[Bloquez l'empire!] A woman's place is not at home! (Mtl) (fwd)

[aaron at resist.ca]

ENOUGH!! A Woman’s Place is NOT at home!

On Thursday 8th March, International Women’s Day, Montreal police brutally
attacked and injured three women who came to the aid of Jaggi Singh when
the police arrested him at the annual Women’s Day celebration in Montreal.

As the state spins it, Jaggi Singh is to blame for everything!  We see it
very differently.  The arrest of Jaggi Singh and the brutalization of the
three women are inextricably linked.  Jaggi Singh was there to celebrate
International Women’s Day with his sisters and got arrested.

As women we are very familiar with being blamed for our own victimization
-- the woman who was raped ‘asked for it’, what was she doing out there
anyway?  Why was she dressed like that?  Milia Abrar who was murdered in
Montreal in 1998 had challenged traditions. She asked for it.  The missing
women of  British Columbia asked for it. The women at Ecole Polytechnique
asked for it. The woman whose partner killed her asked for it. The women
who were brutalized by the police on 8th March asked for it!

On 8th March 2007 in Montreal we were criminalized and brutalized for
demanding equality. But we served notice long ago. ENOUGH!

What happened in Montreal on 8th March 2007 must be condemned.  As women
we must join other Montrealers marking the International Day Against
Police Brutality.  Be there in  numbers. The days when women were to be
seen and not heard and when a woman’s place was in the home have gone
forever. We will not be silenced, we not will intimidated by police
brutality and we will stand beside Jaggi Singh and all those who walk
together with us in our on-going struggle for gender equality!

DEMONSTRATION: Thursday March 15th, 2007, at 5PM at SNOWDON metro. Bring
banners, noise-makers

Montreal Women Opposed to Police Brutality

----
For more information on last week's events:

http://solidarityacrossborders.blogspot.com/2007/03/police-brutality-mars-womens-day.html

_______________________________________________