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If Black lives matter, stop resisting the teaching of our history in schools – The Black Wall Street Times

Posted: February 7, 2022 at 6:58 am

In January, Black lawmakers in Mississippi withheld their vote in the Senates attempt to pass a bill banning critical race theory. Lord, I cant believe people are still on this!

Make this make sense for me: Kids are too young to learn critical race theory and their role in dismantling systems of white supremacy in a country that preaches equality. Yet, theyre not too young to internalize privilege, stereotypes and hate for Black people?

Thats actually a rhetorical questionno one can make it make sense because it doesnt! Its resistance to whats become a politically charged framework being used as a justification for the continued erasure of Blackness and whitewashing of American history in public education.

See, I knew this Black lives matter sentiment wasnt going to last too longI called it when everybody jumped on the bandwagon after George Floyd was lynched in public. And since then, weve seen more Black lives stolen in white rage.

Truth be told, our lives only matter when it comes to sustaining structures of capitalism and white supremacy. They matter when America wants us to stop burning shit down in protest of racism and oppression. They matter when elected officials need our vote. And they matter big time when yall need our kids in these raggedy-ass schools.

This rolling ban and criticism of teaching critical race theory has become a grander pile of shit in the existing cesspool of policies and practices that are anti-diversity, culture and truth. Bottom line, theyve politicized and polarized critical race theory to keep public education the sameoppressive, biased and basic. And while we do have lawmakers trying to protect our rights and represent our history, theyre outnumbered by the ones that want to make America great again

Meanwhile, our kids will continue to sit in schools where theres no accurate representation of their history or identity, no teachers that look like them, and in company with other students whothrough their parents, media or socialized normsthink its O.K. to judge, look down on or mistreat people whoappear to be different from them.

The system will continue to teach our kids that slave owners were upstanding gentlemen. As if they were patriots that saved uncivilized Africans by bringing them to America and giving them jobs, our history lessons often reinforce white savior-ship and privilege.

Black people, these lawmakers are counting on us to just take their word for it and trust that theyre acting in all of our interest. They want us to believe our lives matter in the long run, but I hope we know that their racism and privilege continue to manifest in policies and practices. Their actions say otherwise.

I hope we know that they use scary language like indoctrination of youth to befuddle the masses in their crusade to curb truth and representation in education.

I hope our kids are smart enough to question and challenge what theyre being taught. Because if everythings all good in the hood, equality is real, and race doesnt matter, then whyd we need a Civil Rights movement in the 60s and a Black Lives Matter movement now?

I hope were aware of the Karens who call themselves parent advocacy groups but are really modern day women of the Klan. Manyhave harassed and threatened the lives of Black school administrators for attempting to diversify curriculum and leadership in school districts.

Finally, I hope well one day remove our kids from this system that hates who they are, who they came from and what they could be. Their self-actualization can be realized and will be embraced in schools built by us, for ustrue Freedom Schools.

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How Trayvon Martin’s life and death inspired a generation to fight for justice – kuna noticias y kuna radio

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By Giselle Rhoden and Kaanita Iyer, CNN

In 2012, Nupol Kiazolu entered Stone Mountain Middle School with a pack of Skittles, a bottle of iced tea and a gray hoodie that read: Do I Look Suspicious?

The 12-year-old was threatened with suspension and expulsion from the school in Stone Mountain, Georgia. When she was sent to her principals office and was asked why she wore the hoodie, Kiazolu said she cited Tinker v. Des Moines, establishing her right to peacefully protest in school.

Kiazolu had organized her first protest within days after the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old who was shot and killed while walking home from the convenience store wearing a gray hoodie on February 26, 2012.

At that time, frankly, I didnt even know I was protesting. I thought I was doing whats right, Kiazolu tells CNN nearly a decade later. I was just doing what I would have wanted someone to do for me if that happened to me, god forbid, or someone that I loved.

Kiazolu is part of a generation of young people whose lives were forever changed by Martins death.

Today marks what would have been his 27th birthday, and his life and death continue to fuel activists pledge to get justice for Black lives.

Kiazolu, now 21, recognized the substantial impact Martin had on her life at a young age.

He was a young Black person as well, so I saw myself in him. I saw my brothers. I have five little brothers. I saw every last one of them in Trayvon, and it moved me into action, the Hampton University student and former president of Black Lives Matter Greater New York told CNN earlier this week.

