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Santa Monica, California -- Attorney Gloria Allred talked with reporters Thursday after a hearing in a sexual assault lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby. A judge delayed ruling on a request by Cosby's attorneys to dismiss the case filed by Judy Huth, who says she was assaulted by Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15-years-old. Photo by Eric Leonard.
Called the Campaign For A Welcoming Illinois.Supporting organizations include Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
"This bill would require the Illinois Attorney General to develop model policies for courthouses, schools, libraries, medical facilities and shelters on how to handle ICE activities at their locations."
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2010 Alaska Victimization Survey press conference, September 30, 2010 at UAA Commons.
The 2010 Alaska Victimization Survey provides the first definitive measures of the incidence and prevalence of violence against women in Alaska. For further information, see Statewide Victimization Survey.
A rally and press conference was held on Tuesday afternoon April 10th at the Daley Center in downtown Chicago to call attention to the fact that the state of Illinois is one of fourteen states yet to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
The Equal Rights Amendment states that: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex". The E.R.A, would provide legal protection for women in various ways including gender-based violence, equal pay, and pregnancy discrimination.
70% of America's poor are women. This also affects the children who depend on them.
Women make up roughly half the workforce and constitute two-thirds of minimum wage workers.
Women earn 79 and 44% of what men make adjusted for their race. The latter figure applies more to blacks and Hispanics.
Women are twice as likely to retire in poverty as men.
Passing the E.R.A. would ensure that employers could not give women less pay for doing the same work as a man.
For more information see: www.equalmeansequal.org.
A rally and press conference was held on Tuesday afternoon April 10th at the Daley Center in downtown Chicago to call attention to the fact that the state of Illinois is one of fourteen states yet to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
The Equal Rights Amendment states that: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex". The E.R.A, would provide legal protection for women in various ways including gender-based violence, equal pay, and pregnancy discrimination.
70% of America's poor are women. This also affects the children who depend on them.
Women make up roughly half the workforce and constitute two-thirds of minimum wage workers.
Women earn 79 and 44% of what men make adjusted for their race. The latter figure applies more to blacks and Hispanics.
Women are twice as likely to retire in poverty as men.
Passing the E.R.A. would ensure that employers could not give women less pay for doing the same work as a man.
For more information see: www.equalmeansequal.org.
Major General Ray Shields, the adjutant general of New York, signs a proclamation marking April 2023 as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, during a ceremony held on April 5, 2023 at New York National Guard headquarters in Latham, New York. Shields emphasized that the New York National Guard takes incidents of sexual assault and harassment very seriously and refers reported cases to civilian law enforcement when possible. (Division of Military and Naval Affairs Photo by Eric Durr)
A rally and press conference was held on Tuesday afternoon April 10th at the Daley Center in downtown Chicago to call attention to the fact that the state of Illinois is one of fourteen states yet to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
The Equal Rights Amendment states that: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex". The E.R.A, would provide legal protection for women in various ways including gender-based violence, equal pay, and pregnancy discrimination.
70% of America's poor are women. This also affects the children who depend on them.
Women make up roughly half the workforce and constitute two-thirds of minimum wage workers.
Women earn 79 and 44% of what men make adjusted for their race. The latter figure applies more to blacks and Hispanics.
Women are twice as likely to retire in poverty as men.
Passing the E.R.A. would ensure that employers could not give women less pay for doing the same work as a man.
For more information see: www.equalmeansequal.org.
Some of the many awesome people who took part in this very meaningful assembly.
I heartily agree with the message that consent is sexy!
Pictured above: Sandra Boswell, American Association of University Women Hayward/Castro Valley Branch.
Film Showing: "The Invisible War"
Tuesday, September 30 - 6:00 p.m.
Main Library
Nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary feature, this 2012 investigative documentary uncovers the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the U.S. military. The New York Times called it "a movie that cannot be ignored." The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem. Today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 22,800 violent sex crimes in the military in 2011. Twenty percent of all active-duty female soldiers are sexually assaulted. Female soldiers aged 18 to 21 accounted for more than half of the victims.
After the film, stay for a legislative update and discussion.
For more information about the film, visit: invisiblewarmovie.com/
Co-sponsored by the American Association of Women Hayward/Castro Valley Branch.
My friend Sunny, who is a tireless advocate and a great speaker, giving a talk about the word "slut". I believe here she's expressing her appreciation of the "boobs do not equal consent" sign.
Santa Monica, California -- Attorney Gloria Allred talked with reporters Thursday after a hearing in a sexual assault lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby. A judge delayed ruling on a request by Cosby's attorneys to dismiss the case filed by Judy Huth, who says she was assaulted by Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15-years-old. Photo by Eric Leonard.
