[Wamvan] Fwd: ||rain or shine!|| MAY 7-8: Mother's Day Liberation & Community Supper 2011 ||rain or shine!||

[Tami Starlight]

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From: Cynthia Oka <cynthia.oka at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM
Subject: ||rain or shine!|| MAY 7-8: Mother's Day Liberation & Community
Supper 2011 ||rain or shine!||
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*Please forward widely - apologies for cross postings!*
*Public statement attached
*We are *prepared *for rain!! We have canopies and other accessibility
provisions (see below)*


*MOTHER'S DAY LIBERATION RALLY & COMMUNITY SUPPER 2011*
*Vancouver, Unceded and Occupied Coast Salish Territories*
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*-- Respect, community and dignity for all low-income mothers and children
NOW! -- *
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*MAY 7: MOTHER'S DAY LIBERATION RALLY *
Starting 3:00pm
Gather at Woodland Park (Adanac and Woodland) - look out for balloons!
**Bus tickets, snacks, bottled water, and a health/safety & changing station
for infants provided!
**Experienced childcare organizers ready to support moms through rally and
march!
**Plenty of children's activities including face-painting, box decorating &
mask making, a special kids' dance lesson,...and an epic soccer game!

*People of all genders welcome and celebrated! *

*Featured Speakers & Performers: *
Kat Norris (Indigenous Action Movement)
Angela MacDougall (Battered Women's Support Services)
Barb Lascelle (Downtown Eastside Women's Centre)
Jean Swanson (Carnegie Action)
Power of Women
Breakthrough Mamas
JB the First Lady
Philippine Women's Centre Choir
Kathara Dance Theatre Collective
Mas Movement Manifestation

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*MAY 8: MOTHER'S DAY COMMUNITY SUPPER & LAUNCH OF SINGLE MOTHERS' RESOURCE
GUIDE 2010-2011 (limited edition) *
Starting 6:00pm
Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway
Pay-what-you-can, *RSVP REQUIRED!* (see contact info above/below)
**Copies of the 2010-2011 Single Mother's Resource Guide will be
distributed!
**Bus tickets provided!
**Experienced childcare organizers present! Children's activities include
lego and toys, plastecene and drawing, and making a collective art piece!

*People of all genders welcome and celebrated! *

*Featured Speakers & Performers:*
Dalannah Gail Bowen
Mabel Nipshank
Sacheen Seitcham
Power of Women
JB the First Lady
Philippine Women's Centre Choir

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CONTACT rally.4.mothers at gmail.com or 778-988-2129 / 604-255-6554
RSVP at our facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156646367728532

*Check us on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjzurAEalmM
*Georgia Straight article by one of our committee members:
http://www.straight.com/article-390717/vancouver/patricia-erika-aguilarzeleny-single-mothers-need-changes-social-and-urban-policy

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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, the Breakthrough Mamas, 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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*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!*


-- 
...it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive. - Audre
Lorde




-- 
Meegwetch/Thank you/Merci
*Tami M. Starlight*
Vancouver, Canada
tamistarlight at gmail.com
tami.cosmic (facebook)
tami_starlight (twitter)
604-200-2445home
604-790-9943cell
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