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An invitation for those of you in the Vancouver area

December 6, 1989 A lone man walked into an engineering class at the ecole polytechnique of the University of Montreal He separated the women and men and told the men to leave After the male students complied, the man declared his hatred of feminists and began to shoot the women with the semi-automatic rifle he had brought with him While police forces stood outside, Marc Lepine ended his rampage of shooting and stabbing the women he could find at the school by killing himself

He left behind a note that detailed his plans to kill a list of prominent Canadian feminists It was clear that the women engineering students were a symbol of women�s progress of equality Lepine�s actions could have pushed back women�s demands for social change to increase women�s equality However women organized in defiance of his attack They rose up to demonstrate in towns and cities across the country They connected Lepine�s acts of violence to the everyday sexism to which women are subjected and committed to feminist organizing to bring into reality women�s expectations for the present and the future

This Sunday, I invite you on behalf of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter to come to the main public library where a day-long event will take place from 1-10 pm There will be speakers and roundtable discussions on a variety of key issues related to male violence against women There will be opportunities to learn, and to get involved if you so desire

Also this year, there will be a special activity called "Walk In Her Shoes" It's an interactive experience led by an anti-violence worker from Rape Relief, where, for half an hour, you will face the kind of decisions that some women have to struggle with every day Comprising teaching, learning, and discussion, it should be an eye-opening experience

If you'd like a detailed list of speakers and seminars, just check this link:

http://www rapereliefshelter bc ca/dec6/de6-2005 html

I hope you can make it down for a portion of the event

All the best!

Adam

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