Notre Révolution Féministe

Our Revolution is Now

The 2^nd Pan-Canadian Young Feminist Gathering

May 20-23, 2011  |  Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

In this email you will find updates and information on:

• Regional Mobilization
• Consultation Process
• Getting yourself to Winnipeg
• What to watch out for!

 

  Recap  

The 1st gathering, “Toujours RebELLEs,  Waves of Resistance” hosted over 500 young feminists in Montréal in October of 2008. For three days, young feminists gathered to share experiences, stories and analysis. We engaged in creative resistance actions in the streets, learned from and with one another, shared our feminist talents, and danced up a storm. We returned to our regions with a strong foundation for a young feminist movement in place, one that RebELLEs all across the country have been building upon for the past two years.

 

After this first gathering, participants and feminists across the country unanimously recognized the need for a second gathering to continue building the movement and connecting with our sisters across the country. The time for a second gathering is now!

 

  For Who? 

The gathering is open to all young women, activists, students, workers, un(der)employed women, artists, researchers, mothers, feminists of all tendencies and of all types, and of course emerging feminists, to get involved!

 

The gathering will be a women-only space and will be open to all persons under the age of 35 who currently identify and live as women, including those who were born female who claim no particular gender identification, who identify as two-spirit or gender queer. 

 

  Regional Mobilization  

We are looking for a few young feminist activists from each region, province and territory willing to contribute further to the organization of the event, or to become “regional mobilizers”.

                 

The regional mobilizers will work to spread the word about the gathering and to get more women involved in their own home community, province or territory and region.

 

The role of the regional mobilizers is to:

• Ensure communication between their community (province or territory) and the Organizing Committee
• Support mobilization efforts for the gathering in your region and the promote the event (a mobilization kit has been created to help guide you in this role)
• Organize a consulta meeting to answer provided consultation questions at the regional mobilization meetings to find out what matters to young women in your community
• Choose, with the participants from the consultation meetings, a representative from your province or territory who will participate in the tele-Consulta in late January
• Help to coordinate fundraising efforts so that the young women and young feminists in your community can make it to Winnipeg this spring!

Whether you have little or lots of experience organizing, we need your help!  Please communicate as soon as possible with the Organizing Committee if you are interested in helping out the RebELLEs Movement in this way!  rebelles@femrev.org 

 

  Regional Mobilizer Contacts  

We already have mobilizers in many provinces and territories. If you would like to contact the mobilizer in your region, would like to help her out with the mobilization process or would like to attend a consulta, please contact them below! If you notice your region is not listed, perhaps you would like to become the mobilizer in your region!

 

 

Region	Contact	Region	Contact
British Columbia		Ontario
Vancouver	vancouverrebelles@gmail.com	Ottawa	ottawarebelles@gmail.com
Victoria	victoriarebelles@gmail.com	Toronto	torontofeminists@hotmail.com
Yukon		Québec
Whitehorse	yukonrebelles@gmail.com	Montréal	rebellesmontreal@gmail.com
Alberta		Saguenay	rebelles02@live.ca
Calgary	Calgary-rebelles@hotmail.com	New Brunswick
Manitoba		Fredericton	nbrebelles@gmail.com
Brandon	vanillagreen@hotmail.com	Newfoundland
Winnipeg	rebelles@femrev.org	Cornwallis	novascotiarebelles@hotmail.com
		Nunavut
		Inuvik	nancy_mcinnis@hotmail.com

 

  Consultas  

The consultation process for the 2011 RebELLEs Gathering is one that is incredibly important and that requires the help of regional mobilizers and women from all across the country. The purpose of holding regional consultas is to gain insight from women in your communities as to what they/you want to see happen at the 2011 Gathering. What should some of the focus be? What kind of workshops do you want to participate in? What are the most crucial areas for action for young women, young feminists and the RebELLEs Movement today?

The purpose is also to give women in different regions an opportunity to take part in the development of the project and have your perspectives heard. This is not just Winnipeg’s Gathering after all, but our RebELLEs Gathering.

 Other goals of the regional consultas are to:

• Share our visions on the content, program, and format of the gathering
• Meet other local feminists and young women in your region, get to know each other and build bridges between the Organizing Committee (OC) and the regional representatives.
• Discuss the process of regional mobilization and the role and importance of the regional mobilizers in the 2011 Gathering (get more women on board with mobilization! It doesn’t have to all fall on your shoulders!)
• Reflect and share on the different oppressions that young women face and the different struggles that young women across the country are facing in diverse communities
• Find common mobilization strategies to ensure the diversity of participants at the gathering 
• Start to establish a list of human resources for the gathering (translators, artists, facilitators, etc.)
• Develop a data-base of ideas for sources of financial support and discuss ideas for creative fundraising strategies

Consultas will be held between now and January 15, 2011. The information will be shared at a tele-consulta in January, after which the Organizing Committee will compile results and incorporate suggestions and ideas into the content of the 2011 Gathering. If you are able to organize a consulta in your region or you would like to participate in one, please contact the mobilizer in your region or if there is not a mobilizer in your area, call or email the OC and we can work together to set one up!