[LAF] FW: [ukfeministaction] pro-feminist brothers holding a vigil in partnership with RTN

[Joy Wood]

> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:29:19 +0000> Subject: [ukfeministaction] pro-feminist brothers holding a vigil in partnership with RTN> > > Please see the attached statement from a coalition of men called the London Pro-Feminist Men's Network. They, in solidarity with national Reclaim The Night, are holding a men's vigil to mourn those sisters who have lost their lives to male violence. They shall be imagining new ways to be men and an end to the crisis that masculinity has become, for which women and children all too often pay the price. > > Please pass this statement on widely and ask your Pro-Feminist brothers to support this important vigil. > London Pro Feminist Network Mission Statement> > As Pro-feminist> men we actively support feminism and efforts to bring about gender justice and> equality. > > To give support to> our sisters marching against male violence against women on the Reclaim The Night> we will hold a candle lit vigil, to remember those women who have been the> victims of violence from men, focusing our thoughts on those since the last> march. > > We hope to support> the RTNM by demonstrating our respect and highlighting the gender injustice within> society, especially around rape and violence against women from men and the> convictions that may or may not follow. > > We too demand> justice for rape survivors and find the current conviction rates abhorrent> and unacceptable. > > Our commitment as> Pro feminist men is to try to live in egalitarian and respectful ways in our> daily lives - at home, at work and on the street.> > This vigil shall be held on the 22nd of> November 2008 at the Edith Cavell statue outside St-Martin-in-the-Fields in> Trafalgar Square from 6pm.> > If you are interested in attending please assemble at> the statue at the above time and date or 
 contact Jamie for more information at jamiebriansmith at hotmail.com > www.reclaimthenight.org
 
[Note from Joy:  
The phrase in the London Pro-Feminist Network Mission 
Statement saying, "We too demand justice for rape survivors and find 
the current conviction rates abhorrent and unacceptable" does NOT mean
"jail all rapists."  Do not allow yourself to be distracted from the subject of
the Mission Statement, which is the social, civil and human rights of women.  
The said phrase rather means, "In a society such as we have (where the 
majority of infractions of the law are punished) how come when the victims 
are mostly women and the offenders mostly men the majority of offenses 
go unpunished and, instead, the victims are not believed and/or blamed 
and even when the evidence is unassailable the majority of offenders are 
'let off'?  In our society this anomaly occurs in crimes where the victims 
are mostly women and children and the offenders mostly men, such as rape, 
child sexual abuse, prostitution.  In civil and criminal crimes where many 
men are victims, however, crimes are far more often punished; in other words 
they are taken seriously.]
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