From md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu Sun Nov 1 20:28:09 1998 Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 22:28:56 -0500 (EST) From: md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu Subject: Re/Productions On-line Journal (fwd) To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:09:15 -0500 From: "Ra'eda S. Al-Zu'bi-GRHF" Reply-To: femisa@csf.colorado.edu To: FEMINIST THEORY & GENDER STUDIES Subject: Re/Productions On-line Journal Apologies for cross-posting... Please forward to interested colleagues, students, activists or anyone else you can think of… NEW ELECTRONIC JOURNAL: Re/productions @ http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/SAsia/repro/issue1.html is a new on-line journal currently fully accessible and free to the general public! This journal is dedicated to disseminating work by scholars, activists, and organizations exploring different discourses of reproductive health and rights in South Asia. 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Project Manager Global Reproductive Health Forum Harvard School of Public Health http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/ Tel: (617)432-2936 Fax: (617)566-0365 E-mail:ohalpern@hsph.harvard.edu -- Ra'eda S. Al-Zu'bi Project Coordinator Global Reproductive Health Forum Harvard School of Public Health http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/ Tel: (617) 432-2936 Fax: (617) 566-0365 From mgullette@msn.com Wed Nov 18 13:02:08 1998 From: "Margaret M Gullette" To: "Jeanne Guilleman" , "Richard Griffin" , "Stephen Graubard" , "Janet Graber" , "Martha Gimenez" , "Chris Gailey" , "Nanette Funk" , "Elinor Fuchs" , "Fisher, John" , "Gail Finney" , "Mike Featherstone" , "Martin Fassler" , "Faris, Wendy Bush" Subject: Update on Hurricane Mitch in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:53:39 -0500 Friends-- The devastation wrought by Hurricane Mitch in San Juan will take years to undo. And yet there was no loss of life, and the wind damage was not as great as in the north. Heavy rains, however, severely damaged the rural areas in which so many illiterate women live. Rain destroyed dirt roads and left many communities totally isolated. The flooding inundated latrines, spilling raw sewage everywhere and contaminating wells. Crop loss was heavy; food prices are already going up; there is fear of malnutrition and starvation. Illness is everywhere; "en cada casita" says one friend--in every humble home. Fungus infections, ear infections, conjunctivitis are widespread. The greatest dangers are dengue and cholera. The national magnitude of the disaster adds to personal problems; a friend in the North American rescue community says the whole country is in mourning. Naturally, all this has had and will have serious impacts on the women in the literacy project that began last summer. The entire program closed down for the week of the rains, and the coordinators who go out to help the teachers with curriculum and morale still cannot reach all the villages. Nevertheless, the program is running again, at what seems to me an astonishing level: about 84% of the original matriculation, and they expect other women to join. Some of the older women with vision problems may return or attend more frequently after VOSH (Boston-based ophthalmologists) provides them with glasses in January. The report of Rosa Elena Bello, the director, begins by announcing that the program has enthusiastic support from the majority of the learners and their families. Some groups meet three or four or five times a week (the minimum contact hours are eight per week); several groups meet on weekends. My heart goes out to all of them. I admire them tremendously, struggling to keep up with this much-desired program in the midst of this national tragedy. Rosa Elena went out immediately on horseback and foot after the hurricane ended to assess the situation and bring medicine to a few communities. Since then she has been heading up much of the emergency local public-health work. Servicios Medicos Comunales is maintaining its normal work as well: immunizations, prenatal visits, baby weighing, etc. (There is also a government health center.) Our delegates to San Juan immediately gave SMC $600 for medicine, which Rosa Elena bought the next day in Managua (to be handed out free to the poorest, which include of course our literacy students), and $400 for mosquito control in San Juan proper. The Sister City Project will be replacing a school that has been condemned and evacuated. Six days of non-stop rain caused huge cracks in a badly built brick barrel-vaulted building. This overcrowded school in San Juan's fastest-growing neighborhood (many families were relocated there after the tidal wave about five years ago) had only two rooms anyway. David and I will go late in December for two weeks and start a community project that will build a hurricane-resistant building with four new classrooms before school reopens in late February. We're now fund-raising for that--over $10,000--our biggest project ever. Contributions made out to the Newton-San Juan del Sur Sister City Project are tax-deductible and can be sent to Fiora Houghteling, Treasurer, 258 Mill Street, Newton, MA 02460. Our money is spent only by our delegates in San Juan; we know where every penny goes. No funds are used for delegate travel or administration in Newton. President Aleman, meanwhile, has expelled from the country an American woman who mentioned in an e-mail her doubts about the honesty of his channeling of international aid. Aleman has still not declared a state of emergency. Thanks for any help you can give. Please pass this request on to your family and friends. --Margaret Resident Scholar, Women's Studies, Brandeis e-mail: mgullette@msn.com 617-965-2164 Home page:www//brandeis.edu/wmns/gullette.html Declining to Decline judged "best feminist book on American popular culture" (1998 Emily Toth Award) From mgullette@msn.com Sun Nov 22 15:40:43 1998 From: "Margaret M Gullette" To: "Ahmed, Fauzia" , "Banerjee, Swapna" , "Calmas, Sandra" , "Curtis, Liane" , "Davie, Jodie Shapiro" , "Graves, Florence George" , "Kate Henchman" , "Lopman, Louise" , "Mark, Elizabeth" , "McGann, P J" , "Mendelson, June" , "Murphy, Evelyn" , "Nancer H Ballard" , "Naomi Myrvaagnes" , "Oestereicher, Mary" , "Paula Doress-Worters, Ph.D." , "Preston, Jo Anne" , "Tyre, Marcie" , "Unger, Rhoda" , "Wasserfall, Rahel" , Subject: Fw: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:19:42 -0500 boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0012_01BE14A9.F62B1640" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01BE14A9.F62B1640 54. Margaret Morganroth Gullette Resident Scholar, Women's Studies, Brandeis e-mail: mgullette@msn.com 617-965-2164 -----Original Message----- From: PJ McGann To: Abigail J. Stewart ; amy agigian ; amy schulz ; aryeh ; babs ; britta <6500bbw@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu>; calvin moore ; catherine ; celia ; dan finseth ; dana rosenfeld ; darren ; david levinson ; emilia ; genz ; gordie ; henry ; ira ; jane stewart ; joanne ; kat ; kelly ; kerry ; lady anne <"mamary@snycorva.cortland.edu, javannne"@juno.com> >; laila ; laura fredrickson ; lawrence ; lipika ; lizbet ; Margaret Morganroth Gullette ; mary b ; mary haught ; michele koontz ; mindy ; papson conrad ; randy hill ; ron flores ; rosemary ; sandy tangri ; stephen pfohl ; todd ; trick ratpick ; wambui ; wanjiru Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 9:50 AM Subject: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] >Subject: FW: Anti Hate Crime Petition > >On October 6, outside Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a >> >21-year-old University of Wyoming student, was tortured, beaten, and >> >left tied to a pole in the freezing cold. Six days later, he died of >> >his wounds in Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, Colorado. Matthew >> >was murdered because he was gay and because he was a prominent and >> >charismatic member of the gay and lesbian student group on campus. >> >Right now Wyoming and Colorado have no anti-hate crime laws; the state >> >legislature in Wyoming has voted down anti-bias bills for each of the >> >past three years. > > There is an effort in Wyoming and Colorado to enact Matthew >> >Shepard Laws, which would strongly punish the perpetrators of hate >> >crimes. > >This petition demands the broadening of federal anti-hate crime law. > >Opening Statement: >"As a religious voice, we state strongly that violence on the >> >basis of sexual orientation, race or gender is wrong, is evil, is >> >reprehensible." > -John Buehren, President of The Unitarian Universalist >> >Association, speaks for Unitarian Universalists but his words are >> >reflected in the hearts of people everywhere who believe we must speak >> >out, take action against, and condemn hate crimes in all their ugly >> >forms. > > A resolution follows: > > WHEREAS: We affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of > every person; and > > WHEREAS: We commend the efforts of those individuals who dedicate >> >their lives to causes of social justice and human rights; and > >WHEREAS: We support actions that protect the individual's rights >> >of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. > >THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That we hereby urge the passage of The >> >>>Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529 > >The Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529, would >> >amend current federal law (which permits federal prosecution of a hate >> >crime only if the crime was motivated by bias based on religion, >> >national origin, or color) to include real or perceived sexual >> >orientation, gender,and disability so the FBI would be able to >> >investigate and prosecute violent hate crimes against gays, lesbians, >> >and Bisexuals. > >Under this bill, hate crimes that cause death or bodily injury >> >>>>because of prejudice can be investigated federally, regardless of >> >whether the victim was exercising a federally protected right. > > The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of >> >support for this change to the current law is by making our voices >> >heard. > >Please add your name to this petition and forward it to friends >> >who believe in what it stands for. The petition will then be forwarded >> >to the President of The United States; the Vice President of the United >> >States; and our United States Senators and House Members. > > Petition Management: > > 1. