[652] in peace2
TAKE BACK THE NIGHT rally Tonight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brice C Smith)
Thu Apr 12 01:19:48 2001
Message-Id: <200104120518.BAA07994@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu>
To: peace-list@MIT.EDU, peace-women@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 01:18:25 -0400
From: Brice C Smith <elrond@MIT.EDU>
tonight (thursday) is Harvard's annual Take Back The Night vigil and rally
(description below). this is a time for the enitre community to come together
to say in one voice that violence against women will not be tollerated or
swept under the rug. anyone from MIT who wishes to come to the rally may
either show up at Harvard at 8:00pm on the steps of Memorial Church or meet
on the steps at 77 Mass Ave. at 7:15pm and walk together to Harvard. if the
whether is bad, the rally will still be held (but we will probably take the
bus there instead of walking). please make every effort to attend this very
important event in order to support those seeking to reclaim their voice and
to help reclaim the night for us all.
RALLY-VIGIL-MARCH: RECLAIM THE NIGHT!
Meet at 8:00pm on the steps of Memorial Church
"In order to honor our sisters, our mothers, and our daughters who have
cried out from violence, who have been silenced by violence, who have died
from violence, we must continue the fight against gender-based violence
and demand free streets, homes & schools."
The candle-lit TBTN rally-vigil-march will feature spoken word poetry
about issues of sexual violence performed by Blackout, a Boston-based
poetry cooperative. After the poetry performances, the TBTN
rally-vigil-march will move around campus forming healing circles where
survivors may step forward and share their stories in a supportive and
empowering environment. The TBTN rally-vigil-march is an opportunity for
survivors to release a myriad of emotions and for supporters to come
face-to-face with the reality of violence against women. Above all TBTN
is a time for the Harvard/Cambridge community to show its compassion for
those amongst us who have endured gender-based violence and demand an end
to its prevalence within our community.
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Generally speaking things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when
things have got about as bad as they can reasonably get
- Tom Stoppard
