A crowd braved the cold Friday afternoon and gathered at Pioneer Square for the 26th annual Women’s Memorial March. The Women’s Resource Centers Executive Director Colleen Arnold explained the annual march and the new red dress project with red dresses hanging on trees around the Square are held to bring attention to aboriginal women who were murdered or are missing and to end violence once and for all. She said these murders and disappearances will only be seen as the great loss that they are when Canadians acknowledge the value each indigenous woman has. She noted what is most important is that these women had families and friends that loved them as well as an entire community in mourning over the staggering number of lost loved ones.
Arnold said over 12 hundred aboriginal women in Canada have been murdered or gone missing in the last 30 years adding as a community we need to stand together and fight for justice in honor of these women.
