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Memorial for the Montreal Massacre
December 2009
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flesh mapping: vancouver markets pacific women – the process

For 7 months we met, discovered, discussed and investigated links between the international trafficking of women and the Vancouver demand for prostitution. We settled on bed sheets as an artistic unit, a canvas and a bed as our uniting display. The artists worked with us to facilitate the transfer of thoughts and ideas onto the 50 sheets.

December 2008
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flesh mapping: vancouver markets pacific women – background

Starting from our position that prostitution is neither necessary nor desired by women and represents at best the “constrained choices” of women, we explore what are the links between the local demand of men for prostitution and the global traffic in girls and women.

November 2008
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flesh mapping: vancouver markets pacific women – video
November 2008
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A Letter from Janet Torge – a founding member

What probably has not changed is that working at Rape Relief exposes you to so many different women…. Underlining the fact that sexual assault does not show preference to class, physical appearance, religion, economics or lifestyle. While many of the women I met lived lives completely foreign to my own, it was not difficult to find shared experiences almost at once.

March 8, 2008
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A Speech by Johanna Den Hertog – a founding member

We were there for each other, for women who called, of all ages and situations. We met women in their apartments and rooms and homes. We talked and supported, and cried and laughed. We helped to find women safe places to stay. We were advocates and went with women to emergency wards, to police, to courts. We spoke, wrote letters, pressed for legal changes. We spoke at schools, on radio on women’s T V shows. We linked up with other rape crisis centers – and became a network. We supported the work towards a transition house for women. And always women supporting women.

March 8, 2008
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From Riot Grrrl to Radical: Reflections from a Working-Class Feminist

I have considered myself a feminist for more than half my life, since I was thirteen. It’s only my definition of feminism – and my related perceptions of capitalism, men, and violence – that has continued to change.

By Gina Whitfield
August 1, 2006
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Take Back the Park Vancouver 2005

"We wanted to take back a space off limits to women...instead of telling women they should stay away in order to be safe, we wanted women to be here and be safe.”

September 2005
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Take Back the Night Vancouver 2004

The women were conducting Take Back the Night, a direct action to take over city streets calling for freedom from rape, freedom from prostitution and livable welfare on demand.

By Terry Picard
November 2004
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Why “Law and Order” Cannot End Violence Against Women; and Why the Development of Women’s (Social, Economic and Political and Civil) Rights Might

We must join forces as peoples of conscience to demand change. Governments at the provincial and federal level must invest in equality-seeking women's groups. They must investigate arrest and prosecute to conviction those men who use sexist violence against women. They must do so in such numbers that a critical mass of men interested in change forms.

By Lee Lakeman
October 2000
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