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Title: One In Three Women Newsletter

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JUNE 2011
We have been thinking of adding a poetry section to our newsletter for a while now and when we became friends with Vickie Ellis Evans* on Facebook we discovered her amazing poem: Why Won't She JUST Leave? We are honored to feature it here and hope you will be inspired to share your own poetry with One in Three Women™ (OTW). Why Won't She JUST Leave?? (A Victim's Agony!)   Why won't she JUST leave?? I live with that question everyday! You think I want to live this way? Afraid to sleep... More afraid to stay awake... Oh how my mind and body ache... Everything around me shaking like an earthquake... Like a caged animal...helplessly...I pace  Glaring at the red marks plastered on my face... With makeup I cover my pain in disgrace... As if I committed the crime...  Why not leave, to whom will I turn? To those who will pity me? Or roll their eyes with disgust at what they label "stupidity". Or those who throw up their hands and say "not getting involved; it isn't me"? Call the police? Seriously???  Is that a joke? What laws are designed to REALLY protect me?  Protective Order? Oh what a misnomer... A mere formality--legalistically.. Restraint? For only 500 feet? Who will shield me emotionally?  Scars so deep that no one can penetrate! Not only physically-victimized; but, mentally raped! No where to run: no means of escape! Go to a shelter you advise... Overcrowded-- is there demise.. Like the lottery what's the odds of me winning that prize? Trapped and wearing a disguise... Blindfolds of despair covering my eyes! So, I ask you what will YOU do to help me leave? Do you have a place for me to stay? And will you be my bodyguard to protect my way? And will you Lobby for my safe passageway? Or will I be another candlelight vigil that display... Your silent tears--nothing else for me to say! *Vickie Ellis Evans is an Amazon.com best-selling author and an award-winning stage play director. She is the President of Soaring High Productions, a talent promotion agency. She is also the founder of Performing Arts and Literary Society, better known as PALS, a non-profit organization, whose mission is to serve as a catalyst to educate and enlighten the community, organizations, schools, and churches, utilizing the performing and literary arts as a mechanism to raise awareness of social issues and concerns (such as domestic violence, homelessness, abortion, etc.), which are often difficult to convey through traditional and standardized means.  Ms. Evans is a professional stage director who has worked with performing artists in the areas of character development, relationships, plot structure, and stageability. She has written, directed, produced, and self-promoted numerous full productions throughout the United States and internationally. Her stage play, A Change Is Gonna Come, a true-to-life depiction of domestic violence in the church, received four top honors at the 2009 Velocity Magazine Awards, to include a "Best Director" award for Ms. Evans. In 2007, A Change Is Gonna Come, made its initial debut to a sold-out audience at the George Washington Memorial Masonic Temple, in Alexandria, Virginia. The following year, A Change Is Gonna Come, joined the historical chronicles with such celebrity greats as Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Eckstine, Bill Cosby, and Duke Ellington, by gracing the stage of the historic Lincoln Theatre, in the legendary theater district of Washington, DC. GIRLS FOR GENDER EQUALITY (GGE) is an intergenerational, grassroots, nonprofit organization committed to the physical, psychological, social, and economic development of girls and women. Through education, organizing, and physical fitness, GGE encourages communities to remove barriers and create opportunities for girls and women to live self-determined lives. Despite minimal resources, GGE fights for urban girls and makes extraordinary contributions to the community and to the educational, economic, and cultural life of New York City.  Annually, GGE serves over 600 young people aged 8–19, educators and community members under the auspices of the Title IX Education Amendment. Over the past decade, GGE has mobilized and supported over 5,000 young people from underserved communities of color who have experienced the sexist, racist and homophobia-induced violence embedded in their school and community cultures.  In the wake of the Obama Administration's public support of ending sexual violence in schools, Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) has released the book, Hey, Shorty! A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets, is a narrative account of ten years of community organizing led by young women at (GGE). Hey, Shorty! offers youth and adult allies nationwide an accessible guide to combat unwanted sexual attention in schools, and demonstrates that young women and LGBTQ youth can successfully demand accountability from leaders and equal access to an education. Hey, Shorty! is co-authored by JOANNE SMITH, founder and executive director of GGE, a Haitian American social worker and unapologetic feminist born in New York City. Smith is an alumna of Hunter School of Social Work. She has been awarded many times over, including being inducted into the New York City Hall of Fame.	