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THUNDER BAY – Residents of Thunder Bay marked International Women’s Day on Wednesday as an occasion to celebrate clear gains for women’s rights, but also a call to action, with gender-based violence and other issues continuing to impact women here and around the world.
Sandra Snider of the Thunder Bay and District Labour Council, who helped coordinate the march, said organizers wanted to make this year’s event a celebration of hard-won progress. Marchers gathered at OPSEU headquarters afterwards for poetry, music, and a celebration of the Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre’s 50th anniversary.
However, she also pointed to signs of disturbing rollbacks of women’s rights around the world, including south of the board. “I certainly would call upon men to educate themselves, first and foremost, and then to think about the ways in which they may be contributing, even unconsciously, to systems that are resulting in experiences of gender-based violences or sexism, [whether] in their personal relationships or their professional lives.”
“I’m thinking about the right of abortion in the States, or into Spain or Italy, that got removed or terrible access to it,” she said.
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