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End Violence towards Women and Girls
November 23, 2010 at steps of San Francisco City Hall. MamaCoAtl, playwright Kim McMillon, Poet Nina Serrano, city officials and community members kicked off 16 Days (November 25 – December 10, 2010) of ARTivism for healing and education to end violence against women and girls.
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To see more photos from November 23, 2010 taken by Howard Harawitz: http://picasaweb.google.com/harawitz/InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfViolenceTowardWomenAndGirls?feat=email#
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Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread violations of human rights. It can include physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuse, and it cuts across boundaries of age, race, culture, wealth and geography. It takes place in the home, on the streets, in schools, the workplace, in farm fields, refugee camps, during conflicts and crises. It has many manifestations — from the most universally prevalent forms of domestic and sexual violence, to harmful practices, abuse during pregnancy, so-called honour killings and other types of femicide.
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In 1994, a World Bank study on ten selected risk factors facing girls and women in this age group, found rape and domestic violence more dangerous than cancer, motor vehicle accidents, war and malaria. Studies also reveal increasing links between violence against women and HIV and AIDS. A survey among 1,366 South African women showed that women who were beaten by their partners were 48 percent more likely to be infected with HIV than those who were not.
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16 days of ARTivism for Healing and education.
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December 4, 2010
Ajaw B’eleje’ B’atz’
Dia de la Mujer
Nuestras primeras cuatro abuelas, llegaron en secreto, vinieron del aire, vinieron del Creador y Formador así llegaron.
Kaja Paluna’, Chonimaja’,
Kakixaja’ y Tz’ununija’
Cordialmente están invitados a la Ceremonia de la Mujer. Traigan sus ofrendas de copal, velas y flores blancas.
Día de ceremonia Maya: 4 de diciembre 2010
Lugar: Ocean Beach, Great Highway y Fulton, San Francisco
Hora: 6:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Gracias por su participación.
Compartiremos café y pan dulce después de la ceremonia.
Para más información favor de llamar a los siguientes teléfonos:
(415) 955.7517; (415) 410.5682
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THE PROBLEM IS
- Violence against women and girls has far-reaching consequences, harming families and communities. For women and girls 16–44 years old, violence is a major cause of death and disability.
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Women around the planet gather to dismantle the concept of violence.
Madre Coraje, interrupting a political function. She silenced president Calderon, she silenced all with her rage and pain. Her son was one of 16 teenagers murdered at a party by uniformed armed men. All in a days work in Juarez.
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Off shore drilling’s just another word for
Nothing left to rape!
78 women every hour
1,871 each day
683,000 a year
imagine it’s ok
to know the earth
exactly as a person.
imagine Armageddon
already happened
now we’re into
reconstruction.
imagine a god named
it’s ok.
3 million gallons a day
hemorrhaging into gulf waters
another woman battered every15 seconds
the Mother’s rule
is blood for blood
you eat, you pay
we are the vampires of empire
we can eat cherries in winter
we can fly anywhere
everything we do begins with petroleum
yum yum yum
345 million gallons slick in the gulf
6,000 women genitally mutilated today
You Eat You Pay she says
and all natural history confirms
she means it
3,571 birds fallen – oil in water
15,000 women sold into sexual slavery this year
749 sea turtles –death by oil
Women are tired of the ways men bleed
by breaking open
other people’s veins
the earth’s veings
let us respect the bravery
of women
let us raise up walls
walls in every city
and a big wall in Washington,
walls with names and names and names
Maria and Maria Theresa, Jerusha, Agnes, Kelly, Nancy,
Laci, Margaret, Sonia, Madelene, Susan, Carmen, Naomi,
Fatima, Mary Anne, Helen
great red walls for the blood of these soldiers
“our beloved sister, mother and daughter
she died bravely in the line of duty
to family and country
to marriage and to the evolution
of the patriarchy
we thank her for her sacrifice
we honor her courage
we miss her presence
may her heart be at peace”
some wounds are of the heart
some teaching is wounding
some wounds never heal.
Women are tired of the ways men bleed.
By Anne Bluethenthal based on a poem by Judy Grahn
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“Last year at the Vancouver Peace Summit 2009 the Dalai Lama expressed, “The world will be saved by the Western Woman.” My initial response to this declaration was, “Great, let’s do it! We women here in the west are super beings; we are leading the cutting edge of evolution for all our sisters and brothers still caught up in the world patriarchy.” Moments later I was overwhelmed by a feeling of un-easiness as the reality of the plight of my sisters and brothers became very clear: The path we are actually on, relative to the collective consciousness of humanity—is the path of destruction.