My name is Joe Samalin, and I am the coordinator for Training and Technical Assistance with Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR). I started working on the issue of men’s violence against women as a college student activist in NYS, and have been doing work in this field for over 10 years now. I have worked as an educator with youth around dating violence and relationship abuse, ran court mandated batterers programs for teens, was the trainer for an anti-stalking program, and lived in Japan for 4 years studying rape culture among young people there. The question people most often ask men who do this work is “why?” Why do we do it? For most men and me the answer is a personal one – the violence that existed within my family as well as friends, intimate partners, etc. who have been affected by it. 1 in 3 is very much a reality for me, and for many people I know.  I found my real passion in preventing men’s violence, especially working with other men to do so. Through a variety of programs, MCSR’s mission is to help communities engage boys and men in the primary prevention of gender-based violence, especially men’s violence against women. Our programming is carefully tailored to the diverse communities we work with across the country - spanning the military and law enforcement, native communities, colleges and universities, individual organizations and state coalitions. MCSR offers programming for middle school and high school-aged boys (Men of Strength Clubs), for college men (Men Creating Change Chapters), and for adult men and professionals in communities (Training and Technical Assistance). We also offer an innovative and effective public awareness campaign (Strength Media).  Our goal is to help communities identify and challenge the roots of gender-based violence, and we do this by engaging men through the lens of masculinity. We ask - what does it mean to be a man? Where do all get those messages? Which pieces of traditional masculinity feed into a culture that supports epidemic levels of violence against women, even if most individual men do not commit overt acts of violence. Our goal is to help the boys and men we work with to recognize that we all have the ability and responsibility to define for ourselves what kind of men we want to be, and to develop the skills to do so. To define masculinity as we want - in ways that promote men as allies to women in families and communities, and in ways that help teach men how to be strong without being violent. For more information, including information about our upcoming 3 day “From Theory to Practice” Training in DC, please visit our website at www.mencanstoprape.org, or feel free to contact me at .  Canada: Missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls: Families deserve answers and justice In October 2010, Minister of State for the Status of Women, Rona Ambrose, stated, “I am very concerned about the pattern of violence against Aboriginal women, and the impact it has on the families and communities who suffer as a result.” Despite this recognition, the Canadian federal government has yet to establish a national plan of action in keeping with the high rates and severity of violence faced by First Nations, Métis and Inuit women. Instead, the government continues to pursue piecemeal solutions that leave unacceptable gaps in the information and protection available to Aboriginal women and girls. Read More To purchase Speak My Name Charms, educative, awareness raising tools and gifts please visit our site. Shop your values and support our work.   SAVE THE DATE: Prostitution & Human Trafficking Conference International Human Trafficking, Prostitution & Sex Work conference September 29--30, 2011 Toledo, Ohio 2nd World Conference of Women's Shelters February 27--March 1, 2012 Washington, DC.   2012 International Conference on Sexual Assault Domestic Violence and Stalking San Diego, CA April 23 - 25, 2012 The Conference on Crimes Against Women March 26-28, 2012 Dallas, Texas The Women of Color Network A National Call to Action Institute & Conference July 9-13, 2012 Minneapolis, MN Pacific Rim International Conference Addressing Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities March 26 & 27, 2012 Honolulu, Hawaii   2nd International Women's Conference Cairns Campus of James Cook University North Queensland, Australia June 14-15, 2012   Dismantling Rape Culture Conference Tuesday, April 12, 2011 University of Vermont

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