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JUSTICE 4 REHTAEH PARSONS: NEWSFLASH:
Young man enters guilty plea in high-profile Nova Scotia child porn case
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SWEET JESUS, MOTHER MARY AND JOSEPH..... THIS DISASTER HAPPENED ON RADIO????- Nova Scotia is manning up and this radio station is disgusting everyone...advertisers??? seriously??? in Canada??? April 11, 2014
An online poll asking whether victims are to blame for sexual assault triggered immediate outrage from Alberta politicians Thursday. The poll, posted online by 630 CHED, asks: “Do you think victims of sexual assaults share any blame for what happens?”
Photograph by: Screen capture , Twitter
EDMONTON - An Edmonton news organization apologized Thursday after publishing an online poll asking whether victims are to blame for sexual assaults.
The poll was published on the 630 CHED website shortly before noon and immediately triggered torrents of outrage from advocates, politicians and Albertans.
The station initially re-worded the poll and later removed it entirely.
“We’re sorry,” CHED brand manager Syd Smith said during an appearance on one of the station’s shows, Tencer and Grose. “It was wrong, and ... I believe our audience and our listeners deserve better from us, and we’ll work to make sure we are better in the future.”
Smith said the poll was a clumsy attempt to gauge response to a news story in which Edmonton police said victim-blaming is still an issue in the capital city.
“That formed the basis of the question we were asking,” he said. “It was ham-handed, though, in the way that we put it out there, and it was wrong.”
The poll asked readers: “Do you think victims of sexual assaults share any blame for what happens?”
Respondents were given two options, yes and no. Beside “no,” the poll explained that “women should be able to dress, drink and walk as they choose without fear of being blamed.” Beside “yes,” the poll said “if women drink too much, dress too little or walk in harms way, they put themselves at risk.”
After the controversy erupted, the station initially reworded the poll to include a reference to a panel discussion about rape culture held in Edmonton as part of the city’s Sexual Exploitation Week of Awareness. However, the poll was later removed completely.
Before the polls was taken down, 65 per cent of respondents had voted no, while 35 per cent of respondents had voted yes. The total number of respondents was not published.
“This helps rapists,” said Laura Collison, a public educator with the University of Alberta’s Gender-Based Violence Prevention Project.
“Rapists know about rape myths, and they use them. They know that people will ask: What was she wearing? Had she been drinking? And they use that to make it seem like it was consensual, when it was an assault.
“That’s why (this myth is) so damaging, and why it’s so scary — it really allows them to excuse their behaviour.”
Danielle Paradis is the lead organizer of Edmonton’s SlutWalk, an annual event in which protesters — many dressed in revealing attire — march on the legislature and call for an end to victim-blaming and rape culture.
Paradis said victim-blaming myths persist because people want to believe that they have control, that by dressing conservatively or avoiding alcohol they can prevent rapists from targeting them.
“Culturally, it’s comforting to be able to find reasons that bad things happen,” Paradis said. “We want to believe that there’s something that we can do, but people who rape others are predatory, and the end result is that these (myths) are used against rape victims.”
Alberta Jobs Minister Thomas Lukaszuk started the online revolt with a tweet saying he would urge the government to pull advertising from the radio station.
“To in any way ... insinuate that any victim of the heinous crime of rape somehow brought it on herself and somehow welcomed it and was somehow complicit in all that is just grotesque, and it strikes at all of our values,” Lukaszuk said outside the legislature. “This is something that simply cannot be tolerated.”
Edmonton’s YWCA also pulled all of its advertising, pending a discussing with the station.
Justice Minister Jonathan Denis called the poll “disgusting.
“As a government we are in the business of supporting victims first,” he said. “I think that the station owes an apology to all victims of sexual assault in this province.”
NDP MLA Rachel Notley called the poll “utterly ridiculous” and said there’s nothing to debate when a woman is sexually assaulted.
“What I’d like to see is more education about why this is wrong,” Notley said, urging the station to take up the cause. “It’s not possible for a woman to ask to be assaulted.”
