20th Anniversary Montréal Massacre Memorial
Vancouver Event
Saturday, December 5th, 2009

>> Download a podcast of a Redeye Co-op Radio interview with Daisy Kler of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter where she talks about what has and what has not changed in violence against women since Marc Lepine murdered 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique.

Women act against violence at Ecole Polytechnique massacre memorial event
In an interview with the Georgia Straight... Daisy Kler said, “I think Marc Lépine wanted to close down the doors and opportunities for women and make us fearful and not be so public, and our response is the exact opposite.”
She also claimed that no male leaders stood up and defended feminists after the massacre. “We expect to be defended as feminists, as civil-rights activists, as women who are participating in the struggle and freedom for women,” Kler said. “So we take the library on purpose because it is a public space and we want to be out, loud, and proud as feminists.”
>> Read the entire Straight.com article

Vancouver Rape Relief and Womens Shelter invites you to participate in a day of action to end violence against women.

Saturday, December 5th, 10:00am to 6:00 pm
Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street
All events are free
View our 2009 event brochure

Montreal Massacre Memorial
Vancouver Event
Saturday, December 6th 2008

Vancouver Rape Relief and Womens Shelter invites you to participate in a day of action to end violence against women.

Saturday, December 6th, 10:00 to 6:00 pm
Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street
All events are free

To view our 2008 brochure click here.

This year December 6th is part of Vancouver Rape Relief's larger project: Flesh Mapping: vancouver markets pacific women for details on the entire Flesh Mapping project click here.

Montreal Massacre Memorial
Vancouver Event
Saturday, December 1st 2007

Vancouver Rape Relief and Womens Shelter invites you to participate in a day of action
to end violence against women

Saturday, December 1st 10:00 -6:00 pm
Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street
All events are free

2007 Brochure of events at the Vancouver Public Library (PDF file)

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 1st 2007 Events

Our list of events is also available as a PDF for easy printing

Roundtables: dialogue among feminist 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.

Lectures: monologues by feminist speakers

Films: Feminist Films with Discussion

Feminist films that boldly address women' s unrelenting reality of violence against women and wonderfully capture feminist imagination and resistance. 

Interactive Activity: A Feminist "Walk in Her Shoes"

10 am — A new walk begins every half-hour

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.

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

• 2006 Webcast
• 2005 Webacast

View the Program

• 2008 Brochure
• 2007 Brochure
• 2006 Brochure
• 2005 Brochure

For more information contact:

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women' s Shelter at 604 872 8212

 
For more info contact:

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women' s Shelter

604 872 8212