{"id":13887,"date":"2022-05-02T22:39:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/?p=13887"},"modified":"2022-05-02T22:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:39:51","slug":"gvjcca-commends-bcs-anti-racism-data-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/gvjcca-commends-bcs-anti-racism-data-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"GVJCCA Commends BC\u2019s Anti-Racism Data Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens\u2019 Association (GVJCCA) Commends BC\u2019s Anti-Racism Data Legislation Introduced May 2, 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, May 2, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The GVJCCA was one of over 70 BC community groups who were engaged in a provincial consultation project from November, 2021 through January, 2022 on how demographic data on racialized and marginalized communities should be gathered, kept, and used, to eliminate systemic discrimination and inequalities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Indigenous, racialized and marginalized communities including Japanese Canadians &#8211; being the subject of race- based data gathering has historically been a profoundly dehumanizing, unjust experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With an open heart and while seeing hope for good change in the new Anti-Racism Data Legislation, the GVJCCA also applauds its co-development with Indigenous Peoples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Anti-Racism Data Legislation will enact law so that evidence is available to address inequities, correct service delivery failures, and protect groups from the harm of systemic racism.\u00a0 The GVJCCA appreciates the opportunity to participate in the community engagement leading to the drafting of this legislation.\u00a0 We stand in solidarity with the Indigenous, Metis, Black, fellow communities of colour, and allies.\u00a0 Together, and with government, we can work with the Anti-Racism Data Act to lift unjust barriers and eliminate systemic racism.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>About the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens\u2019 Association (GVJCCA)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens\u2019 Association\u00a0 (GVJCCA) is a non-profit organization that builds communities and advocates for social justice, primarily for people in Canada of Japanese heritage and their families.\u00a0 Our human rights work has included outreaching about social justice concerns with other communities and offering human rights and anti-racism education.\u00a0\u00a0 The GVJCCA is the publisher of the <em>Bulletin\/Geppo, a journal of Japanese Canadian community, history and culture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">604 522 7777\u00a0 gvjcca@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens\u2019 Association (GVJCCA) Commends BC\u2019s Anti-Racism Data Legislation Introduced May 2, 2022 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, May 2, 2022 The GVJCCA was one of over 70 BC community groups who were engaged in a provincial consultation project from November, 2021 through January, 2022 on how demographic data on racialized and marginalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10695,"featured_media":13888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13889,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions\/13889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}