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IWD
March & Rally Media Section
Please email Helen Chilas for the full Media Kit. Thank you. |
2008 IWD MEDIA KIT - COMING SOON (see
details below)
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Women Working with Immigrant Women - and - The IWD Toronto March & Rally Committee presents
30th Annual International Women’s Day
- 2008 Toronto March & Rally
The Rising of the Women is the Rising of
Us All !
Thousands march through Toronto’s downtown for women’s rights, equality, justice & peace.
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Rally
and March to demand commemorate the 100th Anniversary 100th
anniversary of the 1908 demonstration by immigrant women garment
workers in New York City where over 15,000 women marched through
downtown New York demanding higher pay, shorter work hours, women’s
voting rights and the end to child labour. This was during
a time that women had little rights and marked an ongoing protest
of a lack gender equity across the globe. In 1977, the United
Nations declared March 8th as International Women’s Day
- a day for International Peace and Women’s Rights -
a time where women, men and children come together to celebrate
women’s achievements and to continue reminding the world
that there is so much more that needs to be done! Stop violence
against women. Stop the wars. The right to unionize now! – ALL
EVENTS ARE FREE. |
WHY |
Women keep getting poorer. |
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70% of minimum wage earners are women - more than half are immigrant and visible minority women.
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Two million adult Canadian workers earn less than $10/hr of which two-thirds are women. |
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Wage gap is 71% for women in Canada; 64% women of colour; 46% Aboriginal women. |
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A national standard of decent living wages, balanced with inflation, is needed to allow women to provide for themselves & their families. |
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Violence against women must stop. |
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51% of Canadian women have been assaulted - aboriginal women are the largest group. |
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1 million children in Canada have witnessed violence against their mothers. |
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Status of Women Canada cut operational funding by 43%. |
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Peace costs less. |
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Canadian government to increase military spending to $20 billion by 2010. |
WHO |
Judy Vashti Persaud – Labour
Council |
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Chantal
Sundaram – IWD Toronto March & Rally Committee
Spokesperson |
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Hundreds
of women’s groups, community organizations, peace activists, labour unions |
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Thousands
of women, men, children wanting to create a society
free of inequality, war and violence against women. |
WHEN |
Saturday
8 March 2008 - Rally at
11:00 a.m. (EST) March at 1:00 p.m. (EST) Fair & Workshops
at 3:00-5:00 p.m. (EST) |
WHERE |
OISE
Auditorium (Ontario Institute of Studies in
Education) 252
Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada (St. George
subway station) Fair & Workshops – 55 Gould Street
(Ryerson Student Centre). |
| PHOTO & INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES |
Call the number below to pre-book interviews. Interview opportunities during the Rally, March & Fair. Photo/video opportunities at the Rally & during the March along Bloor Street West & Yonge Street. |
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: |
Helen Chilas , 416-466-7655 or cell: 416-473-8238, email
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Chantal Sundram , 647-223-3902, email
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Judy Vashti Persad , 416-441-3663 ext. 224, email
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Carolyn Egan , 416-806-7985, email
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2008
IWD March Route
coming soon... |
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