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add >> >your name to it so that we can have tougher laws against all hate >> >crimes. Please keep the petition rolling. Do not reply to me. Please >sign and forward to others to sign. This is being forwarded to >several >> >people at once to add their names. It will not matter if many people >> >receive the same list as the names are being managed. > >2. If you print out this petition for circulation and signing >> >>please email the listing of names with locations to the email address: >AllRunique@aol.com (an email address >> >created to receive this petition) Include a note to dicate you have a >> >hand-signed petition and include the number of names listed. > > 3. If you happen to be the 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, this >> >>>petition, please forward a copy to the email address: >> >AllRunique@aol.com > > > 4. If you sign, please pass it on to others. If not, please do not >> >kill it. > Send it on to the email address: AllRunique@aol.com > > > Thank You >> >>>>>> Leslie Palmer > >I cannot stay silent, my outrage and compassion will not allow. > ------------------------------------------- > > > Sign Here: >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 1) Leslie Palmer, Jacksonville, FL >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 2) Stephen Silverman, South Burlington, VT >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 3) Wayne Arnason >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 4) Theo Diamond, Charlottesville, Va >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 5) Sasha Kopf, Northampton, MA / Princeton, NJ >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 6) Geoffrey B. Metz, Tufts Univ., Medford, MA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 7) Emily Sporl, Tufts University, Medford, MA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 8.) Tai Collins, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 9.) Danielle Lazarin, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 10.) Priscilla Morales, Yale University, New Haven, CT >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 11.) Lydia Pace, Yale University, New Haven, CT >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 12.) Julia Goren, Williams College, Williamstown, MA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 13.) Jamie Waxman, Columbia University >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 14.) Rebecca Zimmerman, Columbia University, NY >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 15.) Ariel Meyerstein, Columbia University, NY >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 16.) Naomi Richman, Goucher College, MD >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 17.) Aaron Finkel, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 18.) Sally Noedel, Truman State Univ., Kirksville, MO >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 19.) Kim Cook, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 20.) Molly Mitchell, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 21.) Jeremy Schwab, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 22.) Aaron Manheim, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 23.) Rebecca pronsky, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 24.) Rebecca Milburn, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 25.) Christene DeJong, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 26.) Lisa Lapman, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 27.) Julia Sussner, Wellesley College, MA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 28.) Adrian Dellecker, Trinity College, CT >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 29.) Sarah Mullen, Trinity College, CT >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 30.) Phu Thai, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 31.) Leigh Phillips, Wheaton College, Norton, MA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 32.) Matthew Small, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 33.) Amy Ensley, Chapman University, Orange, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 34.) Sarah Halverson, Chapman University, Orange, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 35.) Tyson Chaney, California State University, Long Beach, Long >> >>>>>> Beach, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 36.) Amy Nicole Gevas, Trinity Western University, Napa, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 37.) Chris Huff, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 40.) Jennifer Anne Schardt, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 41.) Thomas Ladd Stephenson, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 42.) Sara Pocekay, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa >> >>>>Barbara, >> >>>>>> CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 43.) Patrice Kubiak >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 44) Stacey Muse >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 45) Jane Machado >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 46) Steve Machado >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 47) Gregory S. Nelms, Los Angeles, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 48) Michael P. Stone, West Hollywood, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 49) Alfonso Barquin, West Hollywood, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 50) Gene Faurie, Jr., Beverly Hills, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 51) Christopher Roehm, W. Hollywood, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 52) Shirley Drumond, Beverly Hills, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 53) Salene Rotter, Culver City, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 54) Debbie Spander, Los Angeles, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 55) Stephanie Bagdadi, Los Angeles, CA >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 56) Jene Elzie, Los Angeles, CA >> >>>> >> >>>>57) Edward Da Veiga, Chino Hills, CA >> >>>> >> >>>>58) Kevin Dowling, Richmond, CA >> >>> >> >>>59) Leilani Pamplona, Fremont, CA >> >>> >> >>60) Krysteena Padigos, San Francisco, CA >> >>> >> >51) Evelyn Rodriguez, Berkeley, CA >> >>> >> 52) Barrie Thorne, Berkeley CA >> >> Barrie Thorne Office phone: 510-643-1073 >> Dept. of Sociology Office fax: 510-642-0659 >> 410 Barrows Hall >> Univ. of California Home phone: 510-549-0803 >> Berkeley CA 94720 Home fax: 510-845-4030 > >53. PJ McGann, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01BE14A9.F62B1640 Return-path: Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:53:36 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: sws-list@listserv.ncsu.edu Sender: owner-sws-list@listserv.ncsu.edu From: bthorne@socrates.berkeley.edu (Barrie Thorne) To: sws-list@listserv.ncsu.edu, acthorne@cc.usu.edu (Alison Thorne), sthorneb@wyoming.com, avril@cats.ucsc.edu, kip@caltech.edu, lthorne@ivnet.net, mdthorne@prairienet.org, Subject: anti hate-crime petition >X-Originating-IP: [128.32.116.150] >From: "Evelyn Rodriguez" >To: vickyr@acusd.edu, estepaonyoo@hotmail.com, apsa@sdcc3.ucsd.edu, > vmtruong@ucsd.edu, SOCFACULTY@uclink4.berkeley.edu, > socgradstudents@socrates.berkeley.edu, > socstaffers@socrates.berkeley.edu, ps97428@itsa.ucsf.edu, > j20lee@ucsd.edu, tflores@ucla.edu >Subject: Fwd: SIGN THIS PEEPS! >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:19:38 PST > > >> >> >> >>>>>> Subject: FW: Anti Hate Crime Petition >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On October 6, outside Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a >21-year-old University of Wyoming student, was tortured, beaten, and >left tied to a pole in the freezing cold. Six days later, he died of >his wounds in Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, Colorado. Matthew >was murdered because he was gay and because he was a prominent and >charismatic member of the gay and lesbian student group on campus. >Right now Wyoming and Colorado have no anti-hate crime laws; the state >legislature in Wyoming has voted down anti-bias bills for each of the >past three years. >>>>>> There is an effort in Wyoming and Colorado to enact Matthew >Shepard Laws, which would strongly punish the perpetrators of hate >crimes. >>>>This petition demands the broadening of federal anti-hate crime law. >>>>>> >>>>>> Opening Statement: >>>>>> "As a religious voice, we state strongly that violence on the >basis of sexual orientation, race or gender is wrong, is evil, is >reprehensible." >>>>>> -John Buehren, President of The Unitarian Universalist >Association, speaks for Unitarian Universalists but his words are >reflected in the hearts of people everywhere who believe we must speak >out, take action against, and condemn hate crimes in all their ugly >forms. >>>>>> >>>>>> A resolution follows: >>>>>> >>>>>> WHEREAS: We affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of >>>>>> every person; and >>>>>> >>>>>> WHEREAS: We commend the efforts of those individuals who dedicate >their lives to causes of social justice and human rights; and >>>>>> >>>>>> WHEREAS: We support actions that protect the individual's rights >of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. >>>>>> >>>>>> THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That we hereby urge the passage of The >>>Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529 >>>>>> >>>>>> The Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529, would >amend current federal law (which permits federal prosecution of a hate >crime only if the crime was motivated by bias based on religion, >national origin, or color) to include real or perceived sexual >orientation, gender,and disability so the FBI would be able to >investigate and prosecute violent hate crimes against gays, lesbians, >and Bisexuals. >>>>>> >>>>>> Under this bill, hate crimes that cause death or bodily injury >>>>because of prejudice can be investigated federally, regardless of >whether the victim was exercising a federally protected right. >>>>>> The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of >support for this change to the current law is by making our voices >heard. >>>>>> Please add your name to this petition and forward it to friends >who believe in what it stands for. The petition will then be forwarded >to the President of The United States; the Vice President of the United >States; and our United States Senators and House Members. >>>>>> Petition Management: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add >your name to it so that we can have tougher laws against all hate >crimes.>>>>> >>>>>> Please keep the petition rolling. Do not reply to me. Please >sign and forward to others to sign. This is being forwarded to several >people at once to add their names. It will not matter if many people >receive the same list as the names are being managed. >>>>>> >>>>>> 2. If you print out this petition for circulation and signing >>please email the listing of names with locations to the email address: >>>>>> AllRunique@aol.com (an email address >created to receive this petition) Include a note to dicate you have a >hand-signed petition and include the number of names listed. >>>>>> >>>>>> 3. If you happen to be the 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, this >>>petition, please forward a copy to the email address: >AllRunique@aol.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 4. If you sign, please pass it on to others. If not, please do not >kill it. >>>>>> Send it on to the email address: AllRunique@aol.