File F6 - For Every Woman Raped In Every War

This file consists of records related to the Remembrance Day Ceremony on November 1978, 1979 and 1980. "For Every Woman Raped in Every War", was an action that was organized for Remembrance Day, November 11, 1979. A banner was created for the occasion and a poem by Kate Nonesuch was presented. Wendy McPeake explained that they walked as a group to the microphones at the national cenotaph in Ottawa at the end of the Remembrance Day Ceremony, unfurled the banner and began to read Kate's poem (Wendy McPeake, letter of May 31, 2016). Within seconds the microphones cut out, so they chanted the poem together as loudly as they could. Very few of the huge crowd could hear them, but they received some support and enthusiastic applause from folks standing in the front. (See Upstream, vol. 4, no.1, December 1979, p.4). The file contains a small poster title "For Every Woman Raped in Every War", correspondence, notes, articles and newspaper clippings.