Some of the many awesome people who took part in this very meaningful assembly. Gathering in Minto Park.
Ottawa, August 18, 2012.
The aftermath of violence—from domestic abuse to political terror
by
Judith Herman, M.D.
1992
Coming out of the women's movement and an academic background, this author gives the subject of trauma a feminist context. As in other books on trauma the author brings insight to the study of trauma itself by addressing the history of how trauma has been addressed and treated in the past. How public consciousness of trauma has been brought to our attention through a political consciousness. Beginning with the study of hysteria in France by a famous neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot at the asylum Salpetriere and theatrical lectures to demonstrate the traumatized reactions of women patients when touched. She tells the story of Freud's bid for fame by writing about his interviews with young women traumatized by sexual assault and his later recanting of his discoveries. Her account is more sympathetic than others I have read demonstrating how difficult it is to bring a topic to light if the public refuses to hear it.
She relates the discovery of post-traumatic stress syndrome from war and how the political anti-war climate of the Vietnam war served to support the PTSD diagnosis and the emergence of "rap" groups to support recovery of soldiers by inviting them to participate in support groups with each other. She also talks about the impact of terror on political victims. And finally how the women's movement allowed the revelation of the domestic trauma and the war between the sexes. How women's behavior was/is controlled by the threat of violence on the part of their male partners.
In the rest of the book she describes how trauma impacts the victims everyday lives including hyperarousal and reenactment and the swinging from the intrusion of fragmented memory of the trauma and attempts to dissociate or self-medicate and just going numb. The ultimate goal of recovery being integration. Many more discoveries have been made since this book that better cover aspects of integration and recovery. There was one valuable tidbit I took away from this account and that was the importance of having a community i.e. a group or fellow survivors or a single person who understands the depth of the trauma, can state it clearly and give context to the injustice and help the victim piece together their sense of self that has been violated.
The final sections of the book describes in detail the role of the therapist and gives guidelines on how to form and facilitate peer support groups for different phases of trauma recovery. Also of note is the use of the pronoun 'she' rather than 'he' throughout the narrative of the book. This is a good solid academic treatment of the topic of trauma which gave me a valuable perspective that was missing in The Body Keeps The Score.
2010 Alaska Victimization Survey press conference, September 30, 2010 at UAA Commons.
The 2010 Alaska Victimization Survey provides the first definitive measures of the incidence and prevalence of violence against women in Alaska. For further information, see Statewide Victimization Survey.
The "Safe Spaces Jam", the annual fundraiser for Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS), held at Room & Board (1840 14th Street NW).
More photos are available at: www.flickr.com/gp/thisisbossi/8V4S63
NOTE: This image is fully copyrighted. Permission is granted only to CASS or those within the photo to use these images with attribution:
"© Andrew Bossi, flic.kr/s/aHskVY91Tb"
Once when I was 7 yrs. old, I saw him touch my baby sister inside her diaper. He saw me and I tried to run and tell someone. He held my hands and burned them on the stove. He really wanted to burn my mouth shut.
"Lights, Camera, (Collective) Action!", the celebration of the fifth anniversary of Collective Action for Safe Cities (CASS), held at Room & Board at 1840 14th Street NW.
NOTE: This image is fully copyrighted. Permission is granted only to CASS or those within the photo to use these images with attribution:
"© Andrew Bossi, flic.kr/s/aHsjVSL8R1"
"Dominic Strauss-Kahn is a powerful global figure who has been accused of a string of sexual offences and is still under investigation for his role in a prostitution ring. By inviting him to speak, the Cambridge Union risks colluding with attitudes that condone or trivialise violence against women. Ironically the event comes one day after International Women's Day (8th March) when people around the globe will be taking action on sexual and other violence against women." - Holly Dustin, Director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition
Santa Monica, California -- Attorney Gloria Allred talked with reporters Thursday after a hearing in a sexual assault lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby. A judge delayed ruling on a request by Cosby's attorneys to dismiss the case filed by Judy Huth, who says she was assaulted by Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15-years-old. Photo by Eric Leonard.
Donna D. Ferguson, behavioral science education and training deputy division chief for the U.S. Army Military Police School, speaks to more than a thousand people about how to embrace cultural change in helping to prevent sexual assault during a Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month event at Conmy Hall at the Fort Myer portion of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall April 7, 2015. (Photo by Eboni Everson-Myart)
"Dominic Strauss-Kahn is a powerful global figure who has been accused of a string of sexual offences and is still under investigation for his role in a prostitution ring. By inviting him to speak, the Cambridge Union risks colluding with attitudes that condone or trivialise violence against women. Ironically the event comes one day after International Women's Day (8th March) when people around the globe will be taking action on sexual and other violence against women." - Holly Dustin, Director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition
Some of the many awesome people who took part in this very meaningful assembly. Proceeding down Elgin Street.
