Mother of four young children remembered at annual rally for murdered and missing indigenous women
| February 15, 2012Annual Feb 14th Women's Memorial March in DTES
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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.
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.