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Marijose Vila

RAINN Online Training for Crisis Centers and Volunteers - 1 views

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  • Marijose Vila on 10 Apr 10
     
    Knowing how to respond to violence is as important as preventing it. This is webpage is an important resource to respond to violence against women by empowering individuals through education and training. RAINN ( Rape Abuse and Incest National Network) has an option on its website where trainings online for individuals are offered on a broad range of topics. For instance education on how to respond to cases of rape, date rape and drug-facilitated sexual assault is available. I believe that this is an outstanding source because as it is important to know about statistics and facts, it is also equally important to know how to respond to cases of violence against women or men.
Kat Dunn

Home | Students Active for Ending Rape SAFER - 1 views

www.safercampus.org

Sexual Violence College Campus Policies Campaign Activism

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  • Kat Dunn on 25 Mar 10
     
    Active for Ending Rape is an organization that works with students to get organized and make a change within their own college community. Focusing on ending sexual violence, SAFER encourages kids to know their school's policy when it comes to such violence on their campus. Through policy changes, the organization hopes that university campuses will be a safer place for all. The website offers on-campus training as well as other free resources students can use to get going. With a list of other schools who have started using the program as well as specific student video stories, SAFER gives students the tools they need to get started.
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  • Michelle Seidman on 03 Apr 10
     
    Given the light of the recent UMass rapist who went unpunished I think this is an especially important website. Sexual violence is such an immense problem on college campuses, in fact, we have learned in class that a great deal of the sexual violence that occurs in the United States actually happens on a college campus. I think an organization like SAFER is very important in order to urge students to become aware of how their college deals with sexual violence in terms of policies for those that commit acts of violence and also the ways in which students can work and organize to make their campus a safer place. This website also pertains to us in this class given the fact that we are all college students living on a campus and although sexual violence may not be as much of an issue here at Wheaton as it is on other campuses, it most likely still is an offense which occurs. We should be aware of our college's policies on sexual violence and whether or not we need to join an organization, such as SAFER, to make our campus a safer place. I think this website and organization are very important when we talk about visions of change in regards to violence against women because as I mentioned before, acts of violence against women are very likely on college campuses, therefore this website works to change this by making campuses safer for their students.
  • Marijose Vila on 03 Apr 10
     
    This is a great webpage. One of my articles was on how one rape case in Holly Cross was poorly addressed. The importance of clear and fair procedures in college campuses mark a difference in prevention and in especially addressing the cases. I think that an organization such as SAFER ism important because it gives tools to empower students to end the inustice. It is a very positive article ! Thank you Kat.
  • Courtney Connors on 05 Apr 10
     
    Being a student on a College campus, I could not think of a better website to correlate everyday reality to this course. Also, this site seems appropriate to coincide with the Symposium, "Breaking the Silence", as it asks college students nation-wide to take a proactive role in sculpting the future of their College's sexual assault policies. It is important to note that on the Wheaton campus, we maintain and encourage a "don't ask, don't tell" type of policy where the discussion or realization of sexual assault on the campus is seemingly unheard of. This site encourages its viewers to be open-minded and encourage others to discuss the current campus policies and acknowledge that assault and rape do in fact, occur on college campuses nation-wide despite their lack of publicity.
Liesel Sheppard

Men Can Stop Rape - 3 views

www.mencanstoprape.org/index.htm

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  • Liesel Sheppard on 26 Mar 10
     
    Men Can Stop Rape is an organization dedicated toward mobilizing the male youth to speak out against violence against women. The website advocates males to come together and work alongside women in order to promote healthy relationships and gender equality. Men Can Stop Rape provides a variety of solutions for men and ways to become involved such as through attending events, trainings, and presentations.
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  • Kelly Westphal on 01 Apr 10
     
    This site is one of the more important sites we have bookmarked. While women can and do a phenomenal job of educating people about violence against women and bringing it to an end, we can't do anything unless we are able to educate men. Mobilizing men to stand up against rape and violence against women within their own lives and peer groups is crucial to ending violence against women (and men).
  • Courtney Connors on 06 Apr 10
     
    Too often when we discuss sexual abuse and rape do we question, "what can women do in the future to prevent these heinous acts and what did they do wrong to cause them?" We should take note that far more often than not, the perpetrator is a male while the victim is a female. Thus, the appropriate debate should be why do men take out their aggression physically and sexually on females and what can they do to stop this wave of male-dominated violence in the near future? This website encourages its males viewers to "create a culture free from violence" through campaigns, media works, events, personal success stories. It also asks what constitutes the norm of social "rape culture" today and asks the viewers to reconsider and transform this definition to accommodate reality.
  • Merretta Dickinson on 12 Apr 10
     
    I thought this was a great way for men, especially young men to learn healthy ways to be masculine, as well as ways that they can help to stop rape. I really liked the section where they discuss their MOST (Men of Strength) program. I think providing spaces for young men to learn about healthy masculinity is extremely important in stopping rape, and this can probably be very effective. Getting men to stand up and do something is a great step in the right direction to ending violence against women, and I think this organization does a good job at showing ways to do this.
  • Iraimi Mercado on 13 Apr 10
     
