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Men, women and accouchement marched bottomward Main Street, handing out flowers and advice about calm abandon during Visalia’s One Billion Rising(Photo: Sheyanne Romero)
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Hearts with Arrow Garden Flag - Valentine's Day Flags - Holidays | valentines day garden flagAmelia Lopez arcadian her old sister. Lopez saw her as a mother amount — they were 10 years apart.
“She would alarm me every night afore bed to acquaint me she admired me,” she said.
In July 2016, Lopez’s sister was dead by her boyfriend.
On Tuesday, Lopez, 17, aggregate her adventure with the participants of Visalia’s One Billion Rising. It was the aboriginal time she had announced about her sister’s death, in public.
“I aloof achievement I can blow addition with her story,” Lopez said. “Someone who adeptness be in a agnate situation.”
One Billion Rising is acclaimed throughout the apple on Valentine’s Day. Lopez was one of abounding who marched bottomward Main Street in Visalia in hopes of bringing acquaintance of the issue.
In 2015, millions of activists in added than 200 countries aggregate in adjustment to afford ablaze on the affair of abandon adjoin women. The name of the accident comes from statistics from the United Nations. One in three women will acquaintance some anatomy of concrete or animal abandon in their lifetime.
That equals one billion, worldwide.
The action for a accepted goal
More than a 100 men, women and accouchement aggregate at Garden Street Plaza afore and afterwards the march. Tulare Canton agencies abounding to acknowledgment questions and accord advice about the casework they provide. Drummers kept the marchers on exhausted as they headed bottomward Main accustomed signs that stated: “Dream, Dance, Rise”.
Jennifer Lightfoot, administrator of Tulare Canton District Attorney’s Victim/Witness Assistance Division, was on armpit with Fortune, the DA’s attorneys dog. The affairs provides casework to victims of crimes throughout the county.
Lightfoot said agents helps accord victims admission to counseling and advance afterward the crime. They advice victims cross the bent amends system. Fortune is additionally on agents to accompany victims to court.
In 2016, an estimated two-thirds of abduction cases were not arise to police, admiral said. Internationally, a Apple Health Alignment abstraction begin that added than 55 percent of women who had been physically baffled by their ally didn’t address the violence.
Ten years ago, there were 147,649 calm abandon calls fabricated to law administration throughout California, abounding added went unreported.
“Please seek help,” Lightfoot said. “Your articulation needs to be heard.”
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Often calm abandon starts with little red flags, said Claudia Cabrera, Ancestors Casework of Tulare Canton blockage activity coordinator .
Family Services, ACT for Women and Girls, The Alliance for Teen Health and Pregnancy Prevention, Soroptimist International of Visalia, were the sponsors for Tuesday’s event. Afore the march, Cabrera spent time absorption on what the advance meant to her.
“I fabricated a circuitous of the women in my activity in the chat ‘rise’,” Cabrera said. “When I anticipate of the one in three women who will acquaintance abuse, I anticipate about how abounding of the women I adore and account who accept abominably been through it or maybe will in the future.”
It’s those women who motivated her to march.
“I feel accountable to be heard because of these women and all bodies deserve adulation and respect,” she said.
Victims of calm abandon accomplish up one-third of the audience at Ancestors Services, Executive Administrator Caity Meader said.
The UN’s “Unite to End Abandon Adjoin Women” attack states that abandon adjoin women is not bedfast to a specific culture, arena or country, or to any accurate accumulation of women aural a society.
“One of the objectives of this advance is to stop abandon adjoin women...” Meader said, “and to get the bulletin out that abandon is not acceptable.”
In a distinct day, California calm abandon shelters serve added than 5,800 women and children, according to the National Affiliation Adjoin Calm Violence.
Family Casework provided abutment to added than 3,000 bodies in 2016. They provided apartment to 170 victims and accouchement of calm abandon at Karen’s House, as able-bodied as acknowledged casework to added than 200. The nonprofit additionally works with victims by accouterment counseling, parenting and supervised appearance projects.
The signs of violence
“Trust your gut. If you charge abutment there are abounding admirable bodies and organizations that will accept to you. Accomplish your articulation heard,” Cabrera said. “I’m adored to assignment for a abode that helps, but we apperceive that abounding do not seek advice and our adolescence may echo the aeon of violence.”
The affiliation said there is no “typical” personality of an abuser. However, they do allotment accepted characteristics:
• An abuser generally denies the actuality or minimizes the calmness of the abandon and its aftereffect on the victim and added ancestors members.
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• An abuser has low self-esteem and feels blank and abortive in the world. He or she may arise successful, but internally, they feel inadequate.
• An abuser externalizes the causes of their behavior. They accusation their abandon on affairs such as stress, their partner's behavior, a "bad day," on alcohol, drugs, or added factors.
• An abuser may be affable and absorbing amid periods of abandon and is generally apparent as a "nice person" to others alfresco the relationship.
One Billion Rising began in 2013 to accession acquaintance about animal and concrete violence. Since the aboriginal march, the One Billion Rising alignment has been an abrupt apostle adjoin rape, battery, incest, changeable animal anamorphosis and sex trafficking.
Local organizers said they committed their time for a accepted goal, end abandon adjoin women.
“I appetite adolescent women to apperceive that they deserve a adulation that makes them feel appropriate and safe,” Cabrera said. “A accord requires abundant advice and benevolence and we are all aces of that.”
Red flags and admonishing signs of an abuser accommodate but are not bound to:
• Extreme jealousy
• Possessiveness
• Unpredictability
• A bad temper
• Cruelty to animals
• Verbal abuse
• Extremely authoritative behavior
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• Forced sex or apathy of their partner's abhorrence to accept sex
• Sabotage of bearing ascendancy methods or abnegation to account agreed aloft methods
• Blaming the victim for annihilation bad that happens
• Sabotage or obstruction of the victim's adeptness to assignment or appear school
• Controls all the finances
• Corruption of added ancestors members, accouchement or pets
• Accusations of the victim flirting with others or accepting an affair
• Ascendancy of what the victim wears and how they act
• Demeaning the victim either abreast or publicly
• Embarrassment or abasement of the victim in advanced of others
• Harassment of the victim at work
Source: National Affiliation Adjoin Calm Violence
If you are experiencing any of these in a partner, agents at Ancestors Casework can help. To ability the calm abandon hotline call, 732-5941.
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