DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Celebrating Chinese New Year with a meal and some festivities. Outings: Toboganning, Planetarium, Brackendale Eagle Watch, Bowling at the Commodore Bowling Lanes. Constructive Criticism Workshop for volunteers - implies that the person who has a grievance has thought about the situation and is able to offer situations and full explanations about the grievance. The Untamed Beast - the clothing room - New Clothing Room Rules. New Advocate Roberta taking over for Kathleen; information about welfare, housing, health. Women will march through the streets and alleys in the Downtown Eastside in Memorial for our sisters who have been killed. The Indigenous Women's Caucus' of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) are inviting all people concerned about justice to join a vigil at the provincial court building steps. The vigil coincides with the sentencing of the man convicted of killing Pamela George, an Indigenous woman from Saskatchewan. Judge Ted Malone instructed the jury to take into account that because the accused was intoxicated he didn't really know what he was doing and also to "bear in mind that George indeed is a prostitute." Stand with us in solidarity with all women and with the First Nations struggle for equal treatment before the law.