I am sending out a thank you to everyone who helped make our first year a success. We had some serious technical problems but the cause prevailed. YOU my dears are the greatest group of soliders fighting the War on Abuse that could ever hope and pray for.
We had many males come forward and ask for help services and some great new organizations join and support us.
I am nothing without you.To get more involved, please stop by our newly rebuilt myspace page and add Male Abuse Awareness Week at;
www.myspace.com/maleabuseawareness
Thanks again!
THIS IS THE ROOT OF MOST OF OUR ABUSE PROBLEMS!
A Great Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2fjRJssP0g
MALE ABUSE AWARENESS WEEK IS MEANT TO ENCOURAGE MALES WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED TO SEEK HELP, SERVICES AND SUPPORT TO DEAL WITH THE EFFECTS AND TRAUMA OF CHILD ABUSE.
This campaign covers sexual, physical, psychological, and the witnessing of abuse by children. Please show your support this year by changing your default picture and putting up a banner for MAAW! Thanks. :)
There are many resources for Child Sexual Abuse survivors. Most of these programs focus on women; there are even fewer programs for male CSA survivors.
(Harvey P, Forehand R, Brown C, et al. The prevention of sexual abuse)
I am so happy that the females have the services and help they need, but they are not normally the ones that grow up to be wife beaters, child predators and murderers. It is the men that need the services so that we can break the cycle of abuse.
According to the Department of Justice, 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused and many more are physically and phsycologically abused before their 18th birthday. Traditionally and throughout time, it has been the role of the male to be strong and that anything that did not represent a traditional idea of toughness was automatically considered weakness. As psychologists and scientists research the long term effects of child abuse, especially child sexual abuse on males, the results have produced countless men who become perpetrators of rape, acts of murderous rage and serial killers. It is a proven fact that child abuse produces the worst male criminals in history.
READ MORE ABOUT MALE ABUSE AWARNESS WEEK AT THIS LINK:
http://www.plunafoundation.com/Male_Abuse_Awareness.html
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Influences
ABUSE IS MY CROSS TO BEAR AND HELPING VICTIMS HEAL, IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OR JUST TO PRAY AND FIND STRENGTH IS THE BEST WAY I CAN SERVE MY GOD. Jesus is my familys' traditional king. So I have chosen to follow his path in MY OWN WAY and not by way of any particular church or sect. Radicals to say I am not a real Christian because I don't do it their way. But who are they to say how it is to be done??? They are mortals too.
I also believe in the Hindu concept of Karma and in the theories of the Buddah. IT IS GOOD TO KNOW THAT WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND AND THAT ABUSERS WHO REFUSE HELP WILL EVENTUALLY PAY FOR THIER CRIMES IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. If I did not believe that I could never do what I do.
Sounds Like
Well since everyone wants to know what my influences are I will just tell the story. It is the only way to explain my bizarre styles.
OK. I was born of an Irish mother and a Spanish father who was born and lived in Mexico until he came to the USA. The bloodline came from Central Spain near Madrid. My family claims we come from royalty and gypsies.
I was Culturally raised Hispanic.
Also, when I was very small my oldest brother was unfortunately left to raise me most of the time.
I remember seeing a movie with
I was not sure what she did but I knew I was going to have a job like hers!
I was also saturated with the constant playing of my brothers records by THE BEATLES! They were the biggest influence to me in all aspects of why I went into music and began this journey.
and we always played this record by
My parents had 5 kids and the middle brother was also wearing out his LPs of
and
I loved all their records but soon all of us kids were listening to
but as far as I was concerned,
was the queen and I wanted to be just like her.
Eventually, I got older and soon fell in love with
As far as education, in addition to my studies at Columbia, THESE ARE MY FAVORITE SINGERS;
Sara Vaughn
Stevie Wonder
Steve Perry
Teena Marie
Marta Sanchez
and
I studied thier recordings for years. They did not influence me as much as they taught me how to sing. They were my real teachers!
I was also starting to like real life boys who did not treat me very good. Thats OK because when
started telling me to Express Yourself and respect myself I started to get it. I think I saw the film Blonde Ambition in the theatre 10 times. That was it I wanted to do what she did period!
