Today is the 30th anniversary of the terrible massacre of 14 young women students at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal, apparently shot down for the imagined crime of daring study to be engineers. One would have thought three decades ago as the raw horror of that story unfolded through the evening
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Montreal Simon: Remembering The Murdered Women of the École Polytechnique
It was snowing in Montreal this evening, just as it was on the day they were murdered.So the fourteen light beams shimmered as they rose from Mount Royal, one by one into the sky.One for every woman murdered in the École Polytechnique Massacre 29-years-ago.Murdered just for being women, by a
Continue reading350 or bust: National Day of Remembrance & Action On Violence Against Women
Sometime after 4 p.m. on December 6, 1989, an enraged gunman roamed the corridors of Montreal’s École Polytechnique and killed 14 women. He separated the men from the women and before opening fire on the classroom of female engineering students he screamed, “I hate feminists.” Almost immediately, the Montreal Massacre became
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