Not because it's Halloween, but because it's a day to "Document the Silence." There is a growing campaign among women of color to organize a protest on October 31, against the extreme violence facing women of color. Those supporting the protest are encouraged to wear red on this day, to observe October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and specifically to call everyone's attention to the outrages that occurred against such women as Megan Williams, who was raped and tortured in West Virginia, and the Haitian-American woman who was brutally gang raped in West Dunbar Village, Florida, among many other nameless victims whose stories we have yet to hear.I invite any of you who have ideas on some useful strategies on organizing protests - locally, on campus, on organized trips to the sites where the most publicized acts have occurred - to please post here. Here's a link to a long-standing, international antiwar women's group, Women in Black, who have regularly staged silent protests against wars.
In case you haven't noticed, there's a war against women, a war against people of color, and those of us who intersect those identities, suffer the most from existing in the margins.
Let us work to move "from margin to center" on October 31st!
Image: "Oya Yansa," Yoruba/Santeria Goddess of War, Wind, and Storms.
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The Electronic Village supports the Oct 31st protest.
I’m wearing Red because Don Imus will once again be on the radio
I’m wearing red because the Duke Lacrosse players signed a movie deal
I’m wearing red because Isaiah Thomas has not been fired
I’m wearing red because Clarence Thomas can sell books by bashing Anita Hill
I’m wearing red because Louis Farrakhan said we need to protect our women . . . poor Megan Williams
I’m wearing red because Jessie and Sharpton are only concerned with nooses
I’m wearing red because Congressional Black Caucus members are publicity hounds
I’m wearing red because Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson desire cool points from the Hip Hop Community
I’m wearing red because Juanita Bynum thinks she is the only one who has suffered from domestic violence
I’m wearing red because Debra Lee is responsible for BET, enough said
I’m wearing red because Tyler Perry has a serious problem with Black women who have opinions
I’m wearing red because the NAACP says we don’t intervene when there is black on black crime
I’m wearing red because Obama and Hillary will not talk about all the vicious crimes committed against women of color.
I’m wearing red because Bill Cosby is a hypocrite, how bout we air his dirty laundry.
I’m wearing red because I have to, who else will speak on my behalf.
Thank you for a wonderful blog.
Thanks for all laundry list, fal, and why we ALL need to be wearing red!
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