The first two episodes are now out! Watch for the first ten episodes to be published at roughly daily intervals; and for the final three episodes by the beginning of the year.
Ending Men’s Violence Against Women with this Generation
The event was organized in recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of all Violence Against Women, as recognized by the United Nations.
The forum was moderated by Denice Traina, the immediate past co-chair of the Georgia Green Party, with panelists including: Vednita Carter, Robert Jensen and Hilla Kerner.
Vednita Carter is the founder of Breaking Free, a Minneapolis based program providing exit services for women victimized by commercial sexual exploitation, including its John’s School for men arrested for pandering.
Robert Jensen is a professor retired from the University of Texas and the author of multiple books including: the 2007 examination of pornography called “Getting Off: The End of Masculinity” and the 2017 book, “The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men”.
Hilla Kerner is a long time member of the Vancouver Rape Relief Collective who serves as their spokesperson working with their public education efforts.
In an hour and a half, the panelists discussed a range of issues including the popular narratives which have cast sexual exploitation as female empowerment, the role of trauma as a predictor for participation in prostitution, the role pornography plays in men’s violence, the role that law enforcement and our schools should be playing to address men’s violence, whether and how perpetrators of men’s violence against women can be rehabilitated, the Moment of Truth Statement on mass incarceration, the misogyny of the political left, the role of race in efforts to protect women from men’s violence, public policy responses by the epidemic of violence and more.
In recognition of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the Sixteen Days of Action we are called upon to take towards that goal, the Georgia Green Party is now proud to release for the first time, a series of video episodes derived from the recording of our December 2020 event.
Please watch, like, subscribe and share.
Please take action on what you learn from this event.
Please support, join and help us build the Georgia Green Party committed to feminism and justice as key values to inform our work.
With our sincere appreciation to our panel:
Denice Traina, Moderator
Vednita Carter
Robert Jensen
Hilla Kerner
to the thousands of women on at least four continents who turned a chant developed for a protest against gendered violence in Santiago Chile into a global Feminist Anthem;
to the collective wisdom of the radical feminist perspective on men’s violence;
to Vancouver Rape Relief
to Vednita Carter Ministries
to the important contributions made by
Robert Jensen
and many others of the pro-feminist men’s movement;
to our cohost:
Los Altos Institute
and to our party Secretary, Hugh Esco, who provided pre-production planning and with YMD Production Services, post production services which have made the release of this series possible.