This issue is dedicated to all women and children who have fought back, with their voices, their eyes, their bodies, and their thoughts. We all have done so.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For this strong, positive, empowering look at ways to prevent or stop the violence in women's lives, our co-Guest Editors, Nadya Burton and Leona Heillig, deserve much credit and honor for their hard work and tenacious commitment to violence prevention. The rest of the glory is shared by contributors: Maria Barile, Monique Dumont, Claudette Dumont-Smith, Monica Durstberger, Education Wife Assault, Loralee Elliot, Fédération nationale des femmes canadiennes-francaises, Wendy Fidkalo Weight, Nupur Gogia, Debra Handler, Wanita Koczka, Joan Krisch and Arlene Wells, Margot Lacroix, Miriam Margles, Suzanne Mulligan and Dr. Donna Mitchell, Heidi Rathjen, Leslie Russell, Katherine Spillar, Cherly Storey, Maureen Townsend, and Women Educating in Self-Defense Training. Poetry is from Diane Driedger, Leslie Smith Dow, Janet B. Fitzsimmons, and Susan Wismer.

CCLOW acknowledges the continuing financial support of the Women's Program, Secretary of State.

REPRINT POLICY
In the interest of the widest distribution of material, WEdf encourages readers to reproduce material from the magazine for the purposes of education and learning, with the proviso that we be notified of such use. For other purposes of reproduction, such as reprinting material in another publication, we ask that permission be requested from the Editor.

GUEST EDITORS
Leona Heillig has been a coordinator of the Montreal Assault Prevention Centre since its founding in 1988 and has been teaching ACTION assault prevention programming since 1985. Nadya Burton is an assault prevention instructor at the Montreal Assault Prevention Centre, and worked for many years as a rape crisis counselor.

SUBMISSIONS
WEdf invites all readers to submit articles, ideas, poetry, humor, commentary, reviews, resources, and graphics. Please send submissions to the Editor, WEdf, 47 Main Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4E 2V6, or fax them at (416) 699-2145. Material that is sexist, racist, classist, homophobic, able-ist, age-ist or which is oppressive in any other way will not be accepted for publication. Submitters who wish their material returned should include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Writer's guidelines are available.

We gratefully acknowledge the following for their financial support of this project: Health and Welfare Canada; Women's Program, Secretary of State; United Steelworkers of America (USWA); an anonymous donor; Nancy's Very Own Foundation; Canadian Auto Workers: CAW-Canada; Bell Canada; United Food and Commercial Workers Canadian Council (UFCW/ TUAC Canada); and Telemedia Inc.

COVER
The cover photograph is
by Miriam Margles.