Saturday, March 31, 2012: 11:25 AM-12:45 PM
Yerba Buena Salon 13-15 (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report
Learning Objectives:
- understand the role of Native women and their allies in the movement for social change to enhance the safety of Native women through grassroots organizing and Native women’s leadership development,
- understand how to use media to engage, mobilize, organize and educate Native women and their allies, locally, nationally and internationally to support the social change work to enhance the safety of Native women
The La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians’ Avellaka Program filmed a Sexual Assault Awareness Walk for Honor and Justice. The Walk helped to raise awareness and begin discussion of how to secure safety and access to justice for Native women and services designed by/for Native women. Mobilizing community members and organizing at the grassroots level are critical to increasing women’s safety. A video clipping won in the U.S. Human Rights Network’s Testify Project and was screened for the United Nations.