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Rally & March for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

Feb 14 2012 - 5:00pm
Feb 14 2012 - 9:00pm

Location

Police HQ
40 College
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 36.882" N, 79° 23' 40.3224" W
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February 14 National Day of Action
Toronto's 6th Annual Rally & March for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

Monday, February 14, 2011 @ **5 pm** (NOTE THE NEW TIME)
Rally at Police HQ, 40 College St at Bay
March to the Coroner's Office, 26 Grenville St.

Gathering with food at The Meeting Place following rally & march (6:30-8pm); a bus will be available to transport participants from the Coroner's Office to the gathering.

TTC tokens will be available for those attending by public transit

To endorse or support the rally in any way, please email: nomoresilenceorg@gmail.com

Contact email: 
nomoresilenceorg@gmail.com
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International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Dec 17 2011 - 5:00am
Dec 17 2011 - 6:00am

Location

Human Rights Memorial
Corner of Elgin and Lisgar
Ottawa, ON
Canada
45° 25' 9.0156" N, 75° 41' 29.6448" W
See map: Google Maps

Meet at the Human Rights Memorial to join the Ottawa sex worker's union POWER and their allies to remember sex workers who have lost their lives to violence. 

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Trans day of remembrance

A candle lit in memory of trans folks who have been murdered

November 20, 1999 was the first Trans Day of Remembrance. The day was created to raise awareness about violence against trans folks and challenge transphobia. Commonly, a vigil is held where the names of trans folks who are missing or murdered is read aloud.

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John Bonnar

Women face their greatest danger from men they know

By John Bonnar
| December 12, 2010

As a woman, Nora Hassaan has to think about the safest way to walk home. She has to think about the safest way to dress. Possible escape routes when a man is following too closely behind her at night. The safest way to meet men. To constantly look after her drink when out for an evening in a bar or a club.

“As women we are told repeatedly how to be safe and how to protect ourselves from the dangerous, strange men out there,” says Hassaan, volunteer outreach coordinator at the Ryerson Students’ Union Women’s Centre.

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Toronto's homeless remembered

A memorial vigil commemorated three more homeless deaths in Toronto during a monthly vigil held Tuesday. (Photo: John Bonnar)

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Housing activists remember three more homeless deaths in Toronto
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Housing activists remember three more homeless deaths in Toronto

By John Bonnar
| December 9, 2009

A sombre memorial vigil marked by both song and silence commemorated three more homeless deaths in Toronto during the monthly vigil held Tuesday outside the Church of the Holy Trinity.

More than 30 people cupping candles that flickered in the cold morning air gathered in the courtyard of the Eaton Centre at noon, as they do on the second Tuesday of every month.

Homeless people, affordable housing advocates and others stood below the steps near a small wooden structure at the south entrance of the church that now contains over 600 names of men, women and children who have lived and died on the streets of Toronto as a direct result of homelessness since 1990.

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