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	<description>A mother, A student, A dancer, A human, A survivor... I am that woman. End rape now! In Durham, North Carolina, USA, community members are breaking the silence about sexual assault and racist violence as part of a long struggle against racism, classism, sexism and all forms of oppression.</description>
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		<title>NEW!: &#8220;NO!&#8221; Study Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unveiling the Silence: NO! The Rape Documentary Study Guide
Created by Salamishah Tillet, Ph.D. and Rachel Afi Quinn
With the Creative and Editorial Direction of Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Producer, Writer, and Director of NO!The Rape Documentary
Graphic Design by Kavita Rajanna &#38; NO! Logo Design by Traci McKindra
Funded by the Ford Foundation
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		<title>In These Times: &#8220;Stories of Survival&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[original article located here 
Features &#62; June 29, 2007
Stories of Survival
NO! explores rape within the African-American community and fights society’s instinct to focus on the racism outside while turning a deaf ear to gender violence within
By Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell
The documentary NO! chips away at the myths and silence surrounding sexual assault it he black community
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		<title>J: AMC Follow-up &#8211; thoughts on grassroots publishing as a response to sexual violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the AMC this weekend, Lex and I ran a workshop called Wrong is Not My Name: Poetic Healing as a Response to Sexual Violence where we shared our experience creating our interactive anthology Wrong is Not My Name: A Tribute to Survival Via June Jordan.  Here&#8217;s a description:
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		<title>J: Allied Media Conference &#8211; beautiful!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend Yolanda, Lex, and I had the revolutionary joy of attending the Allied Media Conference in Detroit.  There is so much to say that I won&#8217;t try to recap in one post but I do want to say that it was amazing, inspiring, and truly beautiful.  We learned about how folks are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iambecauseweare.wordpress.com&blog=402413&post=172&subd=iambecauseweare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updated Social Forum Info &#8211; Check Us Out in ATL!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEED
 [TIME CHANGE!] time: Friday at 3:30pm
 location: Horizon Theater room at the Little Five Points Community Center
This workshop will invite participants to interact with a performance
of Audre Lorde&#8217;s Need: A Chorale for Black Women&#8217;s Voices as a forum
to discuss the war on women and how we can overcome the silence that
perpetuates violence in oppressed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iambecauseweare.wordpress.com&blog=402413&post=170&subd=iambecauseweare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Forum: A radical LGBTQ calendar from SONG!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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(Want more info on anything below? Go to SONG&#8217;s website)

Building a Queer Left Meeting: Pre-Conference Convening with Queers for Economic Justice and SONG to vision a LGBTQ movement from the bottom and to the left. Tues. June 26
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEED
time: Friday at 20:30 PM (8:30)
location: Horizon Theater room at the Little Five Points Community Center
This workshop will invite participants to interact with a performance
of Audre Lorde&#8217;s Need: A Chorale for Black Women&#8217;s Voices as a forum
to discuss the war on women and how we can overcome the silence that
perpetuates violence in oppressed communities.
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		<title>Town Hall Meeting: What will it take to end sexual violence in our communities?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 05:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a day when Durham, North Carolina is free of sexual violence.
What will that day look like?  What will it feel like?  What needs to happen in order to make that day a reality?  What will need in order to sustain the work of creating a city&#8211;and even a world&#8211;without sexual violence?
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		<title>speaking wor(l)ds around our daughters&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 02:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I can remember watching, fascinated, as our mother talked with her mother, sisters, and women friends. The intimacy and intensity of their speech &#8211; the satisfaction they received from talking to one another, the pleasure, the joy.&#8221;

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		<title>New Video and Article from the Day of Truthtelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 16:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Performance of &#8216;Litany for Survival&#8217; at the rally for &#8220;Creating a World without Sexual Violence: A National Day of Truthtelling&#8221; held in Durham, NC on Saturday, April 28th.

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article from Workers World:
Day of Truthtelling demands: &#8216;End rape culture&#8217;
   
By    Monica Moorehead
Durham, N.C.

 Published May  3, 2007  1:28 AM
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