I need your help!

[L. Manzer]

Gillian, I've marked it on my calendar so I should be there.  But in case
I get hit by a train before then, just wanted to make sure I got my
two-sense in.  Have you contacted Home Alive?  I'm sure you guys have. but
in case it passed by ya check out their website www.homealive.org.  they
might be interested in doing something besides just tabling ie. workshop,
self-defense, etc.  Good luck!

Lisa

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, G. Wickwire wrote:

> Hey everyone,  I really need your help in planning or giving me ideas on
> the Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Awareness Week (SARVA).  
> The next planning meeting is Feb 23 at 2:30pm in HUB 209-B, and I would 
> love to see some of you there!  If this doesn't fit into your schedule,
> then please just read the minutes from our last meeting (below) and let me
> know what ya'll think!!
> 
> **SARVA WEEK MINUTES**
> 
> SARVA Week will be April 24-April 28.
> 
> We decided to bring the Silent Witness Exhibit (the red plywood
> cutouts of the 31 women that were killed by a domestic partner in 1995 
> in the state of Washington) back to campus this year
> and to bring part of the Clothesline Project back and display that in the
> HUB Art Gallery.  We have not decided if we want to do other displays such
> as taped body outlines with statistics in them in red square, etc.
> 
> We would like to bring a movie to the HUB such as War Zone (an independent
> film about street harassment and rape culture) or Boys Don't Cry.  We have
> also been discussing bringing a band (any ideas on groups that are local
> and work on sexual assault issues?) or a performance group of some sort.
> We are also planning to have lunch discussion sessions in Health
> Sciences and the Law School.  
> 
> On the day of Take Back the Night (Thursday April 27) we will be having a
> Daytime Event on the Hublawn.  This will include booths for all on-campus
> organizations that deal with sexual assault and relationship violence, as
> well as several off-campus agencies.  The Silent Witness will be present
> at this time and we may try to get a PA System so we can promote the Rally
> and maybe read some poetry or something.  (The vision with this event is
> FILLING the HUB Lawn with community resources and visual representations
> of sexual assault).
> 
> The Take Back the Night Rally has been brainstormed quite a bit but is NOT
> structured or planned yet.  WE need help in this area particularly!!  Here
> are our ideas thus far...
> We would like to shift the focus of the Take Back the Night Rally from an
> educational/informative event to a motivational call to action.  Therefore
> we are picking speakers accordingly.  We plan to ask the Chief of Police
> on campus to give a brief summary of the state of affairs on campus and in
> the UWPD.  We have also been given names of people in the community who
> run agencies that are GREAT speakers, such as Christien Storm and Alisa
> Bierria. More ideas for speakers are needed!  
> We will also be having two women who do work in the field of violence
> against women do a short spoken-word reading. (Both women are winners of
> the Grand Slam Poetry Contest in Seattle).  We plan to have a Speak Out
> at the end of the rally where survivors can talk about their feelings,
> experiences, or read their poetry/journal entries, etc.
> 
> Do we want to bring back the Take Back the Night MARCH???  We haven't done
> a march in several years and it is a lot of work to set up if no one
> shows...so, what do you all think?  AND/OR we can do a candle light vigil.
> 
> I can't think if anything else we have discussed so far.  Please let me
> know what you are thinking about SARVA Week.  Your ideas and suggestions
> are very important to me!!  
> 
> gillian
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> Gillian Wickwire
> Director, ASUW Committee Organizing Rape Education
> (206)543-4238
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