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank You >>>>>> Leslie Palmer >>>>>> >>>>>> I cannot stay silent, my outrage and compassion will not allow. >>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>>> Sign Here: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1) Leslie Palmer, Jacksonville, FL >>>>>> >>>>>> 2) Stephen Silverman, South Burlington, VT >>>>>> >>>>>> 3) Wayne Arnason >>>>>> >>>>>> 4) Theo Diamond, Charlottesville, Va >>>>>> >>>>>> 5) Sasha Kopf, Northampton, MA / Princeton, NJ >>>>>> >>>>>> 6) Geoffrey B. Metz, Tufts Univ., Medford, MA >>>>>> >>>>>> 7) Emily Sporl, Tufts University, Medford, MA >>>>>> >>>>>> 8.) Tai Collins, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >>>>>> >>>>>> 9.) Danielle Lazarin, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >>>>>> >>>>>> 10.) Priscilla Morales, Yale University, New Haven, CT >>>>>> >>>>>> 11.) Lydia Pace, Yale University, New Haven, CT >>>>>> >>>>>> 12.) Julia Goren, Williams College, Williamstown, MA >>>>>> >>>>>> 13.) Jamie Waxman, Columbia University >>>>>> >>>>>> 14.) Rebecca Zimmerman, Columbia University, NY >>>>>> >>>>>> 15.) Ariel Meyerstein, Columbia University, NY >>>>>> >>>>>> 16.) Naomi Richman, Goucher College, MD >>>>>> >>>>>> 17.) Aaron Finkel, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO >>>>>> >>>>>> 18.) Sally Noedel, Truman State Univ., Kirksville, MO >>>>>> >>>>>> 19.) Kim Cook, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >>>>>> >>>>>> 20.) Molly Mitchell, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >>>>>> >>>>>> 21.) Jeremy Schwab, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >>>>>> >>>>>> 22.) Aaron Manheim, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >>>>>> >>>>>> 23.) Rebecca pronsky, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >>>>>> >>>>>> 24.) Rebecca Milburn, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT >>>>>> >>>>>> 25.) Christene DeJong, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT >>>>>> >>>>>> 26.) Lisa Lapman, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA >>>>>> >>>>>> 27.) Julia Sussner, Wellesley College, MA >>>>>> >>>>>> 28.) Adrian Dellecker, Trinity College, CT >>>>>> >>>>>> 29.) Sarah Mullen, Trinity College, CT >>>>>> >>>>>> 30.) Phu Thai, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI >>>>>> >>>>>> 31.) Leigh Phillips, Wheaton College, Norton, MA >>>>>> >>>>>> 32.) Matthew Small, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH >>>>>> >>>>>> 33.) Amy Ensley, Chapman University, Orange, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 34.) Sarah Halverson, Chapman University, Orange, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 35.) Tyson Chaney, California State University, Long Beach, Long >>>>>> Beach, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 36.) Amy Nicole Gevas, Trinity Western University, Napa, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 37.) Chris Huff, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 40.) Jennifer Anne Schardt, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 41.) Thomas Ladd Stephenson, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR >>>>>> >>>>>> 42.) Sara Pocekay, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa >>>>Barbara, >>>>>> CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 43.) Patrice Kubiak >>>>>> >>>>>> 44) Stacey Muse >>>>>> >>>>>> 45) Jane Machado >>>>>> >>>>>> 46) Steve Machado >>>>>> >>>>>> 47) Gregory S. Nelms, Los Angeles, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 48) Michael P. Stone, West Hollywood, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 49) Alfonso Barquin, West Hollywood, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 50) Gene Faurie, Jr., Beverly Hills, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 51) Christopher Roehm, W. Hollywood, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 52) Shirley Drumond, Beverly Hills, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 53) Salene Rotter, Culver City, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 54) Debbie Spander, Los Angeles, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 55) Stephanie Bagdadi, Los Angeles, CA >>>>>> >>>>>> 56) Jene Elzie, Los Angeles, CA >>>> >>>>57) Edward Da Veiga, Chino Hills, CA >>>> >>>>58) Kevin Dowling, Richmond, CA >>> >>>59) Leilani Pamplona, Fremont, CA >>> >>60) Krysteena Padigos, San Francisco, CA >>> >51) Evelyn Rodriguez, Berkeley, CA >>> 52) Barrie Thorne, Berkeley CA Barrie Thorne Office phone: 510-643-1073 Dept. of Sociology Office fax: 510-642-0659 410 Barrows Hall Univ. of California Home phone: 510-549-0803 Berkeley CA 94720 Home fax: 510-845-4030 ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01BE14A9.F62B1640-- From dcs@umich.edu Mon Nov 23 06:21:48 1998 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:21:43 -0500 (EST) From: Domna C Stanton To: MATERIALIST FEMINISM Subject: Re: Fw: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] In-Reply-To: <001c01be1669$30906860$5914fed0@isjfvklh> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Margaret M Gullette wrote: > 54. Margaret Morganroth Gullette > Resident Scholar, Women's Studies, Brandeis > e-mail: mgullette@msn.com > 617-965-2164 > > -----Original Message----- > From: PJ McGann > To: Abigail J. Stewart ; amy agigian > ; amy schulz ; aryeh > ; babs ; britta > <6500bbw@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu>; calvin moore ; > catherine ; celia ; dan > finseth ; dana rosenfeld ; darren > ; david levinson ; emilia > ; genz ; gordie > ; henry ; ira > ; jane stewart ; joanne > ; kat ; kelly > ; kerry ; lady anne > <"mamary@snycorva.cortland.edu, javannne"@juno.com> <"mamary@snycorva.cortland.edu, javannne"@juno.com>>; laila > ; laura fredrickson ; > lawrence ; lipika > ; lizbet ; > Margaret Morganroth Gullette ; mary b > ; mary haught ; michele koontz > ; mindy ; papson > conrad ; randy hill > ; ron flores ; rosemary > ; sandy tangri ; stephen pfohl > ; todd ; trick ratpick > ; wambui ; wanjiru > > Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 9:50 AM > Subject: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] > > > >Subject: FW: Anti Hate Crime Petition > > > >On October 6, outside Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a > >> >21-year-old University of Wyoming student, was tortured, beaten, > and > >> >left tied to a pole in the freezing cold. Six days later, he died > of > >> >his wounds in Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, Colorado. > Matthew > >> >was murdered because he was gay and because he was a prominent and > >> >charismatic member of the gay and lesbian student group on campus. > >> >Right now Wyoming and Colorado have no anti-hate crime laws; the > state > >> >legislature in Wyoming has voted down anti-bias bills for each of > the > >> >past three years. > > > > There is an effort in Wyoming and Colorado to enact Matthew > >> >Shepard Laws, which would strongly punish the perpetrators of hate > >> >crimes. > > > >This petition demands the broadening of federal anti-hate crime law. > > > >Opening Statement: > >"As a religious voice, we state strongly that violence on the > >> >basis of sexual orientation, race or gender is wrong, is evil, is > >> >reprehensible." > > -John Buehren, President of The Unitarian Universalist > >> >Association, speaks for Unitarian Universalists but his words are > >> >reflected in the hearts of people everywhere who believe we must > speak > >> >out, take action against, and condemn hate crimes in all their > ugly > >> >forms. > > > > A resolution follows: > > > > WHEREAS: We affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of > > every person; and > > > > WHEREAS: We commend the efforts of those individuals who dedicate > >> >their lives to causes of social justice and human rights; and > > > >WHEREAS: We support actions that protect the individual's rights > >> >of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. > > > >THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That we hereby urge the passage of The > >> >>>Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529 > > > >The Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529, would > >> >amend current federal law (which permits federal prosecution of a > hate > >> >crime only if the crime was motivated by bias based on religion, > >> >national origin, or color) to include real or perceived sexual > >> >orientation, gender,and disability so the FBI would be able to > >> >investigate and prosecute violent hate crimes against gays, > lesbians, > >> >and Bisexuals. > > > >Under this bill, hate crimes that cause death or bodily injury > >> >>>>because of prejudice can be investigated federally, regardless > of > >> >whether the victim was exercising a federally protected right. > > > > The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of > >> >support for this change to the current law is by making our voices > >> >heard. > > > >Please add your name to this petition and forward it to friends > >> >who believe in what it stands for. The petition will then be > forwarded > >> >to the President of The United States; the Vice President of the > United > >> >States; and our United States Senators and House Members. > > > > Petition Management: > > > > 1. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add > >> >your name to it so that we can have tougher laws against all hate > >> >crimes. Please keep the petition rolling. Do not reply to me. > Please > >sign and forward to others to sign. This is being forwarded to > >several > >> >people at once to add their names. It will not matter if many > people > >> >receive the same list as the names are being managed. > > > >2. If you print out this petition for circulation and signing > >> >>please email the listing of names with locations to the email > address: > >AllRunique@aol.com (an email address > >> >created to receive this petition) Include a note to dicate you > have a > >> >hand-signed petition and include the number of names listed. > > > > 3. If you happen to be the 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, this > >> >>>petition, please forward a copy to the email address: > >> >AllRunique@aol.com > > > > > > 4. If you sign, please pass it on to others. If not, please do not > >> >kill it. > > Send it on to the email address: AllRunique@aol.com > > > > > > Thank You > >> >>>>>> Leslie Palmer > > > >I cannot stay silent, my outrage and compassion will not allow. > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Sign Here: > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 1) Leslie Palmer, Jacksonville, FL > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 2) Stephen Silverman, South Burlington, VT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 3) Wayne Arnason > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 4) Theo Diamond, Charlottesville, Va > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 5) Sasha Kopf, Northampton, MA / Princeton, NJ > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 6) Geoffrey B. Metz, Tufts Univ., Medford, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 7) Emily Sporl, Tufts University, Medford, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 8.) Tai Collins, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 9.) Danielle Lazarin, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 10.) Priscilla Morales, Yale University, New Haven, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 11.) Lydia Pace, Yale