Video documents a meeting of the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Ottawa from November 20-22, 1992. Meeting took place at a venue called the Econiche House in Cantley, QC .
Video documents the unveiling of Enclave: Women's Monument Against Violence in Minto Park, Ottawa on Dec 6th 1992, Canada's National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The artist Mary Leigh Faught, a Landscape Architect, was commissioned to create the monument as an homage to women abused and murdered by men in Canada's National Capital Region. Project initiated by the Women's Urgent Action Committee.
Video documents a lawyer, Brigitte Gauthier, talking to reporters outside a court house in Québec. Protestors hold a sign that reads "Jocelyne Champagne La Résistance de Toutes Les Femmes." Video also depicts Ashley Turner, a criminologist, being filmed in a house discussing the imprisonment and case of Jocelyne Champagne from Baie-Comeau, QC.
Video documents an annual conference [National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC)?] with various women's associations, centers and caucuses across Canada.
Video documents CJOH news coverage on a rape shield law demonstration outside the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. Included are brief interviews with Michelle Hurtubise of the Rape Crisis Centre and Caroline Ford of the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Ottawa (SASCO). News anchor Kimothy Walker states in the video that "The women's groups will be appealing to justice minister Kim Kamble to initiate legislation they say would give women back their privacy. They say in the meantime they will be demonstrating and forming petitions to tell rape victims they are not alone." The video also documents CJOH news coverage on Shadikan Mohamed who's daughter Sharon Mohamed was murdered in their apartment in Alta Vista, Ottawa with a brief interview with Irene Sernoski of the SASCO.
Video documents part 2 of a meeting to plan an AIDS and HIV workshop for women in Ottawa. Meeting is lead by Caroline Ford. The workshop outline includes: AIDS as a feminist issue, sexuality and violence, reproductive issues, medical attitudes, women's symptomatology, counselling HIV positive women within the context of counselling rape and incest survivors. People named at the beginning of the meeting are Caroline Ford, Marilyn (Counselor at the AIDS Committee of Ottawa), Kathleen, Irene [Sernoski?] (videographer), Mary, Valerie, Lynn Hamilton, Joanne.
Video documents a 24/24 news segment in French on Jocelyne Champagne's case from Baie-Comeau, QC. Topics include violence against women and child abuse.
Video documents a vigil for Patricia Allen, a lawyer murdered by her husband on Nov 13, 1991 in Ottawa. Speeches given at the vigil discuss violence against women, victims of male violence, and recent murdered women in Ottawa. Speakers include Diane Holmes, City of Ottawa Council member, Johanne [Departé?] from Maison Unie-Vers-Femme women's shelter in Gatineau, and a member of parliament. Video also documents a vigil for murdered women in Ottawa at Enclave: Women's Monument Against Violence, Minto Park, on Sep 21, 1991. Video also documents a demonstration on September 21, 1991 for Take Back the Night -La rue, la nuit, les femmes sans peur demonstration starting at the Museum of Nature, Ottawa. Ashley Turner appears standing with crutches behind a sign for the Sexual Assault Support Center of Ottawa (SASCO).