    This is a great website because its main focus is to educate men and prevent violence against women. I found the "Strength campaign" to be very interesting because it is a campaign that can be implemented within many organizations. As I was reading through their campaign adds I noticed how they used the phrase, "Our Strength is Not for Hurting" which is used to show men that strength those not mean violence.
  • Iraimi Mercado on 13 Apr 10
     
    This is a great website because its main focus is to educate men and prevent violence against women. I found the "Strength campaign" to be very interesting because it is a campaign that can be implemented within many organizations. As I was reading through their campaign adds I noticed how they used the phrase, "Our Strength is Not for Hurting" which is used to show men that strength those not mean violence.
  • Jennifer Salazar on 14 Apr 10
     
    I'm an absolute advocate for men to speak out against violence towards women. I believe it is critical that men become allies for this cause because essentially men can influence male culture more than women can. If men begin to condemn violence towards women than the passive notion amongst men can change to one of proactive means. Men are also influential for younger males and may often be mimicked by these younger males, so if you practice what you preach it can really make a difference.
Meaghan Murphy

Family secrets: Police officer involved domestic violence | Abuse of power | Diane Wete... - 2 views

www.dwetendorf.com/Article_NCWP.htm

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  • Meaghan Murphy on 10 Apr 10
     
    This site is about domestic violence perpetrated by police officers. I thought this site was interesting because it deals with a subset of domestic violence that is not always on the top of the discussion list. It talks about the added problems that victims have when their abuser is a cop who has been trained to be the authority figure.
  • Allegra Gigante Luft on 14 Apr 10
     
    I agree that this site is interesting and worth noting because it does happen and when it does, there is practically nothing a civilian victim can do against a government paid law enforcement officer. It was difficult for me to read because it reminded me of a classmate I had in high school who had been physically abused by his father who was a judge. His story was particularly difficult for me to understand because he had volunteered all of this information about his horrible home life without warning. It was also interesting to me because he had decided to leave his house to live with his grandmother, which is actually how we started carpooling. He was a year older than I, but he has a younger brother in my year who stayed at home with his parents. I never knew how to act around him knowing what I did even though he hadn't told me. The boy in my year must have had a crush on one of my best friends and had a poor way of showing it, which I think was partly due to his violent family dynamic. My girlfriend still tells me about how he stalked her and still calls and sends her odd and unwelcome messages.
  • Alyssa Colby on 14 Apr 10
     
    I also agree that this site is very interesting. Not only does it expose a flaw of prosecuting domestic violence in our legal system, but also shows how traditional "masculine" roles influence domestic violence. I like that the author shows how police culture, which conforms to many stereotypes about masculinity, works to increase rates and intensity of domestic violence, rather than only looking at problems with the individual abusers. The only thing I didn't like about this article was that I felt it down played the difficulties that women who have not been abused by officers face. The beginning of the article made it seem as if there was a wide network of support and help for victims of domestic violence within the legal system, which is not typically the case.
Morgan Foster

Phoebe Prince, South Hadley High School's 'new girl,' driven to suicide by teenage cybe... - 1 views

www.nydailynews.com/..._to_suicide_by_teenage_cy.html

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  • Morgan Foster on 12 Apr 10
     
    This article is a great example of the articles we read in Transforming a Rape Culture. It evidences author Nan Stein's argument that "schools may in fact be the training grounds for domestic violence: Girls learn that they are on their own, that the adults and others around them will not believe or help them when they report sexual harassment or assault. The harassers find that their conduct is treated with impunity, sometimes even glorified." (Transforming a Rape Culture) I think this article is important because it shows a real life example that can not be swept under the rug. Because bullying and sexual harassment were taken to such an extreme level and resulted in suicide, the issue has to be dealt with outside of the school's gates. In fact, this may act as a jump start for reform in Massachusetts school systems.
  • Abbe Erle on 12 Apr 10
     
    This story is terribly sickening. I remember the first time I heard it on the news, I was appalled. While I am sad to say I wasn't completely shocked that kids can be so mean, I am surprised that no one intervened before it got so out of control. Also, it is interesting that the incident of statutory rape is just briefly mentioned. To agree with Morgan, this goes to show how their conduct was indeed treated with impunity, while her death has been overly sensationalized.
Marijose Vila

NEVER AGAIN, Volume 2, The Mechanisms of Horror - 0 views

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  • Marijose Vila on 26 Apr 10
     
    This source is very valuable for my research because it is a report that attempts to recover the historic memories during the civil war in Guatemala. This volume explores the different impacts of political and sponsored state terrorism on the different social sectors of Guatemala. It discusses how the state respressed any form of sympathy or indentification with the guerilla movement. Moreover, it also focuses on violence against women during this period and especially the objectives and effects of raping women in public. This source also discusses how rape was used as a tool to communicate social and political messages and to dehumanize indigenous communities. The report also discusses the social roles through which women responded and resisted this type of violence.
  • Marijose Vila on 26 Apr 10
     
    This source explores the ways in which state sponsored terrorism during the civil war in Guatemala was sustained. It discusses the nature of the torture and masacres during this time. It describes the way in which soldiers were trained to masacre and rape victims and how they were mentally and physically trained to do so. This source also discusses the different goverment's sectors that participated and collaborated with the state's sponsored terrorsm.
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