[SWAF-Potluck] Red Umbrella March 2019!

[Andrew Sorfleet]

This year, Vancouver’s 7th Annual Red Umbrella March for Sex Work Solidarity (June 8) celebrates the 35th anniversary of the first prostitutes’ protests of the 1980s! 

Dress up! Make noise! Have fun!

The march will be followed by ‘Working Girls,’ Lizzie Borden’s 1986 award-winning classic film about women working in a Mahattan whorehouse.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rakoig-qZd0&feature=youtu.be

This year, Red Umbrella March follows on the heels of 2 very large international conferences being hosted here in Vancouver: Women Deliver and Congress of Humanities & Social Sciences.

If you are coming to Vancouver for either of these events don’t forget to participate in and promote Canada’s largest and oldest annual sex worker festival! Come celebrate with us!

Information on both conferences is included below, including how to take advantage of opportunities to volunteer and attend sessions for free.

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“Circles of Conversation”
Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences 2019, June 1-7, Vancouver, BC
https://www.congress2019.ca/
Tw: @ideas_idees

Open Event: “The Golden Age of Sex Work in the 1970s & 1980s”
Keynote: Jamie Lee Hamilton
Sunday, June 2, 3:30-5pm
https://www.congress2019.ca/calendar/1302
Sexuality Studies Association Conference, Sun., June 2 - Tues., June 4
https://www.congress2019.ca/associations/303

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Women Deliver 2019 Conference
June 3-6, Vancouver, BC
https://wd2019.org/

On June 3-6, Vancouver will be the host location for Women Deliver, the world’s largest conference on the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women. More than 6,000 world leaders, influencers, advocates, academics, activists and journalists will attend with the drive to accelerate progress for girls and women everywhere. The conference will focus on several issues from health, nutrition, education, economic and political empowerment to human rights, good governance, and girls’ and women’s agency and equality. 
 
How you can be involved:

The Women Deliver conference organizers are seeking volunteers for a minimum of two shifts and we are happy to be able to release staff to get engaged and volunteer at the conference. 
 
Any interested people can apply directly via the Women Deliver Volunteer Questionnaire: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJYQ5dul531JP71Fk2cEn5LYUzmYGEea1EBV9KYU1iRsCIwQ/viewform

A bonus is that volunteers can attend sessions on the days they volunteer, before or after their shift.

Speakers include: Director-General of International Planned Parenthood Federation, CEO Plan International, Founder of ‘Me Too’ Movement, Executive Director of Oxfam International, CEO Pro Mujer, UN Women Ambassador, Director of Communications and Strategic Parrnerships UNFPA, Founder ‘Ni Una Menos’ Movement, Executive Director of Unicef, CEO of Merck & Co Inc., Melinda Gates, CEO of World Bank, Director General of World Health Organization, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, CEO of Population Services International, Heather Jarvis Co-Founder of Slut Walk, CEO of Unilever,Executive Director of UNFPA, Her Royal High Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Executive Director UN Women, CEO African Women’s Development Fund, Executive Director of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, UN Envoy on Youth, Prime Minister of Canada, President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and many, many more.





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