In order for Western Women to initiate conscious change in the world’s path and save the world—we, as women, must heal and dissolve our complicity, participation and addiction to the patriarchy.
- We must recognise our own violent reactivity to the masculine powers that be through our emulating and acting like the so-called powerful men that have set up this destructive world path in the first place.
- Too many of our sisters unconsciously and consciously choose to act like unconscious men and strive at all costs (the loss and sacrifice of love, our femininity, our children and families, our well-being and health, etc.) to be “equal” to them—many of us expressing ourselves as if we were men, indulging in behaviours contrary to the Divine Feminine, in our embodiment of the unconscious masculine.
- Expressing our masculine energies has certainly been an important tool in rising through the ranks and facing the adversities of the predominantly male world of politics and world business—but enough is enough—a balance must be co-created.
- We must dissolve all violence as perpetuated in dysfunctional relationships, martyrdom, self-abuse, and self-sacrifice, and set a well balanced example of wholeness to our sons and daughters.
- We women must dissolve our addiction and identification to victimhood, self-sacrifice, and “dumbing down” our Divinity, and learn to embody the Divine Feminine energies through mastering Self-care and Self-fullness.
- In doing so we bring into balance the entire world, dissolving the unconscious Masculine, evolving-making conscious the Divine Masculine, bringing forth the Divine Feminine, and teaching our sons and daughters their Divine value, and the importance of balancing the male and female energies in all of us—learning to wield and master these energies for the good of all humanity.” Marja West
Master Absolute Balanced Mastery™ Class Series
Presented in a Four Part Rites of Initiation by
Spiritual Teacher-Absolute Balanced Mastery™ Founder, Marja West
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A two day intensive in the Mission District
December 4-5, 2010
1-5 PM
25 dlls each day
please confirm participation to get directions.
| Join us in a two day intensive on Saturday 4 December and Sunday 5 December for a wonderful collective healing and initiation to wholeness, honouring the 16-Day Festival dedicated to the Elimination of Violence Toward Women and Girls. A collective Absolute Balanced Mastery™ healing will be invoked throughout the intensive, allowing all of us to forgive and transcend the sins of our Selves, Fathers and Mothers, and move into our respective places of power as conscious, grown men and women. Deeply intimate exercises and processes will be engaged in a no-holds-barred-fashion, along with an anointing ceremony to complete each segment.Part one—loving our wounded inner child Each of us has an inner wounded child who often runs our adult lives in ways that disempower us—keeping us stuck in the past and looping in endless familiar dramas. This wounded child is actually the chalice that holds our all our traumas—the emotional-mental-physical-sexual abuse and neglect we’ve experienced. Through these childhood experiences we have unconsciously solidified our beliefs and manifested our realities as adults with matching scenarios, infecting the world-at-large, affecting the ways we express or don’t express our personal power. This is a heartfelt invitation to hold sacred space for this inner wounded child by allowing and acknowledging his/her pain. Let us all reclaim, nurture, and set our inner wounded child free to emerge—gifting our adult Selves with the magic only an innocent child can bring forth. Part Two—Forgiving Father, Embracing the Divine Masculine Like it or not, our fathers are our first interface with the energies of the Our mothers are our first interface with the energies of the Divine Feminine Now that we’ve unveiled the tribal gifts given to us through our fathers and
About The Facilitator: Marja West (mar’ya)
Written by 16daysofartivism
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Dec. 5 & 6 http://www.themarsh.org/Marilyn_Pitman.html
sat at 8:30 pm; sun at 7 pm
The Marsh – Marilyn Pittman IT’S ALL THE RAGE
60 minutes no intermission All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served. This show is 18+. Please do not bring infants to the show.All shows are at The Marsh San Francisco. More info: https://16daysofartivismforthehealingofviolence.wordpress.com/tell-us-about-your-events-to-commemorate-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women/
On Friday Dec 10, International Human Rights Day, the closing program for the 16 days of Artivism for Healing and Education will take place at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco. Performance artist Violeta Luna joins MamaCoAtl, Yosimar Reyes and HeadRush theater group in an evening of truth telling: and exploring the state of our Human Rights through art.
