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["Ben Atherton-Zeman - Feminist, Actor and Husband" <>]

There is a new website in support of these women: http://www.justice4nj4.com. ;
 Please visit this website to support these victims of homophobia and sexism. 
 Thanks!  

In the summer of 2006, seven young Black lesbians from New Jersey-Patreese 
Johnson, Renata Hill, Venice Brown, Terrain Dandridge, Chenese Loyal, Lania 
Daniels, and Khamysha Coates-were hanging out on the pier in New York City's 
West Village when Dwayne Buckle, a man selling DVDs on the street, sexually 
propositioned Patreese. Refusing to take no for an answer, he followed them 
down the street, insulting and threatening them: "I'll **** you straight, 
sweetheart!" 
It is important to understand that all seven women knew of another young 
woman named Sakia Gunn, who had been stabbed to death under very similar 
circumstances-by a pair of highly aggressive, verbally abusive male 
strangers. At least some of the seven had known Sakia personally.

During the resulting confrontation, Buckle first spat in Renata's face and 
threw his lit cigarette at her, then he yanked another's hair, pulling her 
towards him, and then began strangling Renata. A fight broke out, during 
which Patreese Johnson, 4 feet 11 inches tall and 95 pounds, produced a small 
knife from her bag to stop Buckle from choking her friend-a knife she carried 
to protect herself when she came home alone from her late-night job.

Two male onlookers, one of whom had a knife, ran over to physically deal with 
Buckle in order to help the women. Buckle, who ended up hospitalized for five 
days with stomach and liver lacerations, initially reported on at least two 
occasions that the men-not the women-had attacked him. What's more, 
Patreese's knife was never tested for DNA, the men who beat Buckle were never 
questioned by police, and the whole incident was captured on surveillance 
video. Yet the women ended up on trial for attempted murder. Dwayne Buckle 
testified against them.

The media coverage was savage, calling the women such things as a "wolf pack 
of lesbians." The pro bono lawyers for the young lesbians would later have to 
buy the public record of the case since the judge, Edward J. McLaughlin (who 
openly taunted and expressed contempt for the women in front of the jury all 
throughout the trial), would not release it. As of late August 2007, the 
defense team still didn't have a copy of the security camera video footage. 
And after the better part of one year spent sitting in jail, four of the 
seven women were sentenced in June 2007-reportedly by an all-white jury of 
mostly women-to jail terms ranging from 3 1/2 to 11 years. The oldest of the 
women was 24, and two of them are mothers of small children.


Until the violence stops, Ben.  

Ben Atherton-Zeman, Maynard, MA USA
Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband
Presenting a One-Man Play: "Voices of Men," www.voicesofmen.org (video clips 
take a second to load)
Booking information: 978-897-3619 (note new number - I moved!)

Quote of the Month, February 2008 (African-American History Month)
"When a sexist idiot screamed 'Iron my shirt!' at (Hillary Rodham Clinton), 
it was considered amusing; if a racist idiot shouted 'Shine my shoes!' at 
(Barack Obama), it would've inspired hours of airtime and pages of newsprint  
analyzing our national dishonor.Goodbye to the most intimately violent 
T-shirts in election history, including one with the murderous slogan 'If 
Only Hillary had married O.J. Instead!' Shame.Goodbye to the sick, malicious 
idea that this is funny. This is not 'Clinton hating,' not 'Hillary hating.' 
This is sociopathic woman-hating."
- Robin Morgan, "Goodbye to All That (#2)," www.robinmorgan.us.  Full essay 
posted on www.womensmediacenter.com
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Our university is in the process of training new faculty and staff hires
that have responsibilities as "campus security authorities" (CSAs) under
the Clery Act.  We have an online form that CSAs use to report crimes
that are disclosed to them.  We instruct our CSAs not to include
personally identifiable details about the person(s) involved in the
incident.   The reports go to the Chief of University Police who is our
Clery officer and myself (I chair the university's Clery Compliance
Committee)  

 

I received a question from a staff member that we hadn't thought of or
have yet to experience - what if the offender is the one disclosing the
crime?   We made the assumption that the victim(s )or the victim's
friends would disclose to CSAs, we never gave much consideration to
offenders reporting.  We do not investigate any reports filed by CSAs,
since it is not the victim reporting the crime and CSA reports are not
police/university incident reports.  Also we don't ask for names or
personally identifiable details, so we wouldn't have the person's name.
So my question is - what if any are the university's responsibilities if
we receive a CSA report that outlines an offender's crime?  Do we have
any responsibility to act on that report?

 

Thanks,

Julie

 

 

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Julie Bezek

CEASE Coordinator

SUNY Fredonia Counseling Center

LoGrasso Hall

Fredonia, NY 14063

(t) 716.673.3424

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