University, New Haven, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 12.) Julia Goren, Williams College, Williamstown, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 13.) Jamie Waxman, Columbia University > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 14.) Rebecca Zimmerman, Columbia University, NY > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 15.) Ariel Meyerstein, Columbia University, NY > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 16.) Naomi Richman, Goucher College, MD > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 17.) Aaron Finkel, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 18.) Sally Noedel, Truman State Univ., Kirksville, MO > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 19.) Kim Cook, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 20.) Molly Mitchell, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 21.) Jeremy Schwab, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 22.) Aaron Manheim, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 23.) Rebecca pronsky, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 24.) Rebecca Milburn, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 25.) Christene DeJong, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 26.) Lisa Lapman, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 27.) Julia Sussner, Wellesley College, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 28.) Adrian Dellecker, Trinity College, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 29.) Sarah Mullen, Trinity College, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 30.) Phu Thai, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 31.) Leigh Phillips, Wheaton College, Norton, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 32.) Matthew Small, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 33.) Amy Ensley, Chapman University, Orange, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 34.) Sarah Halverson, Chapman University, Orange, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 35.) Tyson Chaney, California State University, Long Beach, > Long > >> >>>>>> Beach, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 36.) Amy Nicole Gevas, Trinity Western University, Napa, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 37.) Chris Huff, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 40.) Jennifer Anne Schardt, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 41.) Thomas Ladd Stephenson, Lewis & Clark College, > Portland, OR > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 42.) Sara Pocekay, University of California Santa Barbara, > Santa > >> >>>>Barbara, > >> >>>>>> CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 43.) Patrice Kubiak > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 44) Stacey Muse > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 45) Jane Machado > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 46) Steve Machado > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 47) Gregory S. Nelms, Los Angeles, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 48) Michael P. Stone, West Hollywood, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 49) Alfonso Barquin, West Hollywood, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 50) Gene Faurie, Jr., Beverly Hills, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 51) Christopher Roehm, W. Hollywood, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 52) Shirley Drumond, Beverly Hills, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 53) Salene Rotter, Culver City, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 54) Debbie Spander, Los Angeles, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 55) Stephanie Bagdadi, Los Angeles, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 56) Jene Elzie, Los Angeles, CA > >> >>>> > >> >>>>57) Edward Da Veiga, Chino Hills, CA > >> >>>> > >> >>>>58) Kevin Dowling, Richmond, CA > >> >>> > >> >>>59) Leilani Pamplona, Fremont, CA > >> >>> > >> >>60) Krysteena Padigos, San Francisco, CA > >> >>> > >> >51) Evelyn Rodriguez, Berkeley, CA > >> >>> > >> 52) Barrie Thorne, Berkeley CA > >> > >> Barrie Thorne Office phone: 510-643-1073 > >> Dept. of Sociology Office fax: 510-642-0659 > >> 410 Barrows Hall > >> Univ. of California Home phone: 510-549-0803 > >> Berkeley CA 94720 Home fax: 510-845-4030 > > > >53. PJ McGann, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA > 54. Domna Stanton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor From md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu Mon Nov 23 14:43:28 1998 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:45:40 -0500 (EST) From: md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu Subject: Re: Fw: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] (fwd) To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu where are we supposed to send our petition? to which e-mail address i mean? could somebody clarify? thanks, mine aysen doyran ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:21:43 -0500 (EST) From: Domna C Stanton Reply-To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu To: MATERIALIST FEMINISM Subject: Re: Fw: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Margaret M Gullette wrote: > 54. Margaret Morganroth Gullette > Resident Scholar, Women's Studies, Brandeis > e-mail: mgullette@msn.com > 617-965-2164 > > -----Original Message----- > From: PJ McGann > To: Abigail J. Stewart ; amy agigian > ; amy schulz ; aryeh > ; babs ; britta > <6500bbw@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu>; calvin moore ; > catherine ; celia ; dan > finseth ; dana rosenfeld ; darren > ; david levinson ; emilia > ; genz ; gordie > ; henry ; ira > ; jane stewart ; joanne > ; kat ; kelly > ; kerry ; lady anne > <"mamary@snycorva.cortland.edu, javannne"@juno.com> <"mamary@snycorva.cortland.edu, javannne"@juno.com>>; laila > ; laura fredrickson ; > lawrence ; lipika > ; lizbet ; > Margaret Morganroth Gullette ; mary b > ; mary haught ; michele koontz > ; mindy ; papson > conrad ; randy hill > ; ron flores ; rosemary > ; sandy tangri ; stephen pfohl > ; todd ; trick ratpick > ; wambui ; wanjiru > > Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 9:50 AM > Subject: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] > > > >Subject: FW: Anti Hate Crime Petition > > > >On October 6, outside Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a > >> >21-year-old University of Wyoming student, was tortured, beaten, > and > >> >left tied to a pole in the freezing cold. Six days later, he died > of > >> >his wounds in Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, Colorado. > Matthew > >> >was murdered because he was gay and because he was a prominent and > >> >charismatic member of the gay and lesbian student group on campus. > >> >Right now Wyoming and Colorado have no anti-hate crime laws; the > state > >> >legislature in Wyoming has voted down anti-bias bills for each of > the > >> >past three years. > > > > There is an effort in Wyoming and Colorado to enact Matthew > >> >Shepard Laws, which would strongly punish the perpetrators of hate > >> >crimes. > > > >This petition demands the broadening of federal anti-hate crime law. > > > >Opening Statement: > >"As a religious voice, we state strongly that violence on the > >> >basis of sexual orientation, race or gender is wrong, is evil, is > >> >reprehensible." > > -John Buehren, President of The Unitarian Universalist > >> >Association, speaks for Unitarian Universalists but his words are > >> >reflected in the hearts of people everywhere who believe we must > speak > >> >out, take action against, and condemn hate crimes in all their > ugly > >> >forms. > > > > A resolution follows: > > > > WHEREAS: We affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of > > every person; and > > > > WHEREAS: We commend the efforts of those individuals who dedicate > >> >their lives to causes of social justice and human rights; and > > > >WHEREAS: We support actions that protect the individual's rights > >> >of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. > > > >THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That we hereby urge the passage of The > >> >>>Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529 > > > >The Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529, would > >> >amend current federal law (which permits federal prosecution of a > hate > >> >crime only if the crime was motivated by bias based on religion, > >> >national origin, or color) to include real or perceived sexual > >> >orientation, gender,and disability so the FBI would be able to > >> >investigate and prosecute violent hate crimes against gays, > lesbians, > >> >and Bisexuals. > > > >Under this bill, hate crimes that cause death or bodily injury > >> >>>>because of prejudice can be investigated federally, regardless > of > >> >whether the victim was exercising a federally protected right. > > > > The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of > >> >support for this change to the current law is by making our voices > >> >heard. > > > >Please add your name to this petition and forward it to friends > >> >who believe in what it stands for. The petition will then be > forwarded > >> >to the President of The United States; the Vice President of the > United > >> >States; and our United States Senators and House Members. > > > > Petition Management: > > > > 1. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add > >> >your name to it so that we can have tougher laws against all hate > >> >crimes. Please keep the petition rolling. Do not reply to me. > Please > >sign and forward to others to sign. This is being forwarded to > >several > >> >people at once to add their names. It will not matter if many > people > >> >receive the same list as the names are being managed. > > > >2. If you print out this petition for circulation and signing > >> >>please email the listing of names with locations to the email > address: > >AllRunique@aol.com (an email address > >> >created to receive this petition) Include a note to dicate you > have a > >> >hand-signed petition and include the number of names listed. > > > > 3. If you happen to be the 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, this > >> >>>petition, please forward a copy to the email address: > >> >AllRunique@aol.com > > > > > > 4. If you sign, please pass it on to others. If not, please do not > >> >kill it. > > Send it on to the email address: AllRunique@aol.com > > > > > > Thank You > >> >>>>>> Leslie Palmer > > > >I cannot stay silent, my outrage and compassion will not allow. > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Sign Here: > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 1) Leslie Palmer, Jacksonville, FL > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 2) Stephen Silverman, South Burlington, VT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 3) Wayne Arnason > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 4) Theo Diamond, Charlottesville, Va > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 5) Sasha Kopf, Northampton, MA / Princeton, NJ > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 6) Geoffrey B. Metz, Tufts