Comments on: Women’s Memorial March today in Vancouver http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/02/14/womens-memorial-march-today-in-vancouver/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:34:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: protester http://www.mainwriter.com/2010/02/14/womens-memorial-march-today-in-vancouver/comment-page-1/#comment-99 protester Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:39:15 +0000 http://www.mainwriter.com/?p=792#comment-99 I missed so many "glowing hearts" today at the March for Missing and Murdered Women. I think I didn't see a single person wearing Olympic merchandise marching with us, and I did look around looking for one. I did see lots of faces I had seen at recent anti-olympic protests (some of them nonviolent anarchists like myself), marching peacefully and respectfully, and carrying no banners besides the five that were prepared by the organizers of the march. The very same people that have been accused over and over to "do something positive", "grow up", "stop whining" or "get a job". Guess what, this people do care for their community (or stand in solidarity, in case they live elsewhere), and many of them do useful work in close collaboration with the people that need help. Comparing with the smashed glass pane yesterday, I didn't see a lot of coverage on mainstream press, though. No riot porn, no public interest? DTES survivor women not so inspiring as Olympians? Violence against poor, indegenous women not so worth condemning as property damage? Thanks for your blog post, glad at least someone cares :-) I missed so many “glowing hearts” today at the March for Missing and Murdered Women. I think I didn’t see a single person wearing Olympic merchandise marching with us, and I did look around looking for one. I did see lots of faces I had seen at recent anti-olympic protests (some of them nonviolent anarchists like myself), marching peacefully and respectfully, and carrying no banners besides the five that were prepared by the organizers of the march. The very same people that have been accused over and over to “do something positive”, “grow up”, “stop whining” or “get a job”. Guess what, this people do care for their community (or stand in solidarity, in case they live elsewhere), and many of them do useful work in close collaboration with the people that need help.

Comparing with the smashed glass pane yesterday, I didn’t see a lot of coverage on mainstream press, though. No riot porn, no public interest? DTES survivor women not so inspiring as Olympians? Violence against poor, indegenous women not so worth condemning as property damage?

Thanks for your blog post, glad at least someone cares :-)

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