Invite your friends and neighbors over for a movie and music night to help create awareness about the issues of domestic violence right from your own living room!  Click here for more information.

Prevention Connection: The Violence Against Women Prevention Partnership is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault. The goal of Prevention Connection is to advance the primary prevention of violence against women by facilitating information sharing among people who are engaged in such efforts.  Click here to have a listen to the interview with the Sin by Silence team.

The amazing talent, Jordan Frye, has dedicated his latest album to the Sin by Silence movement. Check out the music and order your copy today! Listen. Be inspired. Make change.

On May 14th, Governor Swarzenegger did exactly what we expected and elminated ALL funding for California’s domestic violence programs.  Already, the Grass Valley Shelter has announced that they will have to permanently close its’ doors on June 30th.  Click here to sign the petition and demand that the Governor restore FULL funding to the programs that help save lives.  We owe it to the women of California to make sure they have a safe place to go when they finally find the courage to leave their abusive relationships.

Norma is a 40-year-old survivor of domestic violence who was pregnant at the time that she killed her abusive boyfriend. In 1992, Norma was sentenced to 15-years-to-life in prison, and has now served 18 years at the California Institution for Women. Upon being imprisoned, Norma became a member of Convicted Women Against Abuse and has now been found suitable by the parole for release. Yet, the Governor has been reversing the parole board’s decisions in most cases thus, massive community support for Norma’s release is essential to securing her freedom!

Click here to send a letter to the Governor telling him that you support Norma’s release and that you trust the parole board to make the best determination about who is suitable for parole. She has never had the chance to pick her son up from school, bake him a birthday cake, teach him to fly a kite, read him a bedtime story or kiss him goodnight. Please help her come home!

Today, April 21, marks National Denim Day - an opportunity to bring awareness about violence and sexual assault through wearing your favorite pair of jeans.  Advocacy could not be made any simpler!

Why Denim Day?  In Italy, in 1993, an 18-year old girl is picked up by her married 45-year old driving instructor for her very first lesson. He takes her to an isolated road, pulls her out of the car, wrestles her out of one leg of her jeans and forcefully rapes her. Threatened with death if she tells anyone, he makes her drive the car home. Later that night she tells her parents, and they help and support her to press charges. The perpetrator gets arrested and is prosecuted. He is convicted of rape and sentenced to jail.

He appeals the sentence. The case makes it’s all the way to the Italian Supreme Court. Within a matter of days the case against the driving instructor is overturned, dismissed, and the perpetrator released. In a statement by the Chief Judge, he argued, “because the victim wore very, very tight jeans, she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was no longer rape but consensual sex.”

So, put on those jeans and let’s make a statement to STOP THE VIOLENCE!