Univ., Medford, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 7) Emily Sporl, Tufts University, Medford, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 8.) Tai Collins, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 9.) Danielle Lazarin, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 10.) Priscilla Morales, Yale University, New Haven, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 11.) Lydia Pace, Yale University, New Haven, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 12.) Julia Goren, Williams College, Williamstown, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 13.) Jamie Waxman, Columbia University > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 14.) Rebecca Zimmerman, Columbia University, NY > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 15.) Ariel Meyerstein, Columbia University, NY > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 16.) Naomi Richman, Goucher College, MD > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 17.) Aaron Finkel, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 18.) Sally Noedel, Truman State Univ., Kirksville, MO > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 19.) Kim Cook, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 20.) Molly Mitchell, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 21.) Jeremy Schwab, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 22.) Aaron Manheim, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 23.) Rebecca pronsky, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 24.) Rebecca Milburn, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 25.) Christene DeJong, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 26.) Lisa Lapman, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 27.) Julia Sussner, Wellesley College, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 28.) Adrian Dellecker, Trinity College, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 29.) Sarah Mullen, Trinity College, CT > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 30.) Phu Thai, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 31.) Leigh Phillips, Wheaton College, Norton, MA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 32.) Matthew Small, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 33.) Amy Ensley, Chapman University, Orange, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 34.) Sarah Halverson, Chapman University, Orange, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 35.) Tyson Chaney, California State University, Long Beach, > Long > >> >>>>>> Beach, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 36.) Amy Nicole Gevas, Trinity Western University, Napa, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 37.) Chris Huff, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 40.) Jennifer Anne Schardt, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 41.) Thomas Ladd Stephenson, Lewis & Clark College, > Portland, OR > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 42.) Sara Pocekay, University of California Santa Barbara, > Santa > >> >>>>Barbara, > >> >>>>>> CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 43.) Patrice Kubiak > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 44) Stacey Muse > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 45) Jane Machado > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 46) Steve Machado > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 47) Gregory S. Nelms, Los Angeles, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 48) Michael P. Stone, West Hollywood, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 49) Alfonso Barquin, West Hollywood, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 50) Gene Faurie, Jr., Beverly Hills, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 51) Christopher Roehm, W. Hollywood, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 52) Shirley Drumond, Beverly Hills, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 53) Salene Rotter, Culver City, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 54) Debbie Spander, Los Angeles, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 55) Stephanie Bagdadi, Los Angeles, CA > >> >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> 56) Jene Elzie, Los Angeles, CA > >> >>>> > >> >>>>57) Edward Da Veiga, Chino Hills, CA > >> >>>> > >> >>>>58) Kevin Dowling, Richmond, CA > >> >>> > >> >>>59) Leilani Pamplona, Fremont, CA > >> >>> > >> >>60) Krysteena Padigos, San Francisco, CA > >> >>> > >> >51) Evelyn Rodriguez, Berkeley, CA > >> >>> > >> 52) Barrie Thorne, Berkeley CA > >> > >> Barrie Thorne Office phone: 510-643-1073 > >> Dept. of Sociology Office fax: 510-642-0659 > >> 410 Barrows Hall > >> Univ. of California Home phone: 510-549-0803 > >> Berkeley CA 94720 Home fax: 510-845-4030 > > > >53. PJ McGann, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA > 54. Domna Stanton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor From jae2@york.ac.uk Mon Nov 23 15:44:55 1998 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 22:44:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Judy Evans To: MATERIALIST FEMINISM Subject: Re: Fw: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] (fwd) On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu wrote: > where are we supposed to send our petition? to which e-mail address i > mean? could somebody clarify? If you sign this, you then email it to others who you hope will sign. Domna Stanton, who is a signatory, sent it here with that in mind. If you are not prepared to sign it, send it, _with all the names attached_, to AllRunique@aol.com. If you sign it and are signatory number 100, 150, 200, etc., I _think_ you send it on anyway, but also send a copy to AllRunique@aol.com. You sign it by adding your name at the end. NB: PROBLEM: the numbers have got out of order and so there are 2x signatories 54 (etc.?): the last time I saw this Barrie Thorne was the final signatory, and I think that later people have signed above the rather large sig. file that then appeared at the end. I abhor the killing of Matthew Shepard; an atrocity that should not be forgotten. -- I hope my "instructions" help! > > thanks, > mine aysen doyran > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:21:43 -0500 (EST) > From: Domna C Stanton > Reply-To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu > To: MATERIALIST FEMINISM > Subject: Re: Fw: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] > > > > On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Margaret M Gullette wrote: > > > 54. Margaret Morganroth Gullette > > Resident Scholar, Women's Studies, Brandeis > > e-mail: mgullette@msn.com > > 617-965-2164 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: PJ McGann > > To: Abigail J. Stewart ; amy agigian > > ; amy schulz ; aryeh > > ; babs ; britta > > <6500bbw@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu>; calvin moore ; > > catherine ; celia ; dan > > finseth ; dana rosenfeld ; darren > > ; david levinson ; emilia > > ; genz ; gordie > > ; henry ; ira > > ; jane stewart ; joanne > > ; kat ; kelly > > ; kerry ; lady anne > > <"mamary@snycorva.cortland.edu, javannne"@juno.com> > <"mamary@snycorva.cortland.edu, javannne"@juno.com>>; laila > > ; laura fredrickson ; > > lawrence ; lipika > > ; lizbet ; > > Margaret Morganroth Gullette ; mary b > > ; mary haught ; michele koontz > > ; mindy ; papson > > conrad ; randy hill > > ; ron flores ; rosemary > > ; sandy tangri ; stephen pfohl > > ; todd ; trick ratpick > > ; wambui ; wanjiru > > > > Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 9:50 AM > > Subject: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] > > > > > > >Subject: FW: Anti Hate Crime Petition > > > > > >On October 6, outside Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a > > >> >21-year-old University of Wyoming student, was tortured, beaten, > > and > > >> >left tied to a pole in the freezing cold. Six days later, he died > > of > > >> >his wounds in Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, Colorado. > > Matthew > > >> >was murdered because he was gay and because he was a prominent and > > >> >charismatic member of the gay and lesbian student group on campus. > > >> >Right now Wyoming and Colorado have no anti-hate crime laws; the > > state > > >> >legislature in Wyoming has voted down anti-bias bills for each of > > the > > >> >past three years. > > > > > > There is an effort in Wyoming and Colorado to enact Matthew > > >> >Shepard Laws, which would strongly punish the perpetrators of hate > > >> >crimes. > > > > > >This petition demands the broadening of federal anti-hate crime law. > > > > > >Opening Statement: > > >"As a religious voice, we state strongly that violence on the > > >> >basis of sexual orientation, race or gender is wrong, is evil, is > > >> >reprehensible." > > > -John Buehren, President of The Unitarian Universalist > > >> >Association, speaks for Unitarian Universalists but his words are > > >> >reflected in the hearts of people everywhere who believe we must > > speak > > >> >out, take action against, and condemn hate crimes in all their > > ugly > > >> >forms. > > > > > > A resolution follows: > > > > > > WHEREAS: We affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of > > > every person; and > > > > > > WHEREAS: We commend the efforts of those individuals who dedicate > > >> >their lives to causes of social justice and human rights; and > > > > > >WHEREAS: We support actions that protect the individual's rights > > >> >of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. > > > > > >THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That we hereby urge the passage of The > > >> >>>Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529 > > > > > >The Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529, would > > >> >amend current federal law (which permits federal prosecution of a > > hate > > >> >crime only if the crime was motivated by bias based on religion, > > >> >national origin, or color) to include real or perceived sexual > > >> >orientation, gender,and disability so the FBI would be able to > > >> >investigate and prosecute violent hate crimes against gays, > > lesbians, > > >> >and Bisexuals. > > > > > >Under this bill, hate crimes that cause death or bodily injury > > >> >>>>because of prejudice can be investigated federally, regardless > > of > > >> >whether the victim was exercising a federally protected right. > > > > > > The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of > > >> >support for this change to the current law is by making our voices > > >> >heard. > > > > > >Please add your name to this petition and forward it to friends > > >> >who believe in what it stands for. The petition will then be > > forwarded > > >> >to the President of The United States; the Vice President of the > > United > > >> >States; and our United States Senators and House Members. > > > > > > Petition Management: > > > > > > 1. