Saskatoon St. Mary’s Wellness and Education Centre’s Grade 7 and 8 students give a voice to missing and murdered aboriginal women on Monday. Photo courtesy @GSCSNews, Twitter
On Monday, teens across the province used social media to put the Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan’s “March Out Racism” campaign into action.
Earlier this year, the council held anti-racism workshops at a number of high schools. At the end of those events, they handed out Flash Mob kits to get those teens geared up for UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racism.
The kits incorporate the theme “only laundry should be sorted by colour,” said the MCoS’s communications coordinator, Justin Waldrop.
“We just suggested perhaps they could hang some clothes on the line as well or whatever they wanted and either take a picture of it to submit using the hashtag ‘march out racism’ or they could shoot maybe a little short video of a group of them doing a flash mob where they just kind of set up the line somewhere,” he said.
The beauty of this social media campaign is that it lets students get as creative as they want.
At lunchtime on Monday, a group of Saskatoon Grade 7 and 8 students from St. Mary’s Wellness and Education Centre focused on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal women with their flash mob at the U of S’s Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre.
Instagram and Twitter posts using #MarchOutRacism will end up on the MCoS’s live feed, and Waldrop says that’s really gotten the kids engaged.