UPDATED November 22, 2004
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RELEASE ON THE 15 DAYS, 15 WAYS CAMPAIGN
The PEI Federation of Labour would like to remind the many people who
have received the 15 days, 15 ways campaign postcards that the campaign
will launch this Monday, November 22, 2004. The purpose of this
national postcard campaign; which is a joint action on PEI between the
Federation of Labour, its affiliated unions, and the Canadian Labour
Congress; is to remind the Prime Minister his government needs to do
more than just make promises to help end violence against women.
Starting November 22 and for each of the 15 days until December 6,
Islanders can send a postcard a day to the Prime Minister’s Office.
This December 6 will mark 15 years since 14 young women were murdered
at Montreal’s École Polytechnique because they were women.
Each postcard contains a different issue of the utmost importance to
women including: the need for affordable safe housing, the need for
increased enforcement of restraining orders, and the need to increase
funding to women’s shelters and rape crisis centers.
“We hope this campaign will remind the Prime Minister not only of the
tragedy that occurred 15 years ago and the sorrow that we still feel
for these women and their families but also remind him of the hardships
and dangers that women face today and what his government can do to
lessen them,” says Chairwoman of the PEI Federation of Labour’s Women’s
Committee Michele Wright.
“While nothing can lessen the loss that occurred on Dec 6th ,
1989, we hope that the Prime Minister will take note of the
postcards that are being sent to him and take action to lessen the
chances of tragedies occurring in the future,” says Ms.Wright.
Nationally, the 15-day postcard campaign will be launched at a news
conference on November 22, at 10:30 a.m. in the Charles Lynch press
theater on Parliament Hill. Canadian Labour Congress Executive
Vice-President Marie Clarke Walker will be joined by Peggy Nash,
Co-chair of the Canadian Labour Congress Women’s Committee, and Federal
NDP Leader Jack Layton, founder of the White Ribbon Campaign.
The Federation considers this a very important campaign and hopes that
those who have received the postcards will participate and send in
their cards. The cards are available from the PEI Federation of Labour.
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