{"id":6786,"date":"2018-10-04T07:47:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2018-10-04T10:07:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T15:07:27","slug":"october-4-2018-sisters-in-spirit-vigils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=6786","title":{"rendered":"October 4, 2018: Sisters in Spirit Vigils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sisve.png\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6787 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sisve-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sisve-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sisve.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is an invitation to celebrate, honour and support Indigenous women, girls and their families on October 4 by attending or holding a Sisters In Spirit Vigil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwac.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native Women\u2019s Association of Canada (NWAC)<\/a> began drawing attention to the issue of violence against Indigenous women in 2005. They assembled a database on 582 missing and murdered women and girls. This year will be the 13th annual Sisters In Spirit Vigils across the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2018\u2019Each year, family members, Indigenous community members, and supports gather on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwac.ca\/home\/policy-areas\/violence-prevention-and-safety\/sisters-in-spirit\/october-4th-vigils\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 4th<\/a> at Parliament Hill and across the country. We gather to honour our sisters and their families who have been impacted by violence.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A vigil can take many forms, from a moment of silence, to a rally, to a community feast. All that is important is that you take some time on or around October 4 to mark the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In response to numerous calls for action from organizations such as NWAC and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), the Government of Canada launched an entirely independent National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) in September 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/psacunion.ca\/psac-demands-justice-indigenous-women-and-girls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PSAC also demands justice for Indigenous women and girls<\/a>. \u201cThis government must ensure that the Inquiry leads to justice and healing for all affected by this ongoing tragedy,\u201d said Magali Picard, PSAC National Executive Vice-President. \u201cIndigenous women and girls, and their families, deserve answers. They deserve justice.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIndigenous women are loved and valued. However, statistics on murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls show that they are in danger. How can we, as a society, keep them safe? Two questions from and Indigenous woman who spoke at a supportive gathering several years ago still resonate: \u201cWill you hear me? Will you believe me?\u2019\u2019 declares UNE National Equity Representative for Aboriginal Peoples Ruby Langan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an invitation to celebrate, honour and support Indigenous women, girls and their families on October 4 by attending or holding a Sisters In Spirit Vigil. The Native Women\u2019s Association of Canada (NWAC) began drawing attention to the issue of violence against Indigenous women in 2005. They assembled a database on 582 missing and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=6786\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;October 4, 2018: Sisters in Spirit Vigils&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,7,12],"tags":[135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}