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Tell us YOUR Story! We are collecting information from women and their families regarding Women's Centres in communities around BC. If you can take some time to fill out the form that follows the link, please do so.
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hope to be able to use them to let the public and the government know how much
women
and their families need community-based Women's Centres.
Thank you in advance for your time and energy! Go Now and Fill Out the Survey Value Your Vote on January 23, 2006 Every Vote Counts! Voting Information Information on how to register, what happens on voting day, why it's important for you to vote, and more. Election Issues Links to websites that provide information about the issues that might affect you, Party positions on those issues, and more. 20 Questions for Candidates Play 20 Questions with your local federal candidates, or even with national leaders! These questions on women's issues are also available in PDF format for printing and distributing. Have your say on the BC Budget 2006! The BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services is holding public consultations. ***THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2005***
What can you do? You can participate in the Online Consultation, write your own submission, or submit the Submission of the BC Coalition of Women's Centres as your own. You don't have to write a thing if you don't want to! Go Now to Send a Submission!! HURRY!! ELECTION DAY IS MAY 17, 2005 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Every Vote Counts! Value Your Vote! REGISTER TO VOTE RIGHT NOW ONLINE! Voting Basics 101: How it All Works THE FEMINIST DOZEN: Thirteen Essential Provincial Election Issues for Women Voters 20 QUESTIONS FOR BC PROVINCIAL ELECTION CANDIDATES Print and distribute! Or just ask the candidates yourself! What This Election is About - an OpEd by Debra Critchley The Single Transferable Vote (STV) Referendum: what we think about it (now stop sending us flames). And lots more! Go Now to the BC Elections 2005 Section! Women's Votes
Count!
Canadian Federal Election
2004
On Monday, June 28 2004:
Value Your Vote!
Get Voting Information: Information on how to register, what happens on voting day, why it's important for you to vote, and more. Learn More About Election Issues: Links to websites that provide information about the issues that might affect you, Party positions on those issues, and more. Use Our 20 Questions for Candidates: Play 20 Questions with your local federal candidates, or even with national leaders! These questions on women's issues are also available in PDF format for printing and distributing. Go Value Your Vote! Please help save women’s centres in British Columbia!
Women's cries have fallen on deaf ears Since the Campbell Liberals first announced back in January 2002 its intention to cut core funding for women's centres in 2004, women's organizations, community groups, advocates, teachers, women's services workers, labour unions, municipalities, and many others have done everything they can to pressure the government to reverse its decision. Thousands of women have written letters to newspapers, local governments, MLAs and the premier, but to no avail. In September 2003, the Union of B.C Municipalities passed a resolution demanding the government reverse its decision. No response. Women in communities around the province have engaged in extensive grassroots opposition to the funding cuts. There have been petitions and postcard campaigns, sit-ins, office occupations, rallies, protests, public forums, advertising, media events. None of this has been effective. Women are at wits end. We need to step up the campaign. You can help by adding your voice to the thousands who are calling on the Campbell Liberals NOT to cut funding for women's centres on March 31. Valentine
Campaign:
Making Jam, Re-booted Opposed to heartless cuts by the Government of British Columbia? The MAKING JAM campaign is BACK! JAM the phone and fax lines! JAM up the E-mail inbox! Send your MLA a heart! [link will open in a new window] Take Back the Night
Take Back the Province! Take Back the Night is an international tradition, which cities around the world have participated in since 1973. This year women across British Columbia will be marching to protest cuts by the Government of BC, which affecting women detrimentally, seriously increasing their risk of violence and severely restricting their ability to escape it. This year women are Taking Back the Province! You can enhance your Take Back the Night experience by printing these stickers on your computer's printer and distributing them at your community's event! PRINT YOUR TAKE BACK THE NIGHT STICKERS Prevention of Violence
Against Women
Report Card For the Government of British Columbia Now YOU have the opportunity to rate the Provincial Government's record on preventing violence against women over the past year! Just assign a letter grade between A and F to each category and click to send it to the BC Coalition of Women's Centres. [link will open in a new window] GRADE THE GOVERNMENT OF BC Operation:
Application
Minister Lynn Stephens has suggested to BC women that we make less money because of poor choices. By printing this application and sending it to your MLA, you can let him or her know that you are choosing to have a really high-paying job. [link will open in a new window] GET THE APPLICATION
