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Roots and Rhythms Gala

In February 2024 the first Black Mutual Aid Fund was launched in Newfoundland in Labrador. Mutual aid is an important tool when providing acute financial relief to marginalized individuals and communities, as well as promotes social connections based on collaborative problem solving as opposed to the traditional patronaged relationships. Mutual aid provides an opportunity for people, businesses, and organizations, an opportunity to directly contribute to the communities they serve and work in. According to the National Institute of Health notes that mutual aid contributes to positive emotional experiences, increased engagement in life, improved social relationships, and greater sense of control.

We acknowledge that Ktaqamkuk is the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Mi'kmaq peoples who have taken care of this land for centuries. We also wish to acknowledge the Inuit and Innu of Labrador. We acknowledge that the white settler colonial state has been built through Indigenous genocide and land theft, the enslavement and labour theft of people of African descent through the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the fifteen thousand Chinese men who worked under exploitative conditions to build Canada’s first transcontinental railroad, the internment and forced labor of twelve thousand Japanese Canadians, and the thousands of refugees and migrants denied refuge into so-called Canada throughout its history. (Credit: ARC NL)

©2024 by Mixed Coast Collective.

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