I soon I started recording and that led me to spend some time in Europe where I was spellbound by
After that I was convinced that I somehow had to hang on to the sounds of my heritage. So no matter what I recorded it had to have a Latin flavor.
As I grew my tastes also did. I started loving
and her balls out, no holds bar, tell it like it is thing. I also loved Sarah's deep lyrics and melodies
In time, I had experienced so much abuse and healing I was drawn in a totally different direction to express my anger with all of it. That was when I became a big fan of
and my baby
I currently listen to a lot of R & B.
Where I go from here, I dont know but these are the artists who impacted my sound and image throughout my musical journey.
No limits, no rules. Let them put me in a box. I am free!
That is my story for now.
The War On Abuse Movement, formerly an activist group, today functions to assist lobbyist groups and unite the individuals and organizations that fight to keep children safe from abuse and to support the passing of important legislation to protect children. Instead of exposing and reporting indecent content, we now call politicians, write letters and send emails to our government leaders. We learned that the best way to shut down legal, pedophile, conspiring, web sites is by passing laws against them. April's Law is our main effort for this project.
In 2008 we recently made an enormous effort to help pass the Protect Act that will put 2.3 million more dollars into the FBI to fight online predators and to rescue children who are being raped beaten and tortured.
“Why do we call it a WAR? We call it a war because hundreds of thousands of victims are being injured and killed everyday worldwide. It makes no difference that it happens in the home behind closed doors. Global genocide, is global genocide regardless of where it takes place. This is the only logical way to interpret the loss of life and rights. It is an age-old struggle that has been going on for millennium. Here we gather as a human race to go back to the roots of this problem. If we have to reach into the histories, religion, societies and cultures, that is what we intend to do. This is our moral obligation to the victims of these massacres and ourselves.”
OUR MOTTO
It is believed that 40% of girls and 20% of boys are raped in some form by the age of 16, that one of the top causes of death among women is murder at the hands of their husbands and boyfriends, that the prison system is filled with men who, as children, were victims of this war, and that problems with drugs and depression are a direct result of victimization. It is believed that children's hospitals for the severely mentally retarded and deformed contain some children who were born normal. It is believed that those who abuse, torture, and kill animals graduate to murder and serial murder, and that right now a boy is sitting naked in a closet awaiting sentencing for a crime he never committed. We can no longer ignore the impact that this disease is having on our society. We must all join this battle against the onslaught of human dignities.
As victims, we face an enemy who has no regard for morality or the ancient philosophies of fair combat by two worthy opponents. Separated from our loved ones and lacking self-respect, we have no will against being taken, for the victimizers break down all force fields. Even if a victimizer was abused at one time, he/she has no excuse for being a predator, preying upon the innocent and defenseless. He or she is the Enemy.
Kind ones, this is a battle that we must fight ourselves. In most cases, authorities cannot help you and most people, including family members and even witnesses, will ignore you. In order to achieve victory we must not only fight the pain inflicters, but also fight in our own minds. To conquer one's own mind, you must recognize what is happening. Recognize that no one has the right to inflict physical or mental pain and torture upon any living creature, that any activity involving yours and/or another person's private areas must be willingly allowed by you to be occupied by another, and not be taken, or coerced. If you are under the age of 18 and this is happening to you by someone who is over 18, they are a criminal! Abandonment is a form of abuse. Recognize that if an incident occurs and someone threatens to harm you if you tell anyone about it, they have just harmed you; that if someone is crazy enough to threaten your life, then that person may be willing and ready to do so; and that children who are bullies to other children inflict severe damage. Recognize what is happening and refuse to accept it.
In order to defeat the enemy you must cautiously move out, take away and protect your children, tell your teachers, report to your neighbors, report all animal cruelty, press charges and follow through. Tell on the bully, defend the weak if you are strong, and get a weapon, if you must, to defend your bodies if necessary. Following our escape, we must seek counseling so that we can overcome the psychological damage and avoid becoming a victimizer ourselves. We cannot get over it ourselves so we should not try it alone. Abuse cycles trickle down through generations, so we must stop it now.
