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December 7, 1990
"We are in a very real war in which the violence is almost exclusively on one side"
The Montreal Massacre – A Speech by Andrea Dworkin - Everyone should listen to this speech today. This is one of the greatest speeches Andrea ever gave.
https://rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/the-montreal-massacre-a-speech-by-andrea-dworkin

"What I heard and what I saw was the establishment was saying, yes we are willing to be sad, yes it is appropriate for you to cry, after all, girls do cry, but when there was an expression of anger, the establishment said, 'sit down bitch'." - Andrea Dworkin December 7, 1990

"We stand up with grief and terror and rage."

"When women are killed it's almost never called murder."

"This man who was not crazy who was political in his thinking and in his actions understood the meaning of those barriers coming down and he committed a political act so that we would retreat, so that new barriers could be built and so that women would not have the heart or the courage or the patience or the endurance to break those barriers down."

"We count the dead bodies. We count the numbers of rapes. We count the women who are being battered. We keep track of the children who are being raped by their fathers and when those numbers start to change in a way that is meaningful, we will then talk to you about whether or not we can measure progress."

"All of the accomplishments of feminism ... have been made ... with the most extraordinary patience and self restraint by which I mean we have not used guns. We have not used guns. They have been used against us and we have used words. We have marched saying words."

"Everything we achieve, we are punished for achieving.
Every statement we make we are punished for making.
Every act towards self determination that we make we are punished for making.
Every assertion of dignity is punished.
Either socially by the great media out there when they chose to recognize us it is usually through
ridicule or contempt or by the men who are around us."

"We are in a very real war in which the violence is almost exclusively on one side"

"The purpose of the punishment is very clear whether it's an act of forced sex, whether it's being beaten, whether it's being insulted with words, whether it's being harassed walking down the street, whether it's being sexually harassed in your place of work. It's very clear. Get inside. Shut your mouth. Do what I tell. Which is usually reducible to clean the house and open your legs."

"And many of us have said no. No. We say it in different ways we say it in different times. But we say no and we've said it loudly enough and collectively enough that is has begun to resonate in the public sphere. No. No we will not!"

"No, now there is an answer to our no. A semi automatic gun is one answer. There are also knives. There are bombs. It's not a pleasant
conversation that we're having."

"The press and the establishment politicians and the social pundants are using differences between this mass murder and the and the usual pattern of violence against women to confuse the issue. As if the differences are what matters and not what is the same. We know what is the same."

Mass Murder in Montreal: The Sexual Politics of Killing Women
"The feminist is the woman who is there not because she is his woman, but because she is the sister of the woman he is being a weapon against. Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her oppressor in a vacuum, alone. It exists to break down the privacy in which men rape, beat, and kill women. What I am saying is that every one of us has the responsibility to be the woman [that prick] wanted to murder. We need to live with that honor, that courage. We need to put fear aside. We need to endure. We need to create. We need to resist, and we need to stop dedicating the other 364 days of the year to forgetting everything we know. We need to remember every day, not only on December 6. We need to consecrate our lives to what we know and to our resistance to the male power used against us."

Andrea's speech can be heard in many different places. Please share widely.

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vMnpw1GVKVaA2RrBIxxQv

The Montreal Massacre - A Speech by Andrea Dworkin
https://soundcloud.com/womenreadwomen/the-montreal-massacre-a-speech-by-andrea-dworkin

Andrea Dworkin's Montreal Speech December 7, 199
http://andreadworkin.com/audio/montrealdworkin.mp3

Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-montreal-massacre-a-speech-by-andrea-dworkin/id1510825056?i=1000544292204

#AndreaDworkin #Dec61989 #ÉcolePolytechnique #IncelViolence #GoneButNotForgotten #Femicide #Misogyny #WomanHate #Rememberthe14 #16Days #RadFem #MVAWG #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #violenceagainstwomen #WomynsHerstory #MontrealPolytechniqueTragecy #RadFem #feminist #feminism #RadicalFeminism #Femicide #ÉcolePolytechniqueMassacre #MontrealMassacre
Happy Birthday
Sandra Bland.
She would have been 36 today.

