#enoughviolence

Brazil was taken by surprise on Tuesday (3) with a sentence in the rape case of Mariana Ferrer. The decision was that André de Camargo Aranha committed a “culpable rape”, something never before seen in the Brazilian courts.”

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JUSTICE FOR MARIANA FERRER AND NO MORE R*PE CULTURE!

Do you wanna help for Mariana Ferrer? Sign the petition by clicking on the link: https://www.change.org/p/tribunal-de-justi%C3%A7a-de-sc-justi%C3%A7a-por-mariana-ferrer

One of our partners, Dr. Michael Yonas, currently of the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, was involved with the University of Pittsburgh's School of Public Health's research project, Visual Voices.

The study was based on Visual Voices programs conducted with 22 children ages 8 to 15 in two low-income and predominantly African-American communities in Baltimore and Pittsburgh. During the Visual Voices sessions, participants created paintings and drawings to share their perceptions, both positive and negative, of community safety and violence, as well as their hopes for the future. Afterward, they combined their individual art projects into two “visual voice” exhibits that were publicly displayed in each city.

The ENOUGH Violence: Artists Speak Out exhibition has provided SCC the opportunity to collaborate with many new partner organizations, both local and far-reaching.  On Monday, January 27th we had the honor of meeting the Attention: People with Body Parts group as they finished their 14-city tour here in Pittsburgh. Attention: People With Body Parts is a body-positive organization with an emphasis on letter writing and book making; movement; and collaborative projects. It was an equally wonderful opportunity to share the ENOUGH Violence: Artist Speak Out exhibition with them as it was to learn about their project.  They ventured out on this tour as a result of the recently published book, Portable Homes. 

Portable Homes is an anthology of letters collected from domestic violence survivors who wrote to one of their body parts, as they were told or forced to believe their bodies are not safe spaces; their bodies, their homes, became sites of reclamation. Uncensored, raw, and full of movement--this is a book filled with violence, healing, and people with body parts. We have two copies in the Gallery if you would like to skim through, or you can order your own book at: http://www.amazon.com/Attention-People-With-Body-Parts/dp/0615718191/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352389214&sr=8-1&keywords=attention+people+with+body+parts

You’re also welcome to share a letter to one or more of your body parts at: www.attnpeoplewithbodyparts.org

We are thankful for all of our Partner Organizations and look forward to the relationships that will continue, as a result of ENOUGH Violence: Artists Speak Out.  If you or your organization has not yet seen the exhibition and would like to, please give us a call to set up a time.

Regards,

Rachel Saul

"When Boris Bally was a boy I bought a ring from him - perhaps it was the first sale of a piece of his artwork. I bought it because I liked it and his parents were my friends. So, what does that event have to do with ending violence? Maybe that sale encouraged Boris to pursue his artistic passion and his work at this exhibit encourages you to do something that will help put an end to a violent act in another person's life. Or maybe reading this will remind you that even though we don't know what an impact we have on another's life, we do know that any act of encouragement will have a positive influence on someone - somewhere - sometime. Oh yes - and that we are all connected to each other."

http://neighborhoodvoices.org/enough-violence-3

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