2010 Equality Breakfast with Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams
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Thank you to all our sponsors, in-kind donors, volunteers and over 760 guests who helped make this event a tremendous success. The 23rd Annual Equality Breakfast held on March 19, 2010 was one of our most successful yet, selling out for the third year in a row and raising almost $50,000 to support important equality-related projects, litigation development, legal rights education workshops, and family law research.
2010 Equality Breakfast photos are here. Thanks to Lia Haleem for the photos!
This year, West Coast LEAF was thrilled to welcome a Nobel Peace Prize winner as the keynote speaker at the annual Equality Breakfast. Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Williams has been an advocate of freedom, self-determination, and human and civil rights since her protests of the Vietnam War.
In January 2006, Williams and four sister Laureates established the Nobel Women’s Initiative. Its mission is to use the prestige and access afforded by the Nobel Prize to spotlight and promote efforts of women’s rights activists, researchers and organizations working to advance peace, justice and equality for women. (For full bio, please go here.)
“What does it take to change the world? It takes the work of organizations like West Coast LEAF, and all of you who are supporting the work of West Coast LEAF.” - Jody Williams
"I had the pleasure of meeting Jody Williams shortly after her Nobel win when, as Consul General for Canada, I was involved in a series of fundraising concerts for the anti-landmines campaign in California in 1999. Just recently, I saw her again at the Vancouver Peace Summit with the Dalai Lama. She is just the same as ever - and as passionate about her cause as ever. The Nobel is a great distinction, but it also imposes a burden in the sense that one cannot simply walk away from the activities that led to the recognition. Jody Williams does credit to the award and continues to make a difference wherever she can." - Rt Honorable Kim Campbell
Presenting sponsors:
Fasken Martineau
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Supporter Sponsors:
B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union
CUPE BC
Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Trial Lawyers Association of BC
Hastings Labour Law Office
Patron Sponsors:
The Law Society of British Columbia
Health Sciences Association of British Columbia
Ratcliff & Company LLP
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Blakes, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Davis LLP
Lawson Lundell LLP
British Columbia Teachers' Federation
Coast Capital Savings
Heenan Blaikie LLP
Moore Edgar Olson Lawyers
Ticket sponsors:
Professional Employees Association
In-Kind Donors:
Alison Brewin
Allison Wolf
Araxi Restaurant
Arts Club Theatre Company
Bacchus Restaurant
Banyen Books & Sound
Bard on the Beach
Business Women’s Association of Uzbekistan
Canada Wide Media
Cathy McBurney
Chateau Victoria Hotel & Suites
Cheesecakes Etc.
Coast Coal Harbour Hotel -Prestons
Crankpots Ceramic Studio
Darlene Marzari
Della Optique
Delta Grand Okanagan
Donna Horn Fine Art
Ethical Bean Coffee
Gaia Outdoor Adventures for Women
Harbour Cruises & Event Ltd.
It's All Fun and Games
Justice Institute of BC
L.A. Translations & Designs Ltd.
Le Petit Spa
Liberty Cleaners
Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium
Maggie Bernet
Magnolia Villalobos
MapleCare Enterprise Co. Ltd.
Momcafe Network
Momentum Fitness
North Shore Women’s Centre
Pacific Cinematheque
Paradise Found Yoga
Pemberton Distillery Inc.
People's Co-op Bookstore
Plum Clothing Ltd.
Propaganda Hair Salon
Radha Yoga & Eatery
Readerwear Reading Glasses
Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co
Ron MacIsaac
Rosedale on Robson Suite Hotel
Royal BC Museum
Sequoia Company of Restaurants
Shahnaz Rahman
Sikora's Classical Records
Soul Reflexions
Stanley Park Horse Drawn Tours
The Grand Ballroom
The Prestige Hotel
The Travel Group
Trees Organic Coffee
Vancouver Aquarium
Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
YWCA
Door Prize Donors:
Purdy’s Chocolate
Purple Grape Wineworks
Donor Prize Donors:
Ballet BC
CBC BC & Ian Hanomansing
Coast Restaurant
