Finding Dawn

Lorraine and Dawn Crey

We will be watching the movie "Finding Dawn".  As you watch this film, I want you to consider the following issues:

1. Systemic racism - how is the inherent racism in the justice system demonstrated in the story of Dawn Crey?
2. How did Dawn suffer from a loss of identity and how did this affect her?
3. What made the missing women of the downtown eastside nameless and faceless?
4. Can you see a difference how the women on the Highway of Tears and the women of the downtown eastside are viewed?  How was the response of the community different?  Why might that be?
5. "Women's issues are men's issues too."  We have already discussed this in class. How is this statement demonstrated in this film?

Read two of the following articles:

1. Stolen Sisters
2. Seeking Justice for Canada's 500 Missing Native Women.   
3. Investigating Violence Against Aboriginal Women
4. Vancouver Eastside Missing Women
5. Racism Keeps Native Women's Killer Anonymous 

6.  Police had enough to get a warrant for Pickton in 1998.

7. Police blasted at Missing Women inquiry for failures to catch killer sooner 

8. Racist attitudes hampered work on Pickton file

Write a one paragraph response in your blog to these articles.