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!["Ripple"
🎨 Sitji Chou @sitjichou
📍Raymur and Union
"The Militant Mothers of Raymur were a group of largely single mothers who coordinated a series of blockades on the railway tracks near their homes, the Ray-Mur Housing Project, starting on January 6, 1971. They were concerned for the safety of the children who needed to cross the railway tracks to attend school.
The grass-roots group was named for the social housing project in which they resided, Ray-Mur Housing Project (now called Stamp's Place),a 250-unit building home to working-class and low-income residents and families. The children who lived in Ray-Mur were in the elementary school catchment zone of nearby Admiral Seymor Elementary and as such had to cross the busy tracks each day to and from school. The tracks ran between the Canadian National and Burlington Northern Railways' freight yards and the Burrard Inlet and were active while students were on their way to school. As a result, children often had no option but to climb between moving trains in order to cross, with one boy allegedly having his feet crushed by a moving train in the late 1960s.
After months of petitioning for an overpass and a change in the trains schedules to city officials, the Canadian National Railway, and Burlington Northern Railway, the group decided to engage in civil disobedience and erect a blockade to force the organizations to take action.Following CN Rail's failure to adjust their schedules as promised, "its conductors [launch of] a not-so-silent campaign of harassment",and the City of Vancouver's inaction on the construction of an overpass, the group erected a second and larger blockade on March 24, 1971.A tent was pitched atop the tracks and several of the women stayed there for two nights and three days; the group received media attention and public opinion gradually swayed in their favour. The women argued their case at Vancouver City Hall and fought injunctions with the aid of a volunteer lawyer. Although the city then promised to build the overpass, the women continued hosting vigils on the tracks until construction began later that month.
Construction was completed in time for the school year." (Wikipedia)](https://s5.imginn.com/651000775_17988437132783073_2785119072274697996_n.webp?t51.82787-15/651000775_17988437132783073_2785119072274697996_n.webp?stp=dst-webp_s828x828&_nc_cat=110&ig_cache_key=MzE4NDcxODIwNzMxNTI3OTIzOQ%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IkNBUk9VU0VMX0lURU0ueHBpZHMuMTE3Mi5zZHIucmVndWxhcl9waG90by5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=TPpXfx0N39EQ7kNvwE5-a96&_nc_oc=AdpvRrsJAygY8CLI30syDWv9yzCIZSk74rNr5_Ksn1ThOPpQ2WJGDdN4nXNJVlu4hEysosulNv7_oIMyvujmqJ_J&_nc_ad=z-m&_nc_cid=0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_gid=BqLT65iN1u9B7cXJ1V3pwg&_nc_ss=7a20f&oh=00_AQOWF2kqbGQkQUbeSLbd3x7C7QMhohVLkJlpcOCwstw3-w&oe=6ADFB452)
![Ripple
🎨 Sitji Chou @sitjichou
📍Raymur and Union
"The Militant Mothers of Raymur were a group of largely single mothers who coordinated a series of blockades on the railway tracks near their homes, the Ray-Mur Housing Project, starting on January 6, 1971. They were concerned for the safety of the children who needed to cross the railway tracks to attend school.
The grass-roots group was named for the social housing project in which they resided, Ray-Mur Housing Project (now called Stamp's Place),a 250-unit building home to working-class and low-income residents and families. The children who lived in Ray-Mur were in the elementary school catchment zone of nearby Admiral Seymor Elementary and as such had to cross the busy tracks each day to and from school. The tracks ran between the Canadian National and Burlington Northern Railways' freight yards and the Burrard Inlet and were active while students were on their way to school.[As a result, children often had no option but to climb between moving trains in order to cross, with one boy allegedly having his feet crushed by a moving train in the late 1960s.
After months of petitioning for an overpass and a change in the trains schedules to city officials, the Canadian National Railway, and Burlington Northern Railway, the group decided to engage in civil disobedience and erect a blockade to force the organizations to take action.Following CN Rail's failure to adjust their schedules as promised, "its conductors [launch of] a not-so-silent campaign of harassment",and the City of Vancouver's inaction on the construction of an overpass, the group erected a second and larger blockade on March 24, 1971.A tent was pitched atop the tracks and several of the women stayed there for two nights and three days; the group received media attention and public opinion gradually swayed in their favour. The women argued their case at Vancouver City Hall and fought injunctions with the aid of a volunteer lawyer. Although the city then promised to build the overpass, the women continued hosting vigils on the tracks until construction began later that month.
Construction was completed in time for the school year." (Wikipedia)](https://s5.imginn.com/494303477_691477170126772_6006626910248906314_n.jpg?t51.71878-15/494303477_691477170126772_6006626910248906314_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_p640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=102&ig_cache_key=MzE4NDQ5OTkwODE3MDUxMzEwNw%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IkNMSVBTLnhwaWRzLjcyMC5zZHIudmlkZW9fZGVmYXVsdF9jb3Zlcl9mcmFtZS5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=5R7qEqBcRtkQ7kNvwG1UCye&_nc_oc=Adrc5jvP-yxGrKEGFvXSuXqoGxUtczcff3aJebhRW203sjqTR-gUmWuDLX-9ZY9M0y2OyygfVgovcmBY7CvaX9fS&_nc_ad=z-m&_nc_cid=0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-3.cdninstagram.com&_nc_gid=BqLT65iN1u9B7cXJ1V3pwg&_nc_ss=7a20f&oh=00_AQOKEnQ_PgcTyF7FddszoRBgiW1_PJ-KoqwU0R7bw6yuxA&oe=6ADFB408)
