[Peace-discuss] In response to recent emails and IMC case

[Julianne Panagacos]

Hi Bob,

I think the research you are proposing is important work though I find
it triggering to have emails in my inbox everyday with rape in the
title, especially when it is so close to home. On other listservs that
I am on when there is policy of putting something along the lines of
"potentially triggering material" in the title so that people can
choose to read it when they are ready to read about alleged sexual
assault. Are you (and others if you want to answer) willing to start
doing that?

I think it is important to acknowledge that a lot of people that care
about and use the IMC are mourning and in shock, which does not imply
denial. In other radical groups and scenes I've been part of and heard
of, there are community accountability processes that have been
created and executed in order to use different models of justice than
the model of justice imposed on us by the state. That is also not
denial, though you may not hear about it in a news paper. Being that
this allegation is already being pursed legally, I think it is most
important to make sure that there are resources for people- the
victim, defendant, families of those two parties and community
members,  to talk and process and support each other.

I hope emails to come are in the spirit of supporting ourselves though
a hard time.

Best,

Julianne

On Nov 12, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Robert Naiman
<naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:

> According to the News-Gazette, the next court date in the IMC rape
> case is November 20:
>
> Urbana man charged with sex assault
>
>
> I heard a report that someone was trying to organize a "cheerleading
> squad" at the courthouse in support of the accused rapist.
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is any truth to this report?
>
> I'm writing an expose for a national progressive website on rape
> denialism on the left, and the IMC rape case is going to be my case
> study.
>
> If anyone would like to be interviewed for this article, please let me know.
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