Wildrose leader Danielle Smith called the poll “outrageous.
“You never, ever blame the victim,” she said. “The sentiment expressed is just so out of step with where I think Albertans are.”
kkleiss@edmontonjournal.com
twitter.com/ablegreporter
mibrahim@edmontonjournal.com
The poll was published on the 630 CHED website shortly before noon and immediately triggered torrents of outrage from advocates, politicians and Albertans.
The station initially re-worded the poll and later removed it entirely.
“We’re sorry,” CHED brand manager Syd Smith said during an appearance on one of the station’s shows, Tencer and Grose. “It was wrong, and ... I believe our audience and our listeners deserve better from us, and we’ll work to make sure we are better in the future.”
Smith said the poll was a clumsy attempt to gauge response to a news story in which Edmonton police said victim-blaming is still an issue in the capital city.
“That formed the basis of the question we were asking,” he said. “It was ham-handed, though, in the way that we put it out there, and it was wrong.”
The poll asked readers: “Do you think victims of sexual assaults share any blame for what happens?”
Respondents were given two options, yes and no. Beside “no,” the poll explained that “women should be able to dress, drink and walk as they choose without fear of being blamed.” Beside “yes,” the poll said “if women drink too much, dress too little or walk in harms way, they put themselves at risk.”
After the controversy erupted, the station initially reworded the poll to include a reference to a panel discussion about rape culture held in Edmonton as part of the city’s Sexual Exploitation Week of Awareness. However, the poll was later removed completely.
Before the polls was taken down, 65 per cent of respondents had voted no, while 35 per cent of respondents had voted yes. The total number of respondents was not published.
“This helps rapists,” said Laura Collison, a public educator with the University of Alberta’s Gender-Based Violence Prevention Project.
“Rapists know about rape myths, and they use them. They know that people will ask: What was she wearing? Had she been drinking? And they use that to make it seem like it was consensual, when it was an assault.
“That’s why (this myth is) so damaging, and why it’s so scary — it really allows them to excuse their behaviour.”
Danielle Paradis is the lead organizer of Edmonton’s SlutWalk, an annual event in which protesters — many dressed in revealing attire — march on the legislature and call for an end to victim-blaming and rape culture.
Paradis said victim-blaming myths persist because people want to believe that they have control, that by dressing conservatively or avoiding alcohol they can prevent rapists from targeting them.
“Culturally, it’s comforting to be able to find reasons that bad things happen,” Paradis said. “We want to believe that there’s something that we can do, but people who rape others are predatory, and the end result is that these (myths) are used against rape victims.”
Alberta Jobs Minister Thomas Lukaszuk started the online revolt with a tweet saying he would urge the government to pull advertising from the radio station.
“To in any way ... insinuate that any victim of the heinous crime of rape somehow brought it on herself and somehow welcomed it and was somehow complicit in all that is just grotesque, and it strikes at all of our values,” Lukaszuk said outside the legislature. “This is something that simply cannot be tolerated.”
Edmonton’s YWCA also pulled all of its advertising, pending a discussing with the station.
Justice Minister Jonathan Denis called the poll “disgusting.
“As a government we are in the business of supporting victims first,” he said. “I think that the station owes an apology to all victims of sexual assault in this province.”
NDP MLA Rachel Notley called the poll “utterly ridiculous” and said there’s nothing to debate when a woman is sexually assaulted.
“What I’d like to see is more education about why this is wrong,” Notley said, urging the station to take up the cause. “It’s not possible for a woman to ask to be assaulted.”
Wildrose leader Danielle Smith called the poll “outrageous.
“You never, ever blame the victim,” she said. “The sentiment expressed is just so out of step with where I think Albertans are.”
kkleiss@edmontonjournal.com
twitter.com/ablegreporter
mibrahim@edmontonjournal.com
An online poll asking whether victims are to blame for
sexual assault triggered immediate outrage from Alberta politicians Thursday.
