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By Chris Brown

Video tribute

Women come together for Bread and Roses on International Women’s Day

Mar 8, 2021 | 3:57 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – The Medicine Hat Women’s Shelter Society enlisted the help of the prominent community members to mark International Women’s Day on Monday.

The society released a video on social media this morning showing women in the community each reciting a line from the 1911 James Oppenheim poem Bread and Roses.

Women’s shelter executive director Natasha Carvalho starts the poem and is followed by close to 20 more women. Celina Symmonds, Alison Van Dyke and Kristine Russell are featured in the video. Organizations represented include the Redcliff Youth Centre, HIV Community Link and Medicine Hat Public Library.

The women’s shelter’s annual Bread and Roses Gala, named for the poem recited, is on pause this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Other community groups and businesses such as the Medicine Hat Police Service and Big Marble Farms also marked the day with social media posts.