“Envision

A

World

Without

Violence”

· Documentary: A Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience.

~ Rosemary Gibbons, director of the award-winning documentary short at the 2003 San Francisco American Indian Film Festival, speaks on A Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience, a short but powerful documentary about how Indian Residential Schools became a haven for institutionalized sexual abuse.

Rosemary Gibbons is a Mimbres

Apache/ Chicana, the first graduated student to get a Masters degree from the Native Voices Program. She is

a member of the steering committee of the Boarding School Healing Project (BSHP) that is currently involved in education, validation, healing and making the Federal

Government accountable for the wrongs committed in the United States Indian boarding school system.

“ Let’s Get R.E.A.L.!”

~ Kadihjia Kelly, Courtney Butts, and Deadre Holmes ~

This workshop will focus on identifying the problems associated with helping women of color, particularly Black women on predominately White college campuses dealing with sexual violence, and outline suggested methods for reaching out to women of color for prevention and increased reporting.

• ““Preventing Workplace Sexual Violence: Meeting the Unique Health Care and Cultural Needs of Indigenous Farmworker Women”

~Laura Mahr and Marcelina Martinez

This is a participation-based skills-building workshop designed to educate attendees about the prevalence of workplace-related sexual violence in agricultural work and strategies for prevention and supporting victims.

• “Re-visioning the Sexual Violence Continuum”

~ Lydia Guy

The anti-rape movement has used sexual violence continua as a way of explaining the connection between sexual violence and sexism. This vision does not incorporate the reality of those experiencing multiple oppressions, particularly communities and individuals of color. This workshop will explore a “re-visioned” continuum that attempts to make explicit the connection between sexual violence and all forms of oppression.

• “Wrong is Not My Name: The Art of Community Healing”

~ Facilitators: Manju Rajendran and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

In this workshop, members of UBUNTU will lead participants in the process of creating their own publication using found resources, urgency and the collected brilliance of those gathered. This workshop was first designed and facilitated by Serena Sebring and Alexis Pauline Gumbs at the Allied Media Conference.

Using June Jordan’s poem this workshop will encourage participants to explore and impact the relationship between gendered violence and structural political violence by raising their own voices, interviewing each other, writing poems, creating collages and assembling a shared work of transformation during the session.

The facilitators will scan the publication and distribute it as a pdf to the participants and (with permission) make it available online after the gathering.

• Esperanza: The Immigrant Women's Legal Initiative

~ Mónica Ramírez, founder of Esperanza, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center

• Information from the NSVRC

~ Cathy Nardo, NSVRC Information Specialist

Registration Information

Registration fee: $40

Payable to CARe

We’re sorry but we cannot take credit card payment at this time.

There are a limited number of scholarship opportunities available. Please contact care@purdue.edu no later than April 21^st to apply.

Exhibitor Information

Contact us if you are interested in being an exhibitor at the CARe’s 9^th Multicultural Gathering. care@purdue.edu

Registration form along with remittance should be submitted to:

CARe

AGAD Room 214

615 West State Street

West Lafayette, IN 47907-2053

Phone: 765 – 494 – 6871

FAX: 765 – 496 - 7383

Name:

Organization:

Mailing Address:

City & State:

Zip Code (nine digits please):

Phone:

E-mail address:

Please list any special dietary needs:

Purdue University is an equal access/equal

opportunity institution.

CARe: Communities Against Rape Initiative is funded

through the Indiana State Department of Health,

Center of Disease Control, Rape Prevention Education Grant. Principal Investigator: Mary Pilat, Ph.D.