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28th ANNUAL FEB 14 WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH

January 18, 2019 by ajik
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28th ANNUAL FEB 14 WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH

Thursdsay Feb 14th, 2019
Family and community members gather in remembrance at 10:30 am
March starts at noon from Carnegie (Main and Hastings)
Unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Selilwitulh
(Tsleil-Waututh) territories.

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/275794656420729/

The first women’s memorial march was held in 1992 in response to the murder
of a woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Out of this sense of hopelessness
and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express compassion,
community, and caring for all women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside,
Unceded Coast Salish Territories.

The women’s memorial march continues to honour the lives of missing and
murdered women and all women’s lives lost in the Downtown Eastside.
Increasing deaths of many vulnerable women from the DTES still leaves
family, friends, loved ones, and community members with an overwhelming
sense of grief and loss. Indigenous women disproportionately continue to go
missing or be murdered with minimal to no action to address these tragedies
or the systemic nature of gendered violence, poverty, racism, or
colonialism.

On Thursday Feb 14th 2019, we will gather at 10:30 am at the Carnegie
Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Street (corner Hastings, Vancouver)
where family members speak in remembrance. Given space constraints, we ask
the broader public to join us at noon, when the march takes to the streets
and proceeds through the Downtown Eastside, with stops to commemorate where
women were last seen or found; speeches by community activists at Main and
Hastings; a healing circle at Oppenheimer Park around 2:30 pm; and finally
a community feast at the Japanese Language Hall.

This event is organized and led by women in the DTES because women –
especially Indigenous women – face physical, mental, emotional, and
spiritual violence on a daily basis. The February 14th Women’s Memorial
March is an opportunity to come together to grieve the loss of our beloved
sisters, remember the women who are still missing, and to dedicate
ourselves to justice.

** SUPPORT THE WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH*

There are many ways to support the Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March:

1) *ATTEND:* Spread the word and join us (all genders welcome) to the Feb
14th march. We respectfully ask that you please do not bring your agency or
group banners, flags, or leaflets as the Women’s Memorial March carries
five banners only to honour the women. Sign honouring womens lives are
welcome.

2) *KNOW THE PROTOCOL*: In a good way, we want to inform everyone about the
protocol the march that has been in place for 28 years:

At 10:30 am there will a family and community remembrance in the Carnegie
Theatre. This is not open to media or the broader public.

The media and broader public begins gathering at approximately 11:30 in
front of Main and Hastings where territorial elders welcome us. At noon the
elders and family members exit from the Carnegie Theatre and everyone is
asked to make a circle at Main and Hastings for the prayer. The march
proceeds at noon only when elders and family members have exited the
Theatre and after the prayer circle.

The March is organized and led by women. Women elders carrying medicines
are at the front, followed by all women elders and family members and women
drummers. The quilt made by loved ones in the DTES community is carried
behind the family members and drummers. Everyone is invited to follow. We
ask that you leave your organizational banners at home, signs honouring
women’s lives are welcome.

The march makes a numbers of stops along the way for ceremony to honour
where women were last seen or found. There is no photography of the
ceremonies. At approximately 2 pm we stop again at Main and Hastings for
speeches by community activists, followed by a healing circle and drummers
at Oppenheimer Park around 3 pm, and finally a community feast at the
Japanese Language Hall.

3) *VOLUNTEER*: Please volunteer to support the march with setup, cleanup
and more. We need approximately 55 volunteers. Volunteers can sign up here:
http://signup.com/go/QowVVSf

4) *PLAN:* Plan a memorial march in your community. Last year, memorial
marches were held in approximately twenty other cities and communities.
Please email us the details so we can maintain communication, compile the
information on our website, and build strength in our coordinated efforts.

5) *DONATE*: Please donate. The February 14th Women’s Memorial March is
made possible by organizations and individuals like you. Please make
cheques payable to the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, and include Feb
14th Women’s Memorial March on the memo line. Mail cheques to the Downtown
Eastside Women’s Centre, 302 Columbia St. Vancouver, BC V6A 4J1. All
donations over $10 will be gratefully acknowledged with a tax deductible
receipt.

Thank you all for your support and commitment,
Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March Committee

Website: https://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womensmemorialmarch/

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On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 5:12 PM shelly tognazzini <shetognazzini at gmail.com
wrote:

> Hey Val,
>
> You mean the DTES Women's March?..Correct?
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 5:03 PM Moyra Fielding <moyrajune at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> As all who have taken part will know.... Valentine's Day is the March for
>> missing wemon in ....dtes....confused as to why  facilitators....would
>> schedule this lunch at exactly....same time........confused and hope lunch
>> will not win over ....supporting such a ..........deeply.... important...so
>> important...event.....I can not walk ..... yet....this is my 12th
>> year.....so important for those whosurround.....ones we have lost....happy
>> .... Valentine's...those we love....love Val......
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 8:01 PM B V, <bertavezina333 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>    Viva is proud to present the newest HOT Lunch program for Women @
>>> Positive Living BC. Our first event is February 14th starting at 12 PM til
>>> 1:30 PM in the Womens lounge on the third floor.
>>>    We are hosting a Lunch, Learn and Laugh event two times per month. We
>>> are supplying bus tickets for those without a compass card. Viva will keep
>>> you posted on future events.
>>>       If you have any questions please feel free to email
>>> wendys at positivelivingbc.org or reach put to me via the Viva listery.
>>>    Looking forward to seeing some of you there, Roberta.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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