{"id":29837,"date":"2020-12-28T10:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T15:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=29837"},"modified":"2020-12-27T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T04:12:14","slug":"this-year-in-review-as-black-lives-matter-exploded-globally-vancouverites-marched-and-demanded-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/this-year-in-review-as-black-lives-matter-exploded-globally-vancouverites-marched-and-demanded-change\/","title":{"rendered":"This year in review: As Black Lives Matter exploded globally, Vancouverites marched and demanded change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By David P. Ball<\/em><br \/>\n---<br \/>\nAs protests raged against police killings of unarmed Black people last summer, downtown Vancouver saw its own series of massive demonstrations \u2014 the largest being on June 19, known as a Juneteenth or Emancipation Day from slavery.<\/p>\n<p>The city's local echoes of the global uprising saw demands grow for defunding the Vancouver police department \u2014 culminating to a budget freeze by City Council earlier this month \u2014 as well as multiple community members arrested for occupying the Dunsmuir Viaduct over the site of Hogan's Alley, Vancouver's once-thriving Black neighbourhood demolished to make way for the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>On this year-in-review episode of The Pulse on CFRO, we look back at moments in Vancouver's movement for Black lives, and discuss white supremacy's impacts and anti-racist strategies with three Black community leaders: Udokam Iroegbu of Black Lives Matter Vancouver, Angela-Marie MacDougall of Battered Women's Support Services, and Lama Mugabo with the Hogan's Alley Society.<\/p>\n<p>This wide-ranging panel conversation with Vancouver Co-operative Radio originally aired on June 3, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David P. Ball &#8212; As protests raged against police killings of unarmed Black people last summer, downtown Vancouver saw its own series of massive demonstrations \u2014 the largest being on June 19, known as a Juneteenth or Emancipation Day from slavery. The city&#8217;s local echoes of the global uprising saw demands grow for defunding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":29842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,3265,225],"tags":[597],"radio":[],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29837"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=29837"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=29837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}