JUST IN: @VancouverPD has revised its estimate of the anti-racism protest in Vancouver. Now projecting between 5,000 and 10,000 people. https://t.co/6v3OLjsWws
@MelissaDeGenova@CityofVancouver@VancouverPD Dude, it’s all good. What we need to prevent is further internal systemic violence and racism inside the very organizations who say they are here to protect and serve. Work on that change at @CityofVancouver please❤️🙏
Organizing and mobilizing, resistance and disruption will still occur in communities across Canada. We encourage you to connect with local feminist, anti-oppression, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, inclusive organisations and groups. If you can’t find one, build it!
At our core, we were never about logos, hats, slogans, fundraising, or social media presence. This movement is relationships, compassion, empowerment, sharing of skills and stories, teaching and learning. This not the end but merely the evolution.
intersectionality, inclusion, and women’s rights as human rights.
We strengthened our communities and we built bridges from coast to coast to coast. At the same time, we continually emphasized that the movement, the fight, the message was not held by one entity, but by all.
demanding an end to hate and oppression.
We coalesced again in 2018 and 2019, with grassroots community organizers supporting each other across Canada. We shared skills and strategies and labour. With independent voices, we amplified a message of equality, diversity,.....
In 2017, across Canada, small ad hoc groups of volunteers organised events in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington. Rooted in community and determined to encourage positive social change and challenge existing power structures, we marched and rallied and roared,.......