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add > > >> >your name to it so that we can have tougher laws against all hate > > >> >crimes. Please keep the petition rolling. Do not reply to me. > > Please > > >sign and forward to others to sign. This is being forwarded to > > >several > > >> >people at once to add their names. It will not matter if many > > people > > >> >receive the same list as the names are being managed. > > > > > >2. If you print out this petition for circulation and signing > > >> >>please email the listing of names with locations to the email > > address: > > >AllRunique@aol.com (an email address > > >> >created to receive this petition) Include a note to dicate you > > have a > > >> >hand-signed petition and include the number of names listed. > > > > > > 3. If you happen to be the 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, this > > >> >>>petition, please forward a copy to the email address: > > >> >AllRunique@aol.com > > > > > > > > > 4. If you sign, please pass it on to others. If not, please do not > > >> >kill it. > > > Send it on to the email address: AllRunique@aol.com > > > > > > > > > Thank You > > >> >>>>>> Leslie Palmer > > > > > >I cannot stay silent, my outrage and compassion will not allow. > > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > Sign Here: > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 1) Leslie Palmer, Jacksonville, FL > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 2) Stephen Silverman, South Burlington, VT > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 3) Wayne Arnason > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 4) Theo Diamond, Charlottesville, Va > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 5) Sasha Kopf, Northampton, MA / Princeton, NJ > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 6) Geoffrey B. Metz, Tufts Univ., Medford, MA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 7) Emily Sporl, Tufts University, Medford, MA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 8.) Tai Collins, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 9.) Danielle Lazarin, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 10.) Priscilla Morales, Yale University, New Haven, CT > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 11.) Lydia Pace, Yale University, New Haven, CT > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 12.) Julia Goren, Williams College, Williamstown, MA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 13.) Jamie Waxman, Columbia University > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 14.) Rebecca Zimmerman, Columbia University, NY > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 15.) Ariel Meyerstein, Columbia University, NY > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 16.) Naomi Richman, Goucher College, MD > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 17.) Aaron Finkel, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 18.) Sally Noedel, Truman State Univ., Kirksville, MO > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 19.) Kim Cook, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 20.) Molly Mitchell, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 21.) Jeremy Schwab, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 22.) Aaron Manheim, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 23.) Rebecca pronsky, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 24.) Rebecca Milburn, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 25.) Christene DeJong, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 26.) Lisa Lapman, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 27.) Julia Sussner, Wellesley College, MA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 28.) Adrian Dellecker, Trinity College, CT > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 29.) Sarah Mullen, Trinity College, CT > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 30.) Phu Thai, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 31.) Leigh Phillips, Wheaton College, Norton, MA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 32.) Matthew Small, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 33.) Amy Ensley, Chapman University, Orange, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 34.) Sarah Halverson, Chapman University, Orange, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 35.) Tyson Chaney, California State University, Long Beach, > > Long > > >> >>>>>> Beach, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 36.) Amy Nicole Gevas, Trinity Western University, Napa, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 37.) Chris Huff, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 40.) Jennifer Anne Schardt, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 41.) Thomas Ladd Stephenson, Lewis & Clark College, > > Portland, OR > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 42.) Sara Pocekay, University of California Santa Barbara, > > Santa > > >> >>>>Barbara, > > >> >>>>>> CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 43.) Patrice Kubiak > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 44) Stacey Muse > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 45) Jane Machado > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 46) Steve Machado > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 47) Gregory S. Nelms, Los Angeles, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 48) Michael P. Stone, West Hollywood, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 49) Alfonso Barquin, West Hollywood, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 50) Gene Faurie, Jr., Beverly Hills, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 51) Christopher Roehm, W. Hollywood, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 52) Shirley Drumond, Beverly Hills, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 53) Salene Rotter, Culver City, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 54) Debbie Spander, Los Angeles, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 55) Stephanie Bagdadi, Los Angeles, CA > > >> >>>>>> > > >> >>>>>> 56) Jene Elzie, Los Angeles, CA > > >> >>>> > > >> >>>>57) Edward Da Veiga, Chino Hills, CA > > >> >>>> > > >> >>>>58) Kevin Dowling, Richmond, CA > > >> >>> > > >> >>>59) Leilani Pamplona, Fremont, CA > > >> >>> > > >> >>60) Krysteena Padigos, San Francisco, CA > > >> >>> > > >> >51) Evelyn Rodriguez, Berkeley, CA > > >> >>> > > >> 52) Barrie Thorne, Berkeley CA > > >> > > >> Barrie Thorne Office phone: 510-643-1073 > > >> Dept. of Sociology Office fax: 510-642-0659 > > >> 410 Barrows Hall > > >> Univ. of California Home phone: 510-549-0803 > > >> Berkeley CA 94720 Home fax: 510-845-4030 > > > > > >53. PJ McGann, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA > > > 54. Domna Stanton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor > > > Judy Evans------Department of Politics---------jae2@york.ac.uk using Dragon Voice Recognition Software------hence any voicoes ---------------------opinions mine---------------------------- From mgullette@msn.com Tue Nov 24 14:44:52 1998 From: "Margaret M Gullette" To: "Martha Gimenez" , "Sue Drobis" , "Robert Eisner" , "Sigal Greenberg" , "Brian and Beth Gullette" , "Jennifer and Kevin Gullette" , "Sean Gullette" , "Shira Modell" , "Jane Schnall" , "Schnall, Nina" , "Peter Schnall" , "judith morganroth Schneider" Subject: How Nations Respond to Hurricane Warnings Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:36:10 -0500 From: Inez Hedges To: mgullette@msn.com Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 1:41 PM Subject: Resend (fwd) >Forwarded message: >Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:58:12 -0800 (PST) >Message-Id: <2.2.16.19981118075825.3f578ade@pop.igc.org> >X-Sender: slandau@pop.igc.org >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: ihedges@lynx.dac.neu.edu, hwortis_sup@opal.tufts.edu >From: Mail Delivery Subsystem (by way of Saul Landau ) >Subject: Resend >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by > > >Do weather patterns relate to labels of democracy or totalitarianism? The US >government insists on branding our neighboring countries with those >nomenclatures. But when Nature strikes, these terms tend to confuse. Think >back to September, October November 1998 when storms pounded the Caribbean >and Central America? But a full week before Hurricane Georges slammed the >north coasts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, democratic countries, and >Cuba, a totalitarian country, official weather watchers had advised the >governments of these countries to prepare for the worst. Democratic >Dominican Republic and Haitian government officials made no attempts to >evacuate those living in vulnerable areas or to mobilize residents to >harvest crops that would be affected. >The totalitarian Cuban government, on the other hand, evacuated hundreds of >thousands of North coast residents, placing them in safer areas. >Furthermore, Cubans mobilized teams to harvest as many crops as possible and >save what could be saved—before the storm hit. >When the winds died down, authorities counted hundreds of dead Dominicans >and Haitians. Hundreds of thousands more became homeless refugees. Only two >Cubans died, when they touched a hot wire from a downed utility pole. >Then hurricane Mitch’s fierce winds hung near the east coast of Nicaragua >and Honduras, democratic countries. Nicaraguan and Honduran officials did >not attempt to rescue the poor who lived in exposed areas.. Mitch hit and >destroyed. Thousands died. The homeless number in the hundreds of thousands. >Is there something about democratically elected governments that provokes a >lack of response when crises occur? Indeed, aid foreign workers have >received serious complaints in the post disaster era about how these >governments misallocated aid and relief, hoarding it, distributing mostly to >those who voted for their party and even selling aid material. >Observers noted further evidence of this pattern in democratic Mexico. As >tropical storms pounded the west coast of Chiapas in September, Chiapas >governor Roberto Albores focused on planning an international party in his >state. As rain began to swell the rivers, neither he nor federal officials >evacuated anyone. Then mud poured down the mountains, dragging villages and >villagers with it. The bridges fell, the roads collapsed and the death toll >rose alongside an alarming number of refugees. The governor had to abandon >his fiesta plans. >When Mexican government aid finally reached the region, foreign observers >noted that government officials distributed mainly to people of the PRI, the >ruling political party. Similarly, emergency housing went to party members >as well. > In totalitarian Cuba, observers noted few irregularities with overseas aid >shipments. We promote democracy overseas and abhor totalitarianism. So, how >come when disaster strikes the governments elected our way failed to respond >and Cuba’s government, chosen in ways we disapprove of, responded quickly >and efficiently. > Are our labels defective? Or do the labels describe simply electionism and >not democracy? You decide. >This is Saul Landau > >Saul Landau >Hugh O. La Bounty Chair of Interdisciplinary Applied Knowledge >California State Polytechnic University, Pomona >Pomona, CA 91768 >fax: 909-869-4751 >tel: 909-869-3115 > > > > > From mva472@merle.acns.nwu.edu Tue Nov 24 