WOMEIV IN BLACK

MISSION STATEMENT

The Women in Black stand in silent vigilto protest war, rape as a tool of war,

ethnic cleansing and human rightsabuses all over the world. We are silentbecause mere words cannot express thetragedy that wars and hatred bring. We

refuse to add to the cacophany of emptystatements that are spoken with the best

intentions yet may be erased or gounheard under a passing ambulance,

shots fired or the wound of a bombexploding nearby.

Our silence is visible. We invite womento stand with us, reflect about

themselves and women who have beenraped, tortured or killed in concentration

camps, women who have disappeared,whose loved ones have disappeared or

have been killed, whose homes havebeen demolished. We wear black as a

symbol to mourn for all victims of war,to mourn the destruction of people,

nature and the fabric of life.

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The Women in Black zine aims to unite allwomen standing as Women in Black whobear witness to the tragedies of our time,who take themselves away from their livesonce a week to protest war and sexualviolence, who stand in the streets of thecities and towns of this world as a visiblereminder and a call for peace. We aim tobring all the Women in Black together tobolster each other's efforts, to validateeach other's experience and to share ourvision of world peace.

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>ar black because we express mourning for all victimsir, and other wars, those women and men we know anddo not know. We wear black because this war hasdestruction of people, nature, destruction oftips among people, destruction of positive values.(. 1B the image of those who decide upon this war.

BLACK is our warning sign tor those who start wars.

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ber the 9th 1993 will nark the second year from theMEN IN BLACK have come out in the street with our

lack and silence, every Wednesday, we express ourgainst war/, *'r̂ ape in war, nationalism and ethnic

We hoose BLACK to refuse to serve as hostage* of thisregime that leads war; ve refuse to be reduced to the socialrole of women as martirs and victims. We go out on streets,and our bodies in the public space say STOP to killing andviolence in war and everyday 11 fa.

We choose SILENCE because we refuse to produce overflow ofempty words that prevent ua to think about ourselves andothers. Ve also cannot find words to express the tragedy that

war has brought, and cannot find words to exprnssbitterness and repugnance /

/against nationalist-militaristregimes, and first of all thin one in Serbia.

SILUNCE underlines the lives of many women and men, butOUR SILE1 CE is VISIBLE, our silence is an invitation to womento reflect about themselves and about women who have beenraped, oLher who have been tortured and killed in concentrationcamps, tiose who have diseapeared, or whose loved ones havabeen kill.ed and houses demolished.

We 1IOMKN IN BLACK persistently protest:-ag linst politics of Serbian regime which leads wars in

the name of "entire Serbian community". That ie why we cayloud and. open DO NOT SPEAK IN OUR NAMli, WE TALK IN. OUR OWNNAMES.

-aglinst political and military support thatregime ijives to militaristic leaders in so calledRepublic in Bosnia, and Serbian Republic of Krajina. —t^itl.,presence there creates collective suicide and collective quiltof the entire paople;

-against nationalistic militaistic oligarchy in Bosnia andHerzegovina that leads war against civil population, especiallythose wlio are ethnically mixed. The greatest rcoponeabilitVhave letders with military power - Serbian and Croat but RIROMuslim nilltarists. All of them trade with lives of civilpopulation, first of all of those or "their nation".

-aqainst war crime of war rape of women of allnationalities; against misuse of voun s body as political andethnic territory, against misuse of women as military strategyfor coiquering the -teritories, as methods of. ethnicalcleansiig, as war prey and revenge among patriarchalbrother! oods in cofliet.

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-against male violence against women and children,especially against thosa men who come back from the war zonemaking the' new war zone in their home, raping their wives afterthey have1 already raped many women of the so called "enemy"side. We' know that the militarism and domestic violence areinterconnected and therefore we have reapeated many times:WHEN THE VIOLENCK AGAINST WOMEN CEASE - THE WARS WILL STOP.

