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By James Dunn

International Women's Day

Women’s March returns to Red Deer on March 7

Feb 13, 2020 | 7:00 PM

The second annual Red Deer Women’s March will make its way through downtown Red Deer to coincide with International Women’s Day on March 7.

The Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre (CASASC) and Central Alberta Refugee Effort (CARE) have partnered up for this event.

Organizer Sadia Khan says the rise of the #MeToo movement makes it more important for events like the women’s march to happen.

“We are in this era, especially in 2020, where we can have these conversations out in the open,” she explains. “There have always been inequities and injustices that existed where half of the population are women. It’s about time we do this march, especially in a smaller community in Central Alberta to show light to these issues that involve women, simple as pay inequity.”

Khan says these issues need to be discussed more than just one day a year.

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“It’s not like we do a one-day march, talk about these issues and that’s it. We want to create those action items and present it to the community in Red Deer. How’s it that we can do better to balance the inequities and injustices that really affect the women and girls in Red Deer.”

Marchers will gather at the Red Deer Public Library walk throughout the downtown core for about twenty minutes, then come back for speakers from multiple groups including CASASC and CARE, also Urban Aboriginal Voices, and Turning Point, along with a sexual assault survivor. These groups will talk about a number of issues including sexual assaults and Indigenous discrimination.

Everyone is invited to take part, including men. The event is free to join with more information available Facebook.