Women’s Community

See what’s happening lately in the local and international women’s movement!  Check out upcoming events, ongoing campaigns, information and reports on topics pertinent to women's issues - or browse through our short catalogue of the feminist online community - everything from spoken word, dance and music.

Events  * Campaigns * Information & Reports * Online Community

Events 

Get information about this year's International Women's Day Event - www.iwdvancouver.ca

 

Campaigns

BC Living Wage

www.bclivingwage.org

Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC Current Campaigns

www.cccabc.bc.ca/act/campaigns.html

Stolen Sisters

www.stolensisters.com

Sisters in Spirit

www.nwac-hq.org/en/background.html

 

 

Information & Reports

Find out more about BC's Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women's (CEDAW) submission to United Nations Committee on the status of women and children.

Download Report: 'Nothing to Report'

 

Online Community - Websites & Videos

Websites

Rebelles - Waves of Resistance - www.rebelles.org

 

Videos

Talks

Vandana Shiva (Founder of Navdanya) talks at Organicology Conference in Portland, Oregon on Feb. 28, 2009.

The future of food and seed : Justice, Sustainability and Peace:    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

Interviews

Arundhati Roy interviewed by Riz Khan 2009: Part 1, Part 2.

Spoken Word

Staceyann Chin - 'Feminist or Womanist'

Sunni Patterson - 'We Made It'

Ani Difranco - 'Coming Up'

D'bi Young - 'What's Next?'

Music

One Self - 'Over Exposed'

Bitch - 'Rise'

 

Check out listings of other women's organizations in the Lower Mainland http://www.northshorewomen.ca/resources.