Welcome to the new pan-Canadian mobilisation platform for young feminists: Waves of Resistance 2.0!

This website was first made for the organisation and mobilisation of the Gathering in Montreal that brought together 500 young feminists from across Canada in October 2008. We have transformed the website into an interactive space for reflection and discussion that will quickly spring to life thanks to its various interactive applications. We have a new blog for sharing information and getting feedback on our ideas, a complete forum (please sign up!) for heated discussion, calls to action, invitations or sharing multimedia (articles, photos, videos, and so forth), a wealth of downloadable feminist resources (popular education, articles, facilitation resources, editorials, etc.) and of course, all the necessary information about the *Pan-Canadian Decentralised Day of Action of Young Feminists on March 8!*

This web site will be an important tool in the construction of our new
pan-Canadian movement of young feminists!!! Waves of Resistance 2.0 is
ours! Let's make some waves. Gangway!

Dear RebELLEs,

The First Young Feminist Pan-Canadian Day of Decentralized Action, a victory for young feminists, showcases the strength of our convictions and our movement and presents great hope for the future! Over 20 events across the country were held around March 8th. More than 500 of us attended the gathering. Even more were mobilized in our areas on International Women’s Day to take action, to make or voices heard, to make our manifesto known and to destabilize the established patriarchal order. Young feminists: our hour has come!!!

For example, an artistic guerrilla instillation took place in Kamloops, British-Colombia in order to widely broadcast the manifesto, culminating in the protest on March 8th. Halifax RebELLEs held a rally for women’s rights, highlighting women’s struggle and distributing copies of the young feminists’ manifesto. Young feminists in London, Ontario organised a burlesque parade to denounce injustices toward women caused by Neo-liberalism. In Winnipeg, there was a protest on the theme “If only I had a hammer!”. In Halifax, young feminists, in partnership with various provincial feminist groups, gathered to publicize the manifesto in a day of speeches and protests. In Chicoutimi, Quebec, the young feminists "Toujours Rebelles" organized a march with the slogan “La clé de la maternité : ma liberté de choisir” (The key to maternity : my right to choose). The goal of the march was to promote the creation of a birthing house in the region and to support the practice of midwifery.

For a complete list of actions as well as lots of photos, visit the Toujours RebELLEs ! / Waves of resistance site on Facebook (feminists rebelles): http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=675966780&v=wall&viewas=675966780... .

Click here to download the Manifesto!

The 'Manifesto of the Pan-Canadian Young Feminist Gathering' is our political tool. For us, it is an instrument of identification as well as mobilisation and raising consciousness. The Manifesto describes us as young feminists as well as what we are fighting against, what we are struggling for, the world and communities we dream of building together and the gestures we will make to get there.

We hope that the Manifesto will be used across Canada, in our feminist networks, as well as in grassroots organisations and national unions: at feminist actions or to educate our friends, colleagues, mothers, brothers, etc. about feminism.

While united at the Waves of Resistance Gathering, the participants collectively and democratically adopted the Pan-Canadian Gathering of Young Feminists Manifesto, developed from the proposal submitted by the Protest Committee made up of 14 young feminists from each of the Canadian provinces and territories and one First Nations woman!

The manifesto is a battle cry, a stronghold against apathy, a call to action and to unity for all the diversity in our "RebELLEs"!