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Can a protest march really make a difference?
by Dr. Anna Snyder
Last month, on the weekend of the massive March for Our Lives protests in the US, the media asked, what does a protest march do? Will it really make a difference?
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Adjusting course for international development
It started with a conversation with his father.
Now, after three years of working toward an Environmental Studies degree at the University of Winnipeg, 21-year-old Nick Taylor is adjusting course.
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MSC class responds to court rulings in the deaths of Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine
When the verdict came down in the Gerald Stanley trial, and the courts announced that he had been acquitted of wrong doing in the death of Colten Boushie, it hit Tabitha Martens' Issues in Indigenous Communities class hard.
"According to the syllabus, we were supposed to watch a film, but it felt totally inappropriate given the circumstances," said Martens, who is an instructor in International Development Studies at MSC.
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Stories of Hope and Challenge: Reflecting on the words of Senator Murray Sinclair
On March 5, 2018, Canadian Mennonite University hosted The Honourable Senator Murray Sinclair in a public lecture. Lizeth Ardila, senior IDS and CRS major at MSC, was there and we asked her to reflect on what she learned.
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Lizeth Ardila
There are three remarkable words I took from listening to Senator Sinclair: empathy, kindness, and action.
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The Rohingya crisis in context
by Dr. Anna Snyder
I was in Myanmar several months ago in October of 2017 doing research on the role of diaspora, especially women, in the ongoing peace processes. While I was there I spoke a little bit to the ethnic minorities I interviewed about the Rohingya crisis and I learned a few things about the perspective of ethnic minorities in Myanmar on the crisis. I'd like to share some of what I learned but I want to clarify that I am no expert on the ethnic cleansing or the current agreement for their return and so direct people to news sources including Irrawady News, a Myanmar based news source. I also want to clarify that by sharing one indigenous perspective, it's not my intention to downplay the horror of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, the egregious violation of human rights. And although everyone I talked with in Myanmar struggled with the international condemnation and how to approach the rights of the Rohingya in Myanmar, no one I spoke to supported the military's campaign to destroy the Rohingya people.
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