A group of criminology students at Simon Fraser University has created a campaign designed to combat extremism. The Province reports that this campaign has taken on additional significance since the election of Donald Trump in the United States, with the Southern Poverty Law Centre documenting more than 1,000 racially motivated attacks since the election. The campaign, called Voices Against Extremism, is composed of several parts, including an online video outlining the history of extremism and how people become radicalized. The campaign also includes a series of interviews focusing on community members’ experiences. “We go out, we look for community members … and we ask for their story, their own narrative about what it means to be Canadian for them and what it means to be part of a community,” says campaign co-creator Nathaniel Lam.
The Province