International Women's Day (Conference and Demonstration)

JOIN US the 1st and 8th March 2008!

The March 8th Committee of Women of Diverse Origins Presents:

International Women's Day:
Women Take Back Democratic Space!

*** Conference: March 1st, 2008 ***
*** Demonstration: March 8, 2008 ***








1) CONFERENCE

March 1st 2008
Université de Montréal,
3200 Jean-Brilliant
9am-6pm
2nd floor (metro Côte-des-neiges)

Suggested Contribution: $5(no one turned away)

**Child Care
**Simultaneous Translation
**Lunch will be provided

Men are welcome


Presentations/Performances by:

White Bear Woman (Danka Brewer), Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation
Sumaiya Ali, singer based in Washington D.C
Shadi Amin, Journaliste and Feminist living in exile in Germany
Delia DeVeyra, PINAY-Montreal
Dissidanse, Montreal-based feminist, progressive music group
Connie Bragas-Regalado, MIGRANTE International.
Beatrize Lujan, Centro de Estudios y Taller Laboral (CETLAC), Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Aliyah/Truth, spoken word artist based in Montreal

Information:
Tel : (514) 342-2111


2) DEMONSTRATION: Women Take Back the Streets!

**Child-friendly demonstration
**WE ENCOURAGE MEN TO JOIN US IN SOLIDARITY!

On March 8th, we continue the struggle against deportations and detentions,
gender violence, police brutality, criminalization, poverty, precarious
status, racial profiling, sexist and racist immigration policies and war.

Saturday, March 8th, 12pm (noon)
Coin Queen Mary & Decelles
(métro Côte des Neiges)
autobus 165,166

cultural perfomance and food following the march



Every year in montreal - like in many other places across the globe, we take to the streets to denounce patriarchy and sexism and to protest against colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, racism, and fundamentalism as systems of domination that victimize us and our sisters globally by enforcing and reinforcing violence against women. On March 8th, we continue the struggle against deportations and detentions, gender violence, police brutality, criminalization, poverty, precarious status, racial profiling, sexist and racist immigration policies and war.

Every year, as we march down the streets of montreal, we refuse to be infantilized or objectified by the state and its patriarchal institutions. We assert our power to fight for our futures and determine our destinies, as full subjects of our own liberation. We also take to the streets to celebrate and stand in solidarity with the daily struggles of our sisters, here on occupied Indigenous land and throughout the Global South.

This year, we will remember the violence perpetrated by the montreal police against women and their allies during the 2007 International Women's day demonstration. Last year's police attack on women is testament to the patriarchal violence used by the state to control and criminalize women's fight for true justice and dignity. We refuse to be afraid, and this year again, we will take back the streets!

Information:
Tel: (514) 398-3323
Email: comite8mars@gmail.com