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16 Days

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16 Days againt Violence against Women

- - I moderated 2 panel discussions in SL; Saturday Nov. 28 from 10-12pm and another on the same day from 1-3pm SLT

>>> Update: We did the two panels, using skype conference for audio and held these at the Four Bridges Auditorium.

My planning page:

Contact / orientation with panelists:

- Alexjo: Yes (Panel 1, Panel 2) - joining from Israel

- millay: Yes (Panel 1, Panel 2) - joining from NE US

- Undonechaos: Yes (Panel 1) - joining from Canada

- Ledoof: (Panel 1, Panel 2) - joining from Scotland

- Paty: yes (Panel 1, Panel 2) - joining from Mexico

- Nany: Yes (Panel 2) - joining from NW US

- Alanagh: Yes (Panel 2) - joining from South Africa

To Thank: Ledoof for bringing the 16 Days effort into SL; Four Bridges for hosting; Siri Vita as orchestrator / planner extraordinaire, panelists, artists, presenters and performers!

CONTACT INFO and BIOS

Cotton Thorne: Skype = mahaleys, acarson1@gmail.com

Paty Amiot: Skype = paty.arnot, yollotly@gmail.com

RL Doctor as a cardiologist in Guadalajara Mexico. What got you into SL? Curiosity about virtual worlds, and was curious about four bridges, and began a project based on high levels of violence in Mexico. Decided to create an interntational group to work against violence. Stop the Violence is the name of the project - hopes to have more projects. Inspired to do this work by the violence towards women in mexico and wants the world to know about it. She learned english here in Second Life, and speaks fluent French. Pacifist and recognizes that women are more vulnerable - it is necessary to educate men.

Stop the Violence - would like this group to be more well known in real life - and that the virtual space be known, a method of distribution of knowledge.

Great prevalence of domestic violence in Mexico; alcoholism amongst men, drugs, and culture. Education is not supporting women and men. Education for the fathers, especially and for children. Should start when kids are small. No programs that seem to be working - limitations - would be best to have programs for the prevention.

Grandfather was italian.

Undonechaos Enoch: Skype = Renee Iverson, eatingcrow451@gmail.com

Forces self to eat vegetables at buffets. Runs assertive community treatment, for 5 counties - work with 50 people who are seriously mentally ill. Idea is to keep people out of the hospital, and to help them get to their goals. RL works as a mental health practicioner, and has gone through sexual assault advocacy training which she uses at work. Still working on a masters degree in sociology focused on welfare and poverty rights. Minnesota. Runs a mental health outreach program.

Resources? We have to be careful when we talk about that. Need to define what female the resource is for- for her there are multiple layers; Sometimes go to the ER first (for rape kit), have a sexual assault advocate come in there, there is a group (Listen Ear) to help women, and then there is a process for reporting to social services. Once a report is submitted, there is a review, they will decide what action to take, e.g. investigation with law enforcement. Difficulties; sexual assault - you can never push someone to talk about it; they HAVE to decide on their own.

Story: working at a group home there was assaulted by a former resident of the group home. Brought her in to Listen Ear, and then to Social Services. Not the first sexual assault she had gone through. She escalated in alcohol and chemical abuse.

One of the things they deal with is clients being physically assaulted or assaulting others. Commonly see clients having been assaulted and then turning and assaulting others - often issues going on in families. Emotional abuse going on as well.

Wants people to know that there are always resources available - and don't push people into talking about abuse. Don't push people into survival.

Name: Undergrad degree in catholic theology; Books of Enoch (that were never put in the Bible); most of life is chaos laying in wait.

millay Freschi: Skype = milllay, millay_@hotmail.com

Doing US and Asia, but mostly on US. Queen Meanie Weenie of the Universe. Virtual world coordinator for Amnesty in Four Bridges. Student studying peace at the Univ. of Maine (Amy Cross). Why SL? Babies in the jungles - can't stand the thought of kids killing kids; 44 years old before she knew about this. SL becomes a good place to take an anonymous stand, to do a little bit in a little way, and now has turned into a way of life.

Domestice violence: will share a lot of statistics, and loved the question, especially what is working for rehabilitation. It's a generational thing. Adolescent bullying / harassment programs in schools seem to be working. Patrick Stewart is a very strong voice in this. 73% vitims female, 79% offenders are white. 74% victims are white women.. Doctors not recording incidents of domestic violence. Language of domestic violence is something that skews the numbers.

Status of women: Will provide info from Amnesty's perspective. Will include human traficking information and maternal mortality.

