Feb 12, 2021 | Did You Know?, News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon Campaign
During PEI’s Family Violence Prevention Week, I am reflecting on the days of action and remembrance on violence against women we marked at the end of November and beginning of December with the Purple Ribbon Campaign. The December 6th Montreal Massacre Memorial...
Feb 9, 2021 | Did You Know?, News and Views, Purple Ribbon Campaign
The PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women invites you to use online resources created for the Purple Ribbon Campaign Against Violence to reflect and educate yourself and others throughout Family Violence Prevention Week. Powerful video commemoration of the 2020...
Dec 17, 2020 | Purple Ribbon Campaign
Council and staff of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women extend sincere and heartfelt appreciation to everyone who participated in the 2020 Montreal Massacre Memorial video commemoration. We missed being together physically but were pleased with how many...
Dec 16, 2020 | Purple Ribbon Campaign
PEI-Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Jenn Grant performed her song “Mauve” in honour of the April 2020 Portapique, NS, mass shootings, for sharing in the Charlottetown, PEI, 2020 Montreal Massacre Memorial Service video commemoration. The video of the full...
Dec 16, 2020 | Purple Ribbon Campaign
When you looked at me did you see me? Did you see my arms and think of how wildly they gesticulate when I’m telling a story? Or did you see my arms and picture how you would use them to pin me down? Did you see my lips and visualize how they must look when...
Dec 16, 2020 | News and Views, Purple Ribbon Campaign
Roxanne Carter-Thompson and Debbie Langston prepare for Roxanne to tell her story. Roxanne Carter-Thompson is the Executive Director of the Adventure Group in Prince Edward Island, and she told her story of being a survivor of violence for the first time in public to...