Sandra Bland would have been 36 years old today instead she was brutally attacked by police after she was pulled over for a “minor traffic violation”. She was later found dead in a Waller County Jail Cell.

* 4 other women were found dead in cells within two weeks of her murder.


Sandra Bland was born in Naperville, IL. She was only 28 years old when she was found hung in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015; 3 days after being arrested for a traffic stop.

Listen to “Say My Name” https://youtu.be/ypKNm7dgvKQ

#RestInPower #GoneButNotForgotten #SandraBland #SayHerName
Tranada, have you no decency?
A Canadian college invited a "trans feminine nonbinary" activist to give a keynote address at an event on violence against women today.
https://bit.ly/3h9BpdS

A TERF confronted Fae Johnstone, a trans-identified male, who gave the keynote address today at Durham College in North Oshawa, Ontario as part of the school’s National Day of Remembrance Ceremony marking the anniversary of a massacre that left 14 women dead.

"After his speech at Durham College tonight, Johnstone was confronted by Jennifer Anne, a Canadian women’s rights advocate who has been working to secure the release of the analysis that was done on gender self-identification legislation in Canada.

Anne attended the event and recorded some of Johnstone’s address before proposing a question when given the opportunity by the event’s host.

“Today is the day we mark 14 women who were killed in Montreal by a man who subjected them simply because they were female. It is sex-based violence, not gender based violence. I am a female,” Anne is heard saying, before listing off examples where self-identification lead to the victimization of women.

“I am wondering why, on this day, we would have a man dressed in women’s garb to talk to us about sex-based violence and keeping women safe? How can women stay safe in this environment?”

Johnstone replies curtly: “Thank you. Next question!”

“Really? So you’re not going to answer it because you know I’m right?” Anne responds. The host of the event, as well as other administrators, are then heard trying to discourage Anne from continuing to assert her question.

Anne uploaded the recordings to her Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/JenniferAnne_s/status/1600328900856324096?cxt=HHwWgICptYGqwbUsAAAA

"Johnstone had previously slammed the Canadian Femicide Observatory for “retweeting TERF and TERF rhetoric.” TERF is a derogatory term most frequently applied to women who acknowledge two distinct sex groups.

He also claimed the Declaration on Women’s Sex Based Rights was a “roadmap for erasing trans people from public life, denying our rights and restricting our healthcare.”


The event was being held to mark the anniversary of a massacre that left 14 female students dead.

#Dec61989 #ÉcolePolytechnique #IncelViolence #GoneButNotForgotten #GenderBasedViolence #Rememberthe14 #16Days #RadFem #MVAWG #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #violenceagainstwomen #WomynsHerstory #MontrealPolytechniqueTragecy #RadFem #feminist #feminism #RadicalFeminism #Femicide #ÉcolePolytechniqueMassacre #MontrealMassacre
ReduxxDurham College Invites Trans-Identified Male to Speak at on Violence Against Women at Femicide Memorial Event - ReduxxA Canadian college invited a trans-identified male to speak on violence against women in observation of the 33rd anniversary of an act of mass femicide. Fae Johnstone, a trans-identified male, gave a keynote address today at Durham College in North Oshawa, Ontario as part of the school’s National Day of Remembrance Ceremony marking the anniversary […]
Remembering The Montreal Massacre
https://archive.org/details/RememberingTheMontrealMassacre

It took SEVEN years for a women's monument to be constructed

The killer's act reflected a wider societal problem of violence against women but at the time, there was a whitewash.

The shooter was yelling about feminism and feminists and that he hated feminists and the media did not want to say it.

"In 1989, a man walked into the École Polytechnique in Montreal and killed fourteen women engineering students. We speak with Elinor Warkentin who was involved in creating a monument in Vancouver. Marker of Change, the Women’s Movement was the site of a large commemorative event on Saturday. Elinor Warkentin speaks with Redeye host Jane Williams."

