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The Victoria Voice of Women (for Peace) have started a regular vigil on Thursdays at Centennial Square. The vigil is part of an international movement. Women in different parts of the world are standing at street corners, in market squares and other public places - for one hour every week - dressed in black - silently protesting the many forms of violence.
Women are making public the many forms of "personal" violence against women - wife battering, female circumcision, pornography, sexual assault, rape, dowry burning. Everywhere women are unmasking the many horrific faces of more public "legitimate" violences - state repression, ethnic cleansing, nationalism, wars... Violence takes place in the name of development, in the name of reproductive technologies, genetic engineering and the feminization of poverty.
The photo was taken at the first vigil on December 7 which was to remember the 14 women murdered on December 6, 1989 in Montreal. The silent vigil will run for one hour on the first Thursday of each month. The next is on February 1, noon at Centennial Square.
For more information contact
Terry Wolfwood at 595-7519.
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