Alexjo Magic: Skype = alexnissen, alexjoey@hotmail.com

Feminist and human rights activist doing PhD on rights of women, and has done a ton of work on domestic violence in australia and israel. Interested in creating a civil society. Australian, with Israeli citizenship. Comes to israel quite a bit. Founder of the women in black movement. No visuals to share. "Domestic violence is the same everywhere." Curren issue of 'good boys' sexually assaulting girls. Work in education to give boys an alternative view and with girls to help them. Risk of honor killing in the middle east, this does not happen in australia. One of her girlfriends best friends was killed in an honor killing. Druze background.

Story about making a dvd of sexually assaulting a young girl and sold it to their buddies. Another story of kids using mobile phones to capture assaults and brag / share. (What role does technology play in today's storyline?) Japanese had a game that included rape play. Morning: focus on cultural perspectives / patriarchy and cultures. Will look in the afternoon and tailor.

Wednesday Haifa Movement is having a meeting to look at their progress.

Ledoof Constantineau: Skype = , Email

perhaps that i worked with women's aid for some time

[8:58] millay Freschi: oh good :)))

[8:59] Ledoof Constantineau: women's aid is an organisation in scotland which supports women and children who've experienced domestic abuse

Background in Rape Crisis - from Scotland.

(following will be there for the 2nd panel only)

Nany Kayo: Skype = Nany.Kayo, Nany.Kayo@comcast.net

Family in Oklahoma, came out in the 1800's. Native american women and new world women - striking differences. She is the director of the virtual native lands project - a non profit org promoting native amer culture using virtual world tech. Educating natives and non-natives. Education, commerce, social services in virtual worlds. Particularly interesting because the natives are dispersed geographically. The best of our culture is dispersed geographically. Tribe and Indian are fine terms. With family in Washington State. Came into SL because she had an employer that had some work here. Has been in the software industry, doing contract work, and came into SL. There was a contest in the summer of 2008, and put together an entry that secured a grant to create the virtual native lands project. Non-profit work is really growing. Do a lot of tours and projects where you need authentic natives to educate.

Women: traditional status of women in n and s america - consistently matrilineal. Status of women was entirely different - role of women in government, different set of traditions, but that got broken down through forced assimilation. We tend to think of human nature as western culture as 'it' - but it really is not. Women owned the homes and the land, and the hunting grounds. Couples marry and live with mother's family. Clans are set up where name is part of female lineage. Descendants: a person was cherokee if his / her mother was cherokee. Roles were different.

Unintended consequences of forced assimilation - 3 or 4 rounds of 'termination policy' - tribes that remain intact have sovereignty that puts that about the State level - have their own set of laws, but that cuts them off from things such as getting legal services. Women suffering domestic violence on the reservation are stuck with federal marshals and reservation / tribal police who may have no power over a non-indian who commits a crime. If you are a native american you are subject to any native american tribe if you are on their land. Has a friend up in Canada; missing and murdered women that is not being investigated.

Termination policy: trying to destroy native-american cultures. An official term for tearing down native american culture.

Alanagh Recreant: Skpye = MetaMeerkat,

Would like to look at experiences of African women - different countries and shared experiences. Also thinking about bringing in some of the clients that she is working with in the townships as anchor case studies. Use visuals to present that. - mainly about prejudice, tolerance and poverty. Human rights components and what's different about South Africa. Would like to take it a bit more personal towards Afrikaans speaking women - what has happened since 1994.

Personal: Alanagh Recreant - she in no way represents African women; one person can't do it all, but she is an African woman. Euro-African is current label - her forefathers go back about 350 years, from the french hugenots, and those who came to SA escaping religious persecution in France. Co-founder of Uthango Social Investments; Uthango means corral, more important than an actual house. If you don't have a place to keep the livestock at night, you are not really respected. Culturally important. Women are not allowed in the corral - male-dominated space for ceremonies and negotiations. (get her to tell this story about how she received the name). Micro-enterprise project has been successful; need to use local intelligence to solve local problems.

Virtual world to create a window to Africa, but not Africa itself (too big). metaAfrica (tm) - the name that they have created and want to trademark it in South Africa, an effort to create a future / establish the window to Africa. Interested in creating a RL place (incubator) to help with virtual worlds.

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Panel discussion #1: Domestic Violence

Date: Sat. Nov. 28

Time: 10-12pm SLT

Location: FB Auditorium

Organizing note for domestic Violence panel:

Hi Paty, Alexjo, Undone, Ledo and millay!

Saturday November 28th you are scheduled from 10AM SLT - Noon to particpate in the panel on Domestic Violence for the 16 Days Campaign. Some of you are also participating in the 1 - 3PM panel which will be covered in a separate notecard.

