Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

A great way to? recognize Take Back the Night is to participate in the 
"REPORT IT" campaign now - uderway now and? culminating on Angela Shelton Day 
- April 29, 2008.? Angela Shelton (angelashelton.com), Angela Rose (PAVE.org) 
and I have been working together to organize a national effort to get all 
victims of sexual violence to report their abuse on the same day -- in a huge 
show of solidarity, political mobilization and activism.? The campaign also 
involves the use of an on-line reporting project -- where people who don't 
want to physically appear in public to report their victimization can fill 
out a form and "report" what happened to them - no matter how long ago -- no 
matter where -- and it can be anonymous or not - etc -- 

The goal is to make a space for everyone to have a voice - and to call 
attention to the lack of reporting as a systemic and cultural epidemic -- and 
the have it all reflected in a centralized national database -- 

The end of the campaign, on April 29, 2008 - will be a day when people across 
the country will gather in a certain location -- courthouses -- and visibly 
express themselves as having "reported IT" -- while also using the 
opportunity to speak out against the failure of law and the related 
unwillingness of victims to report the crime -- 

Students can help by mobilizing other students and by participating in local 
efforts to get the word out about the on-line and live reporting 
opportunities -- 

Angela Rose is a fabulous grass roots organizer who uses her experience as a 
victim to fight for new laws and better systemic accountability -- and Angela 
Shelton is an amazing inspirational public speaker who uses her experience as 
a child victim of severe and pervasive abuse as a way of bringing all people 
together to express how the nature of the violence is a threat to all of us 
-- "we are all angela shelton" -- is her theme -- and it works nicely with 
the similarly unifying theme of "take back the night" programs -- 

so please spread the word on your campuses -- and for more information - 
check out both angelas' websites.

Maybe the TBTN efforts can be consolidated with this Report it initiative!!

Wendy Murphy 


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