On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women studying at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique in Montreal were killed by a male classmate because of their gender.<\/p>\n
Thirty-five years later, Brock University will join Canadians across the country in honouring their memory on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.<\/p>\n
To mark the day, an on-campus memorial will be held on Friday, Dec. 6 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Faith and Life Centre, located within Alphie\u2019s Trough. All members of the Brock community are invited to attend.<\/p>\n
The event will feature remarks from Brock President and Vice-Chancellor Lesley Rigg and Taylor Court, Education Co-ordinator with Brock\u2019s Office of Human Rights and Equity\u2019s Gender and Sexual Violence team. Award-winning author Nadine Williams will also give a poetry reading during the memorial.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese 14 women were victims of a femicide attack on a university campus. As a university institution, we are still seeing violence against women and the 2SLGBTQ+ community, which is unacceptable,\u201d said Court. \u201cGender-based violence is an epidemic in Niagara and we hope to raise awareness through education and action.\u201d<\/p>\n
The remembrance service is part of Brock\u2019s 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence<\/a>, which began Nov. 25 with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This year\u2019s campaign operates under the theme of Come Together, Act Now.<\/p>\n There will also be a candlelight vigil taking place off-campus in collaboration with the Canadian Federation of University Women on Dec. 6. It will begin at 7 p.m. on the Welland Canal Pathway between Linwell Road and Scott Street. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n For more information on the memorial or other programming related to the 16 Days of Activism, visit HRE’s website<\/a> or ExperienceBU.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women studying at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique in Montreal were killed by a male classmate because of their gender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":97595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,7484,3319,1],"tags":[8486,14053,8166,2582,12247,11713,11881,4706,14091],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97828,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97820\/revisions\/97828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}