AUDIO: For the Domestic Violence panel, I'm contacting each of you to get a contact number or skype name (SKYPE is FREE!) in order to put you on the conference call that will be streamed inworld.

Date: Sat. Nov. 28

Time: 10 - 12pm SLT

The event is taking place at the Four Bridges Auditorium

( LANDMARK )

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/70/47/1603

Preparing:

1) Please see about getting Skype. If for some reason that is not an option for you, just let me know and we will work something out.

2) I would like to speak with you in advance of Saturday's event. I like to talk informally so that I know a little bit more about you beforehand. And it's a good time to test audio things. Please let me know if an evening next week (evening east coast time) will work for you. I am remarkably flexible next week, except on Thursday, so if daytime is better, that might work for me too. I am on the east coast in the US, by the way.

3) If you could please send me a notecard with a few sentences about you - whatever you would like to share - that would be great.

4) If you have any images (photos, powerpoint slides, etc.) that you would like to have on hand to refer to and share with the audience, please send them to me at the following email:

acarson1@gmail.com

On Saturday, I'd like to begin by introducing each of you, and have you say something about where you are, and any basic stats on domestic violence for the area/culture you are representing. After which there will be approximately an hour discussion around the following questions. I'll start with one of you for each question, and then ask the others on the panel for reflections on that question. I'm going to suggest a 'lead' responder for each of the questions below. I will have Siri Vita providing translation of questions and responses English - Spanish for Paty, and am asking Paty to give her answers in Spanish for spanish-speaking attendees.

- Is domestic violence in your area predominantly something hidden/shameful or generally culturally accepted? (Alexjo)

- Are there resources available to women subject to abuse that are easily accessible? (Undone)

- What are some of the barriers to abused women getting help? (Paty)

- What are some of the cultural barriers that keep cycles of domestic violence perpetuated through generations? (Ledoof)

- What seems to be working for rehabilitating abusers? (millay)

- Anything you would like to add?

The balance of the two hour session will be devoted to audience questions on the topic which will either be directed to one of you specifically or to the entire panel. We will take as many questions as time allows.

Thanks you SO much for participating in this vitally important discussion. If you have resources to share, please give me the link and we will make a list of resource links available during the presentation.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me - email is best:

Cotton Thorne -

Email: acarson1@gmail.com

skype: mahaleys

Thanks again!

Panel discussion #2: Status of Women in Different Cultures Throughout the World

Date: Sat. Nov. 28

Time: 1-3pm SLT

Location: FB Auditorium

Hi Paty, Alexjo, Ledo and millay, Nany & Alanagh :)

Saturday November 28th you are scheduled from 1PM SLT - 3PM SLT to particpate in the panel on The Status of Women in Different Cultures Throughout the World for the 16 Days Campaign. Some of you are also participating in the 10AM to Noon panel which was covered in a separate notecard.

I have the pleasure of being the moderator for these two panels, and am looking forward to what I know will be a fascinating couple of hours of sharing and discussion. I'm contacting each of you to confirm contact information and to share some logistics.

Contact info:

I believe I have everyone's contact information; Ledoof I know you are working on getting that to me, and Nany if you could please send me your email address and (if possible) a skype name that would be great. Skype is free internet phone, and is available at http://www.skype.com.

Date: Saturday November 28

Time: 1 - 3pm SLT

Location: The event is taking place at the Four Bridges Auditorium

Preparing:

1) Please see about getting Skype. If for some reason that is not an option for you, just let me know and we will work something out.

3) If you could please send me a notecard with a few sentences about you - whatever you would like to share - that would be great.

4) If you have any images (photos, powerpoint slides, etc.) that you would like to have on hand to refer to and share with the audience, please send them to me at the following email:

acarson1@gmail.com

I'd like to begin by introducing each of you briefly to let the audience see / hear you; we will just cover the basics of who you are and where in the world you are joining from. After that, I'm going to ask a starting question and would like each of you to have some comments ready. I see this as roughly 10 minutes for each of you, and the balance of the time will be for questions from the audience. Starting question:

- How would you characterize the status of women where you are? What are the cultural forces that are working for or against women there today?

I will seek natural connections between each of you as the conversation unfolds, so we will naturally progress from what you have to say about your culture specifically to exploring the themes across cultures, etc. Paty, I am asking Siri to be there to provide live translation Spanish / English as we will do for the earlier panel discussion.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me.

Cotton Thorne

email: acarson1@gmail.com

skype: mahaleys