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Gladys Radek is a biography of MMIWG advocate Gladys Radek.
Gladys Radek | |
|---|---|
| Born | Moricetown, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian, Gitxsan, Wet'suwet'en |
| Occupation | Activist |
| Organization | Tears 4 Justice |
Gladys Radek is a Canadian Gitxsan, Wetsuweten advocate for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and organizer of multiple walks across Canada. Radek became an MMIWG activist following the disappearance of her niece Tamara Lynn Chipman on September 21, 2005. [1] Her fifth walk began in Halifax in 2013 and ended in Prince Rupert BC, approximately 7,500 kms in 105 days.[2][3]
She organized Tears 4 Justice walk in 2017 [4]
Early life and career
editRadek was born in Moricetown, British Columbia in the 1960s. Category:1960s births Category:Living people Category:First Nations activists Category:Canadian human rights activists Category:Women human rights activists Category:Canadian women activists Category:Gitxsan people Category:Wetsuweten people Category:20th-century First Nations people Category:21st-century First Nations people Category:20th-century Canadian women
References
edit- ^ "Tamara Lynn Chipman". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- ^ Mark Blackburn. "Tears 4 Justice walkers arrive in Saskatchewan". Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ^ Vicki Chartrand. "Tears 4 Justice and the Missing and Murdered Women and Children Across Canada: An Interview with Gladys Radek". Radical Criminology. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ Laura Kane (20 September 2017). "Families walk B.C. Highway of Tears to honour missing, murdered Indigenous women". Vancouver Sun.
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