Susan G. Cole in a still from the video interview.

Origins of Women Against Violence Against Women

A driving force in initiating Toronto's Take Back the Night marches, Women Against Violence Against Women was a feminist...

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Creating Crisis Centres for Women

In this new Women Unite Interview Darlene Lawson and Deb Parent discuss the early history of creating crisis centres...

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Rich Imaginings & Freedom Dreams in the Archive: Our Lives and the Black Women’s Collective

The Black Women’s Collective’s statement on state violence resonates in our current historical moment.as present-day abolitionists continue to struggle,...

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For every woman…

“Approximately 20 Ottawa women participated in Remembrance Day ceremonies at Confederation Square on November 11. They carried a large...

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This photo is one of a number taken at the Oka Peace Camp set up in July 1990 in solidarity with the Mohawks of Kanehsatake who rose up in defense of their ancestral lands after the Oka Golf Club proposed an extension and the building of luxury condos over a Mohawk ancestral graveyard in the sacred wooded area known as “The Pines”. This land had never been ceded. In early July, after the Mohawks refused to end their non-violent occupation of the area or to take down the barricade, the Sûreté du Québec (Quebec police) moved in resulting in a violent confrontation. Later, the Canadian army was called in. Mohawk women, including Ellen Gabriel, played a central role in the uprising, which lasted for 78 intense days (July 11 – September 26, 1990). In the end, the golf course was not extended, and the condos were not built. But the larger issues of land sovereignty have never been resolved.

Considering Kanehsatake, Thirty Years Later

September 26, 2020 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the 78-day blockade at Kanehsatake, known widely as the...

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Thirty years after the Montreal massacre

by Alana Cattapan On the evening of December 6, 1989, a man with a rifle entered the engineering school...

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