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21st Annual Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
21st Annual Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March
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Web link: http://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/
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Download poster: http://womensmemorialmarch.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/memorial-march-poster-2012.pdf
The first women’s memorial march was held in 1991 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. Twenty one years later, the women’s memorial march continues to honour the lives of missing and murdered women.
On Tuesday Feb 14th 2012, we will gather at noon 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 1 pm, 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 at the police station; a healing circle at Oppenheimer Park around 3 pm; and finally a community feast at the Japanese Language Hall. Thank you to Buffalo Spirit for the big drum.
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. Annual women’s memorial marches now occur in dozens of communities across these lands.
Royal Roy Nahbexie makes 1000 bannocks for 21st Annual Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
Royal Roy Nahbexie says:
Girls adore me! Heheheh!
I am here making bannock for the women of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Memorial March for the Downtown Eastside Missing Women Memorial March .. Walk for justice.
I am making bannock for the women down there because I want everyone to have a piece of bannock in their stomach, so that they can do the March.
I love women… I love me….I love my mom… I love my dad!
And I am making the bannock because I can.. because someone else is paying for the ingredients.. and my love is for free!
I do this because I want to change the world!
I want to change the world without saying a word.. for my whole life!
” I Love You”
W2TV: Solidarity Notes Choir – Women’s Housing March and GentriFUCation Tour
5th ANNUAL WOMEN’S HOUSING MARCH
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Sat. Sep 17 @ 1:30 pm
Starts at Cordova and Columbia, just west of Main St.
Unceded Coast Salish Territories
On Saturday Sep 17 at 1:30 pm, join the Downtown Eastside Women Centre Power of Women Group* in the 5th Annual March for Women’s Housing and March Against Poverty.
We invite groups to bring their banners and anything else for our festive march and ‘GentriFucation Tour’. All genders are welcome and celebrated. Please bring your drums and regalia. This march is child-friendly and there will be a rest-vehicle for elders. Spread the word!
This year, we celebrate the recent victory that has forced the provincial government to commit funding to a 24-hour low barrier shelter for women as a result of our collective efforts. We also continue to march for:
– Social Housing, Childcare, and Healthcare for all!
– No more Evictions and No more Gentrification in the Downtown Eastside!
– Stop Criminalizing the Poor!
Email: project@dewc.ca or Phone: 778 885 0040
Video by Sid Tan of W2TV
AHA MEDIA filmed at W2 Comfort Soul Food Dinner with Anne Marie Slater in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Comfort Soul Dinner
August 7
For residents of the Rice Block, ATIRA Housing, artist Anne Marie Slater brings together local women and children from low-income communities adjacent to the Soul Garden site to share their stories and recipes about comfort foods. The dinner will draw on the cultural and immigrant histories of the site by serving Sunday dinner dishes that celebrate the history of comfort foods through the European, Russian, Jewish, and Ukrainian community churches in the area, as well as participant’s favorite comfort Sunday dishes.
AHA MEDIA hears Chelsea’s story about her life in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
During a women’s art and support group, AHA MEDIA hears Chelsea’s thoughts in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
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