Anti-Racist Education in Ontario - Building a Movement and Future for Asian Youth and Families 安大略省反种族主义教育: 为亚裔青少年和家庭构建运动与未来
⭐CCNCTO has organized with 150 Asian youth and 65 working-class parents over the past 5 years 在过去五年中，平权会建立了由 150 名青年和 65 位工薪阶层家长组成的强大网络
⭐We’ve been connected to folks at the Toronto District School Board and York Region District School Board 我们已经与多伦多教育局和约克区教育局的人员建立了联系
📢This work has all been part of the Anti-Racism Education Ontario’s (AREO) Initiative, led by @uarrcanada , with partners including the @cassaonline , @onabse_org and @tamilcivicaction
这项工作是安大略省反种族主义教育倡议的一部分，由城市种族关系联盟 (UARR) 主导开展。合作伙伴包括: 服务南亚人的机构理事会 (CASSA)、安大略省黑人学校教育者联盟 (ONABSE) 以及泰米尔加拿大公民行动中心 (TCA)
✉️From letters and petitions to surveys and relationship-building, we’ve been fighting to make sure Asian youth and families are seen, heard, and supported. But as our Ontario Trillium Foundation funding comes to an end, so does the future of this work unless we act now. 从联名信和请愿书，到问卷调查和关系建设，我们一直在努力奋斗，确保亚裔青年和家庭被看见、被听见，并获得应有的支援。然而，随着我们来自 Ontario Trillium Foundation 的资助即将结束，这项工作的未来也面临着不确定性，除非我们现在就采取行动。
💪This week, we look back at how this movement began and why it must keep going! Your support matters and let’s keep building together! 本周，我们一起回顾这场运动的起点，以及为什么它不能停下脚步。你的支持非常重要，让我们继续携手前行，共同推动改变！
Follow along each week this summer as we share what we’ve built, what’s at risk, and what’s next. 这个夏天，欢迎大家每周关注我们的分享，了解我们一路走来的成果、当前面临的挑战，以及接下来的计划。
For more information on Anti-Racism Education Ontario, visit 想了解更多关于安大略省反种族主义教育的信息，请浏览: https://antiracismeduon.ca/
Learn more 了解更多: www.ccnctoronto.ca/aar-advocacy-in-schools
Contact 电邮: [email protected] Support 支持我们: www.ccnctoronto.ca/support-us
#education #educationequity #antiracism #antiasianracism #ontarioeducation #youth #youthleadership #youthadvocacy
Throughout Asian Heritage Month we have worked to visibilize anti-Asian racism and its systemic nature in our schools by sharing our community members’ experiences. This month, we created a space for people’s stories to be heard and validated. While individuals have shared their personal experiences, these experiences are echoed by many others in our community. Many folks in our community are hesitant to share their stories - some can’t and others won’t because of the barriers they face in sharing or because of compounding and negative experiences that they have had when seeking accountability. 在整个亚裔传统文化月期间，我们通过分享社区成员的经历，揭露了反亚裔种族主义及其在学校中系统性的存在。在这个月里，我们创造了一个能让人们的故事被听到并得到认可的空间。人们的个人经历都能与社区中其他人的经历产生共鸣。我们社区有许多人不能或不愿分享他们的故事，有些是因为他们面对的障碍阻碍了他们分享，有些是因为他们在寻求问责时曾遭遇过复杂的负面经历。
Because of how our community members are impacted by systemic racism in other aspects of their life, when schools ask things like ‘why didn’t you report this incident?’ or make folks jump through hoops to address accessibility barriers, like contacting multiple administrators to receive necessary translation or interpretation services, school boards are contributing to and piling onto the many inequities that our community members already face. 由于我们的社区成员在生活的其他方面也受到了系统性种族主义的影响，当学校问类似于“你为什么不报告这件事？”或让人们想方设法冲破障碍，如联系多个行政人员以获得必要的翻译或口译服务时，教育局正在促成和加剧我们社区成员正在面临的诸多不平等。
We hope that sharing these stories have highlighted the long-lasting impacts of systemic racism in schools. Now, we ask that you move past simply ‘celebrating’ Asian Heritage Month and work with us to dismantle anti-Asian racism. 我们希望通过分享这些故事来凸显学校中系统性种族主义的长期影响。现在，我们需要您不只是简单地“庆祝”亚裔传统文化月，更要与我们一起努力消除反亚裔种族主义。
For folks who haven’t already, PLEASE sign our collective letter to the @torontodsb and @yrdsb.schools at change.org/ccncto-aar-action (link is also in our bio)! We will be sharing these signatures with both school boards in June! 如果您还没有签字，请在 change.org/ccncto-aar-action 网站上签署我们写给 TDSB 和 YRDSB 的请愿信（链接也在我们的简介里）！我们将在 6 月份呈交给他们！
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Join our upcoming project information session on Wednesday, June 3 (6:00-8:00 PM, hybrid) to
🌟 Learn more about our international/newcomer student project, including student leadership opportunities
🌟 Provide your input and suggestions
🌟 Connect with other individuals passionate about supporting international and newcomer students!
Link to register in bio (tinyurl.com/ccncto-student-info-session)
Translated flyers in English, Simplified Chinese, Bangla, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Urdu! Help us circulate widely!
This project is funded by the Canadian Race Relations
Foundation @crrf_fcrr
#newcomerstudent #internationalstudent #youthleadership #advocacy #communityengagement
Allow us to re-introduce our upcoming youth-led project!
