excerpt from Andrea Dworkin's "Remember, resist; do not comply"

There is a global trafficking in women; as long as women are being bought and sold in a global slave traffic we are not free. There is a pornography crisis in the United States. Women in the United States live in a society saturated with sexually brutal, exploitative material that says: rape her, beat her, hurt her, she will like it, it is fun for her. We need to put women first. Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps. We need to do anything that will interrupt the colonizing of the female body. We need to refuse to accept the givens. We need to ask ourselves what political rights we need as women. Do not assume that in the eighteenth century male political thinkers answered that question and do not assume that when your own Charter was rewritten in the twentieth century the question was answered. The question has not been answered. What laws do we need? What would freedom be for us? What principles are necessary for our well-being? Why are women being sold on street corners and tortured in their homes, in societies that.claim to be based on freedom and justice? What actions must be taken? What will it cost us and why are we too afraid to pay and are the women who have gotten a little from the women's movement afraid that resistance or rebellion or even political inquiry will cost them the little they have gotten? Why are we still making deals with men one by one instead of collectively demanding what we need? I am going to ask you to remember that as long as a woman is being bought and sold anywhere in the world, you are not free, nor are you safe. You too have a number; some day your turn will come. I'm going to ask you to remember the prostituted, the homeless, the battered, the raped, the tortured, the murdered, the raped-then-murdered, the murdered-then-raped; and I am going to ask you to remember the photographed, the ones that any or all of the above happened to and it was photographed and now the photographs are for sale in our free countries. I want you to think about those who have been hurt for the fun, the entertainment, the so-called speech of others; those who have been hurt for profit, for the financial benefit of pimps and entrepreneurs. I want you to remember the perpetrator and I am going to ask you to remember the victims: not just tonight but tomorrow and the next day. I want you to find a way to include them - the perpetrators and the victims - in what you do, how you think, how you act, what you care about, what your life means to you.

Now, I know, in this room, some of you are the women I have been talking about. I know that. People around you may not. I am going to ask you to use every single thing you can remember about what was done to you - how it was done, where, by whom, when, and, if you know, why - to begin to tear male dominance to pieces, to pull it apart, to vandalize it, to destabilize it, to mess it up, to get in its way, to fuck it up. I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.

ANDREA DWORKIN

read the rest here: http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/remember.html

In DEDICATION TO OUR SISTERS, YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN -- IN EVERY AGE OF TIME, WE REMEMBER...

I am borrowing, from a post on Mott's blog...this one is for all of you. Her blog link at bottom, a long excerpt, from her latest post--

We want to be part of the movement against violence against women and children – but we can’t with the constant exclusion.

We want to say how we believe that the violence inside the sex trade underpins all other form of male violence to women and children – but that is silenced.

Instead, we are kept in the victim-role or the individual strong woman role – never given a real space to speak politics and how the sex trade is the blueprint to making women and girls unequal, as sex objects there can never be equality or even the smallest piece of respect.

There can never be an end to male violence against women and girls, as long as males have the prostituted class to treat as their private porn-toys.

As long there is the prostituted class – men have permission to rape without consequences, to use any and form of sexual torture as an entitlement.

Men can and will murder the prostituted class – will murder on the scale of a genocide, but it is made invisible by replacing the goods.

Continually I go to meetings, read articles, hear at demos about the sexual torturing of non-prostituted women and girls. There is a deafening silence about the normalisation of sexual torturing inside every aspect of the sex trade.

Look at hard-porn, and see that every form of sexual torturing is rehearsed on the bodies on those women and girls – and then taken into the “real” women and girls.

But more important, the bodies of women and girls inside the sex trade are tortured in many ways that is keep behind closed doors.

I suppose that is coz this torturing is framed inside the illusion that prostituted women have chosen to be there – then it is made easy for other women not to care or even see our pain and terror.

It can seemed ok if you buy the propaganda of the sex trade – that the prostituted can be empowered, that any violence is fake, look the prostituted are enjoying it, see they are smiling.

Too many women who are very good at other forms of male violence against women and girls believe the veneer of the sex trade – and by doing so they are selling out the prostituted.

They believe it can made safer if put behind closed doors – but think it highly dangerous for non-prostituted women and girls indoors, with the increase likelihood of domestic violence and rape.

They see that women and girls inside the sex trade may smile and say they are empowered – but take no account of brainwashing, of having no hope of exiting so being “happy” is the only thing let. The Stockholm Syndrome is taken serious with battered women, with child sexual abuse – but prostituted women and girls are said to speaking the truth, when they are in conditions of violence and brainwashing so intense, that most women who speak for them would destroyed by it.

We are just pushed away, as being inconvenient.

Well, I very proud to keep being inconvenient.

see Mott's blog: http://rmott62.wordpress.com/

Today, Mother Earth speaks...SHE knows, SHE hears, funny how so Few connect the Spiritual Significance to the mass die offs and the butchering of the souls and bodies of WOMEN