Montreal Massacre
Memorial
Vancouver Event
on Saturday, December 2nd 2006
Vancouver Rape Relief and Womens Shelter invites
you to participate in a day of action
to end violence against women
Saturday, December 2nd 10:00 -6:00 pm
Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street
All events are free
The Montreal Massacre
1989: A lone man walked into an engineering class
at the ecole polytechnique of the University of Montreal. He separated
the women and men and told the men to leave. After the male students
complied, the man declared his hatred of feminists and began to
shoot the women with the semi-automatic rifle he had brought with
him. While police forces stood outside, Marc Lepine ended his
rampage of shooting and stabbing the women he could find at the
school by killing himself.
He left behind a note that detailed his plans to
kill a list of prominent Canadian feminists. It was clear that
the women engineering students were a symbol of women' s equality
progress. Lepine' s actions could have pushed back women' s demands
for social change to increase women' s equality. However women
organized in defiance of his attack.
Women rose up to demonstrate in towns and cities
across the country. They connected Lepine' s acts of violence
to the everyday sexism to which women are subjected and committed
to feminist organizing to bring into reality women' s expectations
for the present and the future.
December 2nd 2006
Events
A Day-long Speaker Series
Program and Speakers to be announced.
Walk in Her Shoes
An activity to share the experiences of women seeking justice
Anti-violence workers will accompany, teach and
learn from participants about options available to women who are
raped or battered and seeking justice.
Dialogue between feminists/activists
Community roundtable discussions among
leading feminists and activists
Join us to hear the opinions and observe community
development around key issues on male violence against women.
Find opportunities to get involved in these important struggles
in your town and communities.
Festival of Feminist Films : New & Old
Feminist films that boldly address women' s unrelenting
reality of violence against women and wonderfully capture feminist
imagination and resistance.
The women who were killed for daring to
study engineering:
Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène
Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward,
Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz,Maryse Laganière,
Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle
Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte
Remember 62 wives killed last year in Canada
Remember 64 prostituted women gone from Vancouver
Remember 500 Aboriginal women missing from Canada
Remember 14 massacred in Montreal, killed as feminists
Read articles
about December 6
View Working TV webcasts
View the Program
For more information contact:
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women' s Shelter at
604.872.8212
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