[antiwar-van] Feb 8th and Feb 14th DTES Events

[Harsha]

Upcoming events being supported by Downtown Eastside Women Centre (DEWC)
Power of Women Group. Please join us on Sun Feb 8th for the Poverty
Olympics and Sat Feb 14th for the 18th Annual Women's Memorial March.


Mark you calendar now!!!

2009 Poverty Olympics

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SUNDAY  FEB. 8
12:30 Torch Parade starts at VANDU (380 East Hastings)
1pm Opening at Japanese Language School (487 Alexander Street)
Family Friendly! Free Admission !
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The second annual Poverty Olympics will be held on Feb. 8 at 1 pm at the
Japanese Language School, 487 Alexander St. in Vancouver.  The
family-friendly event will include a Torch Parade (starts at 380 E.
Hastings at 12:30--come and join!), mascots Creepy the Cockroach, Itchy
the Bedbug, and Chewy the Rat, Opening and Closing Ceremonies, events like
Skating around Poverty and the Housing Hurdles, a special appearance by
Mr. Con Dough.  Cockroach Cake will be served.  Free.  Everyone welcome.

Sponsored by Raise the Rates, Carnegie Community Action Project, Vancouver
Area Network of Drug Users, DEWC Power to Women Group, Streams of Justice,
BC PWA, Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House.

For info or to get involved call 604 729-2380.


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“THEIR SPIRITS LIVE WITHIN US”
18th ANNUAL WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH

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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14, 2009

@ NOON GATHER AT CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE THEATRE
(401 MAIN STREET, CORNER HASTINGS, VANCOUVER)

@ 1 PM MARCH BEGINS FROM MAIN AND HASTINGS

@ AROUND 2:30-3 PM HEALING CIRCLE AT OPPENHEIMER

@ 3:30- 5 PM FEAST AT JAPANESE LANGUAGE HALL (475 Alexander)

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* Posters can be downloaded at: http://www.mediafire.com/memorialmarch or
at https://secure.filesanywhere.com/fs/v.aspx?v=896c678d5e5e72af9da6

Please join us this February 14th to honour the lives of missing and
murdered women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.  The deaths of many
vulnerable women from the Downtown Eastside continues to leave family,
friends, loved ones, and community members with an overwhelming sense of
grief and loss. The February 14th Women’s Memorial March is an opportunity
for the community and those that support us to come together to grieve the
loss of our beloved sisters and remember the women who are still missing.
We gather each year to mourn and remember our sisters by listening to
their family members, by taking over the streets, and through spiritual
ceremonies.

This event is organized and led by women because women, especially
Indigenous women, face physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual violence
on a daily basis. Please respect the march and do not bring your agency
banners as the Women’s Memorial March carries five banners only to honour
the women.

Also, each year the Memorial March committee must raise funds to pay for
the hall rental, sound system, food, roses, memorial brochures, blankets,
posters, candles, tobacco and other expenses. If you can, please make
cheques payable to the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. Please write
"Women’s Memorial March" in the memo line. Mail to 302 Columbia St.
Vancouver, BC V6A 4J1. All donations over $10.00 will be gratefully
acknowledged with a tax deductible receipt. We thank you in advance for
your support.

For more information please contact Marlene George at (604) 665-3005.