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The new DVD of Searching for Angela Shelton with all the bells and whistles is now at the duplication house! The titles and the post production have been paid for thanks to the loyal fans of this movie/movement. Thank you!

Please share this group with your friends and non-profits and tell them about the new DVD. The director's commentary alone is worth owning the new one, plus there is never-before-seen footage. I'm signing the new DVD orders and shipping the first batch out myself so if you want a signed one or want to send it to a friend, do it now!
For those of you who know or run non-profits, the organizations who want to resell the DVD at their events can get 50% off when they use the code "resell" and order 100 or more.

http://store.searchingforangelasheltonstore.com/newsfas.html
Thank you for your support! This has continued for so long because of my fellow big-mouths! I love you, squish!

Angela

 

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PAVE Newsletter

Shatter the Silence of Sexual Violence

June 2009

In this Issue

:: PAVE Day at WNBA

:: Sophia World Conference

:: Upcoming PAVE Event

:: National Campus Safety Awareness Month

:: International Efforts For Survivors

:: Save The Date - Conferences

:: Supporting Abused Families

:: Special Thanks!

:: Dr. Ayers Outrage

Dear Jacki m,

PAVE is a national, nonprofit that uses education and action to shatter the silence of sexual violence. Through social awareness campaigns, educational outreach, and targeted legislative efforts we work to end sexual violence on all fronts.
PAVE is both prevention and response based. We educate on cultural norms that encourage or trivialize violence while also creating grassroots action against injustices to victims and survivors.
You're invited to join this important work - learn more today!

NOTE: PAVE FOUNDER, ANGELA ROSE, FEATURED ON FRONT PAGE OF CHICAGO AREA DAILY HERALD LAST SUNDAY! PLEASE READ AND POST A COMMENT ON THE SITE!

Survivor Justice Outrage!
Gang-Rape Left Unprosecuted
ABC News has recently reported on a case from 2007 where three brave college-athlete women intervened at a De Anza Community College party to stop the gang-rape of an unconscious 17-year-old girl. Click here to read the article about the incident.
   Despite having three eye-witnesses this case was not prosecuted by the district attorney's office citing the victim's lack of memory as a major road block. This 'excuse' is often used in cases where a victim is severely intoxicated or even unconscious. PAVE believes strongly that alcohol-facilitates sexual assaults should be vigorously prosecuted, especially in a case where such strong physical evidence and eye-witness testimony exists.
    To voice your opinion, let the Santa Clara District Attorney Dolores Carr know that their should be no excuse for failing to prosecute the young men who so horribly violated this young woman (sample letters and talking points available from: SurvivorJustice@pavingtheway.net).

Dolores Carr
District Attorney
70 W. Hedding Street, West Wing
San Jose CA 95110
Phone: (408) 299-3099
Fax: (408) 286-5437

**PAVE applauds those who intervened to end this atrocity and their campaign to never leave any woman behind to become a victim of sexual violence: http://www.nowomanleftbehindcampaign.org/

PAVE Day at WNBA

The WNBA team Chicago Sky partnered with PAVE for PAVE Day in June featuring PAVE's Angela Rose as Co-Captain for the game. PAVE supporter April Rose, who is a model and TV personality, was there to throw the first ball out. Working with Comcast Sportsnet and JRock, a powerful PSA was produced and shown at the game! We received great feedback from the experience and we shattered the silence of sexual violence!

SOPHIA 2010 World Conference
Date: May 25-29, 2010
Location: Sophia, Bulgaria

Purpose: This is a major world conference to achieve global goals to improve social conditions, preserve nature and honor spirituality towards a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.

BECOME A MEMBER OF SOPHIA FOR ONLY $20.10

PAVE's Executive Director, Angela Rose, was appointed the Co-Chair for the Ending Violence and Human Trafficking track of the conference. The founder of the Sophia World Conference is Dr. Linda Stillman who was been involved with the UN for over 20 years.

Please join PAVE in Bulgaria in 2010!

PAVE Event - Chicago
Fear No Fashion

SAVE THE DATE

Sunday, September 27

Cubby Bear Chicago, 3pm

Featuring local celebrities, fashion designers, silent auction, and surpises! You don't want to miss this event!

