/p>\n<p>Celine has been very active within her component and local and has held many positions, including serving on the Parks Canada bargaining team and as the equity representative for racialized members for the Union of National Employees (UNE). She sat on the organizing committee of PSAC BC\u2019s first ever conference for racially visible members. Celine is also involved in her local PSAC BC Area Council and Human Rights Committee, where she is currently busy helping to organize a Black History Month celebration in Abbotsford, BC.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Celine why she felt Black History Month was important and she explained: \u201cWe still have much more work to do in order to create a society where everyone feels equal. Having Black History Month is one way to remember, teach and learn about Black people\u2019s contributions to the economy, politics and social life in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/psacunion.ca\/black-history-month-celebrating-our-members-celine?_ga=2.50591023.789933935.1581367624-722671214.1553177201\">PSAC Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 7, 2020 Celine works for Parks Canada at the Fort Langley National Historic Site as a heritage presenter, telling visitors about our shared history \u2013 something she is very passionate about. Celine has been very active within her component and local and has held many positions, including serving on the Parks Canada bargaining team &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=7627\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black History Month \u2013 Celebrating our Members: Celine Ahodekon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,17,19],"tags":[302,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7629,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}