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August 11, 2011
http://www.kenoradailyminerandnews.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3252625
By Jessica Cable
In June of 2008 the first Walk 4 Justice set out from Vancouver, honouring the 2,932 missing and murdered women the group had named in their database of research and demanding a national public inquiry from the government. Four years later the walkers are once again on route to [...]
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May 23, 2011
CALL OUT FOR HELP!!!!
Calling on all people far and wide who would be willing to come to Chase
to look for Neskie Manuel who has been missing since last Sunday. Neskie
has given alot to the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty and
the food security movement in general.
Shuswap Search and Rescue combined with Vernon and Kamloops SAR [...]
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May 13, 2011
Missing Justice held it’s first annual visioning retreat at a cabin in Ste. Agathe des Monts from May 6-8, 2011. The purpose of the retreat was to re-assess our goals, priorities and strategies for achieving real solidarity and for facilitating what we would most like to see: the resolution of all unsolved cases of missing [...]
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February 25, 2011
Photos by Irina Gaber: http://irinagaber.blogspot.com/2011/02/memorial-march-for-missing-and-murdered.html
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January 12, 2011
Why you should come to the March and bring others:
Violence against women is an ever-present symptom of a sick society. It continues to affect communities all over Québec, Canada and the rest of the world.
Since roughly 1980, Between 583 and 3000 Indigenous women have gone misisng or been murdered in “Canada.”
Come out and show support [...]
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December 16, 2010
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3764
by Angela Sterritt
VANCOUVER—Ten million dollars set aside by the Harper government to address the crisis of missing or murdered Aboriginal women will be redirected to the Department of Justice and the Ministry of Public Safety.
And that has some groups, like Vancouver’s Walk 4 Justice, fuming.
“We have the answers and tools already because we’ve been working [...]
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November 10, 2010
SUPPORT RENÉE ACOBY
Renée Acoby, an Ojibwe woman from Manitoba, is currently facing the
Dangerous Offender application following a public hearing in
Kitchener. She was originally convicted ten years ago on a 3.5-year
sentence for trafficking cocaine and assault with a weapon. Pregnant
when imprisoned, her one-year-old was removed from her after she
smoked marijuana and took some valium one evening [...]
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November 4, 2010
http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2010/11/04/moon-setting-on-sisters-in-spirit/
By Jorge Barrera
APTN National News
The Conservative government is opposing the use of the name Sisters
and Spirit and any work on a groundbreaking database on murdered and
missing Aboriginal women cases if the Native Women’s Association of
Canada expects to receive any funding for new projects on the issue,
sources say.
The Conservative government has been slowly “smothering” the Sisters
in [...]
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October 21, 2010
COMMEMORATIVE MARCH
SATURDAY, October 23, 12:30pm
Gathering at the corner of Guy & de Maisonneuve
(métro Guy-Concordia, Guy exit)
facebook event:
We remember: Anas Bennis, Claudio Castagnetta, Ben Matson, Quilem Registre, Gladys Tolley, Fredy Villanueva and all the other victims of police killings.
JOIN US on the North American Day to Stop Police Brutality & Repression to [...]