Campus Safety Awareness
Action Alert!

Security on Campus, Inc. has partnered with many campuses since 2005 to promote National Campus Safety Awareness Month (NCSAM) each September. Currently they are working to get Congressional recognition for this partnership through

H. Res. 90, which needs 50 co-sponsors to be passed by the full U.S. House of Representatives in time for September.
Do not delay! Please call or e-mail your Representative today asking them to become a co-sponsor (sample e-mails available and easy to find contact information for your Representative)!
Security On Campus, Inc. Training:
Jeanne Clery Act Training Seminar
Aug. 3-4th at Fairfield University in Connecticut
RSVP
Friday
July 17, 2009

International Efforts
Women For Women

As many wars and conflicts continue to devastate communities and cultures throughout the world, one organization is working to empower women on the road from "victim to survivor to active citizen".

Women For Women is offering a one-year program for women left with nothing in post-conflict regions. Click here to lean more or sponsor a woman on her healing journey.

PAVE Event - Los Angeles
Removing the Mask:

Art and Soul to Shatter the Silence of Sexual Violence

SAVE THE DATE

Thursday, September 17

LA Performing Arts Center

Featuring performance art and Sarah Rice from MTV's Real World

Save The Date
PAVE Recommended Conferences
Finding the Path
Date: August 3-4, 2009
Location: Long Beach, California
Purpose: Conference focusing on helping battered women and adults who witnessed domestic violence as children discover their own pathway to healing and recovery.

More Info
Register Today

International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma
Date: September 21-26, 2009
Location: San Diego, California
Purpose: The theme is Promoting Peace in the Home, Your Community, and the World and aims to work from a multi-disciplinary background to link practice, research, and policy across the lifespan. Organized by the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma and supported by PAVE.
More Info
Register Today

Domestic Violence Claims a Life
Ways to Support

This June

Lavendar Power announced that a sister, Amy Ross, had passed away. She and her children were victims of domestic violence and she died following a fire set to her house by her husband. The organization is asking for support of her children at this time and have set up a web site set for donation to the Amy Ross and Children Fund.

www.amyross.wetpaint.com

Want to do more for victims of domestic violence? Helping Hands has a benefit
on July 17th for CAWC!

PAVE Shout Outs

Special Thanks

Thanks to the generous donation of time by

Creative Spark Design and efforts from PAVE Technology Director J.R. Spencer we have a brand new website!
Additional thanks to Cece & Melinda of Raymi Productions and Dior for a great networking event on Lake Michigan!

Child Psychiatrist Dr. William Ayers - Charged with Molesting Boys for Years!

A note to PAVE from journalist Victoria Balfour ...

I am a New York City journalist who basically broke the case of a child psychiatrist named Dr. William Ayres in California who had been molesting young boys for four decades. I turned over my information on the victims, which they used for the search warrant to seize the doctor's records. When Dr. Ayres was arrested, the San Francisco Chronicle said that had it not been for my investigative efforts, Dr. Ayres would not have been arrested,

The trial of Dr. Ayres is underway. I am not a witness for the prosecution and was told by the DA's office that I would not be a witness for the defense. But when I arrived to cover the trial for a newspaper, the prosecutor was hostile to my presence and colluded with Ayres' defense attorney to keep me out. It's been a nightmare. The prosecution would not have this case had it not been for me and now they have betrayed me by not wanting me in the courtroom.

Click here for more info.

Thank you for supporting PAVE. Donate today to continue efforts to shatter the silence of sexual violence in your communities!

          Sincerely,

QUICK Links

PAVE Mailing List
Twitter: PAVEInfo - PAVEJustice
PAVE Website
Angela Rose's Speaker Site
Madison Chapter of PAVE

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The Surviving Spirit Newsletter June 22,2009

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

     -Kahlil Gibran

Hi Folks,

Welcome to this month’s edition of The Surviving Spirit - once again I hope by the sharing of these resources and information, that it helps you in your own endeavors and struggles...what ever they may be.

A few words on myself and then news to share of some folks doing some wonderful things via their writing, music, advocacy, and education.

Here’s a great event going on this weekend in Rhode Island. I’ll be presenting a creative workshop and hosting the “Open Mic” event as well. The title to the retreat says it all…I hope to see you there, always a lot of healing and fun!!!