The poll, posted online by 630 CHED, asks: “Do you think victims of sexual
assaults share any blame for what happens?”
Photograph by: Screen capture , Twitter
EDMONTON - An Edmonton news organization apologized Thursday after publishing an online poll asking whether victims are to blame for sexual assaults.The poll was published on the 630 CHED website shortly before noon and immediately triggered torrents of outrage from advocates, politicians and Albertans.
The station initially re-worded the poll and later removed it entirely.
“We’re sorry,” CHED brand manager Syd Smith said during an appearance on one of the station’s shows, Tencer and Grose. “It was wrong, and ... I believe our audience and our listeners deserve better from us, and we’ll work to make sure we are better in the future.”
Smith said the poll was a clumsy attempt to gauge response to a news story in which Edmonton police said victim-blaming is still an issue in the capital city.
“That formed the basis of the question we were asking,” he said. “It was ham-handed, though, in the way that we put it out there, and it was wrong.”
The poll asked readers: “Do you think victims of sexual assaults share any blame for what happens?”
Respondents were given two options, yes and no. Beside “no,” the poll explained that “women should be able to dress, drink and walk as they choose without fear of being blamed.” Beside “yes,” the poll said “if women drink too much, dress too little or walk in harms way, they put themselves at risk.”
After the controversy erupted, the station initially reworded the poll to include a reference to a panel discussion about rape culture held in Edmonton as part of the city’s Sexual Exploitation Week of Awareness. However, the poll was later removed completely.
Before the polls was taken down, 65 per cent of respondents had voted no, while 35 per cent of respondents had voted yes. The total number of respondents was not published.
“This helps rapists,” said Laura Collison, a public educator with the University of Alberta’s Gender-Based Violence Prevention Project.
“Rapists know about rape myths, and they use them. They know that people will ask: What was she wearing? Had she been drinking? And they use that to make it seem like it was consensual, when it was an assault.
“That’s why (this myth is) so damaging, and why it’s so scary — it really allows them to excuse their behaviour.”
Danielle Paradis is the lead organizer of Edmonton’s SlutWalk, an annual event in which protesters — many dressed in revealing attire — march on the legislature and call for an end to victim-blaming and rape culture.
Paradis said victim-blaming myths persist because people want to believe that they have control, that by dressing conservatively or avoiding alcohol they can prevent rapists from targeting them.
“Culturally, it’s comforting to be able to find reasons that bad things happen,” Paradis said. “We want to believe that there’s something that we can do, but people who rape others are predatory, and the end result is that these (myths) are used against rape victims.”
Alberta Jobs Minister Thomas Lukaszuk started the online revolt with a tweet saying he would urge the government to pull advertising from the radio station.
“To in any way ... insinuate that any victim of the heinous crime of rape somehow brought it on herself and somehow welcomed it and was somehow complicit in all that is just grotesque, and it strikes at all of our values,” Lukaszuk said outside the legislature. “This is something that simply cannot be tolerated.”
Edmonton’s YWCA also pulled all of its advertising, pending a discussing with the station.
Justice Minister Jonathan Denis called the poll “disgusting.
“As a government we are in the business of supporting victims first,” he said. “I think that the station owes an apology to all victims of sexual assault in this province.”
NDP MLA Rachel Notley called the poll “utterly ridiculous” and said there’s nothing to debate when a woman is sexually assaulted.
“What I’d like to see is more education about why this is wrong,” Notley said, urging the station to take up the cause. “It’s not possible for a woman to ask to be assaulted.”
Wildrose leader Danielle Smith called the poll “outrageous.
“You never, ever blame the victim,” she said. “The sentiment expressed is just so out of step with where I think Albertans are.”
kkleiss@edmontonjournal.com
twitter.com/ablegreporter
mibrahim@edmontonjournal.com
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April 8, 2014
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Don't be a Bystander
Man Up- Stop Violence Against Women Canada
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April 5, 2014
REHTAEH PARSONS.... WE LOVE U ... WE MISS U... WE MOURN U... WE PRAY ON U... WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER U.... ONE BILLION RISING- NO MORE EXCUSES...