-agajnst misuse of women « reproductive capacities;against propaganda that leads women of dominant nationality formaking children for "patriotic causes" and against accuse ofwoman of 'Albanian, Turk and Gypsy origin for givnig birth for"anti-Serb and separatist rnsons"; against propaganda forbanining abortion which is a basic women s right;

-against economic embargo as a policy that affects civilpopulation and most of all women, children and old people,which ale|o affirms militaristic regime in Serbia and serves asan excuse for all failures and criminal affairs of the regimeand as an excuse for financing the war (75% of the budget goesto the mi-litary).

-against the politico of military intervention, since itwill create more destruction and death or civil population andit will enable local military formations to go on with ethnicclean*ing and revenga.

-against those decisions of the international communitywhich are the direct consequences of the patriarchalmilitaristic politics. We therefore beleive that the process ofDEMILITARISATION should be part of the change of theinternational politics as well as the change of the nationalistregimes.IWe beleive that international community has mainly worked onlegalizing the results of the war conquering and ethnicalcleansing, instead of taking away the legitimity innegotiation to Milosevic and Tudjman.

We therefore adress to the women s and peace global networks topressure their governenets and media to stop the campaign thatin fact | enhance war using peace slogans. We also ask them tocontinue promoting pacifist groups as legitimate factor in thenegotiation process and conflict resolutions.

DesDitf. many obstacles we WOMEN IN BLACK are continuing toenforce) our network of solidarity, Blj.Ucil.oaa and tcndon-ios-.with wdmen in the states of Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia,Macedonia and Montenegro as well as with women in othercountries.

At/ the end we wish to express our support and aolidaritywith all women who live and suffer in the war zones, speciallywith sifters in Somalia, Iraq, Cambodia, Salvadore, Azerbaijan.We are Encouraged with the signing of the peace treaty betweenPalestine and Israel which was also one of the aims of Women inBlack firora Israel. We are encouraged and excited to know thatmany WOMEN IN BLACK groups appear on the streets of differentcities in the world.

If you share our beleifs join us on Saturday, 9 of October 199 3on the Republic Square form 2-3pm

ABOUT THE"THREE WOMEN INBLACK" DRESSES

Duston Spear

I had been using thisimage of a silhouetted 19thcentury woman 'backingaway from the ruins' in mypaintings. I wanted to seea battalion of womendancing—cutting through acrowd, but then the newsabout the former Yugosla-via came and thebattlaion's job extended tobearing witness andstanding in solidarity. Myvery loose 'plan' was tomake three dress-updresses for any threewomen to wear. Costumeswith elaborate veils thatwould turn a trilogy into aforce—black to silhouettethem against the backdropof the present—veiled torepresent the universalityof mourning.

So I 'sewed'. I boughtthree black pantsuits madefrom some slimey fakepoly-something or other ata discount store and Iripped them apart belowthe waist. Then I dyedevery piece of material Icould locate black andsewed, glued and stapledthese pieces onto thethree hangingdeconstructed rag dresses.There they were, ThreeWomen in Black.

page designed byBarbara Scott Goodman

ACCESSORIZING

FOR THE REVOLUTION

THE WAR OF RAPE

The current war in Bosnia is not a warwe can understand. All the homes in thevillages I visited in November had militaryuniforms on the clotheslines because allmen over the age of 19 belong to themilitia and fight every ten days. Refugeeshide in abandoned cars in the forest foronly one night until the villagers take themin, whether Muslim or Catholic. A Croatran home from a prison camp four milesoutside Mostar because his Muslim guardwas a childhood friend and looked theother way. You don't see rage that rapewas used as the Serbian weapon in thiswar because everybody wants to bury thatfact, fearing that otherwise there will neverbe an end to the destruction.

