Women Working With Immigrant Women: International Women’s Day Speech 1986

This 1986 speech was written for the International Women’s Day march in Toronto by Women Working with Immigrant Women (WWIW). The speech focuses on anti-racism within the women’s movement, addressing the role white women must play in combatting racism and advocating for racialized and immigrant women at workplaces, in the movement, and beyond. The speech also touches on access to healthcare and daycare, as well as Canada’s complicity in South African apartheid.