Events
R.A.P.E. R.ae's
A.wareness for P.eople E.verywhere Walk
WHERE
Cole Harbour
WHEN
Saturday, April 05,
2014
TIME
1 - 4 pm
A Walk in Memory of Rehtaeh Parsons 1 year
Angelversary. There has been a lot of follow up with bullying after Rehtaeh
left us but we feel we should also remember that the type of harassment Rehtaeh
received was that from a culture of rape acceptance. A culture that shames the
victim. A culture that in a time of crisis, makes the victim of rape/sexual
assault feel like the one who is to blame for their own assault. This walk is
to remember Rehtaeh and all that she brought forward for us to reflect and make
change. Also to support those who have suffered and are still suffering. YOU
ARE NOT ALONE!
#OpJustice4Rehtaeh - Dying for want of a change ..
By Jon Blanchard, Canada.com
#OpJustice4Rehtaeh - Dying for want of Change
Photograph by: @dexterdyne #PeepAnon , Canada.com
A year ago in Halifax, a 17-year-old child strung herself from a bathroom doorknob, having been discharged from Halifax’s IWK Children’s Mental Heath Unit after being strip searched on suicide watch. That final indignity had been Rehtaeh Parsons’ last encounter with the Maze. Before that, a rudderless education administration had negligently handled her guidance record across three schools, and 16 months earlier an over-clocked justice staff had privately set her plainly photographed sexual assault aside to address more likely convictions. Full stop.In a nutshell, for the last year, that is the unvarnished maypole that virtually every authority in Nova Scotia and Ottawa have been dancing around. As a series of show reviews slowly make their way through the civil and administrative ranks — honourable members on all sides of both houses table ineptly advised cyber law reforms, rather than their own resignations as the ministers and deputies responsible on the files.
That a child was stolen this way momentarily enraged an entire world. And, while Rehtaeh Parsons might yet change that world — despite craven intimations that the circumstances of her death remain the result of her own instability and all those rotten kids with Internet access — I would give what is left of my eyes were it not on the head of a child so lost in the Maze, she just didn’t know she was not alone.
In so far as makes no difference #OpJustice4Rehtaeh also began this week last year, when two grieving families on the frozen shores of the North Atlantic tossed a message in a bottle to the Internet. On Facebook, Leah Parsons shared the surreal story of the fight to have her daughter acknowledged by those who take children away from parents who neglect their duty. Her father Glen Canning blogged what many hold to be the bravest tribute to a dead child written by a father in a generation.
A great many within our #Anonymous communities have witnessed horror so desperately craven that we will carry the scars of our abject powerlessness to stem the killing for the rest of our natural lives. You sometimes share the edited version of our efforts on prime-time news following the now almost-normal, seemingly ubiquitous, warning “graphic content.”
You might well wonder, as I assume the now deposed Minister of Justice for Nova Scotia sometimes must, why the diverse often-bickering international communities of hacktivists and travellers that make up the #Anonymous movement visited their attention upon a place where people still know their neighbours by name and downtown parents make rinks together on tennis courts at Christmas.
After all, she was drinking and there is a secret dog’s breakfast of a file at the Ministry of Justice that proved the case was unlikely to succeed. And, despite the fact that it remains illegal to photograph a 15-year-old in a sexually explicit manner in Canada — as some part of the crime was on the Internet — it was thereby somehow different and separate from the standing laws surrounding sexual battery and child endangerment as understood by our educational, mental health and justice professionals.
But to us, as far as can be measured, there are perhaps 200,000 earth-like Stars and maybe as many as 3,500 habitable planets in this galaxy. On Earth alone, there are over 7 billion people alive today. Yet in all of the known universe, there was only one Rehtaeh Parsons.
