[Peace] tonight (Dec 1) free showing of a film about missing Aboriginal women along a highway in northern British Columbia

[Karen Medina]

film: Highway of Tears
Today, Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
7pm
Native American House / 1206 W. Nevada St., Urbana, Illinois 61801
See the facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/513897968771307/

Join the Women's Resources Center and Native American House for a
screening of Highway of Tears, a film about the missing or murdered
women along a 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British
Columbia.

In Canada, more than 500 cases of Aboriginal women have gone missing
or been murdered since the 1960s. Half the cases have never been
solved. Viewers will discover what the effects of generational
poverty, residential schools, systemic violence, and high unemployment
rates have done to First Nation reserves and how they tie in with the
missing and murdered women in the Highway of Tears cases. Aboriginal
women are considered abject victims of violence. Now find out what
First Nation leaders are doing to try and swing the pendulum in the
other direction.

This screening is made possible with support from SCPF (Student
Cultural Programming Fee) and is presented in honor of Native American
Heritage Month.