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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:38:36 +0100<BR>To: joy_helbin@hotmail.com<BR>From: war@womenagainstrape.net<BR>Subject: Reminder: Public Trial - The rape of justice: Who's guilty?<BR><BR>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.25pt"><SPAN class=EC_EmailStyle17><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Dear sisters and friends,</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt"><SPAN class=EC_EmailStyle17><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Plans are moving ahead for the<I> Public Trial - The rape of justice: Who's guilty?</I></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=EC_EmailStyle17><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> We invite you to participate on 16 February. Please help circulate the email below. Your ideas and any other offers of help (including fundraising) will be greatly appreciated. Some of our recent comments to the media can be viewed at: <A title=blocked::http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7116336.stm href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7116336.stm" target=_blank><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7116336.stm</SPAN></A> and on YouTube </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=EC_EmailStyle17><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: blue">- </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=EC_EmailStyle17><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DFH3bnCUtI0" target=_blank><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DFH3bnCUtI0</SPAN></A> you’ll see a clip from News 24. <SPAN> </SPAN>Keep an eye on <A title=blocked::http://www.womenagainstrape.net/ href="http://www.womenagainstrape.net/" target=_blank><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">www.womenagainstrape.net</SPAN></A> for more news and a poster to print off. </SPAN></SPAN></P></TD></TR>
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<P class=EC_MsoTitle><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #9393ff">Women <SPAN class=EC_GramE>Against</SPAN> Rape 30<SUP>th</SUP> anniversary</SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=EC_MsoTitle><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #69008e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">Summons to a Public Trial</SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_MsoTitle><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 26pt; COLOR: #69008e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Berlin
Sans FB Demi'">The rape of justice: Who’s guilty?</SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #69008e; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">16 February 2008 2-5 pm<BR></SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #69008e; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Doors open at 1.30</SPAN></B></P></TD></TR>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Three decades ago, when it was still legal for a man to rape his wife, Women Against Rape, just formed, announced a rape trial with a difference: women were putting the government and its criminal justice system on trial for condoning and even encouraging rape. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Mo</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">st people now support women’s right to say NO under any circumstance and at any point, and to get justice when that NO is ignored. Yet, the conviction rate for recorded rape is down to 5.7%. So once again we are putting the authorities on trial for persistently “letting rapists off the hook,” which denies women and girls justice and makes us all vulnerable.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Those in charge of justice still often hold women responsible for rape and sexual assault. It used to be short skirts and hitch-hiking <SPAN class=EC_GramE>that were</SPAN> to blame. Now it’s having too much to drink or having more than one partner or, as always, trusting the wrong man. The truth is that just being a woman – or a girl – in the wrong place at the wrong time is often enough to condemn us to rape. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">But we have fought back. Increasingly women have reported rape and sexual assault, even when it was frightening, embarrassing and dangerous to do so, and even when the police didn’t want to know. We reported rape not only by strangers but by dates, husbands, partners, fathers, step-fathers, uncles, brothers, babysitters, employers, immigration officers, teachers, lecturers, carers, police, soldiers . . . And we have fought to defend our children even more than ourselves.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">For 30 years, with little or no funding, Women Against Rape has been backing women and spearheading their demands for justice, by:</SPAN></P>
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36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Speaking out against the authorities which don’t investigate, lose the evidence, misrepresent us, attack our character and conduct, accuse us of lying, put us on trial and even in prison.</SPAN></LI>
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36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Invading courts and private clubs where some of the most sexist judges hang out. </SPAN></LI>
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36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Pressing for changes in the law, the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the courts, the compensation system, and demanding that police or prosecutors who won’t do their jobs against rapists must be sacked.</SPAN></LI>
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36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Winning legislation which recognises rape in marriage as a crime, and sets at least some (though not enough) limits on raising women’s sexual history in court. </SPAN></LI>
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36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Fighting for rape survivors not to be detained, left destitute, or have our children torn from us, and to be granted the right to asylum.</SPAN></LI>
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36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Winning a private prosecution against a serial rapist after the CPS refused to prosecute – a test case that exposed the CPS.</SPAN></LI>
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36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Forcing the police and CPS to arrest and prosecute the white attacker of a Black Muslim mother; he was found guilty – another test case that exposed police inaction.</SPAN></LI>
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36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Winning compensation for many rape victims after they had been turned down.</SPAN></LI></UL>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #8500b4">BUT MOST RAPISTS STILL GET AWAY WITH IT! </SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoBodyText><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What is the point of recommendations, complaints and appeals procedures, specialist police, prosecutors and judges, inspectorates, women in government, and more laws if those in charge of implementing them refuse over and over to do their job?</SPAN></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #8500b4">WE WANT THOSE IN CHARGE OF JUSTICE TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT!</SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Have your say</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> <I>on 16 February 2008.</I> Testify about your experience <SPAN class=EC_GramE>of dealing</SPAN> with sexual, domestic and other violence, what you did to try to get protection and justice and what response you got from each of the authorities. Male survivors of sexual violence are also welcome.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">We will have dark glasses, masks and screens for anyone who wants to disguise their identity.</SPAN></P></TD></TR>
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