Amnesty International's Gender Rights Network Presents:

BBQ for Justice Fundraiser

**Friday, May 14, 5:30 - 8:00 pm

**Amnesty International House - 312 Laurier Avenue East

Join Amnesty International’s Ottawa Gender Rights Network for a BBQ for Justice Fundraiser! Come enjoy our vegetarian-friendly BBQ.

Stay to watch a short film on maternal mortality in Sierra Leone.

Proceeds from this event will help support the Gender Rights Network's activities.

The Gender Rights Network – Ottawa (GRN - Ottawa) is a local Amnesty International group engaged in campaigning and community education activities to raise awareness about gender-based human rights violations. Since November 2009 the GRN – Ottawa has organized events around issues of violence against women and girls, letter writing actions on laws that discriminate based on sexual orientation, and have organized public actions in Ottawa to show solidarity for women’s human rights defenders.

To learn more about Amnesty's work on Women’s Human Rights visit www.amnesty.ca/women

Ladyfest Ottawa Tarts N' Crafts - Sat May 8

In honour of Mother’s Day, Ladyfest Ottawa is donating $500 of the proceeds to Mothercraft Ottawa’s Birth and Parent Companion Program. The remainder of the profits go to fund events supporting women in the arts throughout the year.

Tarts n’ Crafts
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Jack Purcell Community Centre
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
$2 admission

Ladyfest Ottawa (LFO) is a non-profit, primarily women-organised music and arts festival that is open to everyone.

Ladyfest Ottawa is a volunteer-driven organisation that showcases women’s artistic expression and shares ideas through music, performance, film and video, exhibitions, panels and workshops.

Ladyfest Ottawa is part of a tradition of grassroots-organised festivals showcasing the talents of women artists... Ladyfest Ottawa is an inclusive, feminist organisation. We feel that providing a venue for women artists counters the obstacles and discrimination that women often face, including sexism, homophobia and racism. We also try to address these issues in our workshops, along with encouraging a D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself), hands-on approach to skill sharing. We believe that political action can be fun and creative!

We are also committed to building communities, collaborations and conversations among women in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. We are proud to showcase local artists.

Ultimately, we hope Ladyfest Ottawa inspires women everywhere to organise themselves and create similar spaces that allow women’s creative works to be seen and heard.

Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada Membership

This is a fundraising appeal. PLEASE join ARCC! There's lots of good reasons why. First, it's damn cheap! - only $20 for a year. That includes our newsletter "The Activist/L'Activiste", issued 3 times a year, as well as your choice of private listservs to keep up to date on news related to reproductive rights in Canada.

Most of all, your membership helps to support our work ensuring abortion access and rights for Canadian women. The Conservative government and the anti-choice movement in Canada are both very active in trying to take away those rights, so our work is cut out for us - and we really need your ongoing support. And we're not shirkers: check out this update on ARCC news and activities over the last year and a half: http://www.facebook.com/l/8e408;www.arcc-cdac.ca/action/ARCC-activity.html. We hope you'll agree that our work deserves your support!

All of ARCC's revenue comes from private donations and membership fees - we receive NO funding from external sources. In addition, we are the only national POLITICAL pro-choice group in Canada - we're NOT a charity - which means our lobbying and political work is essential to the continued protection of abortion rights in Canada - even while fundraising is difficult because we cannot apply for most grants or provide tax receipts (sorry!)

So we hope you can join us in the ongoing struggle. Please visit our website for info on how to join: http://www.facebook.com/l/8e408;www.arcc-cdac.ca/membership.html (and for more info, email info@arcc-http://www.facebook.com/l/8e408;cdac.ca)

THANK YOU SO MUCH! :-)
Joyce Arthur, Coordinator