Montreal Massacre and Canada's National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

[goodlookinout]

Today marks the 18th anniversary of the "Montreal Massacre". On December 6, 1989 at the l'École Polytechnique, 14 women were gunned down and killed because of their gender by a man claiming to seek revenge of feminists. December 6th is also Canada's National Day of Remembrance and Action On Violence Against Women. Please remember that violence

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[kekekekekekeke]

thank you

[trevor_kai]

oh, i thought it was at 7. thanks for the info!

[celticdaisy]

Thanks for posting this! At my university (University of Winnipeg) we did a die-in where 14 of us lay down for 45 minutes in a busy hallway. Then we had four speakers; a womyn's centre collective member, a professor, a young woman who spoke about missing Native women, and a young man who was great and will be doing a resisting sexism workshop in January.

It felt like a great way to honour these 14 women and all the other women across Canada who have been victims of violence.

[puresilent]

My uncle was a professor there! Do you know a Norman Frohlich?

[celticdaisy]

Can't say I do. What department was he in?

[puresilent]

He taught in the school of business at University of Manitoba but I think he lectured at University of Winnipeg occasionally - long shot anyway.