May 24, 2013
Again this year, Street Health is endorsing and will be attending the annual
Reclaim the Streets
rally and march to publicly demand an end to violence against women.
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Regent Park Community Health Centre
465 Dundas Street East
5:30pm – Community Meal & Music
6:00pm –Rally
6:30pm –March to End Gender-Based Violence
We have addressed the issue of gender-based violence in this blog before [link], and still maintain that although not all forms of gender violence result in death, all of them are serious, prevalent, and deserving of public outrage. Violence against women is evidence of the ongoing legacy of unequal power relations between women and men. Society’s tendency to diminish or ignore it is evidence that we haven’t evolved past that legacy.