[mobglob-discuss] Public Education Forum on Women & Poverty

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Stop Welfare Cuts Coalition

MEDIA  RELEASE
March 25, 2004

With Time Running Out on Funding for Women’s Centres, Stop Welfare Cuts
Calls for Public Support for Forum on Women & Poverty

As provincial funding for Women’s Centres fades, the Stop Welfare Cuts
Coalition stands in solidarity with the Women of British Columbia and
urges Public support for activities such as the VSW initiative listed
below:

Vancouver Status of Women and Welfare Project invites you to a PUBLIC
EDUCATION FORUM ON WOMEN & POVERTY

Is poverty increasing in your community?  Why?  Who benefits from poverty?
Why are more women living in poverty in the world and Canada? Why are the
poor being attacked?


WHO:
Sunera Thobani
Jean Swanson
Window Pain (art display)
Nisgaâa Tsâamiks Dance Group

WHEN:
Sunday March 28th, 2004
2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

WHERE:
Collingwood Neighbourhood House
5288 Joyce Street Vancouver, BC
(Joyce Skytrain)


COST:
Sliding scale $0-50
(Sliding scale is an anti-classist concept, which means that those with
less pay less and those with more pay more).

The main objective of the forum is to increase public awareness around
poverty issues and poor-bashing in relation to women within a global,
national, and local context.  The forum is open to the community: women,
trans, men, & families.

We welcome you to join us in a day of conversations, art displays (artists
impacted by disability benefits cuts), food, discussion groups,
performance (First Nationsâ Dance Group), and more.

Dinner will be provided.  Childcare, American Sign Language (ASL)
interpretation, and bus tickets will be available, (when registering for
the event, please let us know if you require the above accessibility
resources).

For more information or to register for the forum, email femantipov at vsw.ca
or call 604-255-6554. Visit our website www.vsw.ca for more information.

REGISTRATION IS RECOMMENDED

Vancouver Status of Women is a non-profit, feminist, community based
organization with a vision of freedom and self-determination for all
through responsible, socially just, healthy and joyful communities both
locally and globally.  VSW's mission is to work with women to ensure our
full participation in the social, economic, and political life of our
communities.

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Some of the groups involved in the Stop Welfare Cuts Coalition are: End
Legislated Poverty, BC Teachers Federation, Vancouver Status of Women,
Anti-Poverty Committee, Aboriginal Women’s Collective, First United Church
and various other churches across the Lower Mainland, BC Government and
Services Employees Union, Lower Mainland Coalition for Social Justice,
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Tenants Rights Action Coalition,
Prepare the General Strike Committee, Housing Action Committee, the
Organizer's Training Group, Hospital Employees Union, United Native
Nations Local 111, The Welfare & disAbilities Peoples Union (Victoria) 
and the Seniors Network BC.

For more information on Stopping the Welfare Cuts and the Stop Welfare
Cuts Coalition please contact Lisa c/o End Legislated Poverty at
604-879-1209 or by email at elp at telus.net