In Recognition of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Towards Women
https://16daysofartivismforthehealingofviolence.wordpress.com
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Women activists have marked November 25th as a day against violence since 1981, in remembrance of the brutal assassination of the three Mirabel sisters, political activists, in the Dominican Republic on November 25, 1960, on orders from Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo. More information can be found athttp://www.un.org/depts/dhl/violence
To learn more please check out:
The work we do in Mexico http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry8lN5K9i04
Last year at city hall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcwzJfhzEAU
http://missionlocal.org/2009/11/end-violence-against-women/
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/home.html
http://www.amnestyusa.org/violence-against-women/stop-violence-against-women-svaw/16-days-for-womens-rights/page.do?id=1108252
http://www.educacionenvalores.org/25-de-noviembre-Dia-Internacional.html
http://www.un.org/spanish/Depts/dpi/boletin/mujer/minuto.html
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Many thanks to “ITP Women’s Spirituality MA Program” for their valuable support.
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CONVOCATORIA
Este 24 y 25 de noviembre, Día Internacional contra la Violencia hacia las Mujeres, a la asamblea y marcha para denunciar y exigir a las autoridades:
¡Alto a la violencia del sistema capitalista, neoliberal y patriarcal!
Y respeto a los:
-Derecho de las mujeres a la tierra y a la propiedad familiar: no exclusión y despojo de las mujeres a la tierra y revisión inmediata de reglamentos ejidales y estatutos comunales para eliminar la discriminación a las mujeres.
-Derecho a la alimentación: control de precios de los productos básicos, precio justo para los productos del campo.
-Derecho a la justicia: alto a las violaciones, alto al feminicidio y castigo para los responsables.
Exigimos:
-Alto a las altas tarifas de luz, agua, predial y de todos los servicios básicos.
-Respeto a los derechos laborales y sindicales, respeto a las pensiones y jubilaciones, salarios justos.
-Respeto a las autonomías zapatistas.
-Alto a la militarización y a la paramilitarización.
-Libertad inmediata de los y las presas políticas y respeto a su dignidad y a la de sus familiares.
Invitamos a participar a todas las mujeres de Chiapas del campo y la ciudad, y a los hombres solidarios con nuestras luchas, en:
LA ASAMBLEA
de mujeres en lucha, que se realizará el 24 de noviembre, de 8:00 a 19:00 hs., en el CIDECI-UNITIERRA(Camino viejo a Chamula s/n. col Nueva Maravilla, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas).
LA MARCHA-MITIN
En Tuxtla Gutiérrez, este 25 de noviembre, desde el Parque 5 de mayo a la Plaza Central.
Puntos de reunión:
– en San Cristóbal de las Casas: en CIDECI, a las 7:30 a.m.
– en Tuxtla Gutiérrez: en el Parque 5 de mayo, a las 10:00 a.m.
Pedimos que cada organización participante lleve sus mantas reivindicativas y su intervención para el mitín.
Los gastos serán cubiertos por cada organización.
Convocamos:
Movimiento Independiente de Mujeres (MIM), Centro de Derechos de la Mujer de Chiapas, A.C; Colectivos de mujeres de las regiones Selva-Norte, Altos y Sierra-fronteriza, Red de mujeres sindicalistas de Chiapas, Brigada Feminista, Coordinadora de Mujeres en Resistencia Norte, Altos y Selva-frontera, Mujeres del Consejo Autónomo Regional de la Costa, Organización de familiares de presos de Ocosingo “La Voz del Encino,” Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas.
Para adhesiones e información:
Centro de Derechos de la Mujer de Chiapas: (967) 631-60-75
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Centro de Derechos
de la Mujer de Chiapas
http://www.ddhhmujerchiapas.org/lavoz/index.html
Tel: (967) 631 60 75
cdmch.comunicacion@gmail.com
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sat at 8:30 pm; sun at 7 pm
The Marsh – Marilyn Pittman IT’S ALL THE RAGE
60 minutes no intermission All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served. This show is 18+. Please do not bring infants to the show.All shows are at The Marsh San Francisco. More info: https://16daysofartivismforthehealingofviolence.wordpress.com/tell-us-about-your-events-to-commemorate-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women/
On Saturday and Sunday December 4, 5, Healing the Tribe Master workshop with Marja West in the Mission http://www.absolutebalancedmastery.com/
On Friday Dec 10, International Human Rights Day, the closing program for the 16 days of Artivism for Healing and Education will take place at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco. Performance artist Violeta Luna joins MamaCoAtl, Yosimar Reyes and HeadRush theater group in an evening of truth telling: and exploring the state of our Human Rights through art.
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