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Solarpunk Presents Podcast @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 23:59 UTC

Episode 9.2 Solarpunk Presents: National Parks for All! is out now!

This week, we talk to Audrey Peterman, a Jamaican activist who played a key role in making a home for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) in the great outdoors in the United States. Historically, people of colour were not included in outdoors parks & wilderness spaces in America, and often outright excluded, especially urban people of colour. However, Audrey fought to combat this stereotype and has written extensively on the matter. We sit down and listen to the wonderful stories and great wisdom derived from years of activism. Listen now at:

https://shows.acast.com/solarpunk-presents/episodes/92-solarpunk-presents-national-parks-for-all

#Jamaica #EnvionmentalActivism #Envionmentalism #wilderness #ParksandRec #RacialEquity #UnitedStatesofAmerica #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Episode #Outdoors #History @fastfrwrd

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Bounce Black @[email protected] · 2026-05-27 · 07:35 UTC

Six Years On: George Floyd, his legacy and the future of racial equity

The Bounce Black Team

Six years after the murder of George Floyd, the world is still reeling from the promises and limits of what followed.

His death catalysed a global uprising against anti-Black racism, policing violence, and structural inequality. Organisations, institutions, and governments issued statements of solidarity, pledged reforms, and, in some cases, implemented new frameworks for racial equity.

Yet for many communities and advocates, the question remains: what has actually changed beneath the surface?

While visibility increased, the deeper systems that sustain racial injustice — surveillance, state and extrajudicial violence, institutional neglect, and the criminalisation of dissent — have in many contexts adapted rather than dissolved.

The result is a shifting landscape where racial equity is increasingly discussed, but not consistently protected. Likewise, racism is increasingly feared as an accusation, but not frowned upon as a culture.

The evolving landscape of racial justice

In the aftermath of 2020, racial equity work has become more visible, but also more contested and, in some spaces, actively constrained.

Equity practitioners, activists, whistleblowers, and human rights defenders report growing forms of retaliation that are often subtle, bureaucratic, and difficult to challenge.

One of the most concerning developments in this period is the rise of transnational repression, where individuals face intimidation, surveillance, legal pressure, or detention across borders, often linked to their advocacy, identity, or perceived political stance.

Alongside this, there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of organised harassment: coordinated patterns of intimidation, discrediting, digital targeting, workplace retaliation, and social isolation that can operate across institutions and jurisdictions. While often difficult to evidence in traditional legal frameworks, its impact on wellbeing, civic participation, and democratic engagement is profound and lasting.

These dynamics raise urgent questions about the safety of those who speak out for justice, and whether current human rights protections are keeping pace with contemporary forms of harm.

A live case study: concerns about the detention of Dr Tamara Dixon

Recent concerns have been raised regarding the reported detention of Dr Tamara Dixon, an African American academic and former university professor.

Writing every step of the way about her experiences, Dr Tamara’s latest updates include that she is currently being held in an immigration detention setting in Luxembourg, where she is seeking asylum from severe transnational repression. Yet her efforts have been met with hostility and further covert harm in addition to restricted access to legal counsel and a limited ability to communicate due to confiscation of her personal devices.

With only one hour per day of permitted access to the computer facilities at the detention centre, without much clarity as to what’s next for her, Dr Tamara’s case is emblematic of broader concerns around due process, access to legal representation, and the treatment of individuals who may be vulnerable within detention systems.

It also highlights how quickly individuals can become isolated from support networks and advocacy channels, particularly when communication is restricted.

For human rights observers, such cases underscore the importance of independent monitoring, legal access, and safeguards against administrative or institutional overreach.

Importantly, and unfortunately, this case is not isolated or exceptional. Instead, it’s part of a wider pattern being flagged by activists and civil society organisations about how dissenting or visible individuals can become exposed to compounded vulnerabilities, especially when intersecting with race, gender, migration status, and advocacy work.

Organised harassment as a human rights issue

Organised harassment is increasingly being recognised by advocates as a serious but under-acknowledged threat to human rights and democratic participation. This type of repression and retaliation does not always appear in ways that are easily legible to formal institutions.

Instead, it thrives on weaponised conditioning cues to signal surveillance and intimidation in public without widespread detection. The campaign of psychological warfare and total assault on character, life and property can also extend to hidden reputational harm, career sabotage and other forms of financial and emotional abuse designed to destabilise and destroy victims.

