Facing the Pain
These words can be read on a t-shirt that hangs among many others in the Memorial Union Ballroom.
October is domestic violence awareness month, and UND is raising awareness by hosting the 17th annual Clothesline Project this week, October 3 – 7, in the Memorial Union Ballroom. The Clothesline Project is a t-shirt display that is meant to demonstrate the effects of violence in the community. Each shirt represents a person's story or experience and is decorated by a victim of domestic violence or by a family member or friend of the victim.
Each color of shirt signifies a different type of violence. White shirts symbolize those who have died as a result of domestic violence. Yellow shirts represent battered or assaulted women. Pink or orange shirts are for those have been raped or sexually assaulted. Blue or Green shirts represent survivors of incest or childhood sexual abuse. Purple or lavender are for those attacked due to their sexual orientation and red are for those children who have witnessed violence in their homes.
"American Autumn" Opens in Beauty
Sally Alice Thompson from Albuquerque, New Mexico, wants "to stop war and stop fascism and we have to do something about it because we're sliding into eternal war and fascism. We can't just be those frogs that allow themselves to slow boil until they're cooked." Sally added, "I lived through the Depression and I can see the whole thing happening all over again; they're calling it a recession, but it's a Depression all over again. If all the wealth is concentrated, it doesn't circulate."
Anthony Gualtieri, carrying a well-worn copy of Shumpeter's "Can Capitalism Survive" in his wheelchair, said he was here to learn how to better advocate for his issues, which he declared to be economic justice. Losing the use of his leg in an auto accident that was arguably the result of corporate negligence, he said it "certainly gives you a different perspective on life." He described that perspective as "Be greedy for love and peace.
Mary Arbuckle - from North Dakota originally and Pittsburgh most recently - met her husband Bob, a vet, in Spain and married in Philadelphia. They felt compelled to come to October 2011: "There was too much going on that had to be addressed and we were
