FEBRUARY 14 WOMEN'S MEMORIAL MARCH DTES VANCOUVER

Hi!

Join SFSS Women's Centre to support indigenous lives on February 14th at noon.

We will be gathering at Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Street (corner Hastings, Vancouver). We will stay and listen for a while then join the march.

Light snacks and refreshments will be available to SFU/FIC students from the Coordinator, Athena.

Please call or email the Coordinator in advance if you would like to join a group.

Womenscentre-admin@sfss.ca 778-782-3670

 

(Taken from Facebook Post)
"THEIR SPIRITS LIVE WITHIN US!"
Every February 14th, we gather at 11 am at the Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Street (corner Hastings, Vancouver) where family members speak in remembrance. Given space constraints, we ask the broader public to join us at NOON, when the march takes to the streets and proceeds through the Downtown Eastside, with stops to commemorate where women were last seen or found; speeches by community activists; a healing circle at Oppenheimer Park around 2:30 pm; and finally a community feast at the Japanese Language Hall.
The first women’s memorial march was held in 1992 in response to the murder of a Coast Salish woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Her name is not spoken today out of respect for the wishes of her family. Out of this sense of hopelessness and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express compassion, community, and caring for all women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Unceded Coast Salish Territories.
Years later, the women’s memorial march continues to honour the lives of missing and murdered women. Increasing deaths of many vulnerable women from the DTES still leaves family, friends, loved ones, and community members with an overwhelming sense of grief and loss. Indigenous women disproportionately continue to go missing or be murdered with minimal to no action to address these tragedies or the systemic nature of gendered violence, poverty, racism, or colonialism.
****This event is organized and led by women in the DTES because women – especially Indigenous women – face physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual violence on a daily basis.
- PLEASE RESPECT THEIR LEADERSHIP**** The February 14th Women’s Memorial March is an opportunity to come together to grieve the loss of our beloved sisters, remember the women who are still missing, and to dedicate ourselves to justice.
Website: https://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/ See Less