June 2020 | The Stop

Addressing the harm

Posted on June 18, 2020 (June 18, 2020) by admin

The Stop’s mission is to increase access to healthy food in a manner that maintains dignity, builds health and community, and challenges inequality. None of these goals can be met without first acknowledging how systemic racism hinders all three—and then taking proactive action to address and dismantle it. Despite our stated commitment to anti-racism, we […]

Our immediate next steps

Posted on June 18, 2020 (June 18, 2020) by admin

The comments and concerns that have been raised are being taken seriously, and have given further urgency to The Stop’s AR/AO (anti-racism/anti-oppression) work. The events of the last six months—not the least of which has been the pandemic—have also highlighted a need to re-examine The Stop’s scope of programming to adequately resource our operations specifically […]

A Statement from The Stop

Posted on June 8, 2020 (June 8, 2020) by admin

On Thursday evening, we made a decision to remove an Instagram post from our feed. As an organization, we cannot condone hate-fuelled and misogynist comments, and once they were appearing on our post, we decided to remove it. This decision made many people feel as though we were silencing BIPOC voices who were sharing important […]

Screenshots from our Instagram post

Posted on June 8, 2020 (June 8, 2020) by admin

Please note: we have removed two screenshots which included messages that were oppressive and harmful. […]

Black Lives Matter

Posted on June 2, 2020 (June 2, 2020) by admin

Dear friend, It’s been a deeply disturbing week, on so many levels. The killing of George Floyd in Minnesota and the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto have marked more in a series of instances where Black people have died either in police custody or during an incident involving authorities. Anti-Black racism has been pervasive […]