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Please join us for our 31st annual Take Back Night
The Liberation WE Choose!
Saturday September 24th, 2011 - 4-10pm Community Fair 4-6pm (Everyone Welcome) Rally 6-8pm (Everyone Welcome) March 8-9:30pm (March for Women, Trans People and Children Only)
at the Anne Johnston Health Station (2398 Yonge St. at Eglinton)
Hosted by the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/ Multicultural Women Against Rape.
Thursday September 2011 6:00PM – 9:00PM Minto Park
6:00PM – Rally in front of the Women's Monument with speakers, aboriginal drummers and followed by an Ottawa RebELLES cheer to set the mood to start up the march.
6:45PM – The march will start out from Minto Park, march up elgin, along Wellington/Rideau, around a piece of the byward Market and then back to City hall. An accessible bus will be available.
7:30PM – The march ends at City Hall where there will be an Information Fair as well as refreshments and entertainment for participants to enjoy.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
River Landing Amphitheatre
This year, the march will start at the River Landing Amphitheatre. We're asking everyone to gather at 6:45 for a 7:00 start time for the march. The march will finish at the White Buffalo Youth Lodge where we will have some wonderful live music and refreshments.
A Saskatoon Transit bus will be transporting attendees from on campus at the Univeristy of Saskatoon at 6:30pm, and then following the march for attendees with any mobility issues.
Please join us and help spread the word by inviting your friends! Don't forget your noise maker and/or poster!!
Ottawa
Hey Freedom 55, what's the date for the Ottawa event?
Saskatoon:
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: River Landing AmphitheatreThis year, the march will start at the River Landing Amphitheatre. We're asking everyone to gather at 6:45 for a 7:00 start time for the march. The march will finish at the White Buffalo Youth Lodge where we will have some wonderful live music and refreshments.
A Saskatoon Transit bus will be transporting attendees from on campus at the Univeristy of Saskatoon at 6:30pm, and then following the march for attendees with any mobility issues.
Please join us and help spread the word by inviting your friends! Don't forget your noise maker and/or poster!!
More at http://www.oxfam.ca/news-and-publications/events/take-back-night-saskatoonTake Back the Night has a website.
Check out their calendar of events across Canada and the U.S.
London (England's) take back the night has finally become explicitly trans inclusive... so that's nice. Also the linked article is kinda okay.