Maggie: Women for Women's 2013 Join Me on the Bridge campaign

Friday, March 8th is International Women's Day.  In the past, AWG has often organized activities to highlight this date.  Unfortunately this year it falls during school vacation, which has limited our planning.

Montreal, Quebec

During the 2013 FAWCO conference in Bern, conference attendees will participate in Women for Women's 2013 Join Me on the Bridge campaign on March 8th. 

On the FAWCO website is the following message:

EVAWAC (Ending Violence Against Women and Children) invites all FAWCO clubs to share in this effort by planning an event of your own to stand with women in war torn countries to show we support their demands for peace and equality. Now is the time for women around the world to unite in building bridges. 

London, UK

 

Although I will be on the bridge in Bern at the FAWCO conference, I have been working with Mariannick to organize a Join Me on the Bridge activity in Montpellier.  Mariannick identified the area, near the Hotel de Région, and my family and I went for a recce walk and chose a photogenic bridge.  I have contacted SueRich, who is organizing the garden group activity that day, and garden groupies will be able to join others on the bridge on their way home from the garden outing.

The footbridge we have chosen is the Passerelle des Barons de Caravettes, which crosses the Lez, just opposite the Espace Jacques 1er d'Aragon.

It joins the former quartier Richter to Antigone, near the Boulevard des Consuls de la Mer.  (GPS map with blue flag in attachment)

The rendez-vous is at 15:00  (on Friday, March 8th, of course).

The Tram stop is Rives du Lez on lines 1,  3,  and 4. 

There is (pay) parking near the Rives-du-Lez restaurants (Leon de Bruxelles, etc), and there should not be too many cars there in the afternoon.

PLEASE BRING CAMERAS.

You might want to wear something pink, such as a scarf, since pink is the color associated with women and breast cancer.  It is also the color of the flamingo, which is our mascot.  For that matter, maybe you want to hold a flamingo statue for the photo.  Or a lego bridge. 

Melbourne, Australia

Since this activity is during the school vacation, it might be a chance to bring along your daughters or grand-daughters. Invite your women friends to join you as well.  By joining on the bridge, we will be showing our solidarity with women victims worldwide.  I'm sorry I won't be with you, but my husband Serge has agreed to take the afternoon off to take our daughters to join the others on the bridge. 

It would be nice if Mariannick and I had some idea of who plans to come.  mspalu@wanadoo.fr  and collet.mariannick@gmail.com

And while I have your attention, please do not forget to sign up for the women-themed evening at Domaine d'O on Wednesday, March 27th. (info in the newsletter)

I will be thinking of you from my spot on a bridge in Bern, and hoping that there will be plenty of participants in Montpellier as well.   

JOIN AWG ON THE BRIDGE.