2020 COMMUNITY FORUM Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Fundraiser to Benefit Legal Voice Our Sponsors Thank you! 1st District Salish Sea Chapter Seattle Chapter Snohomish – WA State National Democrats County Federation of Organization for Indivisible Democratic Women Women 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Our Sponsors Thank you! Sen. Derek Rep. Shelley Rep. Davina Rep. Cindy Ryu, Stanford, D-1 Kloba, D-1 Duerr, D-1 D-32 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Our Sponsors Thank you! Snohomish County Rep. Strom Peterson, Carin Chase Rep. Suzan DelBene Democrats D-21 President, WA CD1 Federation of Democratic Women 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Our Sponsors Thank you! Shirley Sutton, Amber King, Candidate for 32nd Candidate Snohomish LD, Pos. 1 County Council Pos. 4 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Your Hosts 1st District Democrats Salish Sea Chapter – WA State Federation of Democratic Women 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers 2020 COMMUNITY FORUM Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Fundraiser to Benefit Legal Voice Legal Voice “Legal Voice is a progressive feminist organization using the power of the law to make change in the Northwest. We use that power structure to dismantle sexism and oppression, specifically advocating for our region’s most marginalized communities: women of color, lesbians, transgender and gender-nonconforming people, immigrants, people with disabilities, low-income women, and others affected by gender oppression and injustice.” https://www.legalvoice.org/ 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Speakers Passionate and driven ALICIA CRANK TIFFANY WILK CHANG LOUISE CHERNIN AtWork! National Organization Greater Seattle of Women Business Association 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Speakers Passionate and driven KIM CLARK ALISON McCAFFREE HILARY FRANZ Legal Voice League of Women State Commissioner Voters, Politics of the of Public Lands Possible in Action 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Thank you to our MCs Shasti Conrad Hillary Moralez King County Democrats, Snohomish County Democrats, Chair Chair 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers AGENDA 10:00 Welcome, Introductions 10:05 Land Acknowledgement - Carol McMahon, WSFDW; Blessing - Deborah Parker, “tsicyaltsa,” Former V. Chair, Tulalip Tribes 10:10 Alicia Crank - AtWork! 10:40 Kim Clark - Legal Voice 11:10 Louise Chernin - Greater Seattle Business Association & Tiffany Wilk Chang - National Organization for Women 11:40 Alison McCaffree - League of Women Voters, Politics of the Possible in Action 12:10 Keynote Speaker - Hilary Franz - WA State Public Lands Commissioner 12:45 Moderated Panel Discussion with all speakers 12:55 Closing Remarks 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Land Acknowledgement Today I stand in for the white euro Americans who illegally claimed the land we are on now from the Native Nations, and to acknowledge the Peoples of the Salish Sea and the Duwamish. These Peoples have lived here since the beginning of time and have been stewards of the land and sea around us. We are thankful for the opportunity of growing up in the shadow of Ti'Swaq, living in the waters of the Salish Sea, and benefiting from its bounties. 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Blessing DEBORAH PARKER ”tsicyaltsa” Former Vice Chair, Tulalip Tribes 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers DEBORAH PARKER ”tsicyaltsa” 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers ALICIA CRANK AtWork! 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers "Gender Based Violence: How We Are Affected and What We Can Do About It” Alicia Crank, Chief Development Officer, AtWork! 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers What is Gender-based violence (GBV)? Violence that is directed at an individual based on his or her biological sex OR gender identity. It includes physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse, threats, coercion, and economic or educational deprivation, whether occurring in public or private life. 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Black Women & Sexual Violence • On average, 1 in 3 women are victims of intimate partner violence and one in five women are victims of sexual assault. • Over 18% percent of African American women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime* • Unique barriers faced by African American women on a political, economic, and cultural level. 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Black Women & Sexual Violence • 54 percent of multi-racial women, 46 percent of American Indian / Alaska Native women, and 43 percent of Black women have been the victim of violence by an intimate partner • Though Black women are as likely, if not more likely, to request assistance as survivors, they are not receiving the help they need. • 2.3 times more likely to be shot and killed. 