We are innocent and, although we did not start this war, we must fight it.
We deserve a life without fear and shame. It is our right to maintain our own human rights. May God bless us all and keep us from loneliness during these troubled times. We must cure ourselves for the human race and the future.
BRING IT ON!!!
Petra Luna
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SOME REAL FUCKING MEN!!
And when he tells you you ain't nuttin don't believe him
And if he can't learn to love you you should leave him
Cause sista you don't need him
And I ain't tryin to gas ya up, I just call em how I see em
You know it makes me unhappy (what's that)
When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don't we'll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies, that make the babies
And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
So will the real men get up
I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up
~2Pac 1993~
SINGLE: Ludacris featuring Mary J. Blige --"Runaway Love" (Def Jam/DTP)
February 4, 2007
The latest offering from rapper Ludacris is a nice break from what folks have come to expect of commercial hip-hop. It's a radio favorite -- No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Rap Tracks chart -- and the midtempo tune tells several vignettes of hardships young women have had to face: rape, abuse and teen pregnancy. It's a nice way to remind us to wake up and pay attention to what's going on in the day-to-day lives of young people.
By Kelley L. Carter, Free Press music critic
I heard the CD. He also talks about how men should stop disrespecting women and how fathers need to take care of thier kids. Please support this artisit? He had the balls to go against the crowd and not support violence against women and children. That is what I call a real MAN!!
IF YOU HAVE OR KNOW OF KIDS ON MYSPACE HERE IS HOW YOU MONITOR THEIR ACTIVITY;
1.) Make sure you and they know who all of their friends are. Check their friends and whom they are communicating with every day. 2.) Have kids on PRIVATE sites. 3.) Never let the kids give out any personal information about themselves or their whereabouts. 4.) Watch their comments. Sometimes kids slip. 5.) Report any suspicious activity to MYSPACE. They will track them down 6.) MYSPACE is doing all they can to protect the kids but they cant watch everyone all the time. Please do your part.
KIDS, HEED THIS WARNING! THESE BAD PEOPLE ARE SMARTER THAN YOU SO LET THE ADULTS HELP YOU WITH MYSPACE?
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At each and every moment in our lives we do one of two things. Either we tell the truth all time all the way or we do something else. This something else, no matter how neatly disguised is called lying. And the better the reasons we have for our lies, the more firmly we remain in their grip, and the more dearly we pay the cost of grounding our lives on anything but the truth. When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it within sturdy walls or they place it behind closed doors or they obscure it with clever disguises but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges. And someone we care about always ends up getting hurt. And someone else will revel in their pain and that's the ugliest truth of all.
In science, there is black and white. In truth, there is black and white. However, in the places where we spend our lives, in the deep abyss of our experiences and in the minds of men, there are but different shades of gray.
hello! thank you for being a friend! you are very much appreciated, and are welcome to stop by and show some love anytime. you are awesome, keep the peace, love --Jade--
Strange day. After watching a documentary about streakers suffering from over exposure, I took a nap. It was a short one. I woke up a midget. At first I was freaking out, jumping around, trying to reach the wall phone. It tired me out. So I sat on a foot stool and placed my face in my hands wondering why this had happened to me. In the middle of self-pitying I started noticing how much fun it was to kick and swing my feet. I was smiling again, and found myself running through the house at full speed... wrestling with my now giant puppy. Oh, the joy! I hadn't had so much fun in years! We laughed and played and laughed until we both fell asleep exhausted on the living room floor. Then I woke up and ruined the whole damned thing.
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are you excited for addy to move?i wasnt for keifer but i guess yesterday he went to go visit and refused to back to the 2s and stayed with sharen the hole day! i think addy will do fine because she is very sassy so the bigger kids wont pick on her:)she moves monday? you gonna be able to help her out? did you ever start on them online survey things i told you about? i hope you did, i just another check, this was for $237 from 2 weeks ago. if you didn't yet, pshhh, get on it; i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is again:
People always strive to be a perfect being. They don't realize that they are already perfect when they are just being themselves.
Don’t let your character change color with your environment. Find who you are and let it stay in its true colors. Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote: No man, for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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