The popular press on several continents have done many notable investigative features about #OpJustice4Rehtaeh — deftly juxtaposing the caricature of hot-wired masked avengers with shadowy figures claiming honours to which they may, or may not, be fully entitled. Like the political and judicial targets of #OpJustice4Rehtaeh, they too remain trapped by the narrative that planet wide #Anonymous fleet campaigns like #OpJustice4Rehtaeh are the result of some dormant international cabal of hundreds of thousands internet Taliban.
The fiction belies a much more subtle, and no doubt troubling, reality for responsible people unaccustomed to being openly called to directly account for their decisions — as they discover that any single one of us, at the right place and time, may now find live wired consensus from a world weary of the consistent failure of our institutions to understand that there was only ever going to be one Rehtaeh Parsons.
I have written before that the real power of #Anonymous, the thing that keeps our lords and masters up at night, is not the hackers. Nor is it the botnets, nor the site blockades or even the embarrassing leaks about their sordid relationship with each other’s privacy.
What keeps them up at night is that their own odious collection of metadata and routed internet traffic logs tell them that in fact — you — are #Anonymous.
The retweet you undertake just because its the right thing to do. The Facebook like you share, the reddit post you make, your comment to the editor, your petition click, the tagged selfie with a message of hope and love inked upon the palm of your hand.
That is what really terrifies them. And it should because what it means is that you are beginning to remember they were supposed to work for you. And in Nova Scotia at least, we remembered that right into the voting booth.
In Ottawa this month they will pass Bill C-13, the most draconian surveillance bill since the Second World War. Of the 70 pages that make up the headline-friendly but previously rejected cyber law, there are but four that address any part of its purported goal of protecting children. None address their failure to make sure Rehtaeh Parsons and children like her are not ignored to death when they do the right thing and call the police.
Last year, in an obvious and boorish effort to firm up support for a doomed election bid, the Government of Nova Scotia rushed through Bill-61, the Rehtaeh Parsons Cyber-Safety Act. To date, it has most prominently been used to halt a teenager in New Brunswick from posting pictures from the colourful film career of Lenore Zann, a currently sitting NDP member of the Nova Scotia Legislature.
To this day both Glen Canning and Leah Parsons remain the ongoing target of madmen so inconceivably bent, that there is no bottom to the vitriol awaiting both of them whenever they open their e-mail. Thus far, the cyber safety squad remain unable to halt the tide.
At the outset, the much lauded review into the Nova Scotia Ministry of Education was instructed to destroy any testimony collected before tabling its report, for fear that departmental bureaucrats would not be inclined to speak openly (not lie) to investigators. No specific failure by any of the three schools Rehtaeh attended in the two years leading up to her death was uncovered, and it was concluded that we as a society were primarily at fault for Rehtaeh’s suicide.
In the year since, all three administrations have refused to allow any sexual assault awareness posters from the student body referencing R.A.P.E.. A talented student artist has had her painting honouring Rehtaeh Parsons declined for exhibition and a third student has been sanctioned for presenting an unapproved spoken word tribute referencing Rehtaeh Parsons and rape culture. It is noteworthy that similar restrictions on student discourse are not imposed at the many other schools that make up the Halifax Regional School Board.
The subsequent review into the sordid events at the IWK Mental Health Unit also found no fault other than, in their professional view, a despondent Child on suicide watch may or may not have demanded her clothes be returned following a mandatory strip search on the ward and had perhaps slipped through the cracks at an understaffed facility. For privacy reasons they were unable to document the supporting evidence upon which their report is based.
The review of the Nova Scotia Justice Department remains ongoing, awaiting the outcome of the trial of two boys whose own futures have also been forfeit regardless of their innocence or guilt by the very inaction that ultimately led to the death of Rehtaeh Parsons. To date, their trial has been adjourned three times for reasons ranging from inclement weather, to missed flights, to a calendar conflict last week that saw their defence attorney on some other, evidently more important, business.
