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**Big changes at The Rag - We have struggled with the dates we set for ourselves for distribution for some time now and for that reason are changing our publication dates. The Winter issue of The Rag will be completely delivered by January 5, 2008 right after the holidays. Our 2008 dates will be January, April, July, October.
We are planning the Memory March for March 29, 2009 after a wonderful vigil and walk in 2007 & 2008 . . .Has a woman in your family been murdered or is missing? Contact us today. 1-604-859-2407
Silent March is a Voice for Murdered Women
Vancouver, March 23, 2008--Approximately200 women and girls are murdered in
Canada each year. Each death is an inexcusable crime, and the death toll
destroys the fabric of our society. Activist Gwynne Hunt draws attention
to the plight of women and girls by gathering their names and asking
individuals to remember, grieve, and work for change. On Sunday, March
23th, starting at 2:30pm in Crab Park, Hunt has organized The Memory
March, a silent walk and ceremony in remembrance of murdered and missing
women in Canada.
The march will start from the Missing Women*s Memorial in Crab Park
at the foot of Main Street, and go to the women*s monument, Marker of
Change, in Thornton Park at Main Street and Terminal Avenue. In the
circle of Marker of Change, participants will read the names in
memory of the women and girls we have lost to violence.
They will also wear the names of the almost 3000 murdered women and
children remembered in The List. Mary Billy began the Femicide List.
The list contains many of the names of women and children murdered
across Canada since then. Gwynne Hunt assumed responsibility for the
list since 2005.
There will be a prayer held at Crab Park at the beginning of the walk.
Marchers are encouraged to bring flowers and candles.
The Memory March is sponsored by Art Matters Society, a charitable
organization based in Abbotsford,
producing the Festival of Artistic Creative Expression.
One of the Society*s mandates is to produce shows that help stop violence
in the community. Gwynne Hunt is the Artistic Director. Gwynne*s
special focus is creating political theatre to help stop violence
against women. In 1981, a fifteen year old family friend, Verna, went
missing. She was never found. This tragic experience changed Gwynne*s
life.
WHAT: The Memory March
WHEN: March 23, 2008 @ 2:30pm
WHERE: Crab Park, Missing Women*s Memorial, Vancouver, BC
For more information, please contact:
Gwynne Hunt: Phone: 604-859-2407
E-mail: ragmag@telus.net
Raina Delisle, The Province
Published: Friday, June 23, 2006
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