Es Muss Sein!

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Art by Chanchita Riveros

Learn more: Migration is Beautiful

“Migration is Beautiful began at Opportunity Agenda’s Creative Change retreat in August 2012, where CultureStrike’s Executive Director Favianna Rodriguez led an interactive design session with artists and activists. The butterfly image and tagline quickly emerged as an approachable way to reimagine borders as permeable rather than militarized, reinvigorating a metaphor that many migrants have looked to for generations. CultureStrike quickly started commissioning artworks incorporating the butterfly and made them available for reuse and remixing.  

A school board on Nova Scotia’s South Shore is dealing with a series of racially charged incidents involving the display of a Confederate flag by a student and a noose hung on an African-Nova Scotian teacher’s door.

The incidents caused some school board officials to suggest calling the RCMP, but the superintendent argued there was no basis for criminal charges.

Using freedom of information laws, CBC News obtained emails from the South Shore Regional School Board concerning the incidents, which began in the fall of 2015.

Multiple sources, including the emails, confirmed the Confederate flag was displayed on a student’s vehicle in the school parking lot beginning before Christmas.

The flag incidents occurred repeatedly over a period of months. The noose was hung on the teacher’s door some time before late February.