Walk4Justice walkers are expected to arrive in Thunder Bay Aug. 13 as they continue their three-month walk from B.C. to Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Walk4Justice is promoting a National Missing and Murdered Women’s Symposium for October 2011 and calling for public inquiry to look into cases of missing and murdered women across Canada. It’s the group’s fourth walk, but they said their walks would continue until justice is served.
The walkers are scheduled to arrive at Vickers Park on Arthur Street at 4 p.m. with a walk to City Hall scheduled between 4 to 6 p.m.
The walkers are scheduled to leave Thunder Bay Aug. 15.
Gladys Radek and Bernie Williams co-founded the group to raise awareness about the plight of missing and murdered women across Canada.
Radek’s niece, Tamara Lynn Chipman, disappeared off Highway 16 (the Highway of Tears) out of Prince Rupert, B.C. without a trace in September 2005.
Williams is a long time advocate and voice for the women who have been forced to live on the streets of Canada’s poorest postal code, Vancouver’s downtown eastside.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
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