Coordinated by No More Silence and STRUT
No More Silence website & their statement: HERE
Date & Time: Thursday, April, 2, 2015 at 12pm(EST)
Location: Ministry of Attorney General, 720 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario.
Cindy Gladue was an Indigenous mother and 36 years old when she was murdered in an Edmonton motel room 4 years ago. Last week an almost all white and almost all male jury decided to acquit her killer, a white Ontario man, because they believed that Cindy had consented to the violence that left an 11 cm wound in her vagina causing her to bleed to death.
Cindy’s death is a reminder that Indigenous women’ lives and sex workers’ lives are not valued in this deeply racist, sexist and misogynist society.
We support the calls for an appeal and other forms of justice!
Join us to express our outrage!
Endorsed by: Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto, Women in Toronto Politics, Maggie’s: Toronto Sex Workers Action Projec…t, Idle No More Toronto, South Western Ontario Sex Workers, Families of Sisters In Spirit, Outburst: Young Muslim Women’s Project, Pomegranate Tree Group, Butterfly (Asian and migrant sex workers), RAMP (Radical Access Mapping Project), Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, George Brown College School of Labour, Rittenhouse, Anti-Colonial Committee in the Law Union of Ontario, Chocolate Woman Collective, Sex Professionals of Canada (SPOC), Toronto Rape Crisis Centre Multicultural Women against Rape, COUNTERfit: Women’s Harm Reduction Program (Riverdale Community Centre) Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), The Redwood, CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group, South Asian Legal Clinic Grassroots Committee-Ontario, London Prisoners Justice Film Festival, Native Youth Sexual Health Network, Critical Ethnic Studies Conference Committee (York), The Aboriginal Law Student Association of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Shameless Magazine, Black Lives Matter
Others cities across Canada on April 2, 2015, will have events as well! More info can be found HERE.