MMM at Mother´s Day Liberation Rally
MMM will be doing a little performance and Michael will be teaching a lesson at the Mother's Day Liberation Rally, Saturday, May 7th.
Details below:
MOTHER’S DAY LIBERATION RALLY & COMMUNITY SUPPER 2011
Vancouver, Unceded and Occupied Coast Salish Territories
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MAY 7
Mother’s Day Liberation Rally
Starting 3:00pm
Gather at Woodland Park (Adanac and Woodland)
FEATURED SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS:
Kat Norris (Indigenous Action Movement)
Angela Macdougall (Battered Women's Support Services)
Barb Lascelle (Downtown Eastside Women's Centre)
Jean Swanson (Carnegie Action)
Power of Women
Breakthrough Mamas
JB the First Lady
Philippine Women's Centre Choir
Kathara Dance Theatre Collective
We have experienced childcare organizers ready to support moms through the rally and march!! Mama's please visit the MAMA/CHILD support station at Woodland Park to connect you/your kids to a volunteer.
There will also be snacks, and a health and changing station for infants.
Bus tickets also provided.
KIDS EVENTS:
Facepainting
Box Decorating and Mask Making
A Special Kids Dance Lesson (Mas Movement Salsa)
An Epic Soccer Game
and more!!!
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MAY 8
Mother’s Day Community Supper & Launch of the Single Mother’s Resource Guide 2010-2011 (limited edition)
Starting 6:00pm
Rhizome Café, 317 East Broadway
**Please RSVP if you can by e-mailing rally.4.mothers@gmail.com or calling 778-988-2129/604-255-6554. NO ONE TURNED AWAY**
FEATURED SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS:
Dalannah Gail Bowen
Mabel Nipshank
Sacheen Seitcham
Power of Women
JB the First Lady
Philippine Women's Centre Choir
We will also have experienced childcare organizers at the supper and bus tickets provided.
FOR THE KIDS:
Lego and Toys
Plastecene and Drawing
Making a Collective Art Piece!!!
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*Child inclusiveness and participation a priority of both events.*
*People of all genders welcome and celebrated!*
*More details forthcoming, so please stay posted!*
To get involved (scroll down to see how) or for more information, e-mail rally.4.mothers@gmail.com or call 778-988-2129
Endorsed by: Vancouver Status of Women, No One is Illegal-Vancouver, Transformative Communities Project Society, Philippine Women's Centre, Indigenous Action Movement, Battered Women's Support Services, Justicia 4 Migrant Workers, Rhizome Cafe, Rhizome Movement Building Centre, Press Release poets' collective, The Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice, The New Mythos Project, Indigi Mama Midwivery and Doula Services, The Calamites (formerly known as the Vancouver Community Mobilization Network), The Purple Thistle, Women Against Violence Against Women, Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, Vancouver Action, Streams of Justice, Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council.
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The Mother’s Day Liberation Rally & Community Supper 2011 is organized by the Committee for Single Mothers on the Move, which is led by a group of low-income single mothers of colour, the Breakthrough Mamas, and our allies, including Vancouver Status of Women, No One is Illegal-Vancouver, the Philippine Women’s Centre and the Transformative Communities Project Society.
We struggle from many places of resilience and urgency against the perverse conditions of systemic impoverishment, exploitation, violence and isolation imposed by a hetero-patriarchal, colonial, racist and capitalist society. We celebrate the passion, creativity, survival and power of people who mother under oppressive conditions to (re)make a world where love is more possible.
We demand RESPECT, COMMUNITY AND DIGNITY for all low-income mothers and children, and have identified the following top priorities for political struggle – with increased access, participation, and influence by low-income mothers and children:
HOUSING
HEALTH
LIVING WAGES
TRANSPORTATION
CHILDCARE
STATUS
LEGAL SUPPORT
EDUCATION
CULTURAL INTEGRITY
FREEDOM FROM VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
END TO CHILD APPREHENSIONS
SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE SELF-DETERMINATION
GENDER LIBERATION
This Mother’s Day weekend, we call on all people who desire liberating and just conditions of mothering to join us for a day of celebration, inspiration, community-building and resistance!
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We thank the UBC Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, the UBC Department for Women's and Gender Studies and the SFU Department of Sociology and Anthropology for their donations in support of our organizing efforts.
