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And with that, I thought about all my traumas: the violence, the abuse, my rape.
She now runs a free pharmacy, she volunteers in the community, she helps women cope with violence, she teaches.
In its worst form, the harm we inflict on loved ones shows up as abuse and violence, and relationship abuse is something that one in three women and one in four men will experience in their lifetime.
Time of breakup can be a real trigger for violence.
But it's not just about romantic relationships and it's not just about violence.
Thanks to preliminary research from the Center for Policing Equity, we're learning that in some cities, most of the interactions between cops and citizens is due to 911 calls, not officer-initiated stops, and most of the violence, the use of force by police on citizens, is in response to those calls.
And you don't have to fight back with aggression or hostility or violence.
This barrage of negativity is what we're up against: the crushing statistics, the violence, the mental health risks, the well-meaning but flawed response my parents gave me when I came out, that they didn't want me to have a harder life.
Saw the man on the side of the road and saw how beat up the man was, saw that the man was a victim of violence, or fleeing violence.
It's known as the Bloody Pass, the Ascent of Red, because the road is structured for violence.
And Johan Galtung, a peace theorist, talks about structural violence in our society.
He says, "Structural violence is the avoidable impairment of basic human needs."
Dr. Paul Farmer talks about structural violence and talks about how it's the way our institutions, our policies, our culture creates outcomes that advantage some people and disadvantage others.
And my first job as mayor was helping our community to see ourselves, our neighbors, not just in the people victimized by violence but also in the perpetrators.
We realized that those who enact pain in our society, those who are committing homicides and contributing to gun violence, are oftentimes victims themselves.
Because again, I understand some listening are saying, "Well, Mayor Tubbs, you're talking about structural violence and structural this, but you're on the stage.
To be online at any given point is to feel so much sadness and anger and violence.
It feels to me that the platforms that we use to inhabit these online spaces have been designed either ignorantly or willfully to allow for harassment and abuse, to propagate misinformation, to enable hatred and hate speech and the violence that comes from it, and it feels like none of our current platforms are doing enough to address and to fix that.
A few years ago, I was taking care of a woman who was a victim of violence.
Health care in the United States assumes that you have a home with a refrigerator for your insulin, a bathroom where you can wash up, a bed where you can sleep without worrying about violence while you're resting.
They've seen their friends and relatives die young of accidents, of violence, of cancers that should have been diagnosed at an earlier stage.
And violence against women and girls is pervasive.
Needless to say that music is the number one prevention against prostitution, violence, bad habits, and everything degrading in the life of a child.
The vast majority of these people leave Central America and Mexico to escape grinding poverty and extreme levels of social violence.
It has taught me about violence and pain and hope and resilience and struggle and sacrifice.
But by the time I was documenting the migrant trail in Guatemala in the late 2000s, most Americans had no connection to the increasing levels of violence, impunity and migration in Central America.
I witnessed the rise of the Mexican drug war and the deepening levels of social violence in Central America.
This was not a random act of violence, but one instance of social violence in a region of the world where this has become the norm.
To which I reply, "I work to end violence against children.
All violence against every child in every country."
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