Vital Cycles 3rd Retreat June 26-28, 2009

www.vitalcycles.org

Triumphs Over Trauma

Leaving the Past, Living the Present

J For all those seeking to heal the emotional effects of traumas and those who support them.

J For more information email us at healing@vitalcycles.org.

Last month I shared with you the website link for Anchor Magazine – Conquering Depression [ www.anchormag.com ] and the article about me - “Breaking Through - Striking a chord”. Well via this attachment, I can share the article with you.

1] Please visit Dorothy Kay’s site….some hopeful and poignant sharing and once again showing the power of the human spirit in overcoming adversity

One Step at a time … Improvement vs. Recovery -

Further recovery is always possible for brain injury survivors.  With perseverance, determination, and above all hope miracles are possible.

2] My good friend Terri Lee has her song “Does Anybody Care” featured on

www.povertyandhunger.org Poverty and Hunger - Working to Fight World Hunger

Please visit her website to hear more of her great songs at -

www.myspace.com/terrileemusic I plan to learn one of her songs [posted at her site], “Life Goes On” to use in my presentations.

3] While still in the musical vein, my friend Cici Porter let me know she has a new website. Cici is another great songwriter and singer who uses her music to not only entertain, but helps create awareness and understanding for those affected by childhood sexual abuse. I shared with Cici several years ago of a dream of her and I performing in Washington, DC some day when there is a Million Survivor March….someday it will happen. http://ciciporter.com.

4] Recently I was looking for some resources to share with my friend Holly…Cici suggested this site, so I will pass it on to all of you.

Stop It Now! http://www.stopitnow.com. Join Stop It Now! in preventing the sexual abuse of children by mobilizing adults, families and communities to take actions that protect children before they are harmed.

5] This is exciting news to share about my friend Lynn Tolson, her book – “Beyond the Tears”, has been selected as required reading at Towson University, department of sociology, anthropology, criminal justice, "issues in domestic violence."

Good for you Lynn, and good for the world. I can personally vouch for this book having read it a few times…very powerful. http://www.beyondthetears.com

6] From the good people at THE HEALING THROUGH CREATIVITY FESTIVAL - CALLING FOR ARTISTS, PRESENTERS AND PERFORMERS CONTACT US TODAY FOR MORE INFORMATION.

We invite survivors of trauma and supporters, to the 4th annual 'Healing though Creativity' Survivor Art Event October 17 - 24 , 2009
at Heart of Virginia Foundation Center for Integrated Arts, Grandin Gardens, Roanoke, VA.

Event Telephone Number 304 545 6286, info@healingthroughcreativity.org.

www.healingthroughcreativity.org/forum

7] And last but not least, from my friend Grace Karen Sweet who I met at the CASRA Conference:

Average Miracles

Recovery & Beyond with Sustained Wellbeing

through Education of Alternative & Experiential Learning
www.averagemiracles.org
grace@averagemiracles.org

Office  (805) 667 - 8266

Cell     (805) 405 – 7056

Take care, Mike

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

A diagnosis is not a destiny.

www.mskinnermusic.com - Hope, Healing, & Help for Trauma, Abuse, & Mental Health through music, resources, & advocacy

www.myspace.com/michaelskinnermusic - musical endeavors only

www.youtube.com/mcstrain - live performance of "Brush Away Your Tears" from TV show interview

mikeskinner@comcast.net   603-625-2136   141 English Village Rd. # 11, Manchester, NH 03102

www.michaelskinner.net - new site for public speaking & music presentation on healing for trauma, abuse, & mental health.

 

Genres: Self-Help / GeneralBody, Mind & Spirit / OccultismPhilosophy / General

David Perry 11/6/2007 Review, The Dragon's Tale by Lady J Talks:

From the cosmic to the warm and funny, I promise you that "The Dragon's Tale" will be the most interesting philosophical work you've read in a long time.

The author, "Lady J." whom I am honored to call a personal friend, is a committed, tireless advocate for survivors of what used to be called "Multiple Personality Disorder" (I believe the condition is now called "Dissociate Identity Disorder") and has overcome a myriad of almost inconceivable hardships in her life. When read with these facts in mind, it becomes clear that "The Dragon's Tale" describes (in microcosm), a courageous, sometimes terrifying journey to recovery, self-acceptance, and forgiveness.

