Take Back the Night

This Thursday, September 19 more than 200 people will gather for the annual Take Back the Night March. The march will be led by women and survivors. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. with pizza followed by speeches at 7:00 p.m. The march will begin at 7:30 p.m. and everyone is invited to meet at the N’Swakamok Native Friendship Centre, 110 Elm St. The march will go through the downtown core.  

“Take Back the Night began as a way to draw attention to the violence that women experience, particularly fear of walking alone at night due to sexual violence,” Laur O’Gorman, one of this year’s organizers, explains. “Over the years, it has expanded to include the different ways that violence impacts women, such as the high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women and colonization as a violent practice, racist violence towards racialized women with the growing white supremacist movements, homophobic violence against queer and trans folks, and the high rate of violence against women with disabilities.”

The values of the march are simple: anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-oppressive. All who share the core values of this event are welcome to attend. For more information about the march, please contact Hez Bird at theheatherbird@gmail.com