Supporting MMIWG2S+
May 6, 2024
May 5 marked Red Dress Day, also known as National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ People in Canada (MMIWG2S+).
This past Saturday, May 4, MoveUP Vice-President Christy Slusarenko attended an event hosted by CUPE 728 at Bear Creek Park in Surrey to honour MMIWG2S+. MoveUP’s Human Rights & Multicultural Committee was proud to donate $500 towards the hosting of this event.
This past Sunday, May 45, BCFED president Sussanne Skidmore shared an announcement in Prince George – symbolic as it marks one end of the the Highway of Tears – that the federal government has partnered with the Manitoba government, along with Indigenous grassroots organizations, to create Canada’s first Red Dress Alert system.
Annette Toth, MoveUP Vice-President and COPE SEPB President, was proud to represent our union in Prince George, joining other members of the labour movement to hear the announcement of this historic program.
The Red Dress Alert system will notify the public when an Indigenous woman, girl, two-spirit or gender-diverse person is reported missing.
The creation of a Red Dress Alert system has long been called for by the NDP, and it was a 2023 NDP motion that called to recognize the crisis of the MMIWG2S+ as a Canada-wide emergency.
Read the Government of Canada announcement
In solidarity,
Christy Slusarenko & Anderson Charles
Co-chairs, Human Rights & Multicultural Committee
