Take Back The Night Rally Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE – Tonight is Prince George’s 26th annual Take Back The Night rally and march. The rally begins at 6 p.m. at CNC, with speeches from Si Transken, a local activist and UNBC social work professor; Dawn Hemingway, founding member of Northern FIRE and the Women North Network and a UNBC social work professor and Brenda Wilson, a Family Support Worker with the Ministry of Public Safety & Solicitor General for the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women, who lost her sister, Ramona, on the Highway of Tears.
After the rally, there will be music from the K’hastan Drummers who will lead the march down Highway 97.
Take Back The Night is a worldwide initiative that began in the 1970s with the mission of ending sexual and physical violence against women.
“A big focus was just to raise awareness for the issue of violence against women, and the fact that we want to have safer streets for our women and children when they’re walking at night, when they’re walking at daytime – anytime,” says Cassidy Shuvera, one of the event organizers.