In the 10 years since Martin was killed, the Black Lives Matter movement has brought attention to racism and injustice in America. What started with a hashtag that went viral in the wake of 17-year-olds fatal shooting has revolutionized how the nation tackles conversations about discrimination and racial bias.

It helped me find my voice, Kiazolu said. I think as a young Black person, often times you hear youre too young or you need to wait and youre not old enough to speak about things that affect our communityit impacts us too and were going to be here in the long run.

In the summer of 2020, young people like Kiazolu were leading members of movements across the US and abroad. After the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many other unarmed black Americans, young activists established a community connection advocating for change. The Black Lives Matter movements resurgence raised awareness of police brutality in the US, inspired legislation at federal and state levels and initiated confederate monument removals.

Kiazolu notes, The most important part of the progress we made as a collective would be the unity within the people.

To honor Martins life, the Martin family will host their annual Trayvon Martin Peace Walk and Peace Talk this Saturday in Miami. The walk began nearly a decade ago to bring the Miami area where Martins family is from together. Organizers plan to have motivational speakers and local band performances to mark the 10-year anniversary of his death.

Kiazolu encourages others to honor Martins life rather than dwell on his death.

Trayvon Martin was a gift to this world and his life and legacy has changed me and the lives of so many others, she said.

In the years since his death, Martins parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, have become social justice advocates. His mother has run for political office, and his father coaches a local football league in his honor.

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated Nupol Kiazolus affiliation with Black Lives Matter Greater New York. She is a former president.

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How White Feminism Failed in the Age of Trayvon Martin – The Cut

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It was the Womens March on January 21, 2017, that opened my eyes to the racist underbelly of the feminist movement. I was so eager to be a part of what was happening that I partnered with a friend of mine to organize a busload of people to leave from Manhattans Lower East Side for our nations capital at 4 a.m that day.

I remember feeling buzzy and awe-filled while I was there. I took in the droves of women, the impassioned and witty signs and the stories being shared between cross-country cohorts about where they came from and what about the new administration made them most enraged. It was my first time as a part of a major demonstration, and I was deeply moved by the opportunity to be a part of something so full of fervor and heart.

Admittedly, it didnt dawn on me right away. It wasnt until weeks after the march after I was called in by a group of Black peers inviting me to question the ways white feminism gave space for my Blackness that I took a pause to really think it through. At the march, there was an abundance of pink pussy hats but a disturbing lack of Black people among the millions chanting.It was alarming to consider, especially since the country remained in the midst of racial unrest.

Audre Lorde once said, I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable. Years after she spoke these words, I felt the same tense inseparability of my doubly oppressed identity. All the while, I had been both a student and participant of white feminism, to the point where I had to have my own Great Unlearn in order to recalibrate the truths behind the movement I felt so strongly for.

As I watched the hashtags for Korryn Gaines, Atatiana Jefferson, and Decynthia Clements make their way across social media, my anger and grief gave me an even sharper view of white feminists ignorant approach to racial injustice. I began to unravel my whitewashed understanding of historical events and characters whom I was taught to praise. The heralded Susan B. Anthony was quoted saying, If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the government, let the question of the woman be brought up first and that of the negro last. A suffragette leader insisting that her loyalty to whiteness held more firm than her loyalty to womanhood left my body feeling uneasy. Reading that Black suffragist and journalist Ida B. Wells had been relegated to the back of the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. over a century earlier than the 2017 Womens March further illuminated how distorted my understanding of the movement was.

I took to social media to explore this intersection of race and womanhood with my friends and followers. At the time, it was a community of around 4,000 people with whom I shared what I was learning, my insights, and my recommendations for how they could learn too.

In the summer of 2018 I made a post regarding the vicious murder of Nia Wilson and insisted that my followers consider whether or not their most celebrated white feminist leaders found her story worth grieving, worth mentioning, worth fighting for. My followers began to tag the individuals, brands, and organizations that claimed feminism and solidarity but bypassed the opportunity to center the tragic story and demand for justice for Nia Wilson.

My comments section quickly turned into hostile ground. One woman who was tagged became particularly livid. She claimed she was bullied, offered a laundry list of the good things shes done for Black people, and eventually began to dox anyone who challenged her even going so far as calling the employers of her critics.

