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Resisting deportation of women fleeing violence
On this day in 1989, 25-year-old Marc Lepine, screaming "I hate feminists!" shot and killed Anne-Marie Edward, Anne-Marie Lemay, Annie St. Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Daigneault, Barbara Marie Klucznik, Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Maryse LeClaire, Maryse Leganiere, Maud Haviernier, Michele Richard, Nathalie Croteau and Sonia Pelletier.
Dozens of vigils, memorials and public events will take place across Canada today remembering these 14 women. We will gather to speak about the ongoing violence perpetuated by men against women and trans people that forms the basis of our rape-culture.
Stop violence against women as we remember the Ecole Polytechnique murders
To commemorate December 6, the day when 14 women were massacred in Montreal's Polytechnical Institute in 1989, and in protest of the violence which women continue to suffer in Québec, Canada and around the world, we, the Collective of Women of Diverse Origins whole-heartedly supports the resolutions which came out of the Workshop on Violence Against Women, at the Montreal International Women's Conference August 13-15, 2010.
The workshop was attended by women from around the world; the conference brought together over 400 participants from 32 countries. It culminated in the forming of an anti-imperialist International Women's Alliance.
Violence against women and the Shafia case
The Shafia case is so unsettling that it seems to unleash the search for a single key to explain it. Then you could toss away other keys that don't work, and even lock the door to a recurrence. But I don't think that's the way to go.
For instance, people ask: Was it about honour killing or domestic violence? Yet honour killings are domestic violence. You lose something in understanding if you discard either category. And domestic violence is a case of violence in general. The same holds when you try to decide if the murders are social, cultural or religious. Religion and culture are social. Why choose?
Forum remembers Ecole Polytechnique, fights violence against women today
The 14 women killed at École Polytechnique in Montreal 22 years ago were remembered by over a hundred participants at a public education forum for ending violence against women, which took place at The Cultch on Vancouver's East Side on Dec. 3, one of many such events across the country.
Fourteen other people, 10 women and four men, were also injured during the Montreal Massacre, which took place on Dec. 6, 1989.
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Why do the Harper Conservatives act like they want to drive Quebec out of Confederation?
| November 8, 2011Women Won't Forget annual vigil
Dec 6 2010 - 5:30pm
Dec 6 2010 - 7:30pm
Location
Venue
Philosopher's Walk University of Toronto, St. George Campus
TorontoCanada
43° 39' 9" N, 79° 22' 54.0012" W
See map: Google Maps
Guest Speakers:
Judy Rebick -- activist, former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women
Aruna Papp -- Survivor of forced marriage & domestic abuse, now a Toronto-based counsellor
Neena Saloiya -- Visually-impaired writer and actor
Kiran Mehdee - Writer, performer and a survivor of childhood abuse
On the anniversary of the Montreal massacre, Women Won't Forget invites you to attend the annual vigil to commemorate all those killed due to male violence.
Contact name:
Azra Rashid
Contact email:
What was the impact of the Montreal Massacre? Remembering from Montreal at feminist gathering
| December 6, 200920 years after the Montreal Massacre
It is nearly 20 years to the day that a man with a legally acquired rifle entered our school and shot 23 people, including me, Nathalie Provost. Several of our close friends were among the 14 young women who died on Dec. 6, 1989 at l'École Polytechnique. Our crime? We were women and we wanted to become engineers. And an angry man was able to easily get access to a lethal weapon.
Twenty years after that fateful day, we the survivors and former students would ask that you reflect on how far we have come and how far we have yet to go. The murders sparked renewed interest and commitment to promoting women in engineering and technology, to ending violence against women and to strengthening gun laws. In each case, we have made progress but there is much left to do.