Ottawa, August 18, 2012.
Richmond High School was the starting point for the march. Over 200 people from around the Bay Area gathered for the Peace March For Richmond Rape Victim.
2010 Alaska Victimization Survey press conference, September 30, 2010 at UAA Commons.
The 2010 Alaska Victimization Survey provides the first definitive measures of the incidence and prevalence of violence against women in Alaska. For further information, see Statewide Victimization Survey.
A rally and press conference was held on Tuesday afternoon April 10th at the Daley Center in downtown Chicago to call attention to the fact that the state of Illinois is one of fourteen states yet to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
The Equal Rights Amendment states that: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex". The E.R.A, would provide legal protection for women in various ways including gender-based violence, equal pay, and pregnancy discrimination.
70% of America's poor are women. This also affects the children who depend on them.
Women make up roughly half the workforce and constitute two-thirds of minimum wage workers.
Women earn 79 and 44% of what men make adjusted for their race. The latter figure applies more to blacks and Hispanics.
Women are twice as likely to retire in poverty as men.
Passing the E.R.A. would ensure that employers could not give women less pay for doing the same work as a man.
For more information see: www.equalmeansequal.org.
Coast Guard members at Training Center Cape May, N.J., wore their service dress blue uniforms to raise awareness and facilitate discussion about sexual assault in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month April 9, 2014. Service Dress Blue Day, as the Coast Guard calls it, is aimed at attracting attention and facilitating discussions about sexual assault prevention awareness. (Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer Donnie Brzuska)
A proclamation, waiting to be signed by Major General Ray Shields, the adjutant general of New York, marking April 2023 as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, during a ceremony held on April 5, 2023 at New York National Guard headquarters in Latham, New York. Shields emphasized that the New York National Guard takes incidents of sexual assault and harassment very seriously and refers reported cases to civilian law enforcement when possible. (Division of Military and Naval Affairs Photo by Eric Durr)
"Dominic Strauss-Kahn is a powerful global figure who has been accused of a string of sexual offences and is still under investigation for his role in a prostitution ring. By inviting him to speak, the Cambridge Union risks colluding with attitudes that condone or trivialise violence against women. Ironically the event comes one day after International Women's Day (8th March) when people around the globe will be taking action on sexual and other violence against women." - Holly Dustin, Director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition
On Friday, October 16th, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito issued a proclamation for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, handing the proclamation to a representative from the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Violence, Jane Doe. The proclamation was followed by a meeting of the Governor's Council to Address Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, headed by the the Lieutenant Governor.
(Photo Credit: Joanne DeCaro)
Santa Monica, California -- Attorney Gloria Allred talked with reporters Thursday after a hearing in a sexual assault lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby. A judge delayed ruling on a request by Cosby's attorneys to dismiss the case filed by Judy Huth, who says she was assaulted by Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15-years-old. Photo by Eric Leonard.
Some of the many awesome people who took part in this very meaningful assembly.
Ottawa, August 18, 2012.
Santa Monica, California -- Attorney Gloria Allred talked with reporters Thursday after a hearing in a sexual assault lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby. A judge delayed ruling on a request by Cosby's attorneys to dismiss the case filed by Judy Huth, who says she was assaulted by Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15-years-old. Photo by Eric Leonard.
The "Safe Spaces Jam", the annual fundraiser for Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS), held at Room & Board (1840 14th Street NW).
More photos are available at: www.flickr.com/gp/thisisbossi/8V4S63
NOTE: This image is fully copyrighted. Permission is granted only to CASS or those within the photo to use these images with attribution:
"© Andrew Bossi, flic.kr/s/aHskVY91Tb"
Pictured above: Sandra Boswell, American Association of University Women Hayward/Castro Valley Branch.
Film Showing: "The Invisible War"
Tuesday, September 30 - 6:00 p.m.
Main Library
Nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary feature, this 2012 investigative documentary uncovers the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the U.S. military. The New York Times called it "a movie that cannot be ignored." The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem. Today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 22,800 violent sex crimes in the military in 2011. Twenty percent of all active-duty female soldiers are sexually assaulted. Female soldiers aged 18 to 21 accounted for more than half of the victims.
After the film, stay for a legislative update and discussion.
For more information about the film, visit: invisiblewarmovie.com/
Co-sponsored by the American Association of Women Hayward/Castro Valley Branch.