Tears 4 Justice and the Missing and Murdered Women and Children Across Canada: An Interview with Gladys Radek BY VICKI CHARTRAND We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this land, on this Algonquin territory and Turtle Island. We acknowledge and pay our respects to the elders both past and present. BACKGROUND On December 6, 2012, the National Action Day to End Vio- lence Against Women, I interviewed Gladys Radek in Ottawa, Ontario. Gladys is from the Gitksan Wet’suwet’en territory, more commonly known as Moricetown, British Columbia. She recently moved from Vancouver to Ottawa, or to the ‘belly of the beast’ as Gladys suggests, to continue her work raising awareness of the missing and murdered women and children across Canada. Gladys is a human rights and grassroots activist who began organizing when her niece, Tamara Lynn Chipman, went missing on September 21, 2005 in Prince Rupert, B.C. along Highway 16—infamously known as the Highway of Tears. Tamara was 22 years old and mother to a 4-year-old boy when she disappeared—she is still missing today. Gladys’ work began with the Walk 4 Justice on June 21, 2008, walking from Vancouver to Ottawa. Since then, Gladys has co-organized 4 more walks across Canada to continue rais- ing awareness nation wide on the far too many missing and murdered women and to support the families who have lost loved ones. Her fifth and final walk, the Tears 4 Justice walk, 113