I went to Bosnia in November to try tounderstand what was going on and tofigure out my own justice position. Imarched at the Pentagon protesting USinvolvement in Vietnam in 1967 and Iprotested outside the Democratic Conven-tion in 1968 because Vietnam was my war.The only member of my family to get hisname on a United States monument wasmy cousin Michael John Coleman, who ison Wall 33 East of the Vietnam Memorial.It took a week to ship his body homebecause Khe Sanh was many thousandsof miles away from his Chicago home.That war was a different type of war.

Rape is used in Bosnia as an instru-ment of war and not only an incident ofwar. The reports last winter made mewonder what the US government could do.I wavered like so many in the peacemovement as my anti-war self fought withmy woman's heart. My trained lawyermind also remembered that I studied atthe same Georgetown School of Foreign

Service as President Clinton, where welearned that foreign policy was similar todealing with the Mafia—you had to be astough as they are. I was confused. VisitingBosnia straightened me out again. At thispoint it's a war in which the US govern-ment has no role, but we women do. Thisis our war.

Rape as a tool of the Serbian policy ofethnic cleansing is well documented,especially in an innovative lawsuit broughtagainst the Serbian government by victimsof that policy in a US Federal DistrictCourt. That policy of the use of rape inethnic cleansing was widely talked aboutin the US press a year ago and by thepeople I visited in Bosnia this November.Now it is being considered only "allega-tions" in the US press since a peacesettlement is near which is favored by theUS government. The awfulness of crimesagainst women is to be buried under asettlement of land seizures won throughthe use of this inhumane tool of war.Susans Brownmiller and Sontag arequoted as our feminist spokespersons,quoted as saying they don't think that rapewas the issue. Once again the tragedieswe know as women are being shovedunder a rug and woven into the fabric ofthe lies about this war.

This further crime against the humanityof woman is what makes this our war. Wecannot and must not let that happen. Thisis our Vietnam to fight and it is for us tomaintain our own memorials. We must notforget or let the world forget. Our role isprofoundly simple. We must not let thishappen again. Never again shall rape beused as a tool of war.

Never again.Diane Morrison

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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 19 — AUnited Nations war crimes commis-sion has found evidence that rape wasused by the Serbs as a weapon of terrorin the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

But Ihe commission says the num-ber of provable cases of rape may besubstantially lower than ihe 20,000 esti-mated earlier Ihis year by the Euro-pean Community. The European re-port said in January said Muslimwomen were raped by Serbian soldiersas part of their campaign of "ethniccleansing" in the civil war.

The Uoitcd Nadons commission hnscollected reports of about 3,000 rapes,compiled at the Internplional HumanRights Law Institute at DePaul Uni-versity, Chicago, and has identifiedabout 800 victims by name.

But on the basis of an examination of330 victims, the commission says-it isinclined to believe that rape was usedby the Serbs as a weapon of war intheir campaign to drive Muslims fromtheir homes and seize their land.

The commission said that althoughSerbian, Croatian and Muslim forcesall committed rapes, most victimswere Muslims and most alleged perpe-trators Serbs. Most of the identifiablecases occurred between May and De-cember 1992 in regions where Serbianforces were systematically driving outMuslims. •

The commission also says groups ofaccusations against members of thesame units suggest "command respon-sibility by commission or omission,"meaning the troops were either en-couraged to commit rape by their offi-cers or were not punished for doing so.

The commission plans to send spe-cialist teams of women into formerYugoslavia to interview victims andaccumulate more evidence. With aDutch Army engineering unit andfunds mainly from the United Statesand Canada, the commission plans tostart digging up mass graves found atVukovar, Croatia, and Ovcar, Serbia.

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A telephone interview betweenLisa Master of the Balkan RapeCrisis Response Team andDuston Spear

January 12, 1994

DS How did the rape crisis workers atSt. Vincent's and St. Luke's/Roosevelthospital (s) Rape Crisis InterventionPrograms initially get involved in thesituation in the Balkans?