✨Resilience and Resistance: Empowering Asian International and Newcomer Students (1 year project, April 2026-March 2027)✨
🎯 Goal: Address racism and xenophobia by engaging
and building leadership among international and newcomer students (13-25 years old) and families from Chinese and South Asian backgrounds
This project will:
✴️ Develop youth leadership
✴️ Develop a mentorship structure among youth leaders
✴️ Include several youth-led workshops
✴️ Create community resources
✴️ Provide a platform for youth-led public conferences
✴️ Highlight a youth-developed social media campaign
Apply: /ccncto-student (link also in bio)
This project is funded by the Canadian Race Relations
Foundation
--> Interested in sharing this project? Contact CCNCTO for additional translated flyers
#newcomerstudent #internationalstudent #youthleadership #advocacy #communityengagement
A young (18 year old) student worker experienced wage theft at a popular restaurant near Asia Food Mart on Silver Star Boulevard.
We stand with this young worker, who showed courage by speaking up and taking action.
Employers rely on fear and isolation, but our POWER is in collective action.
Take ACTION with CCNCTO today. Join our team
linktr.ee/ccncto
#toronto #chinesecanadian #advocacy #nonprofit #chinesediaspora #socialjustice #wagetheft
We’re excited to introduce our upcoming youth-led project!
We’re currently looking for passionate newcomer and international student leaders from Chinese and South Asian backgrounds who are ready to make an impact, share their voice, and build community.
If that’s you (or someone you know), swipe to learn more and find out how to join our meeting on April 10 at 5 pm.
#newcomerstudent #internationalstudent #community #leadership
Let’s go Toronto, April 25, 6PM! No More Divide and Rule: People’s Forum on Xenophobia & Migrant Justice (link in bio)
You don’t want to miss this. This forum is an invitation. Let’s start with a simple question: why are our systems failing us, and who benefits when workers are divided?
We know something is deeply wrong when working one job isn’t enough, landlords throw us out of our homes, schools are falling apart, we can’t get the healthcare or childcare we need, and when instead of addressing these issues, politicians bring police, enforcement and Trump-style immigration policies like C-12. Permits are being cancelled. Three thousand people are being pushed out of Canada every single day.
But migrants have always fought back. And on April 25th, we fight together.
At the forum, let’s arrive at solutions and strategies on how we can build power.
Join with migrant and undocumented people, community organizers, activists and unionists to build a collective analysis of what’s really happening in Canada - what Bill C-12 means, who benefits when workers are divided, and how migrant organizations are fighting back. Together, we will share stories of hope, struggle and resistance toward a people’s strategy for justice.
Join the Diversity Connection Project! Hosted by Senior Persons Living Connected (SPLC) @splcdotca , the project invites participants to
🌟 Build friendship and respect
🌟 Improve understand about and connection with diverse communities and experiences
🌟 Volunteer to make a difference!
CCNCTO has connected with SPLC to support their Diversity Connection Project
❣️ Facilitate a Mandarin Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training
❣️ Facilitate an English and Mandarin 2SLGBTQIA+ communities training
❣️ Co-host arts and crafts sessions
Become a Diversity Ambassador with SPLC!
[email protected] / 416-493-3333 ext 305
Funded in part by the Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Program
#diversity #senior #scarborough #chinesecanadian #volunteer
The FIGHT is not OVER and it does not end here. As we move forward, we hope folks have gained more insight, become better informed, and feel empowered to begin MOBILIZING to speak out against and challenge xenophobia.
This public awareness campaign has been about LEARNING and UNLEARNING as we discover new ways to LISTEN to one another and GROW together as a community.
Together, we can build a world where everyone belongs and where we come from a place of understanding.
✊Upcoming CCNCTO events:
March 25th Volunteer Meeting
March 28th Workers Education Group
linktr.ee/ccncto for more details
#Solidarity #SocialJustice #Activism
Xenophobia is systemic and creates many barriers for im/migrants, refugees, international students, and newcomers. Everyone deserves access to SAFETY, SUPPORT, and INFORMATION.
We are sharing resources to connect our community members with trusted organizations that provide workers’ rights support, healthcare support, legal services, and newcomer support.
We fight back by building SOLIDARITY, and by STANDING TOGETHER, we will become STRONGER.
CONNECT with CCNCTO:
✊Join our workshops and monthly workers, volunteers, and youth meetings to organize and to share your ideas and experiences!
#Solidarity #SocialJustice #Activism #MigrantJustice #MigrantRights Chinese Toronto ChineseDiaspora TorontoNonProfit StatusForAll
Xenophobia is multifaceted. It is connected to anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism, and the systems that divide communities while protecting those in power. Blaming one another distracts us from the deeper injustices that harm us all. Anti-Asian, anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism rely on fear, misinformation, and the myth that some people belong more than others. Choose to promote solidarity!
❗Our injustices and struggles are linked!
❗Solidarity means standing with other communities!
❗Solidarity means standing against anti-Indigenous and anti-Black hate!
❗Solidarity means building power together across communities!
As we conclude this social media campaign, we remind you to think of what else can be done in the community:
❗Challenge racism in everyday conversations
❗Support Black and Indigenous communities
❗Contribute to organizing in your community
When we stand together, we are stronger. The fight against xenophobia is part of a larger fight for racial justice. Let’s keep building, keep organizing, and keep choosing solidarity over division.
#Solidarity #SocialJustice #Activism #MigrantJustice #MigrantRights
This Chinese New Year, we didn’t just celebrate, we organized!
Last weekend, our workers and volunteers led a community outreach activity and an New Year celebration. We saw folks talking with community members, sharing their own experience, facilitating activities and strategy discussions.
This is what organizing looks like at CCNCTO, not just attending events, but building relationships, developing leadership, and turning lived experience into collective action.
When workers lead, we build real power. When the community organizes, solidarity and leadership grows.
In this Year of the Fire Horse, we want to see more folks stepping up, taking action, and shaping the direction of our movement!
#takeaction #chinesenewyear
