VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN FORUM April 18th: Featured Panelist Rosemonde Pierre-Louis
April 11, 2009
by Violet Socks, Editor
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It’s only one week from today! On Saturday, April 18, The New Agenda will be hosting a Violence Against Women Forum from 3-5 p.m. at the Benjamin Hotel in New York City. A cocktail hour will follow from 5-6 p.m. Please let us know you’re coming! RSVP to tnavawforum@yahoo.com.
The Violence Against Women Forum will feature four of the New York area’s preeminent experts on domestic violence. Each expert will speak about a specific topic that she feels is currently noteworthy.
One of the four panelists, Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, Manhattan Deputy Borough President, will speak on “Violence Against Women and the Media.”
Details of the event and the other panelists can be found by clicking here.
Congratulations to TNA for hosting the Violence Against Women Forum!
ACTION PLAN:
1. How about creating a petition to recall Monseratte and having it available for people to sign at the Forum? There will certainly be lots of people attending who would sign a recall petition to get Monserrate out of office!
2. Send an email invitation to the Forum to the following:
• Valerie Jarrett, head of the White House Commission on Women and Girls: Here’s the email she used when she was heading Obama’s Transition Team: vjarrett@barackobama.com Ask her to send the invitation to her entire Commission
• Send your comments inviting Jarrett and her Commission to the Forum and ask them to make violence against women an immediate priority that we want to see tangible action on: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ (500 character limit)
3. Send invitations to the Forum to the supporters who “get it.”, and please thank them as well:
a) NY Senator Martin Golden. Also thank him for speaking out against keeping Monserrate in office. Email: golden@senate.state.ny.us His quick online Contact Form: http://www.senatorgolden.com/22/Contact.aspx
b) Assistant District Attorney Scott E. Kessler, bureau chief of the Queens D.A.’s Domestic Violence Bureau and Johnnette G. Traill, deputy bureau chief of the Appeals Bureau, presented the Monserrate case to the grand jury. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown pressed charges against Monserrate.
• Emails: DA Scott Kessler: Sekessler@queensda.org
• Contact DAs Johnnette Traill and Richard Brown via: KRRyan@queensda.org
c) Maria, the 22 year old woman was violently assaulted in a New York City subway station while city employees who witnessed the incident, which went on for over twenty minutes, did nothing to intervene. It would be empowering for her to attend. Does anyone know how to reach her? Here is her story: http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....ter_s.html
4. Send an email invitation to the Forum to those who clearly need education on the topic of violence against women:
a) NY State Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson, chairwoman of the NY Senate Task Force on Domestic Violence, who would not comment on Mr. Monserrate’s treatment, and denied being aware of the backlash from women’s rights groups. Her email: hassellt@senate.state.ny.us
b) NY State Senator Malcolm A. Smith who held a fundraiser to help defay Monserrate’s legal costs. . . You can email Smith here: masmith@senate.state.ny.us His online contact form is here (scroll down): http://www.nyssenate14.com/14/Contact.aspx
c) Queens Supreme Court Justice Kevin Kerrigan (Phone: (718) 298-0013) who threw out the suit of Maria, young woman brutally raped in a Queens subway station. Her suit was against two transit workers (toll booth clerk John Koort, and train conductor Harmodio Cruz) who ignored her cries for help for over 20 minutes.
d) H. Dale Hemmerdinger Chairman, MTA and Elliot G. Sander, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, MTA. Both of these guys could learn a lot about violence against women. A quote from Scott Rose in another thread: http://thenewagenda.net/2009/0.....-genovese/
Here is a comment form (unable to locate the emails of those 2 men): http://mta-nyc.custhelp.com/cg.....er/ask.php
e) Here are the emails of all of the NY State Senators,: http://www.senate.state.ny.us/.....e?openform
If we all send the ‘invitations’, or notify people of the conference, we could increase the visibility of the Violence Against Women Forum, ‘thank’ those who are supporters, keep the issue in the media, and let those who are clueless know we aren’t going away.
Violet thanks for your continued activities on violence against women.
we all need to get the hours it takes us to do all the above mentioned actions.
I think it is time to plan for a huge womens march against VAW.
I worked long enough at a rape crisis center to know that all the victims want, is to cover under some linens and not to see the world again. so it is up to us whether we got rapped, battered or not ,to take on the cause and go marching for our sisters. this “dirty little secret” of patriarchy needs to get exposed.
what if millions of women flood the mall in DC with posters about specific violence against women events such my friend was….she demands ….
that should create news. invite prominence, invite all the female representatives in congress, in the senate, in the cabinet
and of course I don’t think of a demand like in the white house page (decrease numbers of domestic violence).
some say. a single event is over and puffed off energy. not necessarily. these events create friendships to last. such an event could break the silence about violence against women.
Dr. Thomas Keith has created a educational video called Generation Misogyny
http://www.mediaed.org
It is a little expensive but I think that for those of you who have school aged children, it’s a must have.
On another note, it has been reported; I read about it on my comcast internet site, that: (Google)
Barak Obama’s 1/2 brother refused entry to UK over allegations of sex attack on young girl. Comcast has just removed the article from their page; so much for freedom of the press. But if you google the above phrase you will find other articles.
I will be contacting the Trya Banks show to request that in light of their recent exploitation of the tired old Levi and Bristol Palin drama. they set up an interview with Obama’s half brother. After all Tyra will be having a show on violence against women. Come on Tyra, how about a little equal time for the Obama clan!
Can you imagine the power just one short comment from Obama would have had on PDiddy and all the other Black patriarchy enablers? They would have choked on their apologist stance. Obama didn’t even need to mention names, he could have cited some stats, appealed to his Black brothers to be the men Black women are always saying their sons are. Sorry for the sneer. But you hear such aplogists stances in the native community too. He beat her because he’s in such pain from racism. Obama didn’t speak out. He didn’t not only because he doesn’t see where it’s got anything to do with him (like most men) but also because he did it himself, figuratively, throughout his campaign. And he encited it in his supporters, and refused to say anything to stop it then either, although, he knows he could. Those Black men and young ‘progressive’ lefties who supported him, would stop in a minute with a word from him. Suddenly it would become what Obama expected of them. What *real* men do. Of course, there would be no enlightenment about women’s rights but there’d be a foot in the water, at least.
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