That post and its tension around the unpacking of white feminism was just the beginning ofwhat became an ongoing battle as I continued my own learning out loud. Though the community engagement was powerful and I became a resource for others in their learning journey, I was also a sounding board for white women working through their ignorance.

Over time I was called racist and divisive. I was told that I deserved to be sexually assaulted, and one white woman described me as the worst thing to ever happen to the feminist movement. Each time I shared these conversations, Id get dozens of emails asking me why I would even spend time and energy talking to these people.

My honest answer: These were the greatest tools Id found for community learning. My strategy was to engage them, then dissect their comments in the style of grade-school grammar lessons; it was Anti-racism 101. People with varying perspectives got value from witnessing the exchange. Liberal white people were garnering tools for their own anti-racism efforts. They found language to use next time similar issues came up with their even more white and racist friends, family, and co-workers. Others saw themselves in the person with whom I was engaging. My greatest joy was when Black people reached out to me saying they felt affirmed. The posts offered them a bit ofI see you in a world where our Black experiences and subsequent frustrations are often denied or dismissed.

In fact, we as Black people arent gaslighted just at our jobs or in our personal circles but by the government and other institutions we engage with every day. We are silenced by local police forces and made to feel like our response to violent state-sanctioned racism is the issue. We are told the most natural parts of ourselves our hair, the shapes of our bodies are inappropriate and unprofessional.This country has never seen racism as the problem itself. It was not that Trayvon was murdered, not that Sandra was murdered, not that George was murdered the problem was our marching in the streets, our voicing our anger, our demanding justice. I spent my nights watching news coverage of violence toward protesters, all while spending my mornings fielding racist rants in my inbox. I was anxious and exhausted the issues devoured me.

At the same time, I, along with many of my peers, began to get major exposure as liberal white America haphazardly grasped at anything that might help them distance themselves from the R word. All of a sudden the New York Times best-seller lists were brimming with texts like So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo and Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad. Black educators were booked solid for workshops and panels. Black creators, artists, and entrepreneurs were quickly learning how to manage the unexpected load of business and opportunity while still mourning all the vicious things that brought us to that moment.

It was the summer of 2020. The nation grappled with surviving the onset of a pandemic, and the murder of George Floyd sent us into a major racial uprising against police brutality. The combination of hyperconnectivity online due to coronavirus lockdowns and the heated tension between the public and the police force gave way to a national conversation around race that I was particularly plugged into on social media. The several years of anti-racism work Id been doing via Instagram became a widely suggested space to learn for those who were just opening their eyes to Americas issues with race.

Summer 2020 soon rolled into the winter of 2021, and it wasnt long before the roar of intersectionality reverted to its understated hum. Many in the Black community are still dusting themselves off from that storm. The white imperative to not be racist left little room for our country to make thoughtful and intentional movement away from the deeply rooted racist systems that still endure. The flurry of that summer certainly took its toll on me. I struggled to navigate the opportunity to use my voice in service of community while holding myself together even as I unravelled with each new mournful hashtag or ballistic Karen footage I saw.

Ive had to take my well-being into consideration. Having poured so much into others, I now have to pour into myself. I have no tangible measurement for how much progress America has made in its anti-racism journey over the last decade. Often it feels like we take one step forward, then three steps back. Since my own awakening and entry into this public work in 2018, its been a slow and heartbreaking process. Its also been a labor of deep love, passion, and community.The Loveland Foundation, an organization I founded in 2018, has offered a path to healing for thousands of Black women and girls all over the country through free therapy.In my hometown I opened Elizabeths, a bookshop and writing center that highlights the powerful yet marginalized voices I continue to honor and learn from.

To preserve my nervous system and prioritize sustainability in this struggle, I have pivoted to doing this work with more intention by cultivating Black joy as opposed to an insistence on white understanding.

Martin Luther King reminds us that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. I believe this. The work continues.

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Eric Stinton: It’s Time To Recognize That Black History Is Part Of Hawaii’s History – Honolulu Civil Beat

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On the cover of Nitasha Tamar Sharmas recent book, Hawaii Is My Haven, is a striking image of Kamakakehau Fernandez wearing a pink bombax flower lei. The Na Hoku Hanohano award-winning falsetto singer and ukulele player was adopted from Arkansas by a Maui family when he was six weeks old, and was enrolled in Hawaiian language classes starting in kindergarten. He grew up in Hawaii and with Hawaii in him.