But, as I said at the outset, despite every apparent effort to make sure accountability will not be assigned, Rehtaeh Parsons might yet change the world because the embers left by the maelstrom that was #OpJustice4Rehtaeh continue to slowly burn through the layers of 19th century morality that defines the experience that is sexual assault in our time.
The forensic practitioners who returned the evidence needed to investigate Rehtaeh’s assault — before the investigation was shelved — are reporting regular and almost immediate blow back upon those who share their victim’s image or brag of their abuse as if it were a touch down or a game-winning goal. In work that is even more grim than ours, it is a small light at the end of the tunnel for men and women who had begun to despair that their efforts to validate actionable evidence was moribund and ineffectual.
Sexual Assault support organizations everywhere benefited from increased funding, which was finally allocated in the wake of #OpJustice4Rehtaeh and supported by subsequent investigative reporting undertaken locally by influential news teams worldwide. As one, they are doing everything in their power to make sure it is never OK to again infer a sexual assault victim was in some way duplicitous in their rape.
And it is working. Too slowly, only incrementally to be sure. But I know it is working because it isn’t law that makes change.
Real change happens when people exactly like you and me look into our hearts and come away with a different point of view. Change was already happening and is measurable by virtue of the depth of consensus that #OpJustice4Rehtaeh achieved.
In my father’s day, people of colour were welcome to work in the kitchen but not dine in the main room. When I was a young man, people lost in the Maze ended their lives because they liked boys more than girls or girls more than boys. Aids victims died shunned by their parents and their friends when the reaper merciful released them from their long lonely nightmares.
This week, two families are left to come to grips with the reality that, instead of justice, the institutions involved make a new law in a cynical attempt to make us all forget they failed to enforce the existing law when Rehtaeh Parsons needed them to.
Still, change continues to happen.
If you and I are luckily to live long enough, in our daughter’s day the only shame facing anyone when another teenager is ignored to death will be upon those who watch it happen and do nothing to stop it.
And may their god have mercy on them, because that is precisely the scar responsible people need to carry for the rest of their natural lives, if yet another generation of men and women are to continue to die for want of a change..
Our Beautiful Rehtaeh Parsons
Rehtaeh Parsons momma, Leah Parsons
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April 4, 2014
As police, we’re expected to provide public safety and crime prevention tips and information to our citizens, including ways for women to avoid being a victim of a sexual assault and other violent crimes. While we understand it is our duty to provide this information, we must also target our messaging to the people who are committing these crimes. Research shows that the majority of offenders in these cases are men.
Be more than a bystander - Video campaign
This campaign was originally launched in May 2012 and re-launched in April 2014. It aims to empower each of us to be more than a bystander. We want to help create a culture that stands up against abusive attitudes and behaviours directed towards women early on, before they’ve had the chance to escalate to violence. We hope to teach bystanders some simple ways to express that degrading, abusive and violent attitudes and behaviours directed towards women aren’t acceptable and won’t be tolerated. We can’t thank Joel Plaskett, Andre Levingston, Mickey MacDonald, Mayor Mike Savage, Sgt. Mark Hobeck and Cst. Isabelle Jacques enough for making time in their hectic schedules to be part of this project. You are part of the solution.
2014 Videos
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| Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Regional Municipality | |
| Sgt. Mark Hobeck, Halifax Regional Police | |
| Cst. Isabelle Jacques, Halifax RCMP | |
2012 Videos
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Joel Plaskett is a well-known Halifax-born songwriter and musician.
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Andre Levingston is the President and CEO of the Halifax Rainmen basketball team.
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Mickey MacDonald is Halifax entrepreneur and Chair of the Nova Scotia Boxing Authority.
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'Be More Than a Bystander' is used with the permission of the Ending Violence Association of British Columbia.
'Don't be that guy' poster campaign
March 25, 2014 - Halifax Regional Police is not a supporter of the “Don’t Be That Girl” poster campaign that recently surfaced in Halifax. We strongly disagree with the messages of these posters and did not consent to our logo being used on them.
