[van-announce] Reminder! MAY 7-8: Mother's Day Liberation & Community Supper 2011!!!

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*Please forward widely - apologies for cross postings!*
*If you are planning on attending the community supper, make sure to RSVP!*
*Check the Facebook page later this week for list of speakers and
performers!*

*MOTHER'S DAY LIBERATION RALLY & COMMUNITY SUPPER 2011*
*Vancouver, Unceded and Occupied Coast Salish Territories*
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*MAY 7: Mother's Day Liberation Rally*
Starting 3:00pm
Gather at Woodland Park (Adanac and Woodland)
Childcare and children's activities on site

*MAY 8: Mother's Day Community Supper & Launch of Single Mother's Resource
Guide 2010-2011 (limited edition)*
Starting 6:00pm
Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway
Pay-what-you-can, *RSVP required *(see contact info below)
Childcare and children's activities onsite

*People of all genders welcome and celebrated!*
*More details forthcoming, stay tuned!*

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To get involved (scroll down to see how) or for more information, e-mail
rally.4.mothers at gmail.com or call 778-988-2129.

RSVP at our facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156646367728532

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The Mother's Day Liberation Rally & Community Supper 2011 is organized by
the Committee for Single Mothers on the Move, which is led by a group of
low-income single mothers of colour and our allies, including Vancouver
Status of Women, No One is Illegal-Vancouver, the Philippine Women's Centre
and the Transformative Communities Project Society.

We struggle from many places of resilience and urgency against the perverse
conditions of systemic impoverishment, exploitation, violence and isolation
imposed by a hetero-patriarchal, colonial, racist and capitalist society. We
celebrate the passion, creativity, survival and power of people who mother
under oppressive conditions to (re)make a world where love is more
possible.

We demand *RESPECT, COMMUNITY AND DIGNITY* *for all low-income mothers and
children*, and have identified the following top priorities for political
struggle - with increased access, participation, and influence by low-income
mothers and children:

*HOUSING*
*HEALTH*
*LIVING WAGES*
*TRANSPORTATION*
*CHILDCARE*
*STATUS*
*LEGAL SUPPORT*
*EDUCATION*
*CULTURAL INTEGRITY*
*FREEDOM FROM VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN*
*END TO CHILD APPREHENSIONS*
*SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE SELF-DETERMINATION*
*GENDER LIBERATION*
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We need *YOUR *support to ensure the success of this event! You can:
1) Spread the word to all your networks!!
2) Get your group or organization to endorse this event.
3) Commit to bringing a contingent to the rally.
4) Donate snacks, bottled water, strollers or bus tickets for the rally.

*This Mother's Day weekend, we call on all people who desire liberating and
just conditions of mothering to join us for in celebration, inspiration,
community-building and resistance!*
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*Endorsed by*: Vancouver Status of Women, Philippine Women's Centre,
Transformative Communities Project Society, No One is Illegal-Vancouver,
Indigenous Action Movement, Battered Women's Support Services, Justicia 4
Migrant Workers, Rhizome Cafe, Rhizome Movement Building Centre, Press
Release poets' collective, The Organizing Centre for Social and Economic
Justice, The New Mythos Project, Indigi Mama Midwivery and Doula Services,
The Calamites (formerly known as the Vancouver Community Mobilization
Network), The Purple Thistle, Women Against Violence Against Women, Downtown
Eastside Women's Centre, Vancouver Action.