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In the rural community where Edith grew up many others had families who had shared in such a history.",[19,20,21],"blockquote",{},[15,22,23],{},"People around us, the kids that I went to school with, we were all poor. None of us had any money and it was always scrimp and scratch. Yet many of our families were happy families. It was just a way of life that I grew up with.",[15,25,26],{},"Even though she attained what was considered to be the very best education at the time, graduation from Grade 12, Edith moved to the city of Winnipeg as a young adult and found it very hard to make ends meet: \"Women weren't paid adequate wages in most jobs\".",[10,28,30],{"id":29},"taking-the-side-of-the-underdog","Taking the side of the underdog",[15,32,33],{},"Anchored in a concern for social justice, Edith defines the term as relating to \"one's place in society and whether or not, as individuals and groups, we are given equal rights and equal opportunities\". Inspired by her mother, Edith grew up \"always feeling that we didn't have the right to poke fun at or in any way abuse those people who just happened, for whatever reasons, to be the underdog in a particular situation\".",[15,35,36],{},"While teaching two years in Native communities in Northern Manitoba in the mid-1960s, Edith encountered an extreme kind of poverty for which its victims could not be blamed; it \"wasn't their fault\". This experience motivated her to study Social Welfare Services in a Community College in Brandon, after which she worked for Children's Aid in the core of Winnipeg for several years where the impacts of deep poverty were evident.",{"title":38,"searchDepth":39,"depth":39,"links":40},"",2,[41,42],{"id":12,"depth":39,"text":13},{"id":29,"depth":39,"text":30},"md",{},true,"\u002Fedith-perry\u002Fforming-her-activism","\u002Factivists\u002Fedith-perry\u002Fforming-her-activism",{"title":5,"description":38},"activists\u002Fedith-perry\u002F01.forming-her-activism","hPgLpnkc9nMYkoR8HKTNBsXyhLOc7JlInF2rs36YW3M",{"id":52,"title":53,"body":54,"description":58,"extension":43,"links":84,"meta":85,"navigation":45,"oldPath":86,"path":87,"pictures":88,"portrait":89,"portraitAlt":90,"province":91,"quote":92,"sections":93,"seo":105,"stem":106,"summary":107,"__hash__":108},"activists\u002Factivists\u002Fedith-perry\u002Findex.md","Edith Perry",{"type":7,"value":55,"toc":82},[56,59],[15,57,58],{},"A cosy but efficient farm kitchen with sunlight streaming in and enticing cooking scents wafting through the air greeted Liz Burge as she walked into the big house of Edith Perry's rural property at Vernon River. A lovely snack was just the ticket to begin a wide-ranging interview filled with very practical experience and strongly held passions about social justice. But how could Edith look so calm sometimes as she talked about the challenging social issues that have exercised her active mind over almost forty years? The answers lie in her skill sets and lessons learned.",[15,60,61,62,69,70,75,76,81],{},"Edith Perry is the widowed mother of two daughters, one son and one baby grand daughter who are the centre of her life. She grew up on a small farm in eastern Manitoba, then worked as a clerk in various places before permit teaching for the Department of Indian Affairs in Northern Manitoba and then working as a child protection worker. In 1985, she moved to Prince Edward Island and worked in a mussel plant while also working at home. Edith loves rural Canada and enjoys community involvement, reading, her work in social justice activism, nature, and her friends. Edith has been awarded \"Lifetime membership\" status with the ",[63,64,68],"a",{"href":65,"rel":66},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.ndppei.ca",[67],"nofollow","New Democratic Party of PEI"," and with the ",[63,71,74],{"href":72,"rel":73},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.womensinstitute.pe.ca",[67],"Women's Institute on PEI",". Recently, and happily because of her own advancing into a more \"elder\" status, she began representing the Women's Institute of PEI on the Island's ",[63,77,80],{"href":78,"rel":79},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.pe.ca\u002Fsss\u002Findex.php3?number=1025787&lang=E",[67],"Seniors' Secretariat",".",{"title":38,"searchDepth":39,"depth":39,"links":83},[],[],{},"\u002Fcontent\u002Fedith-perry","\u002Factivists\u002Fedith-perry",[],"\u002Fimages\u002Factivists\u002Fedith-perry\u002Fportrait.jpg","Portrait of Edith Perry.","Prince Edward Island","You don't always get along with your mother when you're a teenager but you suddenly realize she was the wisest person in your life. I was inspired by her. She always had this tendency to take the side of the underdog.",[94,96,99,102],{"slug":95,"label":5},"forming-her-activism",{"slug":97,"label":98},"practising-social-activism","Practising Social Activism",{"slug":100,"label":101},"creating-change-lessons-skills-and-advice","Creating Change: Lessons, Skills and Advice",{"slug":103,"label":104},"last-words","Last Words",{"title":53,"description":58},"activists\u002Fedith-perry\u002Findex","From an early age Edith Perry realized that she had to work toward equal rights and opportunities for the economically disadvantaged and silenced as well as develop the skills to examine, with a critical mindset, the many levels of impact of social injustice.","uabDGNfwfEeCh7CHuNwqEiPlmPGoUIvf0NHvGguFH-M",1789062651698]