#AndreaDworkin #Dec61989 #ÉcolePolytechnique #IncelViolence #GoneButNotForgotten #GenderBasedViolence #Rememberthe14 #16Days #RadFem #MVAWG #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #violenceagainstwomen #WomynsHerstory #MontrealPolytechniqueTragecy #RadFem #feminist #feminism #RadicalFeminism #Femicide #ÉcolePolytechniqueMassacre #MontrealMassacre
December 7, 1990
"We are in a very real war in which the violence is almost exclusively on one side"
The Montreal Massacre – A Speech by Andrea Dworkin - Everyone should listen to this speech today. This is one of the greatest speeches Andrea ever gave.
https://rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/the-montreal-massacre-a-speech-by-andrea-dworkin

"What I heard and what I saw was the establishment was saying, yes we are willing to be sad, yes it is appropriate for you to cry, after all, girls do cry, but when there was an expression of anger, the establishment said, 'sit down bitch'." - Andrea Dworkin December 7, 1990

"We stand up with grief and terror and rage."

"When women are killed it's almost never called murder."

"This man who was not crazy who was political in his thinking and in his actions understood the meaning of those barriers coming down and he committed a political act so that we would retreat, so that new barriers could be built and so that women would
not have the heart or the courage or the patience or the endurance to break those barriers down."

"We count the dead bodies. We count the numbers of rapes. We count the women who are being battered. We keep track of the children who are being raped by their fathers and when those numbers start to change in a way that is meaningful, we will then talk to you about whether or not we can measure progress."

"All of the accomplishments of feminism ... have been made ... with the most extraordinary patience and self restraint by which I mean we have not used guns. We have not used guns. They have been used against us and we have used words. We have marched saying words."

"Everything we achieve, we are punished for achieving.
Every statement we make we are punished for making.
Every act towards self determination that we make we are punished for making.
Every assertion of dignity is punished.
Either socially by the great media out there when they chose to recognize us it is usually through
ridicule or contempt or by the men who are around us."

"We are in a very real war in which the violence is almost exclusively on one side"

"The purpose of the punishment is very clear whether it's an act of forced sex, whether it's being beaten, whether it's being insulted with words, whether it's being harassed walking down the street, whether it's being sexually harassed in your place of work. It's very clear. Get inside. Shut your mouth. Do what I tell. Which is usually reducible to clean the house and open your legs."

"And many of us have said no. No. We say it in different ways we say it in different times. But we say no and we've said it loudly enough and collectively enough that is has begun to resonate in the public sphere. No. No we will not!"

"No, now there is an answer to our no. A semi automatic gun is one answer. There are also knives. There are bombs. It's not a pleasant
conversation that we're having."

"The press and the establishment politicians and the social pundants are using differences between this mass murder and the and the usual pattern of violence against women to confuse the issue. As if the differences are what matters and not what is the same. We know what is the same."


Mass Murder in Montreal: The Sexual Politics of Killing Women
"The feminist is the woman who is there not because she is his woman, but because she is the sister of the woman he is being a weapon against. Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her oppressor in a vacuum, alone. It exists to break down the privacy in which men rape, beat, and kill women. What I am saying is that every one of us has the responsibility to be the woman [that prick] wanted to murder. We need to live with that honor, that courage. We need to put fear aside. We need to endure. We need to create. We need to resist, and we need to stop dedicating the other 364 days of the year to forgetting everything we know. We need to remember every day, not only on December 6. We need to consecrate our lives to what we know and to our resistance to the male power used against us."

Andrea's speech can be heard in many different places. Please share widely.

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vMnpw1GVKVaA2RrBIxxQv

The Montreal Massacre - A Speech by Andrea Dworkin
https://soundcloud.com/womenreadwomen/the-montreal-massacre-a-speech-by-andrea-dworkin

Andrea Dworkin's Montreal Speech December 7, 199
http://andreadworkin.com/audio/montrealdworkin.mp3

Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-montreal-massacre-a-speech-by-andrea-dworkin/id1510825056?i=1000544292204