WOMEN'S BUCKS
On February 19, 2002, Lynn Stephens, Minister of State (Women's Equality) suggested a solution for those troubled by poverty and wage inequity: "Well, then, make more money." So women did. WOMEN'S BUCKS are now available! [link will open in a new window] Contact MLAs E-mail, Fax, Phone, Send a Letter, Make an Appointment! [links will open in a new window] Contact your BC Member of Legislative Assembly or BC Premier Campbell and tell them how you and the people you know are being affected by the cuts. Find out MLA Contact Information Free postage is only available when writing to federal Members of Parliament. If you are sending a message by snail mail, remember that you must affix a stamp! Don't know who your MLA is? Find Out Here Just type in your postal code! Go right to Premier Campbell's contact info Sign an Online Petition Women for Women Needing Welfare in BC [links will open in a new window] WWW stands for: · increases, not cuts, to welfare rates · access to welfare on the basis of need; · no 6 dollar training wage · full legal aid services for family law, poverty law, and human rights complaints · no cuts to funding for women's centres If you support what WWW stands for, GO NOW to the petition! www.petitiononline.com/WWW/petition.html Write in Support
WANTED: Federal Government action on Human Rights in BC Read the request of BC NGOs for Federal Government action. Then write........ 1) Ask that BC be held accountable for Human Rights non-compliance. 2) Request Senate hearings on Human Rights compliance. Support ICESR Rights in BC Equality, Human Rights & Social Justice
Links
[links will open in a new window] Canadian Abortion Rights Action League CARAL is Canada's pro-choice, volunteer organization working exclusively to ensure that all women have total reproductive freedom to exercise the right to safe, accessible abortion. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives The CCPA is a non-partisan, non-profit research institute dedicated to producing and promoting progressive economic and social policy research of importance to Canadians and British Columbians. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Celebrating it's 20th birthday April 17, 2002. S.15 deals with equality rights. FREDA Centre The FREDA Centre's mandate is to facilitate and conduct research on violence against women and children, in order to raise awareness and effect policy. International Women's Tribune Centre The IWTC is dedicated to achieving women’s full participation in shaping a development process that is just, peaceful and sustainable. Mothers Are Women MAW maintains that until the unpaid work done by women in the home and community is understood and valued as work there will be no real equality for women. National Action Committee on the Status of Women NAC is the largest feminist organization in Canada. A coalition of more than 700 member groups, NAC has been fighting for women's equality for over 29 years. National Association of Women and the Law NAWL is a Canadian non-profit organization that has worked to improve the legal status of women in Canada through law reform since 1974. PAR-L PAR-L (Policy, Action, Research List) is a bilingual, electronic network of individuals and organizations interested in women-centred policy issues in Canada. It is a support for the community of feminist researchers and activists in Canada and Québec. PovNet PovNet is an internet site for advocates, people on welfare, and community groups and individuals involved in anti-poverty work. It provides up-to-date information about welfare and housing laws and resources in British Columbia, Canada. Pro-Choice Action Network Pro-CAN (formerly BC Coalition of Abortion Clinics) located in Vancouver, BC, is a political and educational advocacy group that lobbies for women's right to choice on abortion. Sisterhood Is Global Institute SIGI is an international non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of women's rights at the local, national, regional, and global levels. Status of Women Canada Status of Women Canada (SWC) is the federal government agency which promotes gender equality, and the full participation of women in the economic, social, cultural and political life of the country. SWC focuses its work in three areas: improving women's economic autonomy and well-being, eliminating systemic violence against women and children, and advancing women's human rights. United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women United Nations WomenWatch WomenWatch is a joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues. West Coast LEAF West Coast LEAF (Legal Education and Action Fund), in partnership with LEAF National, works to make Canada an equal place for all women, and believes equality is the removal and disappearance of discrimination and disadvantage which is consistent with Charter equality rights. Women for Women Needing Welfare in BC (WWWinBC) See WWW petition (above) for description. Womenspace Online activism for women's rights and civic participation. World March of Women 2000 The World March has given birth to an autonomous global women’s movement, more determined than ever to continue marching together, on all the continents, because we are convinced that another world is possible. |
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