National Vigil in Honour of Loretta Saunders across Canada
The Deets: All Day – check for city listings here
The Call Out:
On February 13, 2014, Loretta Saunders, a young Inuk woman, loving daughter and sister, dedicated student, and mother-to-be, disappeared from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
When two weeks later we found out that she had been murdered, we were again reminded that our work to stop violence against Indigenous women and girls is far from over. At the time of Loretta’s disappearance, she was working on a undergraduate honours thesis researching three cases of missing and/or murdered Indigenous women in Nova Scotia.
Due to her understanding of the impacts of colonialism on indigenous women and girls and her own personal experiences, Loretta was dedicated to ending such violence that she had witnessed others experience.
Only a couple days after her devastating murder, Loretta’s younger sister and best friend called for a national vigil to honour Loretta’s legacy and to call for action on the issue of violence against indigenous women.
On March 27th, groups all over Canada will be coming together to honour Loretta’s life and her dedication to ending violence against Indigenous women and girls. In her honour, let’s send a strong and loud message to governmental officials and all Canadians that we will not stand silent and allow this
violence to continue.
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We are asking organizers to collect money for the Loretta Saunders Scholarship Fund project being developed by the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association. Money can be transferred to the fund through one of the 4 ways below:
1. Send an email money transfer to [email protected]
2. Deposit money at your local credit union to Community Credit Union (Truro,
NS), Account #67630000
3. Send a cheque to “Cheryl Maloney” re: Loretta Saunders, at Nova Scotia
Native Women’s Association, P.O. Box 805, Truro, NS B2N 5E8
4. Via PayPal – [email protected] – from your own PayPal or bank
account
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**Photo by the Independent.ca
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