Its effects are cumulative: social isolation, reputational damage, economic harm, and in some cases, deterrence from civic or advocacy engagement altogether.

For individuals working in racial justice, gender equity, and human rights, these patterns can operate as a form of structural silencing, thereby reducing participation not through direct censorship, but through sustained pressure and attrition.

A personal dimension: lived experience within Bounce Black

At Bounce Black, these conversations are not abstract.

Our Founder has, for the past four years, experienced sustained organised harassment and transnational repression while continuing to lead racial equity-focused work, community programmes, and trauma-informed advocacy initiatives.

This lived reality underscores how advocacy itself can become a site of vulnerability, and how those working to challenge systems of inequity are often simultaneously navigating personal exposure to harm.

This is not unique.

It reflects a broader pattern experienced by many Black women leaders, community organisers, and equity practitioners who operate at the intersection of public visibility and structural resistance.

Where do we go from here?

If George Floyd’s legacy is to extend beyond symbolic remembrance, it must include a serious reckoning with how power adapts, and how harm evolves.

This means:

Expanding human rights frameworks to recognise modern forms of repression and organised harassment
Strengthening protections for activists, academics, and whistleblowers across borders
Ensuring access to legal representation and communication for those in detention settings
Supporting independent investigation and accountability mechanisms
Investing in the wellbeing and safety of those doing racial equity work
Listening seriously to lived experiences, even when they fall outside conventional institutional categories

Racial equity cannot exist without safety for those who speak about it. And that is everybody’s business!

A call to action

Six years on, the challenge is not only remembrance, but responsibility.

We are calling on human rights organisations, policymakers, academic institutions, and civil society actors to take coordinated action in:

Recognising transnational repression and organised harassment as urgent human rights concerns
Supporting individuals and communities reporting these harms
Demanding transparency and accountability in detention and immigration systems
Protecting the civic space required for racial justice work to continue

The legacy of George Floyd demands more than reflection. It demands infrastructure (legal, social, and political) that protects life, dignity, and truth-telling.

Without that, equity remains an aspiration rather than a reality.

And to quote a wise Black woman…

Ain’t nobody got time for that!

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Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2024-09-19 · 00:46 UTC

#SNIWWOC #FoodProject: Your food, your choice.

According to Statistics Canada (Dec 2020), approximately one in seven Canadians (14.6%) were living in a food-insecure household in May 2020. #FoodInsecurity is also a cause associated with poorer nutrition as well as a variety of physical and mental health issues.

SNIWWOC is providing a #FoodSecurity program for #LowIncome #RacializedWomen including #transgender and #TwoSpirit community members. This program is intended to offset costs of monthly #groceries, not to cover all costs.

Eligible clients will receive the decided amount of gift cards to one of the grocery stores. We are committed to supporting vulnerable women in our community, such as single mothers and newcomers who are sometimes isolated.

ELIGIBILITY
1. Women Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour, including transgender, non-binary and two-spirit community members who are 18 years old or above;

2. Must make less than the low-income cut-off line (submit the proof of income)* see the table on website.

3. Resident of Greater Victoria BC, Canada.

STEPS:
1. Fill out our Groceries Project Request form.
2. Receive an email from SNIWWOC.
3. Submit proof of income (or household income if you are married/common law). This can include: a current tax return, notice of assessment, or any benefits received from the government (ex. Disability Assistance).

**Screenshots of bank statements or accounts will not be considered a valid form of proof of income**

4. Submit proof of dependent(s). This can include: health cards, passports, birth certificate, driver's license, school registration, childcare statement, or status card.

5. Set up an in-person appointment at SNIWWOC’s Victoria BC office.

6. Fill out the feedback survey sent via email from SNIWWOC.
https://www.sniwwoc.ca/getyourgroceries-application-form

Note: You can apply once every three months, while supplies last. Clients are eligible for their first round of gift cards every three months after receiving them. Clients who receive their second gift card in three months must wait another six months to be eligible for the program once again.

Example: Client A can apply in January and receive the gift card, then Client A can also apply again in April, then they would need to wait until October to be eligible for the program once again.

OUR TEAM
We are an interdisciplinary team of women dedicated to improving the health of racialized women across Canada. We are the community we serve.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Program policies: https://www.sniwwoc.ca/s/Program-Policies-Get-Your-Groceries-4.pdf

If you are interested in receiving a hygiene kit, please check here:
https://www.sniwwoc.ca/traditional-medicine-hygiene-kits

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