AWH concerns are constantly evolving – local, national and international!
- Social protection intersecting health and social democracy
- Poverty
- Racism
- Climate emergency
- Child care
- Long Term care
- Violence perpetrated against women
- Affordable housing
- Pay equity
- Diverse and marginalized women
- Care of the vulnerable
- Distribution of income
- Reproductive rights
WHAT WE’RE DOING
September 2019-Sept. 2020
Campaigns on:
The New Normal- the AWH vision for life after COVID-19
The Social Commons
Letters Sent/Phone calls:
Region of Halton:
July 2020: Mayor Burton and the Police Services Board about redirecting funds towards police training
Jan.2020: Inspections of private child care centres
Provincial:
Feb.2020: Education Minister Lecce on a number of issues – teachers’ strike, budget cuts, increased funding for programs and services, class sizes, gender wage parity with other public services, etc.
Feb.2020: Attorney General Doug Downey and local MPPs for stabilized support to sexual assault centres in this time of #MeToo.
March 2020: Local MPPs about what AWH would like to see after COVID
May 2020: To protest the cancelling of the state-of-art courthouse in Oakville that involved loss of jobs and services
July 2020: The need to regulate Long Term Care homes
July 2020: The capping of wages contained in Bill 124
Federal:
July 2020: Prime Minister, supporting universal child care program
August 2020: A precise definition of what we wanted to see in a national child care program
August 2020: supporting basic income as part of a network of social supports.
Briefs presented:
January 2020: Pre-Budget comments to the Ontario Government, including a presentation to the Committee
August 2020: Pre-Budget comments to the federal government
Guests:
Heather Thompson, Halton Age Friendly Network
Eleanor McMahon, former President of the Ontario Treasury Board
Lisa Koehler, Coordinator of Halton Environmental Network
Pam Damoff, MP Oakville North Burlington
Meetings:
December 2019: meeting concerning the new courthouse in Oakville
July 2020: with GASP to discuss liveable income
August 2020: Mayor of Oakville the Chair of the Police Services Board and deputy police chief discussing racial discrimination and the use of force by the police.
Rising Together: Women for a Just Economy – webinar series developing a plan
Events attended:
Protest with Black Lives Matter
Protest with CFUW Oakville concerning Long Term Care
Sign-ons:
Income security letter from Income Security Advocacy Centre
The Prosperity Project