15:34:41 1998 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:34:36 -0600 (CST) From: Michelle VanNatta To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Urgent: Support the Clemency Petition of Rosetta Wilson Hello. Please consider emailing Illinois' Governor Edgar in support of clemency for Rose Wilson, who was sentenced and incarcerated at age 16. The court was not apprised of the extent of the abuse Rose had suffered which led up to her crime. Details below. Please forward this email to others. Thank you! _______________________ Michelle VanNatta Northwestern University Department of Sociology mva472@nwu.edu http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~mva472 Opportunity for immediate activism: Email Governor Edgar at governor@state.il.us before the end of 1998 to SUPPORT THE CLEMENCY PETITION OF ROSETTA WILSON Rose Wilson, now 25 years old, has been incarcerated since age sixteen. After years of constant sexual abuse by male relatives, Rose shot and killed her mother, who had also physically and emotionally abused Rose. She pled guilty to First Degree Murder and was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Rose has no prior convictions. HISTORY OF ABUSE: Rose's earliest memories are of being sexually abused by her relatives. This abuse occurred nearly daily until she was old enough to be able to get away from them. When she was five, her father, Roger Wilson, would tell Rose that she was in trouble, but that she could avoid being beaten if she would give in to his sexual demands. Rose's step-grandfather, Thomas Cooper, also sexually abused Rose, starting when she was just four years old. Rose was also raped and otherwise abused by her uncle George Nickels. Nickels would wait for Rose, who sometimes locked herself in the bathroom to avoid his sexual attacks. One time, when Rose was eleven, Nickels raped Rose while she was baby-sitting for her sleeping newborn twin cousins. HISTORY OF THE CASE: Rose looked to her mother Martha Wilson for protection against her abusive, male relatives. However, her mother did not protect Rose from these men, and, though she was aware of the abuse, she did nothing to stop it. When Rose told her mother about the abuse her mother said, "Well, I lived with it, so you can live with it." Martha Wilson encouraged her husband, Roger Wilson, to beat Rose, and one time sat laughing as she watched Roger Wilson grab Rose by the neck and throw her over a chair. As a result of years of abuse and no protection from her mother, on December 9, 1988, after a fight with her mother, Rose finally could take no more and shot her mother once in the head. In court the only explanation Rose gave for shooting her mother was the sexual abuse. Rose, however, felt her attorney did not take her allegation seriously. The full extent and nature of the abuse was not told to the judge who sentenced Rose. A psychologist who recently evaluated Rose said that the actions which led to Rose's killing of her mother arose out of this history of severe emotional, physical, and sexual abuse as a child and the concomitant emotional after effect. SINCE THE OFFENSE: After Rose was sent to the Illinois Youth Center, she detailed the abuse to a youth counselor there, who reported it to DCFS. Charges were brought against Roger Wilson, Thomas Cooper, and George Nickels. Both Nickels and Cooper were charged with Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault. Nickels plead guilty to Criminal Sexual Assault and was sentenced to four years in prison. Cooper also plead guilty to Criminal Sexual Assault and was sentenced to three years probation and was required to complete a sex offender program. Roger Wilson was charged with two counts of Indecent Liberties with a Child and went to trial. However, the jury was unable to agree on a verdict, and the case was dismissed. WHILE INCARCERATED: Rose has been a model prisoner. She graduated from high school six months ahead of her class, she received degrees in food service, computer technology and an associate's degree in general studies. Rose is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in General Studies from MacMurray College. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP ROSE This clemency petition may be decided soon (end of 1998). Please act quickly! EMAIL GOVERNOR EDGAR at: governor@state.il.us OR WRITE: Governor Jim Edgar 207 State House Springfield, IL 62701 OR CALL: Governor Edgar in Chicago: 312 814 2121 Governor Edgar in Springfield: 217 782 6830 FAX: Governor Edgar's Springfield Fax: 217 524 4049 For further information, contact: Margaret Byrne, Director Illinois Clemency Project for Battered Women 4669 North Manor Ave. Chicago, IL 60625 PH: 773 583 8016 Email: manorlaw@earthlink.net From jlnewton@ucdavis.edu Tue Nov 24 21:14:45 1998 Tue, 24 Nov 1998 20:14:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:00:42 -0800 To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu, MATERIALIST FEMINISM From: Judith Newton Subject: Re: Fw: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] In-Reply-To: At 08:21 AM 11/23/98 -0500, Domna C Stanton wrote: > > >On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Margaret M Gullette wrote: > >> 54. Margaret Morganroth Gullette >> Resident Scholar, Women's Studies, Brandeis >> e-mail: mgullette@msn.com >> 617-965-2164 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: PJ McGann >> To: Abigail J. Stewart ; amy agigian >> ; amy schulz ; aryeh >> ; babs ; britta >> <6500bbw@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu>; calvin moore ; >> catherine ; celia ; dan >> finseth ; dana rosenfeld ; darren >> ; david levinson ; emilia >> ; genz ; gordie >> ; henry ; ira >> ; jane stewart ; joanne >> ; kat ; kelly >> ; kerry ; lady anne >> <"mamary@snycorva.cortland.edu, javannne"@juno.com> > <"mamary@snycorva.cortland.edu, javannne"@juno.com>>; laila >> ; laura fredrickson ; >> lawrence ; lipika >> ; lizbet ; >> Margaret Morganroth Gullette ; mary b >> ; mary haught ; michele koontz >> ; mindy ; papson >> conrad ; randy hill >> ; ron flores ; rosemary >> ; sandy tangri ; stephen pfohl >> ; todd ; trick ratpick >> ; wambui ; wanjiru >> >> Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 9:50 AM >> Subject: [Fwd: anti hate-crime petition] >> >> >> >Subject: FW: Anti Hate Crime Petition >> > >> >On October 6, outside Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a >> >> >21-year-old University of Wyoming student, was tortured, beaten, >> and >> >> >left tied to a pole in the freezing cold. Six days later, he died >> of >> >> >his wounds in Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, Colorado. >> Matthew >> >> >was murdered because he was gay and because he was a prominent and >> >> >charismatic member of the gay and lesbian student group on campus. >> >> >Right now Wyoming and Colorado have no anti-hate crime laws; the >> state >> >> >legislature in Wyoming has voted down anti-bias bills for each of >> the >> >> >past three years. >> > >> > There is an effort in Wyoming and Colorado to enact Matthew >> >> >Shepard Laws, which would strongly punish the perpetrators of hate >> >> >crimes. >> > >> >This petition demands the broadening of federal anti-hate crime law. >> > >> >Opening Statement: >> >"As a religious voice, we state strongly that violence on the >> >> >basis of sexual orientation, race or gender is wrong, is evil, is >> >> >reprehensible." >> > -John Buehren, President of The Unitarian Universalist >> >> >Association, speaks for Unitarian Universalists but his words are >> >> >reflected in the hearts of people everywhere who believe we must >> speak >> >> >out, take action against, and condemn hate crimes in all their >> ugly >> >> >forms. >> > >> > A resolution follows: >> > >> > WHEREAS: We affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of >> > every person; and >> > >> > WHEREAS: We commend the efforts of those individuals who dedicate >> >> >their lives to causes of social justice and human rights; and >> > >> >WHEREAS: We support actions that protect the individual's rights >> >> >of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. >> > >> >THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That we hereby urge the passage of The >> >> >>>Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529 >> > >> >The Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA), H.R.3081 and S. 1529, would >> >> >amend current federal law (which permits federal prosecution of a >> hate >> >> >crime only if the crime was motivated by bias based on religion, >> >> >national origin, or color) to include real or perceived sexual >> >> >orientation, gender,and disability so the FBI would be able to >> >> >investigate and prosecute violent hate crimes against gays, >> lesbians, >> >> >and Bisexuals. >> > >> >Under this bill, hate crimes that cause death or bodily injury >> >> >>>>because of prejudice can be investigated federally, regardless >> of >> >> >whether the victim was exercising a federally protected right. >> > >> > The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of >> >> >support for this change to the current law is by making our voices >> >> >heard. >> > >> >Please add your name to this petition and forward it to friends >> >> >who believe in what it stands for. The petition will then be >> forwarded >> >> >to the President of The United States; the Vice President of the >> United >> >> >States; and our United States Senators and House Members. >> > >> > Petition Management: >> > >> > 1. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add >> >> >your name to it so that we can have tougher laws against all hate >> >> >crimes. Please keep the petition rolling. Do not reply to me. >> Please >> >sign and forward to others to sign. This is being forwarded to >> >several >> >> >people at once to add their names. It will not matter if many >> people >> >> >receive the same list as the names are being managed. >> > >> >2. If you print out this petition for circulation and signing >> >> >>please email the listing of names with locations to the email >> address: >> >AllRunique@aol.com (an email address >> >> >created to receive this petition) Include a note to dicate you >> have a >> >> >hand-signed petition and include the number of names listed. >> > >> > 3. If you happen to be the 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, this >> >> >>>petition, please forward a copy to the email address: >> >> >AllRunique@aol.com >> > >> > >> > 4. If you sign, please pass it on to others. If not, please do not >> >> >kill it. >> > Send it on to the email address: AllRunique@aol.com >> > >> > >> > Thank You >> >> >>>>>> Leslie Palmer >> > >> >I cannot stay silent, my outrage and compassion will not allow. >> > ------------------------------------------- >> > >> > >> > Sign Here: >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 1) Leslie Palmer, Jacksonville, FL >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 2) Stephen Silverman, South Burlington, VT >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 3) Wayne Arnason >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 4) Theo Diamond, Charlottesville, Va >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 