When leaving is lethal

Source: St. Louis Beacon
When leaving is lethal: Recent murders show separation can be dangerous when partner is abusive
By Nancy Larson, Special to the Beacon
Sun. Sept. 27 – By piling her four children into the family van as usual on Friday morning, Sept. 18, 27-year-old Melissa Amerson of St. Louis made a deadly [...]

Missing women found buried near Albuquerque

Story by Women’s eNews
Summary of article: After combing an almost 100-acre area on the outskirts of Albuquerque, investigators found the remains of 11 women, one of whom was four months pregnant. As of late-September, seven of the 11 women have been identified.
All had been reported missing between 2003 and early 2005. Each had [...]

White Anti-Racism

From Teaching Tolerance: White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy

What does anti-racist” mean? How can guilt get in the way? And what’s all this talk about being “colorblind”?  Teaching Tolerance asked community activists to share their thoughts on these questions, and others. Their answers shine light on the concepts of comfort, power, privilege and identity.
Perspective:
This Q & [...]

Women warriors take on domestic violence and sexual assault

http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/59339272.html
By Tanya Lee, Today correspondent
Sep 18, 2009
From North Dakota to Arizona, strong, talented, accomplished Native American women are taking up the challenge of protecting themselves and their sisters, their mothers and aunts, their grandmothers and granddaughters, from the devastation of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The level of violence against women and children in the U.S. [...]

Saving the World’s Women

Saving the World’s Women
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and SHERYL WuDUNN, New York Times
August 17, 2009
In the 19th Century, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and [...]

Recovery Funds Help Native American Women Victims of Violence

Recovery funds offer promising start on justice issues
By Leeanne Root

Source: Indian Country Today
 September 4, 2009
Some terrible statistics loom over the lives of indigenous women: They are more than twice as likely as non-Native women to be victims of sexual violence and domestic violence, and one in three will be raped in her lifetime. According to [...]

Presidential Proclamation-15th Anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act

September 14, 2009
FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
 A PROCLAMATION
Today, we commemorate a milestone in our Nation’s struggle to end violence against women. Authored by then United States Senator Joe Biden and signed into law in September 1994, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) [...]

“I wish we had called police”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Text: Send a new message in our rural communities
“I wish we had called the police on any one of those nights, but we just thought that she would handle it.” – Quote from a neighbor of Candace Wertz who, along with three other people, including two toddlers, was killed by her former boyfriend when he [...]

Send a new message in our rural communities

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Text:  Send a new message in our rural communities
“In rural areas, you’re probably going to see a higher proportion of domestic violence cases just because THE PERPETRATOR IS NOT GETTING THE MESSAGE that it’s wrong to keep doing what they’re doing.”
Law enforcement quote in response to the killing of Candace Wertz and three other people, [...]

What women want poster

Text:
what women want — is justice
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“If someone commits murder, it shouldn’t take no frigging two years to put them away.”
Quoting Claudette Carpenter, whose mother, Marie Desmond, was stabbed thirty-three times. George Howard Desmond, Marie’s estranged husband, was sentenced to life in prison two years after Marie’s death.