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Harassment « Enough!
“Clothes bigger than my size, check. Nerdy glasses, check. Veil covering any hint of hair, check. Makeup-free face, check. I don’t think I can possibly look any plainer. All I need to do now is to just look straight ahead and I should make it to work without being humiliated.”
Sara was wrong. […]
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Naila Farhat holds a photo of what she looked like before she was attacked. She had acid thrown in her face by a friend of her teacher, after her family refused his marriage proposal.
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Native Women and Sex Trafficking: An Overlooked Crisis
By R. M. Arrieta, Apr 17, 2012, via @Native_NewsNet
“Sundance in Red” is part of the Traded Moons exhibit at San Francisco’s Galeria de la Raza. (Artwork by Geri Montano)
Many people have read or heard reports of the global crisis of sex trafficking and prostitution. But few are aware of how disproportionately Native American women and girls are impacted.
In San Francisco, native artist Geri Montano examines this critical overlooked issue in her exhibit, “Traded Moons,” which runs from April 14 to May 12 at the Galeria de la Raza gallery.
Montano told In These Times, “I acknowledge sex trafficking is a crisis overseas and in many cultures around the globe. It’s reached crisis proportions. But being of Native descent and rarely hearing about the sex trafficking which affects Native American women here in the U.S. and First Nations people…, I was moved to bring this to public attention.”
Montano addresses this ongoing crisis in her mixed medium work, which includes collages, sketches, drawings and images of indigenous women and girls, surrounded by symbols of native culture.
In “Sundance in Red,” a young girl with long black braids wears a red fur-lined dress and oversized red high heels, a pair of handcuffs dangle from one wrist. Paper doll cutouts surround the image. Another work, “7th Moon,” shows a young girl wearing her hair in traditional Hopi buns and necklace, in a garter belt, black stockings and red shoes. There are moon images around her. She stares out at the viewer.
Says Montano, “The forced removal of native children and the trauma of relocation and abuse correlates strongly to sex trafficking. There is a socio-political link. Traffickers target women and girls who are living in vulnerable conditions due to poverty, previous abuse, or during times of political upheaval.”
A bill introduced in October by U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chairman Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii)—S.B. 1763, or the Stand Against Violence and Empower Native Women (SAVE Native Women) Act—would provide Indian Country with jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit crimes on Indian lands, improve the Native programs under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and improve data gathering programs to better understand and respond to sex trafficking of Native women. It would also require the National Institute of Justice to include women in Alaska Native Villages and sex trafficking in its study of violence against Indian women.
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Did a Member of Congress Order Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher Into Isolation?
Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher was moved into the Special Housing Unit of FCI Herlong last month, and placed in isolation — a practice that human rights groups have decried as cruel and inhumane treatment and tantamount to torture. After thousands of supporters called the Bureau of Prisons and members of Congress, DeChristopher was released from “the hole.” But the question remains: Why was a non-violent prisoner, with no disciplinary history, sent there?
According to DeChristopher’s support crew, “Tim was informed by Lieutenant Weirich that he was being moved to the SHU because an unidentified Congressman had called from Washington DC, complaining of an email that Tim had sent to a friend.”
In this email, DeChristopher said he was distressed to learn that a major donor to his defense fund was planning on moving jobs overseas. He said he would send a letter to the owners explaining his concerns, and that “this letter will include a threat to wage a campaign against them if they don’t reverse course and keep the plants open.”
In other words: a member of Congress sought retribution for a non-violent activist promising to protest a corporate supporter.
There’s no shortage of politicians who might be concerned about DeChristopher’s effective advocacy. So here’s an idea: Call your members of Congress and ask them directly if they requested that Tim DeChristopher be placed isolation.
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