WHAT - IS OUR PURPOSEA Website
The Global Women's Memorial website project is seeking the financial and community support that will allow us to build an on-line community dedicated to fostering resistance to the murder of women. How?
This site is a first step to bringing that on-line community together.
Reinventing the Public Memorial
Activists in Canada have reinvented the public memorial by building monuments and holding marches to commemorate the lives of women who have been murdered. The Global Women's Memorial is a web portal and template project that will link together all the memorials to women murdered and missing across Canada, offering a central site where memorial activists can connect, collaborate and change the way our society thinks about violence.
Empowered Access
Based on the principle of "direct democracy," the project will provide a website template for memorial-activists to create their own websites. The template will provide a public forum that will allow memorial makers to share their stories, strategies and visions.
Interactive Forum
In the interactive portal at the centre of the site participants can publicize their events, share strategies and discuss issues surrounding the murder of women.