Register today at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/writers-read-for-dawn-walker-drop-all-the-charges-now-may-10-8-pm-est-tickets-618257754587 to join the second in a series of free online reading nights with remarkable writers. When you register please make a donation (https://gofund.me/0a503c39) to the mounting legal costs Dawn faces. We are potentially near a major legal victory not only for Dawn, but for all mothers and survivors of male violence against women and kids.

Dawn needs your help now more than ever. Her ongoing legal action, generously supported by you (https://gofund.me/0a503c39 ) could actually help change the legal system. Dawn’s legal team is effectively asking that all charges be stayed outlining what they note is systemic discrimination experienced by Dawn in her attempts to report alleged assaults by a former partner, and possible Charter and human rights violations while in police custody. Her lawyers are requesting records from the province, the Saskatoon Police Service, and the RCMP regarding her treatment while in custody and records relating to the police’s investigations of two “complaints of sexual assault by her white ex-partner and the father of her child.”

Join the 40-for-30 Fund to Support Dawn's Visits with her Child

Dawn faces a long road ahead, including the cruel imposition of $1,200 a month in "supervision costs" so that she can spend limited time with her child. If she cannot pay those costs, she is not allowed to see her child. We are looking for 40 people who would be willing to commit $30 a month to help meet those costs over the next 6 months (which for most of us is less than we spend on a daily coffee). What is happening to Dawn is another example of state-mandated forcible separation of an Indigenous child from their mom in 2023!  

"We are supervised for every second of every visit but we do a good job of playing games, eating snacks and cuddling even under this scrutiny," Dawn writes. "At the end of the visit, my child always stops before letting himself be escorted away - he will step back in the doorway to look up at my face to make sure that I'm not crying. As little as he is, he is trying to look after me. 
I have trained myself to only cry after I hear his footsteps down the hall."

To sign up the 40-for-30 Fund to Support Dawn's Visits with her Child campaign, email us at tasc@web.ca 

Thanks!

Women Who Choose to Live