[van-announce] March 4th- Celebrating Women's Struggles

[Harsha]

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International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women’s Struggles

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Sunday March 4 at 6:00 pm
Rhizome Café
317 E. Broadway- corner Kingsway
All welcome.
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Although So-Ann’e planned speaking tour has been cancelled, this event
will still honour her strength and convictions in the struggle for justice
for the Haitian people. We also pay tribute to Pacheenaht Elder Harriet
Nahanee, who died on Feb 24th, shortly after her release from jail. She
was arrested and incarcerated for breaking an injunction at Eagleridge
Bluffs in Squamish Territory.

MUSIC, POETRY, PERFORMANCES, AND SPEAKERS


* Kat Norris
* Cecily Nicholson
* Coscuya-Annita McPhee
* Sarita Galvez
* Junie Desil
* Cara Ng
* Sara Kendall & Nadia Chaney
and guest GIOVANNA LEMUS of the Guatemalan Network Against Violence
Against Women

For more information contact
Andrea Pinochet: andrea_pinochet at hotmail.com or 604-773-5079
Harsha Walia: harsha at resist.ca or 778-885-0040


Although there is an assumption that gender equality has been achieved in
Canada, immigrant women, indigenous women, racialized women, single
mothers, poor and low-income women, and women with disabilities continue
to live on the fringes of our society. They struggle daily through the
brutal realities of violence, poverty, child apprehension, deportation,
precarious labour, lack of childcare support, and countless other human
rights violations which are a direct result of a colonial legacy and
neoliberal economic policies in Canada.

Meanwhile Canada’s aggressive and imperialist foreign policy has led to
military occupations and economic interventions that have killed,
displaced, and destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of women from
Haiti to Afghanistan. Despite the racist insistence that women in the
Third World need to be protected, the wars that have been justified under
the rhetoric of ‘women’s liberation’ have disempowered women further.

Yet women across the world continue to encapsulate the legacy of struggle
and from Six Nations to Chiapas to Palestine women are defining and
transforming liberation struggles. This IWD come celebrate with us as we
honour women’s struggles for self-determination and genuine equality for
themselves and their communities and pay tribute to those women- including
Elders So-Anne and Harriet Nahanee- who are at the forefront of global
struggles for justice and dignity.