LM A volunteer with St. Vincent'sRape Crisis Program , (Marie Edesess)read an article reporting the testimoniesof three women who had been raped inthe former Yugoslavia. The accountswere so disturbing that she felt it wasimperative to respond. She did someresearch and found out that a group fromChicago was sending trainers to theBalkan region and she volunteered to bea part of that team, (along with RuthFerero a social worker with St. Luke's/Roosevelt) They spent two weeks theredoing intensive training working withservice providers. Before they left theparticipants begged them to come back.Marie and Ruth shared their experiencewith the people at St. Luke's/Rooseveltand St. Vincent's and inspired us torespond on a larger scale which led tothe founding of the Balkan Rape CrisisResponse Team.

DS You were one of the people thatwent on the second trip to Zagreb?

LM Yes.DS What was the best part of your

experience there?LM It was an intense experience. One

of the most important aspects was thesignal we sent to those we worked with

that they hadn't been forgotten. A lot ofpeople have given up on the hope ofAmerica responding. They appreciatedthat we as individuals, cared and werecommitted enough to try and respond totheir plight.

DS Who did you work with there?LM We worked mostly with service

providers, providing training to peoplewho were working directly with survivors.We worked with grass roots feministgroups and also with medical providers.

DS What frustrated you the mostabout the situation in terms of providingservices to the people who needed it?

LM One of the worst frustrations wasobserving the extent of the needs and thedisorganization of service delivery. Thearea we were in had quite a few groupsvisiting and offering various kinds oftraining and support. It was difficult forsome groups to even organize the peoplethat wanted to help. And other areasapparently were receiving nothing in theway of assistance.

DS What did your group think couldbe done to help with the problem oforganizing help?

LM We feel strongly that there needsto be more coordination between groupsthat are trying to respond to what's goingon over there and there are some effortsunder way to do that. The Balkan RapeCrisis Response Team is currently in-volved in preparing a major grant pro-posal to offer services that deal directlywith a variety of problems that they'redealing with including rape, and theeffects of war on children, alcohol abuse,and displacement. We hope to put to-gether training programs that addressthese wider range of issues. We've also

developed a training manual that needsto be fully translated into Croatian. Ourplan, at the present time, is to sendsomeone from our group back to Zagrebto get feedback on this manual and toassess the needs of the organizationsthat are working there for future training.

DS Can you explain how rape isbeing used as an instrument of war.

LM Rape is being used to destroyindividual's families and the bonds ofcommunities within the Balkan region.Therefore , to assist people to heal fromrape serves as a powerful resistance to awar. If you kill an individual they becomemartyrs but if you rape them they andtheir families feel shame and becomeisolated. Many women are reluctant toexpose that they've been raped. Asvictims of multiple traumas and no safeenvironment to address them it is difficultto begin the process of healing.

DS Lisa, the Balkan Rape CrisisResponse Team is a non-profit, volun-teer organization . What would yousuggest that someone reading this inter-view could do to assist you with theimportant work that your group is doing?

LM We would welcome any dona-tions, (they are tax deductible). In thefuture, there may be more opportunitiesto get directly involved. Checks should bemade out to:

NYC/BRCRTand sent to:c/o St. Luke's/Roosevelt HospitalRape Crisis Intervention Program411 West 114th Street#6 DNew York, New York 10025

orSt. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital523-4728St. Vincent's Hospital790-8068-9

I didn't expect to be moved. Ididn't expect to be changed. Ididn't expect to plunge intomourning for women I wouldnever meet.

I don the long black gown andbroad-brimmed, black tulle-veiled hat. I am instantlyanonymous, instantly no longermyself. I become a witness-mourner, a voyeur to unseenviolence. I feel myself a silentsister to the raped, oppressed,tormented women who live inhate capitals the world over.

Wearing the weeds of a Victorianwidow, shrouded under heavyveils, I stand silently one Fridaynight in front of Ethical Culture. Iam one of Three Women in Blackwho flank the entrance toMADRE'S Mother Courage Tour.

