The New Hampshire Clothesline Project went well yesterday in Concord. Now all the shirts from 1994-2008 are being put on display at Colby Sawyer College in New London, NH from today until Saturday. We also found out that MTV is coming to video the display and we're not sure what else as of right now, but it's very exciting to have them taping it. Hopefully it will be more than just a 30 second spot, but if that's all it is that's better than nothing. We're also hoping they will talk about the Americorps Victim Assistance Program so more people will join and want to make a differene in this specific area.
Yesterday also marked the beginning of Victim's Rights week in New Hampshire, as this week is National Victim's Rights Week. The Governor, as well as many other politicians and directors of different Victim Services Offices, spoke. After the Governor's speech a woman whose granddaughter was murdered 13 years ago and the murderer has not spent one day in jail. She shared her story, her frustrations, her sadness, her anger and many other emotions then asked the Governor to read a bag of letters, notes and court documents to help her get justice for her granddaugher, which was an incredbily emotional moment. This was followed by the unvailing of the 2008 Victim Rememberance Quilt; the unvailing gave way to more emotional breakdowns by family members whose loved ones had a quilt square made for them.
Unfortunately, we held our Clothesline Project in the basement of a church rather than on the Statehouse Lawn. This meant we didn't have as many people come through the display as we would have, had it been on the lawn. We did have many people come through to view the shirts and more shirts were created. For this year we had between 250-300 shirts, which was moving itself.
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... but you don't mention what the project is about. I take it that it's to show the numbers of victims, but of what? Violence? Abuse? It's not really clear, especially to someone who's never heard of this project before.
Kudos to talking about it though and showing how much dedication and hard work can really pay off :).
a visual display of t-shirts created by survivors, victims, family, friends and allies of domestic and sexual violence and stalking. There are different colors for different crimes, such as rape, child abuse, incest, battered and others. It is done every year in New Hampshire during Victim's Rights Week for that year's shirts and then all the shirts made at the crisis centers since 1994 are displayed at Colby Sawyer College. The website for the it is clotheslineproject.org and for Americorps Victim Assistance Program it is avap1.org.
Hope this helps!