5) Sasha Kopf, Northampton, MA / Princeton, NJ >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 6) Geoffrey B. Metz, Tufts Univ., Medford, MA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 7) Emily Sporl, Tufts University, Medford, MA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 8.) Tai Collins, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 9.) Danielle Lazarin, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 10.) Priscilla Morales, Yale University, New Haven, CT >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 11.) Lydia Pace, Yale University, New Haven, CT >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 12.) Julia Goren, Williams College, Williamstown, MA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 13.) Jamie Waxman, Columbia University >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 14.) Rebecca Zimmerman, Columbia University, NY >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 15.) Ariel Meyerstein, Columbia University, NY >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 16.) Naomi Richman, Goucher College, MD >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 17.) Aaron Finkel, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 18.) Sally Noedel, Truman State Univ., Kirksville, MO >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 19.) Kim Cook, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 20.) Molly Mitchell, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 21.) Jeremy Schwab, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 22.) Aaron Manheim, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 23.) Rebecca pronsky, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 24.) Rebecca Milburn, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 25.) Christene DeJong, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 26.) Lisa Lapman, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 27.) Julia Sussner, Wellesley College, MA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 28.) Adrian Dellecker, Trinity College, CT >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 29.) Sarah Mullen, Trinity College, CT >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 30.) Phu Thai, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 31.) Leigh Phillips, Wheaton College, Norton, MA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 32.) Matthew Small, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 33.) Amy Ensley, Chapman University, Orange, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 34.) Sarah Halverson, Chapman University, Orange, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 35.) Tyson Chaney, California State University, Long Beach, >> Long >> >> >>>>>> Beach, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 36.) Amy Nicole Gevas, Trinity Western University, Napa, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 37.) Chris Huff, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 40.) Jennifer Anne Schardt, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 41.) Thomas Ladd Stephenson, Lewis & Clark College, >> Portland, OR >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 42.) Sara Pocekay, University of California Santa Barbara, >> Santa >> >> >>>>Barbara, >> >> >>>>>> CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 43.) Patrice Kubiak >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 44) Stacey Muse >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 45) Jane Machado >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 46) Steve Machado >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 47) Gregory S. Nelms, Los Angeles, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 48) Michael P. Stone, West Hollywood, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 49) Alfonso Barquin, West Hollywood, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 50) Gene Faurie, Jr., Beverly Hills, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 51) Christopher Roehm, W. Hollywood, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 52) Shirley Drumond, Beverly Hills, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 53) Salene Rotter, Culver City, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 54) Debbie Spander, Los Angeles, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 55) Stephanie Bagdadi, Los Angeles, CA >> >> >>>>>> >> >> >>>>>> 56) Jene Elzie, Los Angeles, CA >> >> >>>> >> >> >>>>57) Edward Da Veiga, Chino Hills, CA >> >> >>>> >> >> >>>>58) Kevin Dowling, Richmond, CA >> >> >>> >> >> >>>59) Leilani Pamplona, Fremont, CA >> >> >>> >> >> >>60) Krysteena Padigos, San Francisco, CA >> >> >>> >> >> >51) Evelyn Rodriguez, Berkeley, CA >> >> >>> >> >> 52) Barrie Thorne, Berkeley CA >> >> >> >> Barrie Thorne Office phone: 510-643-1073 >> >> Dept. of Sociology Office fax: 510-642-0659 >> >> 410 Barrows Hall >> >> Univ. of California Home phone: 510-549-0803 >> >> Berkeley CA 94720 Home fax: 510-845-4030 >> > >> >53. PJ McGann, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA >> > 54. Domna Stanton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor > >55. Judith Newton, U.C. Davis From mgullette@msn.com Thu Nov 26 14:09:13 1998 From: "Margaret M Gullette" To: "Rosemary Hennessy" , "Martha Gimenez" , "Brandeis Women's Studies" <2wstudies@brandeis.edu>, "Danny Faber" , "Inez and/or Victor Wallis Hedges" , "Winston Langley" , "Frinde and/or John McDermott Maher" , "Petersen, Andrea" , "Ellen and/or Rich Rosen" , "Dittmar, Linda" , "Mandel, Sandy" Subject: Fw: I support the Clemency Petition of Rosetta Wilson Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 16:10:30 -0500 -Doesn't this seem like the sort of thing that should go out on the networks so many of us participate in? Happy Thanksgiving, I'm giving thanks I didn't marry a batterer. Margaret The original letter comes from Michelle VanNatta, Northwestern University Department of Sociology A sample letter to the Governor follows. -----Original Message----- From: Margaret M Gullette To: governor@state.il.us Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 10:31 AM Subject: I support the Clemency Petition of Rosetta Wilson >Dear sir: > > May I ask you to consider clemency for Rosetta Wilson as the >victim of a childhood abuse and sexual abuse? Governor William Weld of Massachusetts received great praise for clemency for eight women convicted of murdering their batterers or sexual abusers; he said that considering the contexts in which these murders took place was just. > > Sincerely, > > (Dr.) Margaret Morganroth Gullette > >Resident Scholar, Women's Studies, Brandeis >e-mail: mgullette@msn.com >617-965-2164 >Home page:www//brandeis.edu/wmns/gullette.html > > Hello. Please consider emailing Illinois' Governor Edgar in support of clemency for Rose Wilson, who was sentenced and incarcerated at age 16. The court was not apprised of the extent of the abuse Rose had suffered which led up to her crime. Details below. Please forward this email to others. Thank you! _______________________ Michelle VanNatta Northwestern University Department of Sociology mva472@nwu.edu http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~mva472 Opportunity for immediate activism: Email Governor Edgar at governor@state.il.us before the end of 1998 to SUPPORT THE CLEMENCY PETITION OF ROSETTA WILSON Rose Wilson, now 25 years old, has been incarcerated since age sixteen. After years of constant sexual abuse by male relatives, Rose shot and killed her mother, who had also physically and emotionally abused Rose. She pled guilty to First Degree Murder and was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Rose has no prior convictions. HISTORY OF ABUSE: Rose's earliest memories are of being sexually abused by her relatives. This abuse occurred nearly daily until she was old enough to be able to get away from them. When she was five, her father, Roger Wilson, would tell Rose that she was in trouble, but that she could avoid being beaten if she would give in to his sexual demands. Rose's step-grandfather, Thomas Cooper, also sexually abused Rose, starting when she was just four years old. Rose was also raped and otherwise abused by her uncle George Nickels. Nickels would wait for Rose, who sometimes locked herself in the bathroom to avoid his sexual attacks. One time, when Rose was eleven, Nickels raped Rose while she was baby-sitting for her sleeping newborn twin cousins. HISTORY OF THE CASE: Rose looked to her mother Martha Wilson for protection against her abusive, male relatives. However, her mother did not protect Rose from these men, and, though she was aware of the abuse, she did nothing to stop it. When Rose told her mother about the abuse her mother said, "Well, I lived with it, so you can live with it." Martha Wilson encouraged her husband, Roger Wilson, to beat Rose, and one time sat laughing as she watched Roger Wilson grab Rose by the neck and throw her over a chair. As a result of years of abuse and no protection from her mother, on December 9, 1988, after a fight with her mother, Rose finally could take no more and shot her mother once in the head. In court the only explanation Rose gave for shooting her mother was the sexual abuse. Rose, however, felt her attorney did not take her allegation seriously. The full extent and nature of the abuse was not told to the judge who sentenced Rose. A psychologist who recently evaluated Rose said that the actions which led to Rose's killing of her mother arose out of this history of severe emotional, physical, and sexual abuse as a child and the concomitant emotional after effect. SINCE THE OFFENSE: After Rose was sent to the Illinois Youth Center, she detailed the abuse to a youth counselor there, who reported it to DCFS. Charges were brought against Roger Wilson, Thomas Cooper, and George Nickels. Both Nickels and Cooper were charged with Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault. Nickels plead guilty to Criminal Sexual Assault and was sentenced to four years in prison. Cooper also plead guilty to Criminal Sexual Assault and was sentenced to three years probation and was required to complete a sex offender program. Roger Wilson was charged with two counts of Indecent Liberties with a Child and went to trial. However, the jury was unable to agree on a verdict, and the case was dismissed. WHILE INCARCERATED: Rose has been a model prisoner. She graduated from high school six months ahead of her class, she received degrees in food service, computer technology and an associate's degree in general studies. Rose is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in General Studies from MacMurray College. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP ROSE This clemency petition may be decided soon (end of 1998). Please act quickly! EMAIL GOVERNOR EDGAR at: governor@state.il.us OR WRITE: Governor Jim Edgar 207 State House Springfield, IL 62701 OR CALL: Governor Edgar in Chicago: 312 814 2121 Governor Edgar in Springfield: 217 782 6830 FAX: Governor Edgar's Springfield Fax: 217 524 4049 For further information, contact: Margaret Byrne, Director Illinois Clemency Project for Battered Women 4669 North Manor Ave. Chicago, IL 60625 PH: 773 583 8016 Email: manorlaw@earthlink.net