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Wednesdsay March 14, 2001 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER A3 Never greater need fo r wom en's rights says jo u m a lis t-a c tiv is t WHAM re-launched on Women's Day little o f it on the status o f w om en," she said. She urged the audience, gathered As a journalist, Sally A rm strong at R attlesnake Point G olf Club to has travelled to some o f the most celeb rate In te rn atio n a l W om en's oppressive countries in the w orld -- Day, to speak out against injustices countries where women are routine they see both locally and interna ly denied basic hum an rights and tionally. "P eople w ho d o n 't intervene dignities. Just last m onth, she v isited w hen things are am iss are giving A fghanistan, w here the iron-rule of tacit approval," A rm strong said. "In the M uslim fundam entalist govern the absence o f a protest, evil is nourished." ment has turned the clock back decades "Canadian women are As part o f the cele of for women. hearing that this is the bration I n t e r n a t i o n a l W omen are no best place in the world. W om en's Day, a lo n g er allo w ed to Who is it best for? local voice o f protest w ork or attend has been revived. People o f privilege, school, and can be The W om en of p u blicly stoned to in the main. " H alton A ction death for being in the -Bev LeFrancois, M o v e m e n t com pany o f a m an WHAM founding m em ber (W HAM ), a fem inist w ho's not their hus lobby group founded band, brother or son. M any health care services are no 20 years ago, has been officially re longer available to fem ales, who launched. Bev Le F ran co is, one o f the must spend their lives hiding behind blackened house w indow s and in founding m em bers o f W HAM and a co -d ire c to r o f the H alton Rape head-to-toe clothing. In A fghanistan, as in other coun C risis C entre, told the audience that tries around the w orld where wom en the group is needed to battle for a are subjected to such horrors as hon natio n al ch ild care program , pay our killings and fem ale genital m uti equity and affordable housing and lation, the subject o f the treatm ent against child pornography, rape and environm ental degradation. of wom en is taboo. "C anadian w om en are hearing M any p ractices are sim ply that this is the best place in the defended on the basis o f culture, says A rm strong, an aw ard-w inning w orld," said LeFrancois. "W ho is it jo u rn a list and fo rm er e d ito r o f best for? People o f privilege, in the H om em aker's M agazine, who has m ain." The need for W HAM is becom brought the sto ries o f w om en ing essential in today's political cli around the w orld back to Canada. "I call it playing the cultural m ate, where social program s that trum p card," she told a group of protect vulnerable m em bers o f soci about 300 H alton women last week. ety are being eroded by various lev "I som etim es w onder why no one els o f go v ern m ent, added Joey ever asks the women how they feel Edw ards, executive director o f the about having to carry the cultural H alton Social Planning Council. "The circum stances o f women key in these places." But w hile sh e's often horrified by dem an d we struggle and m arch the status o f wom en in m any o f the again for equality, peace and ju s co u n tries she v isits, A rm strong tice," she said. W HAM w ill hold m onthly m eet added sh e's also angry about the abuse suffered by C anadian women ings for all interested m em bers. The first m eeting will be held A pril 17 at and children. "I 'm asham ed that a country with the Rape Crisis Centre at Hopedale so m uch opportunity can spend so M all on Rebecca Street. 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