#AndreaDworkin #Dec61989 #ÉcolePolytechnique #IncelViolence #GoneButNotForgotten #GenderBasedViolence #Rememberthe14 #16Days #RadFem #MVAWG #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #violenceagainstwomen #WomynsHerstory #MontrealPolytechniqueTragecy #RadFem #feminist #feminism #RadicalFeminism #Femicide #ÉcolePolytechniqueMassacre #MontrealMassacre
Never Forget Them
🌹🕊 Remembering the victims École Polytechnique School Of Engineering Massacre
December 6th, 1989 🕊🌹
https://youtu.be/qNFNqMPlxqg

Remember their names. Remember their stories:
They had their whole lives in front of them and an incel stole them all from us

Geneviève Bergeron 21:
Geneviève was a second year scholarship student in Mechanical Engineering. She played the clarinet and sang in a professional choir. In her spare time, she played basketbal and swam.

Hélène Colgan 23:
Hélène was in her final year of Mechanical Engineering and planned to do her master's degree. She had three job offers and was leaning toward accepting one from a company based near Toronto.

Nathalie Croteau 23:
Nathalie was another graduating Mechanical Engineer. She planned to take a two-week vacation in Cancun, Mexico, with Colgan at the end of the month.

Barbara Daigneault 22:
Barbara was to graduate at the end of the year. She was a teaching assistant for her father, Pierre Daigenault, a Mechanical Engineering professor with the city's other French language engineering school at the Universite de Quebec a Montreal.

Anne-Marie Edward 21:
Anne-Marie was a chemical engineering student. She loved outdoor sports like skiing, diving and riding and was always surrounded with friends.

Maud Haviernick 29:
Maud was a second-year student in engineering materials, a branch of metallurgy, and a graduate in environmental design from the Universite de Quebec a Montreal

Barbara Klucznik-Widajewica 31:
Barbara was the oldest of the victims, was a first-year nursing student. She arrived in Montreal from Poland with her husband in 1987.

Maryse Laganière 25:
Maryse was the only non-student killed. She worked in the budget department of the engineering school. She had recently married.

Maryse Leclair 23:
Maryse was in fourth-year metallurgical engineering, had a year to go before graduation and was one of the top students in the school. She acted in plays in junior college. She was the first victim whose name was known and she was found by her father, Montreal police Lt Pierre Leclair.

Anne-Marie Lemay 27:
Anne-Marie was in fourth-year mechanical engineering.

Sonia Pelletier 28:
Sonia was the head of her class and the pride of St-Unic. Que. her remote birthplace in the Gaspe peninsula. she had five sisters and two brothers. She was killed the day before she was to graduate with a degree in mechanical engineering. She had a job interview lined up for the following week.

Michèle Richard 21:
Michèle was a second year metallurgical engineering student. She was presenting a paper with Haviermick when she was killed.

Annie St-Arneault 23:
Annie was a mechanical engineering student from La Tuque, Que. Her friends considered her a fine student. She was killed as she sat listening to a presentation in her last class before graduation. She had a job interview with African Aluminum scheduled for the following day.

Annie Turcotte 21:
Annie was in her first year and lived with her brother in a small apartment near the university. She was described as gentle and athletic - she was a driver and a swimmer. She went into metallurgical engineering so she could one day help improve the environment.

Documentaries:

Survivor of Montreal’s Polytechnique massacre speaks out on 32nd anniversary
https://youtu.be/HyBwwRKy_FY

École Polytechnique survivor
https://youtu.be/lHeHD8pZiFw

Montreal Massacre - Legacy of Pain - the fifth estate
https://youtu.be/spsAJ76rP3I

THE ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE MASSACRE: KILLED BECAUSE THEY'RE WOMEN | MIDWEEK MYSTERY
https://youtu.be/18d2eocYP9Y

École Polytechnique massacre: Why we remember
https://youtu.be/xarUlZ28irQ

Victims of École Polytechnique massacre
https://youtu.be/qNFNqMPlxqg

#Dec61989 #ÉcolePolytechnique #IncelViolence #GoneButNotForgotten #GenderBasedViolence #Rememberthe14 #16Days #RadFem #MVAWG #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #violenceagainstwomen #MontrealPolytechniqueTragecy #RadFem #feminist #feminism #RadicalFeminism #Femicide #ÉcolePolytechniqueMassacre #MontrealMassacre