Fernandez is one of countless examples of Black locals who have contributed to Hawaiian culture and life for over 200 years, yet whose stories have largely gone unrecognized.

Black people have been evacuated out of the narrative of who is in Hawaii, Sharma says. Historically we dont think Black people were in Hawaii when they actually were.

Sharma was born and raised in Manoa and is currently a professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Hawaii Is My Haven is the culmination of a lifetime of research and a decade of talking with Black Hawaii residents. The result is a detailed, nuanced look at Black life in Hawaii, now and throughout history.

There is a continuing throughline from historical narratives of Black people escaping enslavement, Jim Crow and segregation, to young students today that Hawaii is a haven. Its a sanctuary, its a refuge. These are the terms Black folks use to describe Hawaii, Sharma says.

Historically, its easy to understand why; a free and peaceful life in Hawaii is clearly better than the racist violence that defined Black life in America for most of the 19th and 20th centuries. But even today, Hawaii offers possibilities that are rare on the mainland, if they exist at all.

Their Blackness does not become all-defining for their experiences in the islands, says Sharma.

Part of this is the local perspective of identifying with more than one race. In the same way someone can be Hawaiian-Filipino-Japanese-Portuguese, Black people in Hawaii are able to be Black and, which is not often the case on the mainland.

When Black folks come and stay for a long time, they come to a place where its common to be multiracial and account for all of your ancestries, where you dont really have segregated communities. They come to a place where people allow them to not only be reduced to Blackness, says Sharma.

This leads to one of the many paradoxes of Black life in Hawaii. Hawaii is an escape from Blackness in ways that are liberating but also isolating.

Black folks who werent born in Hawaii and come from the continental U.S. often feel a sense of loss and guilt. What does it mean to be your multiple beings? To be Black and a surfer, or Black and Korean? How do you raise a child with Black self-knowledge when there arent any discrete Black communities? Sharma says.

Part of the guilt, especially from Black mothers, emerged during the Black Lives Matter protests. Theres this sense of disconnect, like were not over there fighting that fight. Were here and its not happening to us here, and thats why we came here, but how can we help our people who are experiencing that there?

Sharma unpacks such tangled questions with fierce honesty and rigorous research. The result is a work that clarifies misconceptions and challenges common assumptions about race.

On the continent, if youre Black or white, the assumption is youre American. If youre Asian or Latino, youre seen as an immigrant. Indigenous people are seen as people of the past, who have experienced genocide, that this is no longer native land. In Hawaii these things are inverted, Sharma says, and not just because Hawaii is a place of active Indigenous resistance.

If youre Asian or brown in Hawaii, youre presumed to be from here. If youre Black or white, youre either a tourist or youre military. This leads to a collapse of the Black-and-white binary that becomes unsettling for a lot of Black folks, because it places them in alignment with white people, Sharma says.

It is difficult to square all of these contradicting narratives: that Black people are both local and immigrants; that they experience anti-Black racism while also being grouped with white people; that their experience of oppression in many ways mirrors that of Native Hawaiians, but they also contribute to Hawaiian dispossession. Black people may be a small minority in Hawaii, but they are large; they contain multitudes.

One of the great successes of the book is that it doesnt try to flatten all the angles into a single, easy story. It dwells in the complexity of its subject matter, and in doing so it illuminates new ways of understanding race in Hawaii.

Anti-Black racism is a technology of white dominance that transfers onto other people, Sharma says. In Hawaii as of late, those other people tend to be Micronesian.

Micronesians are seen as dark, prone to criminality, uneducated. These are the same tropes that were created in the European encounter with Africa to justify colonization and enslavement, Sharma says. If locals in Hawaii disparage Micronesians in the same ways, it shows how the transference of Blackness can happen.

The idea that racism exists in Hawaii can be difficult for a lot of local people to accept. After all, Hawaii is a place where everyone is intermingled, where everyone jokes freely about everyone else. Ethnic humor is not only common and accepted in Hawaii, many would argue its part of Hawaiis charm.

Local humor is an amazing practice. It attempts to flatten differences in tight spaces with lots of different kinds of people. Thats really important for day-to-day pleasure and laughs and community building, says Sharma.

