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At KUNM here in Albuquerque, Elaine Baumgartel did some graduate research on the coverage of violence against women.
"Persepolis" brought a daughter closer to her Iranian mother, and "Jaws" became the way in which one young boy was able to articulate the fear he'd experienced in flight from violence that killed first his father then his mother, the latter thrown overboard on a boat journey.
NT: Everything I did, I did for mankind, for a world where there would be no humiliation of the poor by the violence of the rich, where products of intellect, science and art will serve society for the betterment and beautification of life.
I've had to see more than my fair share of violence and the darker underbelly of society, and that's informed my opinions.
As it stands, the US Constitution denies fundamental protections to victims of gender violence such as sexual assault, intimate partner violence and stalking.
The resulting constitutional flaw directly contradicts international law, which requires nation-states to intervene and protect citizens against gender violence by private parties as a human right.
Unlike what you may have seen on "Law & Order: SVU," justice is rare for victims of gender violence.
Despite this constitutional flaw, some victims of gender violence have found protections under federal Civil Rights statutes, such as Title IX.
Rather, it prohibits all forms of sex discrimination, including sexual violence and harassment within educational programs that accept federal funding.
While initially targeting sex discrimination within admissions, Title IX has actually evolved over time to require educational institutions to intervene and address gender violence when committed by certain parties, such as when teachers, students or campus visitors commit sexual assault or harassment.
So what this means is that through Title IX, those who seek access to education are protected against gender violence in a way that otherwise does not exist under the law.
It is Title IX that requires educational institutions to take reports of gender violence seriously, or to suffer liability.
And that's really important, because educational institutions have historically swept gender violence under the rug, much like our criminal justice system does today.
Originally proposed in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment would guarantee gender equality under the law, and much like Title IX on campus, that constitutional amendment could require states to intervene and address gender violence as a prohibitive form of sex discrimination.
It's time for accountability to become the norm after gender violence.
My acquaintance with the statistics of human progress, starting with violence but now encompassing every other aspect of our well-being, has fortified my belief that in understanding our tribulations and woes, human nature is the problem, but human nature, channeled by Enlightenment norms and institutions, is also the solution.
Many late nights of vodka-fueled violence with me sitting in the corner with my bag, just going, "When was this a good idea?"
No to violence: Ramy Essam came to Tahrir on the second day of the revolution, and he sat there with this guitar, singing.
No to stripping the people, and the blue bra is to remind us of our shame as a nation when we allow a veiled woman to be stripped and beaten on the street, and the footprint reads, "Long live a peaceful revolution," because we will never retaliate with violence.
After acts of violence, another artist came, painted blood, protesters being run over by the tank, demonstrators, and a message that read, "Starting tomorrow, I wear the new face, the face of every martyr.
Many have been tricked by false promises of a good education, a better job, only to find that they're forced to work without pay under the threat of violence, and they cannot walk away.
All of them are victim to injury, illness and violence.
In half a century of trying to help prevent wars, there's one question that never leaves me: How do we deal with extreme violence without using force in return?
I wanted to understand how violence, how oppression, works.
And what I've discovered since is this: Bullies use violence in three ways.
They use political violence to intimidate, physical violence to terrorize and mental or emotional violence to undermine.
And only very rarely in very few cases does it work to use more violence.
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy.
And what they've realized is that using violence in the situations they operate in is not only less humane, but it's less effective than using methods that connect people with people, that rebuild.
And this analogy, actually, was already picked up by some of the papers, with some tabloid press calling the events "Shopping with violence," which probably sums it up in terms of our research.
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