Research is telling us that targeting the behavior of victims is not only ineffective, but also contributes to and increases self-blame in survivors. Instead, the 'Don' be that guy' campaigns, originally created by Sexual Assault Voices of Edmonton (SAVE), targets potential offenders - ultimately the ones who hold the power and responsibility to end sexual assault.
Please feel free to download and print the posters.
The posters are provocative and may be triggering/offensive for some people. We believe the message needs to be hard-hitting to reach and leave a lasting impression on our target audience - men between the ages of 18-25.
Round 2 (distributed throughout Nova Scotia in May 2013 as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month)
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I mean the 2 mounties that humiliated a woman in so much mental anguish and pain.... millions of us have been there.... and u have NO IDEA OF THE SENSE OF BETRAYAL THE MALE MOUNTIES -ACTUAL ATTITUDE - CREATED..... One Billion Rising... No more excuses- No more Abuses
'We have some major work to do': Halifax police chief sends message to men during sexual assault awareness month
Halifax Regional Police Chief Jean-Michel Blais
Other news
METRO HALIFAX
The chief of Halifax Regional Police says he hopes a Sexual Assault Awareness month video campaign helps men recognize their role in gender-based violence – even if they aren’t actually a perpetrator.
“Guys, we have some major work to do,” said Chief Jean-Michel Blais. “We have to try hard to understand how our attitudes and actions might inadvertently perpetuate sexism and violence, and we have to work towards changing that.”
The ‘Don’t Be a Bystander’ video campaign includes local leaders and celebrities urging men to be “allies” for women, both in their individual interactions and in their interactions with broader social forces.
“As guys, we have to encourage one another to stop funding sexism by not supporting magazines, websites that show women and girls in sexually abusive or degrading manners,” said Blais.
The “Don’t be a Bystander” campaign launch comes a day after news about a Parrsboro woman who overheard several RCMP officers apparently mocking her domestic assault allegations.
Blais said law enforcement has an unfortunate history of a dismissive approach towards gender based violence that hasn’t built up confidence among women, noting that sexual assault and domestic violence are among the most under-reported crimes.
Blais said he’s working to change that through relationships with community groups and a trauma-informed approach to training.
He said there’s now six officer per watch with specific training on responding to sexual assaults.
“(It’s) learning how to deal properly wtih the victims to allow them…to come forward and to want to lay charges,” he said. “We want to create a climate of confidence so that victims will feel comfortable coming to us to denounce these crimes.”
Ultimately, Blais said he hopes the training and awareness campaigns will make it socially acceptable to call out the perpetrators of gender-based violence in the same way it’s become acceptable to stop someone driving drunk.
“Twenty-five years ago, was it socially okay to tell somebody, I’m taking your keys from you?” he said. “It wasn’t socially okay then. So these are things that are going to take time, and if we don’t do anything, then nothing’s going to progress.”
http://www.novanewsnow.com/News/Regional/2014-04-03/article-3675275/We-have-some-major-work-to-do%3A-Halifax-police-chief-sends-message-to-men-during-sexual-assault-awareness-month/1
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LIKE PETER MACKAY SAYS... CANADA'S TROOPS DID NOT FIGHT 4 THE RIGHTS OF GIRLS AND WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN ONLY 2 COME HOME AND SEE THOSE RIGHTS ERODED HERE!!!!!
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I mean the 2 mounties that humiliated a woman in so much mental anguish and pain.... millions of us have been there.... and u have NO IDEA OF THE SENSE OF BETRAYAL THE MALE MOUNTIES -ACTUAL ATTITUDE - CREATED..... One Billion Rising... No more excuses- No more Abuses
'We have some major work to do': Halifax police chief sends message to men during sexual assault awareness month
Halifax Regional Police Chief Jean-Michel Blais
Other news
METRO HALIFAX
The chief of Halifax Regional Police says he hopes a Sexual Assault Awareness month video campaign helps men recognize their role in gender-based violence – even if they aren’t actually a perpetrator.
