Resource list in support of Black and Indigenous communities

Square-e1593025575734
June 24, 2020

Black Lives Matter
– News (Sign up for updates!)
– Take Action
– Dontate
– Resources (Healing Action Toolkit, Chapter Conflict Resolution Toolkit, Healing Justice Toolkit and more)
– Chapters (Toronto, Vancouver, Waterloo)

How to Support Black Lives Matter Online

Resource List
– Some places to give working locally in the US
– Some places to give working nationally in the US
– Some places to give working nationally in Canada
– Some places to give working locally in Canada
– Take Action (Call Scripts + Petitions)
– Resources and educational tools (Some incredibly helpful and comprehensive resource guides, Podcasts, Movies and TV and Books)

Anti-racism resources
– Where you can donate
– Online reading
– On protest
– Practicing Allyship
– Prison Abolition
– Videos
– Podcasts
– Books
– Follow + Support

Support Black initiatives or Organizers Helping Black Communities in Montreal
– Lawyer/Legal Aid/Mobilization
– Culture
– Education/Youth
– Assistance to migrants
– Assistance to ethnic and racialized communities
– Fight against poverty and exclusion / Entrepreneurship

Anti-racism resources for white people by Women do Stuff (France)
– Books
– Articles, blogs
– Films, series, documentaries
– Podcasts
– Youtube
– Organizations, associations, collectives, activists
– Youth
– Collections

Workman Arts’ Anti-Racism Resources
– Donate
– Petition
– Directories
– Action
– Tools

IMAASource – (Re)conciliation
– Think Before You Appropriate: A guide for creators and designers
– Interactive Territory, Treaty and Language Map (Native Land)
– Understanding Aboriginal Arts in Canada Today: A Review of Knowledge and Literature (Canada Council for the Arts)
– Impacts and Benefits Agreement – Indigenous Corporate Training (ICT)
– Indigenous self-government – Indigenous Corporate Training (ICT)
– Indigenous Peoples: A Guide to Terminology – Indigenous Corporate Training (ICT)
– 27 valuable “must do” tips for Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples – Indigenous Corporate Training (ICT)
– 23 Tips on What Not to Say or Do when Working with Indigenous Peoples – Indigenous Corporate Training Inc. (ICT)
– United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN)
– Guidelines for working with First Nations, Inuit and Métis Elders (CACE)
– Cultural Representation in the Media Arts, Ethics and Freedom of Expression (FOFA Gallery)
– Learning From Indigenous Non-Governmental Organizations: A Case Study of Three INGOs in Canada with Transformative Impact on their Communities (Tides Canada)
– Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC)
– Cultural Diversity in the Media Arts (NIMAC – IMAA)


Illegal interview questions
Interview Questions: Legal vs. Illegal (Canadian Human Resources Centre)
What are illegal interview questions that you should be looking out for (US)

Afrique au Féminin (Montréal-based)

Afrobiz.ca: Black owned businesses in Canada

BIPOC TV & Film

Black Lives Matter: Ways You Can Help (unofficial)

Black Lives Matter Vancouver Demands & Calls to Action 

Black Legal Action Centre

Black Youth Helpline

Black Health Alliance

Black Women Film! Canada

Call to Action by Hogan’s Alley Society

Call to Action to Address Anti-Black Racism in Schools by BC Community Alliance

Call to Action template by Defund VPD 

Canadian Anti-Hate Network

Canadian Civil Liberties Association (Donate)

Canadian Race Relations Foundation
– The Spirit of Reconciliation, guidebook
– Racism: Problems and Solutions, videos

Center for Research-Action on Race Relations 

Dames Making Games Resource List

Defund the Police – Canada

Edmonton anti-black racism tool kit

Federation of Black Canadians

Film in Colour

Fingerprint for Success – Women of color in the workplace 

How to protest safely

Indigenous Screen Office

ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and imagineNATIVE Film Festival Playlists

Jane Finch Action contre la pauvreté 

Jane Finch Housing Coalition

June is Indigenous History Month – BC Alliance

Mental Health virtual resources for Black people

Montreal-based racial justice organizations

National Film Board
– Indigenous Cinema
– Black Communities in Canada
– Wapikoni Mobile 2017

National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition

Native Women’s Association of Canada

Reel World Film Festival

Support Network for Indigenous Women & Women of Colour

Toronto Black Film Festival

Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Fund

Virtual protesting 101 by Manassaline

Wapikoni

What Canadian kids should know about #BlackLivesMatter – CBC (Video)

What is Systemic Racism? Video Series

10 steps to non-optical allyship by Mireille Charper

10 Films to Watch in Support of Black Liberation – INDIE WIRE

14 Canadian Organizations to Donate to in the Fight Against Anti-Black Racism

450 Black-Owned Businesses (US)

This list is non exhaustive, you can contact us at info@imaa.ca if you feel something else should be there.