But its important to also recognize that peoples life experiences in Hawaii are not flattened. Joking can show how much you know about the other person, but a lot of times its used to brush away actions that need to be taken. If joking means we dont have to do anything about inequality, thats a problem, Sharma says.

Hawaii Is My Haven is an ambitious and original work of scholarship. By focusing on an oft-overlooked demographic, it creates a fuller, more accurate picture of Hawaiis history.

I just want people to see that there are Black locals, Sharma says. There is a long history of Black participation in Hawaii, from the kingdom to today. I want people to understand their experiences and see what we can learn from them. Its not saying welcome them as part of our ohana, its recognizing theyre already in it.

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Seychelles national football team results – Wikipedia

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The Seychelles national football team represents the Seychelles in international football under the control of the Seychelles Football Federation (SFF). The football association was founded in 1980 amd became fully affiliated to FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in 1986.[1]

The following list contains all results of the Seychelles' official matches since joining FIFA and the CAF.

As of 6 February 2022[2]

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Five romantic islands to escape to with Emirates this Valentine’s Day – Oxford Mail

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Valentines Day is nearly here and if youre looking for an extravagant way to show your love, then how about a romantic getaway to a sunny island.

In time for Valentines Day, Emirates has launched special fares to five paradise islands so you can take in the day in luxury.

And, if youre a Skywards member you can get an additional 10% off! Log in or join Emirates Skywards and book using the code ISLANDS by February 14 2022 to save an extra 10% off.

Prices start from 499 and include locations such as Maldives, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and many more.

Emirates passengers can take advantage of the special fares by booking a return trip here from February 7 to February 14 2022, with fares available in both Economy and Business Class.

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Whether youre seeking a beach getaway, a relaxing retreat or simply soaking up the sun, its the best time to take a romantic island holiday.

Emirates currently operates high-frequency flights to the Seychelles, Mauritius, Sri-Lanka, Maldives and Phuket island in Thailand, from its hub, Dubai International Airport.

Emirates advises customers to check their latest government travel guidelines and ensure they meet the travel requirements of their final destination.

For more information and how to book, visit the Emirates website.

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How automation will shape the future – The Manufacturer

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John Rogers, EMEA VP and GM Partner Network at Faethm, a SaaS enterprise platform that uses AI to forecast the impact of technology, discusses how automation will shape the future of UK manufacturing.

Alarmist headlines lambasting robotics and automation as a threat to jobs and livelihoods have been ringing alarm bells in the UK for some time. However, neither are new to the manufacturing sector, and in some businesses have been present for decades yet many individuals have retained the same manufacturing job for years.

Anyone working in manufacturing could be forgiven for being a little confused, and this is likely to be accentuated by increasing evidence that the pressure of the pandemic has catalysed even more rapid adoption of such technologies. In addition, it is no secret that manufacturing and associated industries face a severe skills shortage, caused by an ageing workforce (with few young people entering the profession), and the macroeconomic impacts of both Brexit and supply chain issues.

Their combined impact means there is scope for automation to play an even greater role in the near future. Faethms AI-powered skills platform constantly tracks the impact of automation and emerging technology on any industry or job role, including manufacturing, and its latest analysis of UK census data indicates that 17.5% of all roles in the manufacturing industry are potentially automatable before 2026, while 7.8% are seen as augmentable by automation and technology.

Rogers explains that it would be foolish to ignore the fact that certain skills and large portions of existing job roles will inevitably become redundant due to technological change. But rather than fear such change, it is more important that we embrace it since the future of work is already here. The better we become at evolving our roles alongside technology, the better we will fare in the evolution of work, he comments.

Innovations such as lights out factories may be feasible in certain specific scenarios, but there will always be a need for a human touch. Technology cannot capture the entire spectrum of innately human qualities that make us so unique, so every role in the future will see humans and technology work together, hand-in-hand, augmenting one another.

Rogers adds that making that future a success will require two things; a combination of insights, data and analysis, to unearth the pinch points and opportunities on the horizon; and more importantly, concerted intervention from businesses and government to future-proof the UKs workforce.

He adds: Targeted programmes that seek to retain, retrain, and redeploy employees so they complement technology, and vice-versa, will be critical to delivering an equally distributed future of work for all.

