#WindowToJustice -- Monday, September 24th -- Harrisburg
#WindowToJustice
Support Statute of Limitations Reform Bill
Monday
September 24th
11 a.m.
City Island
Organizers are calling on Pennsylvanians to show support for dramatic and needed reform of statute of limitations law. Demonstrate your support for reform and demand that PA legislators protect the children and the vulnerable.
Marchers will meet at City Island and will march to Capital Steps for a rally. Mark Rozzi will be giving a press conference at 12 pm to 1 pm. We invite all participants to contact their State Senators from 1 pm to 6 pm. A vigil will happen 6 pm and 8 pm.
Show the legislators that enough is enough!
Michael McDonnell
Barbara Blaine, founder of SNAP, passed away on Sunday, September 24th, 2017. Her dying was sudden and completely unexpected. Words cannot express our sorrow nor are there words to express our gratitude for her relentless advocacy. She truly was a hero. There is an old saying, “well behaved women seldom make history”. Barbara made history and the world is a better place.
We have put together a tribute for Barbara Blaine to honor her memory. If you would like to contribute a memory, please send your favorite memory of Barbara to admin@snapnetwork.org
50 State AG Call for Grand Jury
Write a letter to the attorney general of your state. Demand, request, and beg them to impanel a grand jury.
Any investigation must be:
- independent of and separate from the church
- must have subpoena powers and ability to compel testimony under oath
Anything short of these criteria is a sham and whitewash.
In addition, write letters to the editor, make phone calls to politicians as they can apply pressure to keep them responsive to our demand. We need to make efforts to ensure that they follow up on what the state is doing to investigate these crimes.
The Attorneys General of forty states have inquired about the grand jury process in Pennsylvania. Let's get statewide investigations going in fifty states.
Current list of active investigations, associated hotlines, websites, and email addresses
Survivors can use to report their experiences.
Note to Letter Writers
Use your own words and style of writing. Cut and paste from the templates as you wish. Include your experiences, whether as a survivor or as a member of the community. And relate your letter to the state you were abused in or state now living in.
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One article by Carolyn Woo is riveting and entitled “A Plea From The Brokenhearted”. She challenges priests to have many personal encounters with parishioners about the child sex abuse; and not only from the bishop letters or the diocesan offices of communication nor the creation of new policies to protect youth nor prayers of healing. According to E. Erickson the index psychosocial task is on rebuilding trust. I completely agree w/ her.
The 2nd article addresses the “Australian Bishop Apologizes TO Young People For Shameful Acts”. In his address he implores that clergy “sells you short” by offering them "unbeautiful or unwelcoming liturgies and via “poor preaching, catechesis or spiritual direction”.
Sounds like “corporate speak” to me. And continues to reaffirm my divorce from the Church!
Rich, MSW