From under my veils, I watch thereaction of the people whopassed us. To some, we areinvisible obstacles. To others,we are curious, mysterious

Video stills this page from:"Three Women in Black" video byDenise Petrizzo © 1993

subjects. To one woman, we arefund-raising objects of pity; shehands me a quarter.

As the program begins, we ThreeWomen in Black take seats in theback of the audience. We listento stories told by women fromSouth Africa, Nicaragua, fromBelgrade. Once, in the darknessof the auditorium, we take off ourheavy, hot headpieces; as thelights rise at intermission, we asone quickly replace them withoutquite knowing why.

We hear the woman fromBelgrade speak of the otherWomen in Black whose silenteloquence protests the madnessdestroying their country. Later,we are led to meet her. Her eyeslight when she learns that ThreeWomen in Black stand at theUnited Nations every week toexpress solidarity.

"I will go home and tell them,"she said, " that others arelistening."

"View From the Veil"Sara Altshul O'Donnell 1993

Video stills this page from:"Sarajevo Ground Zero" A video chainletter.Contact : Global Vision Inc.1600 Broadway suite 700New York, New York 10019

WHERE WOMEN IN BLACK ARE STANDINGThe Women in Black stand silently in the streets of Belgrade every *week for peace, for the refugees, for the women in distress. -In solidarity, people all over Europe, ( Rome, Paris, London, -Edinburgh) are wearing black and holding candlelight vigils each -week. To join the'Women in Black movement; 1

1. Wear a black armband each Wednesday as a symbol of protest andmourning.

2. Seek and support local U.N. actions to recognize rape as a warcrime with appropriate monitoring and enforcement.

3. Send desperately needed money, food, clothing, medicines, etc.through any accredited humanitarian agency.

4. Organize local vigils and involve local women's humanitarians— peace groups in the protest. >v^A.

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Madame Sadako OgataUnited Nations High Commission for RefugeesP.O. Box 2500CH-1211 Geneva 2 Depot, Switzerland

Write a letter to send to women survivors in the Balkans:A national woman-to-woman letter writing actionFor information, call;Adelphi UniversitySchool of Social WorH

or llttll'-tlll(Sponsored by the Committee of Support for Women in the Balkans)

From NEW YORK-SARAJEVOEXCHANGE

PO Box 20497New York, NY 10009(212)465-2532A bulletin board of events concerning the countries ofthe former Yugoslavia.

Humanitarian AidINTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEEWomen's Commission for Refugee Women & Children386 Park Ave.SouthNew York, NY 10016(212)679-0010 fax:(212)689-3459

MAZON (food and medicine)2940 Westwood Blvd.Suite 7Los Angeles, CA 90064-4120(310)470-7769 fax:(310)470-8738(212)475-5427 fax:(212)505-9210

ISLAMIC CIRCLE OF NORTH AMERICA(ICNA) BOSNIA FUND166-26 89th Ave.Jamaica, NY 11432(718)658-1199 fax:(718)658-1255

AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTIONCOMMITTEE711 3rd Ave.New York, NY 10017"Open Mailbox" contact Joyce Kitey (212)687-6200

BALKAN RAPE CRISIS RESPONSE TEAMc/o St.Vincent's Hospital Rape Crisis ProgramOTB 1110153 West 11 St.New York, NY 10011(212)790-8068

ADVOCACYJ.A.C.O.B. (Jewish Ad Hoc Committee on Bosnia)c/o TikkunPO Box 1778 Cathedral StationNew York, NY 10025contact: J.Marcus (212)873-7567

E.Weiss (212)921-9290S.Silber (718)470-3500

MEDIA NETWORK/COFY (Coalition on FormerYugoslavia)PO Box 30125 Port Authority StationNew York, NY 10011(212)439-1188

THE CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE & DEMOCRACYPO Box 1640 Cathedral StationNew York, NY 10025(212)666-(212)666-5924 fax:(212)662-5892publish: Peace and Democracy News

