Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 37 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title Violence dresses up as a bride: Hundreds of women wearing wedding dresses march in protest of abuses VTMBH Article: Author Jose L. Llanes VTMBH Article: Publication Hoy VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Telesh Lopez VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Dressed as brides and widows, hundreds of women marched yesterday in New York to protest the increase in domestic violence and to commemorate the third anniversary of the death a woman shot by her ex-boyfriend on her wedding day. Known as the March of the Brides, the event was organized by New York Latinas Against Domestic Violence, (NYLADV), a coalition of community organizations defending womens rights. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Dressed as brides and widows, but wearing sneakers for the walk, hundreds of women marched yesterday in New York to protest the increase in domestic violence and to commemorate the third anniversary of the death of Gladys Ricart. Known as the March of the Brides, the event was organized by New York Latinas Against Domestic Violence, (NYLADV), a coalition of community organizations and defending womens rights. In 1999, Gladys Ricart was shot by her ex-boyfriend, Agustin Garcia, a prominent Dominican businessman, on her wedding day to another man. The couple had been in a turbulent relationship which culminated from the womans death in front of her family. We are committed to commemorating the death of Gladys every year and the hundreds of women who die everyday as victims of domestic violence, said Mireya Cruz, one of the event organizers while she helped the women with last minute details with their dresses, many donated by Marie Claire magazine. The idea was inspired by Josie Ashton, a Miami resident who promoted the walk from the victims home in New Jersey to the church in Flushing, where she was going to get married. Ashton reaffirmed her protest against the tragic events by walking from New York to Miami, which took almost a month. In the past year there has been a reported 290,000 cases of domestic violence in the city and 100 women have died. The majority are women of color. Puerto Rican Edna Cuevas Gambina, 38, is the mother of two. She has been a victim of violence since she was a child and by the two men she last shared her life with. I do not want to live like this anymore, always afraid, unappreciated and beaten. The violence must stop and this is a way to do it. Many of these women attended this event frightened of their men and some suffer in silence the abuse in their homes because they are undocumented or because of their economic dependence. Lethy Dennisse Liriano, 20, is the niece of Gladys Riscat, and a student at Columbia University. She arrived very early to the event. I will never be a victim of violence like my aunt. The crime was so unexpected and violent that it traumatized the whole family. But I have realized that it isnt only about her case. Men are not toys. They can kill you, said the young woman as she was picking up the train of her dress. The commissioner of HRS, Verna Eggleston was present and City Councilmembers Manuel Martinez and Margarita Lopez. I never thought Id ever dress up as a bride but today I do it for the Latina woman. To stain the white dress of a bride is to stain love itself. The violence is a thing of the past, said Lopez as she walked to the dressing room. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-09-27 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 147 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Violence dresses up as a bride: Hundreds of women wearing wedding dresses march in protest of abuses 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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