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

[Joanna Chiu]

Thanks Tami! For those of you who didn't get to meet Tami at the conference,
she was the Vancouver Media Co-op workshop facilitator, and is now our
fabulous listserv moderator. THANK YOU to Tami for creating this community
for us.

Much love,

Joanna



On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Tami Starlight <tamistarlight at gmail.com>wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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!||
> To:
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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*
> *
> *
> *-- Respect, community and dignity for all low-income mothers and children
> NOW! -- *
> *
> *
> ***********************************************************
> *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
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *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
>
> ***********************************************************
> 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
>
> ***********************************************************
>
> 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*
>
> ***********************************************************
>
> *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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