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Women's March  - October 23, 2021

In partnership with numerous partner women- and girl-serving organizations from the region, the Women’s March is a large-scale public event on Saturday October 23, 201.

​Beginning from the steps of the Colonial Building where women first marched for the right to vote in 1921, both community groups and public citizens will march en masse to our modern day city hall for a rally on the state of women’s rights in 2021.

We’re just getting the planning started, but our draft goals so far are:
  • To inspire change towards equity and safety within and across all of our communities, with and for each other.
  • To commemorate our history and highlight the connectedness of our struggles
  • To commit to showing up for and learning from each other

We are encouraging this event to be shaped in collaboration with our sisters and sister-organizations within the community.

We want to make this Women's March something that reflects all of the women across our communities: women on the frontlines making minimum wage, transgender women, artists and writers, Indigenous women, Black women and women of colour, women on government income support, single mothers, women living with disabilities, survivors, new comer and refugee women, women running local businesses, students and international students, women with experience in the sex trade, women supporting their neighbours, and many other experiences.

If you're interested in helping organize a Women's March this year please contact us at info@persistencetheatre.com. Our next organizing meeting will be on Friday May 28th and we’d love to expand our group.

Otherwise, just set your calendar for Saturday October 23, 2021, and plan to join us as we march together. Thank you.
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St. John's, NL A1A 5J7 CANADA
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INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is vital to support the Indigenous people and communities of Newfoundland and Labrador. As settlers, we must work toward understanding our privilege, as beneficiaries of both historical and ongoing colonialism, and acknowledge the horror and injustice perpetrated against the original inhabitants of North America.

We acknowledge the territory upon which we gather as the ancestral and unceded lands of the Beothuk and the island of Newfoundland as the ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq and Beothuk. We recognize the Inuit of Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut and the Innu of Nitassinan, and their ancestors, as the original people of Labrador.

We recognize the historic and ongoing presence and influence of Indigenous people in Newfoundland – recorded and unrecorded, acknowledged and unacknowledged. We recognize that Newfoundland and Labrador has a place in the ongoing legacy of colonial violence, including, but not limited to, the genocide of the Beothuk people, the horrors of the Residential School system, and far too many Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Children.

We encourage all to join us in learning more about and supporting the Indigenous people and communities of Newfoundland and Labrador. A great place to start is by connecting with First Light an organization that provides programs and services rooted in the revitalization, strengthening and celebration of Indigenous cultures and languages in the spirit of trust, respect, and friendship. Please visit firstlightnl.ca to learn more.