LOCAL 846
We would like to thank everyone for helping with the United Way’s Period Promise Campaign for the month of May.
With your help from all the facilities in the CUPW Vancouver Local, we were able to collect over 3,000 products to donate to those in need. Helping bring the estimated total of the product donations of 558,765 to help fight Period Poverty.
June 18,2021
Tânisi nitotem,
As I put words to paper my heart is heavy and my stomach cannot settle. The past few weeks the news about the bodies of indigenous children found buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have troubled me as well as many in this country. This school is located on the unseeded traditional territory of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc peoples. Society has been heart broken and horrified to hear of this discovery. Sadly, this discovery does not come as a surprise. Survivors of residential schools have shared their stories for decades and to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) about their siblings and cousins who went missing at the residential school and were never seen again. These schools were designed by the State to eliminate the indigeneity from the Indigenous peoples of this country. The church acting as the agents of the State would be given the contracts to operate, and to force the assimilation of Indigenous children to a white European culture: the TRC called this cultural genocide.
BRAD SIEBEN (VEO INBOUND SHIFT 1)
*WINNER* of the Vancouver local’s 50/50 draw .
$ 2421.50
Thankyou everyone for taking part in the draw and helping us in collecting donations for PERIOD PROMISE CAMPAIGN.
The winner will be informed via phone.
Good luck and thank you everyone for taking part in it.
In Solidarity
Anju Parmar, President
Friday, June 18 at 5pm
Zoom Video/Phone Conference
The Vancouver Local is having a Human Rights Committee Meeting. You must register in advance for this meeting. Registration deadline: Thursday, June 17 @ 5pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErd-yvqjIqEtxDLgtC6WoMGVkgyi81JV9c
If you are interested in participating on this committee, please read the information below, taken from our Vancouver Local by-laws, in regards to the committee’s mandate:
As the Canadian colonial project continues to unfold, horrors like the mass grave found by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation continue to emerge. But to uncover and face the truth is part of the way forward, and we hear and join the call from many Indigenous leaders to find and document the gravesites of the many more children who were stolen from their families, denied their language, denied health supports and respect, abused and then buried without dignity, all by our colonial system. All children deserve love and respect, as do all survivors of the residential school system.
The Vancouver Local is having a Women’s Committee meeting on Thursday, June 17 , 2021 @ 5 pm via Zoom. Registration Deadline: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 5pm. You must register in advance for this meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdeqvrz0uHdZtF33iUmOEKdaQWQDLof9P
If you are interested in participating on this committee, please read the information below, taken from our Vancouver Local By-laws, in regards to the committee’s mandate: