Mothers Day Liberation Rally 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjzurAEalmM

MAY 7
Mother’s Day Liberation Rally
Starting 3:00pm
Gather at Woodland Park (Adanac and Woodland)

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
By donation, but RSVP required!

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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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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

We need YOUR support to ensure the success of this event! You can:

1) Join one of our working committees (Media, Outreach, Sponsorship, Logistics, Children’s Participation, Speakers, Single Mothers’ Resource Guide Update)
2) Spread the word to all your networks!!
3) Get your group or organization to endorse this event.
4) Commit to bringing a contingent to the rally and supper.
5) Donate snacks, bottled water, strollers or bus tickets for the rally. 

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.