Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive
This interview focuses on the founding of Toronto Wages for Housework in 1975 and its organizing principles, networks, and campaigns.
Filed under: announcements & updates, work & labour
Date published: 2021/07/27
This interview focuses on Cleaners’ Action, an advocacy group founded in 1975 to support Portuguese cleaners.
Date published: 2021/07/23
Canadian women began mobilizing in anticipation of constitutional reform in 1980. After a series of mass actions, conferences and lobbying, women across Canada were successful in achieving significant amendments to the Section 15 equality rights by January 1981.
Filed under: announcements & updates, politics & government
Date published: 2021/07/22
In this new Women Unite Interview Darlene Lawson and Deb Parent discuss the early history of creating crisis centres for women experiencing violence.
Filed under: announcements & updates, violence
Date published: 2021/07/13
In April 1971. women from Canada and the United States met with Indochinese women to strategically collaborate
Filed under: announcements & updates, feminist organization, peace & war
Date published: 2021/07/06