Week of July 20th
Media Advocacy Guide: Section 4
Over the next month or so we will be releasing new chapters, each covering new concepts or ideas. Our goal is to share some of the process we use in media advocacy. For some of you, this will be a nice introduction to working with the media. For others, you may find that this is a simple text for sharing the activities you’re already doing in your agency with new staff, leadership or allies.
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New Policy Permits Asylum for Battered Women
The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the United States. The action reverses a Bush administration stance in a protracted and passionate legal battle over the possibilities for battered women to become refugees.
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Grieving dad on verge of ‘David-and-Goliath’ victory over cruise industry
It’s a David-and-Goliath victory, no doubt. And one that could force some big changes at cruise lines.
As the Arizona Republic, a sister paper to USA TODAY, notes today in a lengthy front-page story, a Phoenix man whose daughter vanished from an Alaskan cruise in 2004 is on the brink of a long-awaited triumph after he helped push the multibillion-dollar cruise industry to accept new safety regulations.
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Opinion: This Is What Rape Culture Looks Like
I often get asked what the phrase “rape culture” means. And while, honestly, the answer is no further away than wikipedia, it’s sometimes easier to grasp a concept by observing it in the wild.
Ben Roethlisberger is the Super-Bowl-winning QB of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Last summer he was in Lake Tahoe for a celebrity golf tournament. While there, he flirted up a female host at Harrahs, the casino hotel where he was staying. Whether or not she voluntarlily flirted with him is unknowable – as a rich, high profile celebrity, he knew that it was her job to flirt with him, and so did she. That’s rape culture. When men make choices about what women do with their sexuality, that strengthens the idea that men can control women’s bodies.
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