Holding the Community Close to Fight Racism
Part 4. Getting Your Story Out
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In Holding the Community Close to Fight Racism Nash explores how to fight racism, Islamophobia, sexism, ableism, transphobia, and other forms of hate through listening to and elevating the voices of those with direct experience of other forms of oppression. The chapter explores first hand accounts of overcoming hate through Community support and how it can lead to electoral victory.
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Peggy Nash
Peggy Nash is an advocate for labour rights and social justice in Canadian politics and the labour movement, as a long-time senior negotiator for the CAW (now Unifor). A former president of the federal New Democratic Party, she was a candidate for leader after the untimely death of Jack Layton. A candidate in several federal elections, she served as a Member of Parliament and was named Official Opposition Industry and Finance Critic. Nash is an educator, a frequent media commentator, a founding member of Equal Voice and a co-founder of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Women in the House program.