What emerges from this ingenious and charming mix of dragons, wizards, dream-states, and humans is a radiant and inspiring glimpse into a strong and beautiful soul.

I applaud you Lady J. And on behalf of your many loving friends and fans, I thank you. David Perry.

The voices and words of Lady J are from the world she had to learn to live in while growing up in a family that did not understand that what they called discipline then would be tantamount to child abuse by today’s standard.  Coupled with being extremely sensitive to not only my surroundings, also to touch.  Which I believe in part increased the dissociate behavior on my part.  As the fifth child I was suppose to follow the example of my older siblings.  My parents often said in later years that I never listened to them which was why I was hit so much.  When they would yell I would dissociate from the sound which then brought out more anger when I was hit. 

I understand that these things were not known in those years.  What bothers me most today is that for all the knowledge that is known about all the conditions that they have labels for now, my family still does not recognize or validate these facts.  I understand mostly that they have no need to and it's my belief that never felt the same as I did and only have their narrow view to believe in.  I'm the one that is labeled mentally ill and my conditions are only an excuse to justify my own behavior. 

Even after I allowed them to read my first story of my life, in my words and opinions, the greatest offenders told me I was lying, creating a great story as I always had, and one even said that I never told my father the through because I would have to admit my own complacency in what happened.  I chose not to tell him, one for the fear he would have to make a choice between my mother and brothers and myself.  The greatest thought was that I did not want him to feel bad for his last years over something he had no control over and nothing could be changed about it. 

My family think that I blame them for my life and condition which if they ever decided to get educated they would know that this is the farthest from the truth as they could get.  I had to accept my family and my condition so long ago that it makes me laugh when I hear anyone say that.  Those of us who grew up all those years ago all have had to accept that was was normal and acceptable back then yet still caused the creation of many different conditions even though what they considered real trauma and abuse, yes, even some still today think that way, was all that we can think of it.  Unless they want to consider that we were born with the chemical imbalance that cause us to perceive our world differently then the others. 

We'll never know that for sure, so it makes no sense to argue about it.  Our lives was what is was, We survived/lived it the best we could, Made our way out of it and live what we can like today.  The effects are still with me, yet I've learned so much that it has made most of my life ok.  It was those years between making the connection with the cause and the life I had lived up to that point that has left the largest scars on my spirit.  This story a "Dragon Tale" was LadyJ's way of giving purpose and some brief education to anyone who found themselves behind that door in their own dark place.  Mostly she says "Just look for the light".   

May you enjoy my look on life and some of the brief lessons learned along the way.  They are good lessons for anyone to use in their life.  My beliefs have come from years of listening and implimenting what worked for me into my world.  I'm not a person to push any special belief system onto anyone, yet by reading many, I have learned that they all speak of the same thing and there are many good words of wisdom to be learned from them. May your journey be safe and my your life be full of Light,  Jacki M SeiWell

                                    a “Dragon Tale”

will also be available as a FlipBook through Lady Jz Talk Zone and Duffy’s Closet web sites for viewing and purchase in cd/dvd forms.  The purpose of putting it to print here was so others could have a hard copy and also buy one for someone that they think could use it in their dark times.  Please visit us at http://ladyjztalkzone.com and see all the picture work that went into making a “Dragon Tale”. 

The clip art and other pictures where taken from the internet as they became the visual of what I pictured of the parts created.  I then took them and added them to my own picture of a real tree that I found behind a place where I once lived.  I believe all of them were free yet if you find one here that is not please contact me with the information. 

Lady Jz Talk Zone has been on the internet in many forms for the best part of the last ten years.  I’ve had support groups, a journal project called the “Echoes of Courage” where in seven women shared their lives with me online.  It will be one of next projects to come.  At the talk zone there is a sample of that book to come plus my own personal story of those things I could retrieve from the mind kept for many years in a special file I called “what they did to hurt me”.  It contains complete picture memories and words of hurt that I have felt.  Whether intentional or not, abuse hurts and stays with us for a life time.