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About Strengthen Our Sisters
Strengthen Our Sisters is a grassroots, community based, nonprofit, 155 bed shelter program serving homeless/battered women and children. The mission of Strengthen Our Sisters is dedicated to breaking the cycle of domestic violence, poverty, and abuse by restoring balance and harmony through individual empowerment
Upcoming Events:
Strengthen Our Sisters sends out a call for justice for battered women and children.
Empty Baby Carriages Demonstration:
Date: Friday, May 8th, 2009,
Time:
12:00
Location:
Passaic County Court House
Sandra Ramos, founder and executive director of Strengthen Our Sisters, asks that groups all across the country create demonstrations in front of Family Courts to highlight the epidemic of batterers being awarded custody by Family Court judges. We will be pushing empty baby carriages and publicizing that the court system is broken and that battered women and children are not being heard or protected by the courts.
Talk to each other, learn about how attorneys and judges are working to make the displaced and abused women even more destitute and revictimized. Read about the use of Parental Alienation Syndrome testimony to discredit the mothers and children. Learn about how children are forced by the courts to be with endangering parents
Call for Justice -Battered Mothers' Custody Demonstrations Nationwide
Press Release
Herstory of Mothers Day
Stop Family Violence NY and NJ!
There is an important event taking place at the Newark Family Court on Monday April 27 at noon. Organized by stopfamilyviolence.org.
Date: Monday, April 27th, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: Essex County Family Courthouse
212 Washington Street
Newark , NJ 07102
Details:
Urgent Crisis ---two young daughters are in imminent danger of being taken from their protective mother and handed to their sexually abusive father, potentially within this month!
Annual Bonfire: To Honor and Empower Domestic Violence Survivors
Held in October, Domestic Violence Awarness Month.
Drumming, Singing, Poetry, Food
Positive Energy and a
Special Ceremony where survivors will
discard their past negativity into the fire.
2007- Tricky Tray - A special thank you.
2008-Tricky Tray - A special thank you.
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In The News:
Passaic's purple powerhouse: a voice for battered women.
Women's group sets protest
Women's shelter variances OK'd
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Domestic Violence Petitions:
Sign/circulate petition to make NJ Department of Children Responsive to Needs of Children.
Click here first to find your congressional district for petition.
Sign/Circulate petition to protect our children: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/sos4kids/petition.html
Sign/Circulate petition to strengthen domestic violence laws: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/dv2001/petition.html |
Spirit Through Service Family violence is a debilitating injustice against women and children. Strengthen Our Sisters is dedicated to helping women and children find alternatives through counseling, advocacy, support groups, parenting programs, child care, children's workshops and employment development programs.
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Using intimidation: making her afraid by using looks, actions, gestures, smashing things, destroying her property, abusing pets, displaying weapons.
Using emotional abuse: putting her down, making her feel bad about herself, calling her names, making her think she's crazy, playing mind games, humiliating her, making her feel guilty.
Using isolation: controlling what she does, who she sees and talks to, what she reads, where she goes, limiting her outside involvement, using jealousy to justify actions.
Minimizing, denying, and blaming: making light of the abuse and not taking her concerns about it seriously, saying the abuse didn't happen, shifting responsibility for abusive behavior, saying she caused it.
Using children: making her feel guilty about the children, using the children to relay messages, using visitation to harass her, threatening to take children away.
Using male privilege: treating her like a servant, making all the big decisions, acting like the "master of the castle", being the one to define men's and women's roles.
Using economic abuse: preventing her from getting or keeping a job, making her ask for money, giving her an allowance, taking her money, not letting her know about or have access to family income.
Using coercion and threats: making and/or carrying out threats to hurt her, threatening to leave her, to commit suicide, to report her to welfare, making her drop charges, making her do illegal things. |
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