As new roles begin to emerge it is of course vital that strategic workforce planning equips the existing workforce with the skills needed to fill them. As Rogers explains, a traditional workforce planning strategy simply offsets growth aspirations with how internal talent might be affected by events such as attrition, tenure of service and planned redundancy, in order to understand the supply of talent, and assess the demand for skills, knowledge, and capabilities needed to deliver on the transformation strategies.

However, the exponential impact of adopting new technologies is now a much weightier factor, he adds. HR leaders must consider that the skills we need in the workforce are now changing so fast that the talents they want to employ are currently not available in the market in the volumes required, and at the speed they would like to hire at. Strategic workforce planning must now consider decisions like how to build in-demand skills internally, transforming redundant skill sets and where technology can actually solve skills shortages.

Technological innovation is occurring at pace within manufacturing, but in order to portray the industry as a dynamic and fulfilling one for young people, that fact must be emphasised across the board. However, as Rogers explains, encouraging young people into the industry is only one element of the transformation the manufacturing sector must make to develop a sustainable talent pipeline.

He adds: Technologies with potential applications in the workplace are constantly emerging and evolving, and as a result, demand for skills will rise and fall far more quickly than ever before; certain job roles will likely come and go within the space of a few years as innovations rapidly move through the initial adoption phase and become mainstream.

Both employers and individuals also need to recognise that one skill set will no longer sustain an individual for the entirety of their working life. Going forward, adaptability must be viewed as the most valuable skill for every employee. Employees need to embrace the challenges and opportunities that innovation presents and be open-minded when it comes to reskilling viewing learning as something that will be a constant in their career.

Hand-in-hand with the adaptability of workers will be a need for employers to shift their mindset. It will no longer be enough to merely leave career development to the discretion of employees. Much of the workforce do not have access to the data on how jobs will evolve with technology like employers do, and as much as employees ought to view their skillset as a constantly evolving toolbox that sits alongside technology, it is vital that employers take responsibility for guiding employees on what skills development they should pursue to achieve sustained employability as the demand for talent continues to evolve.

Rogers adds: If the manufacturing sector takes the leading role in transitioning employees as requirements and technology trends change, then this will be a huge factor, not only in attracting the next generation, but also in ensuring that no one is left behind A tumultuous two years As mentioned earlier, evidence is pointing to the fact that automation technologies have seen an accelerated take up in recent years, primarily driven by the pandemic. COVID-19 has acted as a slingshot for companies digital transformation, adds Rogers. When the pandemic struck, many organisations accelerated the implementation of technology solutions to improve efficiencies, save costs, and simply keep the lights on.

For many workforces, this transformation included the rapid introduction of new technologies designed to make work more seamless, but which will likely have left some workers with elements of their role now automated by these tools. Rogers points out that HR leaders and teams have a huge role to play in preparing organisations for this automation and augmentation of work.

Tools are now available that can help them identify jobs that are at risk of automation and require reskilling, and act accordingly to avoid costly redundancies and rehiring processes. This includes creating bespoke skill pathways which identify employees current skillsets, and automatically recommend training plans to help them retrain in transferable skills, so they can transition to new roles via a job corridor.

A large swathe of the manufacturing sector could be impacted by automation in the coming years. Considering the introduction of robotics specifically, manufacturing subsectors such as leather and related products (13.4% automatable work), food products (12.4%) and furniture (12%) are most likely to be affected in the next five years. When looking at particular job roles more broadly, bookkeepers, payroll managers and wage clerks lead the way, with 56.8% of work being automatable in the next five years.

On the manufacturing floor, packers, bottlers, canners and fillers are the most highly automatable job group, with 28.7% of the work primed for automation. This implies that the food and drink manufacturing workforce is likely to be particularly impacted by the growth of technology over the next few years. Rogers adds that the technology exists, but cultural and economic factors can accelerate or decelerate the adoption.

Either way, what is certain is that we must prepare. In terms of areas of manufacturing that are most ripe for augmentation by technology to aid the human workforce, IT and software-facing roles are the job profiles most likely to be benefit. Here, 29.3% of work done by IT specialist managers and 18.4% of programmers and software development professionals day-to-day work could be augmented, with technologies such as generative design, predictive analysis and solution discovery making inroads into the manufacturing sector. To be clear, augmentation here is defined as the capability of technologies to supplement a job and create efficiency, therefore enabling a worker to gain capacity to do higher value work, Rogers continues.

