ACTION ALERT: SENATOR SLASHER!
September 16, 2009
by The New Agenda
|The following ACTION ALERT has been sent this morning from The New Agenda. If you would like to sign up to receive email alerts (including action alerts, media alerts and member alerts) please sign up here.
Dear Friends:
Let’s Join NOW NY and Take Action!
Next Monday, NY State Senator Hiram Monserrate stands trial for slashing his girlfriend’s face — an attack captured by video cameras in the apartment lobby. Sen Monserrate continues to serve in public office despite being indicted on six counts of assault!
Read more about this horrific case in Amy’s Daily Beast article Did This Senator Beat Up His Girlfriend?.
Now it’s time for action!
Write or call the judge and let him know how important it is that perpetrators of violence against women be punished:
Hon. William M. Erlbaum
Supreme Court, Queens County
125 01 Queens Blvd.
Kew Gardens, NY 11415
(718) 298-1401
(And let us know that you did by leaving a comment!)
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Nancy and Jennifer spoke out on a harmful op-ed written about AG Martha Coakley; while Amy spoke out in The Daily Beast about the importance of electing a qualified woman to Massachusetts’ senate seat.
Cynthia spoke out about feminism vs. racism and that neither political party is the party of women.
Anna Belle was honored in Today’s Women.
Amy called for UNITY and a ceasefire in the mommy wars at MORE — the keys to gender equality are right in our own hands.
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Alright! Official Action Alert! I am currently on campus. I’ll be heading over to the computer lab to print this out en masse.
Hi, wanted to let you know that I posted your action alert above to the UAADV News Blog and to the UAADV NY State Blog. You can view my posts at the following two links. If you would prefer I take them down or change them in anyway, please contact me at UAADV.National@gmail.com.
http://uaadvnewsblog.blogspot......asher.html
http://uaadvnewyork.blogspot.c.....asher.html
Mary
sent a letter today to Hon William Erlbaum.
it is time that the severity of such a crime is recognized.
I sent out 49 copies of the article. All but one received a positive reaction, and the single negative reaction was rather disturbing. I showed it to a woman in her 40s or 50s, and she was personally insulted and offended – not at the crime, but at the fact someone wanted her to write a NY judge about domestic violence. She acted as though I were the offensive to her. I have no idea why she would feel this way. I asked, “Would you mind telling me why?” and she replied, “Yes, I do mind.” So she took it very personally.
But, 48 other responses were positive.
I called the number this morning,9/18, shown in the New Agenda above.
A man answered (hoarse voice, not intelligible to me) with the phrase “. . .
Chambers”. I said I am calling re: the case of the NY Senator. . . The man
interupted me, saying, “No disrespect to you, but the/a (not clear) has (not clear). No disrespect, but I am going to end this call now.” And he did.
This might be interpreted as a response to a great many calls having been made to that number or simply the response of a busy and somewhat irritated
person. I hope that my call registered the hope fact the Senator’s violence and the support he is receiving from some colleagues is not acceptable to many women.
[...] article cites the efforts of TNA and NOW NY members to take action and speak out on this case: Last Wednesday, The New Agenda, in conjunction with NOW-NYS, sent out [...]
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