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Black Women & Dehumanization Because Black women and girls have historically been dehumanized, considered unrapeable, and left without legal recourse, we become easier targets for abuse and are more reluctant to come forward. Daniel Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer convicted of sexual violence in 2015, targeted low-income Black women because he thought they were less likely to be believed. 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Black Women & Brutality • Black women who worked in the field did the same work men did. They were subject to the same punishments male slaves received: whipping, branding, and mutilations. • Whites believed that Black women did not have the same delicate constitutions that White women had. • Sojourner Truth’s 1851 women suffrage speech. 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers What Can Be BECOME AN INFORMED ALLY Done? CENTER BLACK WOMEN IN YOUR ADVOCACY SUPPORT ORGS THAT WORK ON BEHALF OF BLACK WOMEN LOCALLY 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Become an informed ally. Learn more about the relationship between colonialism and sexual violence. Consider reading more books by black women scholars who are writing about the daily lived experiences of black women, including sexual violence. 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Center Black women in your advocacy. Contact your elected officials and share this data. Ask them what they are doing specifically to improve the sexual violence experienced by black women. It may be helpful to explain how institutions contribute to gendered racism. Ask them to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Support organizations that work on behalf of Black women This may require you doing some research, talking with Black women and allowing them to tell you what they need. 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Take-Away Message 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Question & Answer time 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Thank You! PHONE NUMBER 425 202 5131 EMAIL [email protected] SOCIAL Twitter /FB/Instagram: @AliciaInEdmonds 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers 2020 COMMUNITY FORUM Power of Women: Breaking Barriers Fundraiser to Benefit Legal Voice KIM CLARK Legal Voice 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers "Sexism, Racism and the Holy War on Reproductive Freedom" - Kim Clark - Legal Voice 2020 | Power of Women: Breaking Barriers June 27, 2020 Sexism, Racism and the Holy War on Reproductive Freedom 6/25/2020 © 2018 Legal Voice. All Rights Reserved. Reproductive Oppression - Rooted in Misogyny and Racial Oppression • Reproductive oppression is rooted in sexism and racism, not “natural law.” • Instead shining a light on this history, we have allowed the anti-abortion movement to cloak itself in religion and claim the moral high ground. • Religion has become weaponized. REPRODUCTIVE OPPRESSION IS MAN MADE - GOD DOES NOT CREATE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS The failure of white feminism to make the connection between reproductive oppression and systemic racism is killing women – especially black women. June Medical v. Russo (U.S. Supreme Court) The law being challenged: A Louisiana law that requires physicians who provide abortion care to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of a clinic. Issues: ● Whether the admitting privileges law is unconstitutional based on the Court’s precedent. In Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016), the Court struck down an identical Texas law because it had no medical benefit. ● Whether clinics and doctors have standing to bring lawsuits on behalf of their patients. June Medical - What is at Stake Adverse decision could: ● make it extremely hard to challenge restrictions (gutting Roe); ● devastate abortion access across the country ● perpetuate systemic racism (as impact will be especially severe for Black and brown communities who already face greater barriers to care/ systemic racism in health care. ● Significance will not be understood until it is too late. What June Medical could mean for WA • Rights dependent on the legislature and voters; • HEARTBEAT BILL (I-1698) may be on ballot this year. • Access will be burdened as WA absorbs patients from other states; • Extremist white-supremacist groups (already on the rise in Washington State) will be emboldended; • Washington must LEAD. Religious Refusals - Part of Larger Campaign Religious Refusals (continued . ) Contraception, End of life care abortion, fertility treatment, etc. Gender affirming care Religious Refusals - Hospitals • Washington is one of five states where more than 40 percent of acute-care hospital beds are Catholic. • Whole regions of the state have no other facilities; • There is no way for patients to know until it’s too late. • U.S. Conference of Catholic