Our data predicts that six percent of all manufacturing-related roles could be automated within the next year, rising to 18% within five years and 34% within a decade, so the impact could be considerable, adds Rogers. He explains that technology adoption is dependent on many factors, and some of these technologies might be circumventing talent gaps rather than replacing full time workers.

These new technologies will also require a significant human workforce to support and maintain them. We foresee a job addition rate of nine percent over that same ten-year period, he explains. Organisations require talent that can implement and manage the technologies theyve deployed, meaning roles in areas like software development, data engineering and application development will continue to be in high demand.

In addition, roles that are intrinsically human, that require person-to-person engagement, such as public health, occupational therapists or programme management, are unlikely to be replaced, and in fact will become increasingly valuable. And there are many skills that can be developed to sustain our livelihoods in harmony with technology.

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LinkMisr Shares How Warehouse Automation Transforms Operations – Robotics and Automation News

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By Thomas R. Cutler

One of the benefits of warehouse automation includes increasing speed. Automated systems instantly identify the locations of all items in a particular order increasing speed.

Warehouse automation systems optimize routes and maximize productivity during the product retrieval process. Warehouse automation speeds up inventory management processes by using the technology to automatically count items.

Maximizing space is another advantage in automating warehouses. Utilizing lift trucks that complete product retrieval and storage tasks reduce the need for wide aisles that accommodate large pallets and pallet jacks and workers.

AS/RS systems also use conveyors and lift trucks that reduce the amount of space used for aisles.

By reducing human error, warehouse automation can simplify inventory management, allowing for more accurate inventory counts and related inventory data.

Goods-to-person

LinkMisr International is a leading industrial company specialized in manufacturing shelving and racking systems now serving North America.

Recently, Simon Armanious shared more about how the Egyptian company is an advocate for goods-to-person automation. Simon noted that LinkMisr was established in Egypt in 1993 and now has four factories.

In nearly thirty years the company has grown significantly and sustained its position as the market leader in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East, Africa, and North America.

LinkMisr owns and manufactures its products in four plants with total area of 28,000 sq m (more than 300,000 sq ft) using the most modern equipment.

The manufacturing facilities include an automatic shelving roll forming line, powder coating painting line, and uprights and beams roll forming line. The demand for on-time delivery is non-negotiable.

Many warehouse automation systems bring the products to the worker, rather than the worker going to the products. As a result, foot and equipment traffic throughout the facility is decreased, enhancing overall warehouse safety.

This can also reduce product damage by reducing the need for warehouse staff to manually move products from location to location.

As warehouse and distribution managers look to streamline operations, improve efficiency and production, and reduce costs, warehouse automation is on the rise.

The benefits of warehouse automation are numerous. For warehouse managers just delving into automation, one of the first benefits realized is a reduction in manual errors.

The cost per error ranges from $50 to $300. When multiplying the error cost by the 1%-3% error rate, represents a significant impact on the companys bottom line.

Warehouse automation benefits

Ninety percent (90%) of all warehouse automation destined for North American installations use products manufactured elsewhere. Using manufacturers who guarantee rapid material handling product delivery is essential when e-Commerce is driving a dramatic increase in warehouse utilization.

Flexibility is the hallmark of recommended solutions tailored to suit customers warehouse requirements. LinkMisr is proud to be the first African-based manufacturer at MODEX.

At a time when supply chain disruptions continue from other regions of the globe, and hiring warehouse workers nearly impossible, a unique opportunity for innovators becomes the new imperative.

Material handling experts who wish to be considered by LinkMisr should contactSimon Armanious at Simon.Armanious@linkmisr.com or call (647) 884-3624.

About the author: Thomas R. Cutler is the President and CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based, TR Cutler, Inc., celebrating its 23rd year. Cutler is the founder of the Manufacturing Media Consortium including more than 9000 journalists, editors, and economists writing about trends in manufacturing, industry, material handling, and process improvement. TR Cutler, Inc. launched two new divisions focusing on Gen Z and the African manufacturing sector. Cutler authors more than 1000 feature articles annually regarding the manufacturing sector. Over 5000 industry leaders follow Cutler on Twitter daily at @ThomasRCutler. Contact Cutler at trcutler@trcutlerinc.com.

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