“Guys, we have some major work to do,” said Chief Jean-Michel Blais. “We have to try hard to understand how our attitudes and actions might inadvertently perpetuate sexism and violence, and we have to work towards changing that.”
The ‘Don’t Be a Bystander’ video campaign includes local leaders and celebrities urging men to be “allies” for women, both in their individual interactions and in their interactions with broader social forces.
“As guys, we have to encourage one another to stop funding sexism by not supporting magazines, websites that show women and girls in sexually abusive or degrading manners,” said Blais.
The “Don’t be a Bystander” campaign launch comes a day after news about a Parrsboro woman who overheard several RCMP officers apparently mocking her domestic assault allegations.
Blais said law enforcement has an unfortunate history of a dismissive approach towards gender based violence that hasn’t built up confidence among women, noting that sexual assault and domestic violence are among the most under-reported crimes.
Blais said he’s working to change that through relationships with community groups and a trauma-informed approach to training.
He said there’s now six officer per watch with specific training on responding to sexual assaults.
“(It’s) learning how to deal properly wtih the victims to allow them…to come forward and to want to lay charges,” he said. “We want to create a climate of confidence so that victims will feel comfortable coming to us to denounce these crimes.”
Ultimately, Blais said he hopes the training and awareness campaigns will make it socially acceptable to call out the perpetrators of gender-based violence in the same way it’s become acceptable to stop someone driving drunk.
“Twenty-five years ago, was it socially okay to tell somebody, I’m taking your keys from you?” he said. “It wasn’t socially okay then. So these are things that are going to take time, and if we don’t do anything, then nothing’s going to progress.”
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Remembering
Rehtaeh a year later
Published on April 04,
2014
Published on April 04, 2014
Rehtaeh Parsons.
Mother happy daughter's story is helping others
Other news
METRO HALIFAX
A tattoo on Leah Parsons’ shoulder is
partially covered by her shirt until she lifts the sleeve, revealing a portrait
of her daughter Rehtaeh in black ink alongside small crows.
Parsons said she got the tattoo last
May to honour her daughter, who had gotten one of a feather with crows flying
out of it “like a re-birth” on her 16th birthday.
“It was kind of a way for her to take
back her body,” Parsons said.
It’s been a year since Rehtaeh died
on April 7, a few days after attempting to take her own life, which her mother
says was due to months of bullying after a photo of her alleged rape was spread
around school.
A walk in her memory is planned for
Saturday afternoon, which Parsons said has the double importance of bringing
awareness to rape culture.
“It’s a world-wide thing,” Parsons
said. “She resonates with other people because they know how easily it
could be their child.”
Parsons especially hopes teenagers
will come and listen to the messages of respect, and not victimizing others.
“Don’t stand around and do nothing.
You’ve got to speak up. If you’re saying something negative about a female …
you’ve got to make it socially unacceptable, that it’s not cool.”
She resonates with
other people because they know how easily it could be their childLeah Parsons
Rehtaeh’s story led to multiple
reviews and new legislation around sharing intimate photos. Parsons said the
important thing is she brought up issues “that needed to be talked about.”
Parsons says she finds strength in
the messages pouring from people around the world about how Rehtaeh changed
their lives.
One woman said a tattoo of Rehtaeh on
her wrist is a reminder to stop harming herself. Many have said she gave them
strength to talk about their own rape.
“It’s what keeps me going,” Parsons
said. “It’s very therapeutic to receive those types of messages, and it
just tells me she mattered and she matters to people.”
Parsons said speaking out about her
daughter’s story is “not going to change anytime soon” but she does take time
to be alone and process her feelings.
“I’m just trying to honour what comes
up for me … I listen to what I need,” Parsons said quietly.
The walk for Rehtaeh starts at 1 p.m.
Saturday in the rear parking lot of Cole Harbour Place, and ends at the
Woodlawn United Church hall. A discussion follows from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
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