Past Events
Breaking the Cycle: A Community Conversation on Healing and Justice
On June 6th, 2023, The Rights Project hosted an evening of roundtable discussions, healing, and dreaming. With the support of a community leader and a Black mental health practitioner, this event encouraged community collaboration and provided attendees with the opportunity to share their experiences with the judicial system, offered coping mechanisms, and ways to support each other.
Black Mental Health Week: Defunding the police - Funding our communities
On March 6th 2021, The Rights Project hosted a conversation with Semir Bulle, a third-year medical student at the University of Toronto and the co-founder of Doctors for Defunding the Police to discuss moving away from the police and investing in the communities for mental health crisis responses. This conversation highlighted the importance of continued efforts to defund, dismantle, and abolish the police.
Human Rights and Advocacy: Understanding your Rights while Demanding a Better Future
An informative and meaningful conversation about our human rights, how young people can create necessary change and get more involved in their communities, and how we can work towards ensuring that Black, Indigenous, and racialized voices are represented in political and justice systems.
The panelists and moderator:
Janelle Brady | PhD Candidate at the Department of Social Justice Education, Centre of Integrative Anti Racism Coordinator
Ola Idris | Undergraduate Student at the University of Waterloo, Community Builder, Outreach Director at Trad Magazine
Josh Matlow | Ward 12 City Councillor, Community Advocator
Khaldah Salih | Community Legal Worker at Black Legal Action Centre, Public Legal Educator
Dr. Pam Palmater | Mi’kmaw Lawyer, Professor at Ryerson University, Community Activist
Moderator: Safyya Cissé | Undergraduate Student at the University of Waterloo, President of the University of Waterloo African Student Association