Student Activists

"It's important that students are speaking up, because adults do that all the time, but when people see young people speaking out, it makes a difference."

The Organization –

The Unity Group has been a feature of Maples Collegiate for 13 years.  It was initiated, according to teacher Chuck Duboff, when a federal politician made racist remarks about East Indian people. Many students at Maples Collegiate were upset by this and wrote letters about it.  The responses they received were “generic”. When they spoke to Mr. Duboff about this he suggested, “If this were the ‘60’s we’d be out there with signs demonstrating.” Thus, the Unity Group was born.