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Announcing the Board of Directors for 2013-2014

Many thanks to all who attended the Annual General Meeting on April 2nd to support the Centre and elect the new Board of Directors! It was so terrific to be with all of you and reflect on the last year. There’s been so much incredible activity at the Centre and we couldn’t have done it without the energy and efforts of our amazing and dedicated volunteers!

We are pleased to announce the Board of Directors for the 2013-2014 year:

Paloma Amato
Katharine Hall
Olivia Kamgain
Emilia Koberg
Abby Lippman
Dan Parker
Jayna Patel
Rose-Marie Whalley

We also wish to sincerely thank the 2012-2013 Board of Directors for their contribution to the organization:

Wendy Heitmann
Portia Larlee
Caitlin O’Neill
Lena Carla Palacios
Dan Parker
Jayna Patel
Emma Pietrangelo
Morgan Pudwell

Ellen Gabriel at Memorial March for Missing & Murdered Women

Feb 14th 2013, Montreal. The will to fight comes from a heart overflowing with love.

Ellen Gabriel is a Native/human right activist, and former president of Quebec Native Women (QNW). She joined the members of her community of Kanehsatà:ke in March 1990 as they erected barricades to protect The Pines from the expansion of a golf course in the municipality of Oka. She was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and then by her community to be a spokesperson for them during the 1990 Oka Crisis.

Video by Spencer Mann.

Photo by Irina Gaber

Video of drummers and speakers at the Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Women

Feb 14th, 2013: Over 700 gathered at St. Laurent Metro this Valentine’s Day to make this year, Montreal’s 4th annual memorial march for missing and murdered women the largest yet.

The first women’s memorial march was held in 1991 in response to the murder of a Coast Salish woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Her name is not spoken today out of respect for the wishes of her family. Out of this sense of hopelessness and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express compassion, community, and caring for all women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Unceded Coast Salish Territories. Twenty-two years later, the women’s memorial march continues to honour the lives of all missing and murdered women.

Photo by Irina Gaber

Video by Spencer Mann