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Re: Generation Gap -- jakethorn's Offspring post
Okay, so I've been struggling with these things for a long time. The generation gap of the 60's, the generation gap today, activism, etc. My parents used to be major hippies, and whereas I feel my mother has kind of lost touch (yay mercedes! marble bathrooms for all!) my pop is really still in tune with it, and understands my frustration with the current 'way of the world.' I spoke to him at length about the 60's. The few things that hit me (and that I wrote down) went as follows:
Mass Murderers and Women: What We're Still Not Getting About Virginia Tech
I recieved this article in an email. It's long, but interesting. see what ya'll think:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/04/virginia_tech_women.html
~Delia
Violence Against Native American and Alaskan Native Women
They suffer dispproportionate numbers of rape and violent crimes, and yet the government has done little except to make it more difficult for them to get help.
So check this out:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/askamnesty/live/display.php?topic=82
~Delia
More Information on Redlight Children
Here's some more information on Redlight Children. It sounds like Guy gave his interviewer the same presentation he gave us. This is a pretty decent summary of what he said.
NYC: Queens: Immigrants Face Sexual Slavery
As most of you are probably aware, many young women and girls who try to emigrate to the United States are forced to perform sexual favors, work as prostitutes, or become sex slaves in return for their passage. They are often told that a husband or a job as a waitress awaits them in the United States. They are told that they will be allowed to work to pay off any debt that they incur in obtaining their passage. Once they arrive, however, they are put into brothels and forced into sexual slavery for years to pay off their "debt", an amount that is often impossible to pay off. Every day their debt grows by more than what they pay back, as they are charged ridiculous amounts for the bed that they are forced to lie in and the food they must eat. They make no money. In
Fighting Rape in NYC
Hey all,I recently came across this interesting article from the Village Voice. it discusses the prevalence of rape in the Big Apple, and efforts there to combat it. The article talks about trends in rape crime over the past decade, but it also acknowldeges that numbers can't be trusted for a crime that is so under-reported. They also discuss the difficulty of interpreting the numbers that do exist. The article is well worth reading. I applaud Bloomberg for his efforts to fight this crime, and make it a priority. But i agree with the article that there is still a long way to go. Read more:
Advertising...
So I've got bronchitis, and this afternoon I went to Health Services to get checked out again. In the waiting room I decided to catch up on my music news and grabbed a Rolling Stone. I opened the magazine to find *drumroll* a two page D&G ad that definitely resembled sexual violence (one man naked and strapped to a chair with three other shirtless men standing around him...). I know I've seen a D&G ad where they're whipping tic-tac-toe games into each other's backs, too. I was pretty appalled.
I kept flipping through the magazine until: Diesel ad. Man lying with head in woman's lap. Both scantily clad. She's pouring water into his mouth. Tagline? Global Warming Ready.
Tyra Banks thinks violence against women is hot
The activist group New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault ( link: http://www.nycagainstrape.org/alert_74.html ) recently posted in response to Tyra Banks' show, "America's Next Top Model". In the March 21st airing of the show the contestants were instructed to "look like crime victims" as they posed looking like they'd been drugged, bound, and killed. Apparently, Tyra and her cohorts think that something about violence against women is sexy or cool. wow. disgusting. NYCAASA has a stock letter that you can sign and send to Tyra, expressing your outrage that ANYONE would find something like this suitable.
Redlight Children
Tonight I went to a lecture/presentation on campus (I go to Sarah Lawrence) for a campaign called Redlight Children. I'm not gonna lie, I went on assignment to photograph for the campus newspaper. I didn't even plan on staying for the whole thing. When the presentation began, however, I realized there was NO way I was leaving until it was over.
To give you an idea what I was in for, here's the slogan from the information cards handed out to us: Imagine you've been bought, sold, emotionally abused, and raped. Now imagine you're a four-year-old.