{"id":1998,"date":"2020-09-09T08:09:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2020-09-09T08:09:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:09:16","slug":"scholar-strike-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/scholar-strike-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholar Strike Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarstrikecanada.ca\/schedule\/\">the schedule of events<\/a> to be broadcast live and then video-archived. And here are some very illuminating <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarstrikecanada.ca\/resources\/\">resources<\/a>. My university&#8217;s president and my dean both support the scholar strike, as do my teaching colleagues, of course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Scholar Strike originated in the U.S from a tweet by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/africana.sas.upenn.edu\/people\/anthea-butler\">Dr. Anthea Butler<\/a>&nbsp;who, inspired by the striking WNBA and NBA players, put out a call for a similar labour action from academics.&nbsp;The Canadian action is aligned with the one in the U.S., in its call for racial justice, an end to anti-Black police violence and it adds a specific focus on anti-Indigenous, colonial violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will be attending numerous sessions. My class-work will be limited to fielding student queries about their upcoming studies as well as about this action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the schedule of events to be broadcast live and then video-archived. And here are some very illuminating resources. My university&#8217;s president and my dean both support the scholar strike, as do my teaching colleagues, of course. Scholar Strike originated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/scholar-strike-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,42,69],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-conflict","tag-for-educators","tag-nonviolent-comms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}