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["Ben Atherton-Zeman" <>]

Please let the Marriott chain know how you feel - I stay in hotels about 100 
times/year and I'm definitely letting them know!  This is a single hotel 
putting out this statement, so it's a chance for the Marriott corporation to 
come out with a strong statement against rape, and in support of rape 
victims.  

Conn. hotel puts partial blame on 2006 rape victim
(AP) - 13 hours ago

STAMFORD, Conn. - A Connecticut hotel where a woman was raped at gunpoint in 
front of her children says the victim was careless and negligent.

The papers filed last month in Superior Court by the Stamford Marriott Hotel 
& Spa say the victim "failed to exercise due care for her own safety and the 
safety of her children and proper use of her senses and facilities."

Prosecutors say Gary Fricker assaulted the woman in her minivan in the 
hotel's parking garage in front of her two children, then ages 3 and 5. 
Fricker is now serving 20 years in prison.

The hotel's lawyers were responding to a lawsuit claiming the hotel failed to 
prevent the 2006 attack.

In court filings, the woman's lawyers have denied those allegations.

Information from: The Advocate, http://www.stamfordadvocate.com


Until the violence stops, Ben.  

Ben Atherton-Zeman, Maynard, MA USA
Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband
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"Black people who speak out about white racism are NOT racists.  White people 
who call black people racists for talking about race are trying to silence us 
so that we stop talking about race.Why do white people continue to remain 
silent in the face of racism?  Your silence, to me, is deafening!"

- Byron Hurt, award-winning documentary filmmaker and anti-sexist activist, 
http://www.bhurt.com ;
Start taking action at http://colorofchange.org/beck/?id=1995-946034
(Congratulations to Byron and Kenya on the birth of your baby girl Maasai!)