Amal Elsana Alh'jooj, executive director of Promoting Leadership for Empowerment, Development, and Justice, and Brian Bronfman, president of the Peace Network for Social Harmony, both longtime friends and collaborators, co-drafted a message after having conversations about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dozens of leaders from Montreal's civil society have signed their message and are discussing future collective actions to maintain peace in the city.
Exclusion and racism as a mentality in corporations, in the workplace, even in our public institutions hence the "systemic" designation, a disturbing but no less real and dramatic characterization undermine and destroy lives.