The Women's Memorial March will be a story board walk in the Nature Reserve Park along the Coalbanks Trail for four weeks starting February 14, 2023 until March 18, 2023. Park at Helen Schuler Nature Centre parking lot.
We encourage everyone to visit the park and honour Missing and Murdered Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and LGBTQQIA people through an independent memorial walk at your leisure throughout the week.
For information on the February 14, 2023: Women’s Memorial March Lethbridge at City Hall
Family and community will meet on Tuesday, February 14, 12:00 pm at Stafford Drive and 4th Ave S (near Lethbridge City Hall).
Spread the word and join us (all genders welcome) to the Feb 14th march. We respectfully ask that you please do not bring your agency or group banners, flags, or leaflets as the march only carries signage remembering our sisters. Signs to honour womens’ lives are welcome. (We will have some placards available.)
Timeline:
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm: Meet in front of City Hall
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm: Prayer - remembering our sisters
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm: Walk
1:00 pm: Walk ends back at City Hall
"The first Women’s Memorial March was held in 1992 in response to the Murder of a woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Out of this sense of hopelessness and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express compassion, community, and caring for all women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Unceded Coast Salish Territories."
"At present day, Indigenous women disproportionately continue to go missing or be murdered with minimal to no action to address these tragedies or the systemic nature of gendered violence, poverty, racism, or colonialism."
"This event is organized and led by women because women – especially Indigenous women – face physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual violence on a daily basis. The February 14th Women’s Memorial March is an opportunity to come together to grieve the loss of our beloved sisters, remember the women who are still missing, and to dedicate ourselves to justice."
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