INSTITUTE FOR WAR & PEACE REPORTINGPO Box 2617New York, NY 10185contact: Richard Kaplan (718)965-6032publish: Balkan War Report

WAR CRIMES AND HUMAN RIGHTSHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH/HELSINKI WATCH485 Fifth Ave.New York, NY 10017(212)972-8400 fax:(212)972-0905

JEWISH CONGRESS, COMMISSION FOR WOMEN'SEQUALITY15 East 84th St.New York, NY 10028-0458(212)879-4500 fax:(212)249-3672

LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTSRefugee Project330 Seventh Ave. 10th Fir.New York, NY 10001contact Emily Whifield (212)629-6170fax:(212)967-0916

CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS666 Broadway, 7th fir.New York, NY 10012(212)614-6464 contact: Beth Stephens, RhondaCopelon, Jennifer Green

BALKAN CHILDREN IN EXILEc/o Ethical Humanist Society38 Old Country RoadGarden City, NY 11530

MUTUAL UNDERSTANDINGTAKE THE NEXT STEPc/o AFSC (American Friends Service Committee)15 Rutherford PlaceNew York, NY 10003(212)598-0963

WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE339 Lafayette St.New York, NY 10012(212)228-0450 fax:(212)228-6193available: Resource Guide on X-Yu for PeaceActivists and Journalists @10 cents; $10/100

NETWORK FOR EAST/WEST WOMEN167 Spring StreetNew York, NY 10012(212)925-6684

Publications/Periodicals

INDEX ON CENSORSHIP(pub.in UK, available in US)

EXTRA!(pub.of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)

HOTALINGS on 42nd St.between 6 & 7 Aves.carriesinternational newspapers and magazines.

From Women's Organizations: ANew York City Directory

© New York City Commission on the Status ofWomen

NEW YORK WOMEN AGAINST RAPE666 Broadway, Rm.610New York, NY 10012 (212)477-0819A city-wide, multi-racial, multi-cultural, feminist, non-profit women's organization dedicated to endingsexual violence. Its work includes crisis interventioncounseling and support groups for survivors of sexualassault, community education and organizing.Membership, newsletter.

BRONX WOMEN AGAINST RAPE282 West 234 St.Bronx, NY 10463A group of community women trained as sexualassault counselors offering support to sexual assaultsurvivors at Montefiore and North Central BronxHospitals. Publications, referrals.

BROOKLYN WOMEN'S ANTI-RAPE EXCHANGE(BWARE)30 Third Ave.Brooklyn, NY 11217 (718)330-0310A grassroots, multi-racial organization that providesdirect services, including telephone counseling forrape survivors and community education for Brooklynresidents. Seeks to increase public awareness amongmedical, legal and social service institutions. Library,membership, newsletter, referrals.

NEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECTS208 West 13 St.New York 10011 (212)807-0197Provides counseling, advocacy and general assis-tance to men and women who have experienced anti-gay/anti-lesbian violence, -sexual assault, domesticviolence and other forms of victimization. Alsoengages in community outreach and public education.Publications.

RAPE CRISIS INTERVENTION PROGRAMSCounseling and emergency medical treatmentMount Sinai Medical Center(212)241-5461Presbyterian Hospital(212)305-9060St.Vincent's Hospital(212)790-8068 (some literature, services available inSpanish and Chinese)St.Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital(212)523-4728Bellevue Hospital(212)561-3755 (special evidence collection by nursepractitioners)

SEX CRIMES REPORT LINESex Crimes Unit, Detective BureauNYC Police Department1 Police Plaza, Rm.1312New York, NY 10038(212)267-RAPEMaintains a hotline staffed by female detectives forsex crime victims. Takes police reports over thephone, conducts investigations, provides informationand referrals. Speakers available on legal and sexcrime issues, as well as prevention strategies.Publications.

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