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Topic: Time for a new December 6th thread
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bigcitygal
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posted 25 November 2007 05:57 AM
It's that time of year again. I have no great insights to share at the moment, but will post commemorations and events that are going on in Toronto. Please share thoughts and events you know of in other cities. quote:
Get Up, Stand Up!
a celebration of women and youth ending violenceTHURSDAY DECEMBER 6, 7pm
toronto women's bookstore
73 harbord st.
partially wheelchair accessible
admission: $10 sliding scale
* all proceeds going to METRAC Get Up, Stand Up! is the official launch for METRAC's new violence
prevention resources and will be available for a special launch discounted
rate on December 6th. Featuring performances by.
Miss Ebony
Ice
Stolen from Africa
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Mecca About METRAC:
The Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children (METRAC) is a community-based, not-for-profit organization that works to prevent and end violence against women, youth, and children. metrac.org
I don't have any info about the annual candlelight vigil usually organized by Women Won't Forget, but will post it here when I do.
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bigcitygal
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posted 25 November 2007 06:11 PM
This isn't directly related to December 6th, but the timing is quite coincidental, so I felt this could go here rather than its own thread. quote:
A reminder to everyone that the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence begins today.Violence against women is something that cuts across all ages, nationalities, religions and cultures. Most of us have either experienced violence or know someone who has but still there remains a SILENCE around violence against women mainly because it more often takes place in the domestic sphere.
From the blog Black Looks
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bigcitygal
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posted 28 November 2007 03:59 AM
In Vancouver: quote:
VIGIL AND MARCH TO HONOUR WOMEN
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against WomenWED DEC 5th
Starts at 6 pm
DTES Women's Centre
(302 Columbia Street, near Main and Cordova)
Proceed to Thornton Park (Main Skytrain) * Led by Elders and drummers. Speakers include: members of the Power of Women Group and DTES Women's Centre, Carnegie Community Action Project,
Kamilla Singh of Women Against Violence Against Women, Grassroots Women, Phillipine Women's Centre, Poet Ameena Mayer and others. STOP ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN!
END PATRIARCHY! Violence against women and girls includes domestic violence and sexual assault; psychological and spiritual violence; the economic violence of
poverty and homelessness; dangerous working conditions that many women are forced to endure; violence committed by the government including by the police and prisons; legislated violence that harms women through policies such as cuts to legal aid, lack of universal childcare, lack of pay
equity, and child apprehension policies; and across the globe, the violence of racism and colonization that uses and commodifies women as a
weapon of warfare. Please join us! Trans inclusive, men welcome to march with us. For more information, contact us at DEWC at 604-681-8480 x 234 or email us at
[email protected]. DID YOU KNOW THAT: * At least 50% of women in Canada have been a victim of either a sexual or physical assault.
* Approximately 100 women in Canada are killed annually by current or former boyfriends and husbands.
* Indigenous women are five times more likely than other women to die as the result of violence. Over the past twenty years, more than five hundred
Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing.
* In a 2001 PACE report, one-third of women said they had survived an attack on their life while working on the street.
* One in five Canadian women lives in poverty, totalling 2.8 million women, particularly single mothers, women with disabilities, recent
immigrant women, indigenous women, and elderly women.
* There has been an increase of 60% in the number of homeless women in the past year in Vancouver.
* Many women are forced to stay in abusive relationships for fear of homelessness or lack of adequate shelter, poverty, child apprehension, or
deportation. Organized by the DTES Women Centre Power of Women Group. The Power of Women Group is a group at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre dedicated to educating and raising awareness on social issues. We are a group of women from all walks of life who are either on social assistance, working poor, or homeless; but we are all living in extreme poverty below the poverty line. Many us of are single mothers or have had our children apprehended due to poverty; most of us have chronic physical or mental health issues; many have drug or alcohol addictions; and a majority have experienced and survived sexual violence and abuse. For indigenous women, women of colour, and immigrant women, we are affected by a history of colonization and racism.
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martin dufresne
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posted 30 November 2007 11:18 AM
848 women and children have been murdered so far by men (or unknown parties) in Quebec alone since December 6, 1989.
List of Quebec victims
This list goes on growing with a constant pattern of husbands, ex-husbands, partners and ex-partners, pimps and clients accounting for approx. 80% of women's killers. (See descriptions of each listing for ten past years in left-hand side menu of the Web page referenced above.)
Yet misogyny retains full entitlement in our society's humor, cinema and political banter. The antifeminism exemplified by Marc Lepine in the note he left has become mainstream, supported by law reform, program cutbacks, RW policies, 'male distress' discourse.
Meanwhile, selling and buying women as male entertainment commodities are about to be edged out of the Criminal Code. Pimps and sex tourism caterers are the new entrepreneurs, courted by municipal authorities.
How can we challenge the new cynicism and step up the struggle against gender oppression and the new privileges claimed by dominants with the support of complicit liberals?[ 30 November 2007: Message edited by: martin dufresne ]
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bigcitygal
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posted 02 December 2007 10:08 AM
What's going on at U of T on Dec 6: quote:
Campus MemorialsSt. George
Time: 12:00pm to 1pm, with reception to follow
Location: Great Hall, Hart House, UofT St. George
Opening remarks: Professor Vivek Goel, Vice-President & Provost Join students, staff and faculty as we reflect on violence against women and honour the women killed in the Montreal Massacre and the GTA. All are welcome. University of Toronto at Mississauga
Time: 12pm
Location: Student Centre, Boardroom
Remarks: Professor Ian Orchard, Vice-President & Principal, UTM
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CANDLELIGHT VIGILTime: 6pm
Location: Philosophers Walk, University of Toronto
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bigcitygal
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posted 05 December 2007 01:14 PM
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Thursday Dec 6 from 1pm to 3pm
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against WomenThe Friendly Spike Theatre Band presents:
Theatre Education Activism Changes Humanity Art * speakers * Community * Music * Snacks * Refreshments Free, children welcome. 20 West Lodge, May Robinson Apartments
Organized by PAVE - Parkdale Anti-Violence Education
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Michelle
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posted 06 December 2007 08:57 AM
Thanks for all these event postings, BCG.Is anyone going to anything in their area today? I thinking about going to the Toronto Women's Bookstore one posted in this thread, but I'm not feeling all that well this afternoon so I'm not sure I can do it. I missed the one at work. I thought it started at 1, and I was just getting ready to go to it now, and checked the announcement for the location, and it was at noon. Damn. [ 06 December 2007: Message edited by: Michelle ]
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saint-dominique
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posted 06 December 2007 11:07 AM
i guess it's a little late, but Ecole Polytechnique held a memorial:Ce rassemblement aura lieu de 10 h 30 A 11h15
A la Place du 6 décembre, angle Décelles et Queen Mary, métro Côte-des-Neiges.
(Cet événement est organisé par le Comité du 6 décembre 2007, formé de la Fédération des femmes du Québec)
Source: NonViolence.ca And McGill's
SACOMSS is hosting an event tonight... "On December 6th, 1989, 14 students were shot and killed at l'Ecole Polytechnique here in Montreal, simply because they were women. This December 6th, a memorial will be held at the Mainline Theatre in honour of those 14 women and the countless others whose lives have been affected by gender-based violence. This is a chance for the Montreal community to come together in a safe space to show their solidarity, and to raise awareness about an issue that affects so many in our world today. Where: Mainline Theatre, 3997 St. Laurent (Near Duluth) When: December 6th, 2007; 5:00 - 7:00pm (Refreshments to Follow) "
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