Justice for Women Summer 2014 Newsletter

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Intercommunity

Justice for Women:

NON-PROFIT ORG. US Postage PAID Seattle, WA Permit No. 4711

Peace & Justice Center 1216 NE 65th Street Seattle, WA 98115

A Collaboration for Empowerment Summer 2014

Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center

A Testimony to Trial and Faith

inglés, explotación, salarios bajos, dificultades de vivienda y ew Brunswick, NJ—When Juanita alienación. En lo que Juanita se immigrated to the United States to apoyaba siempre era su fe en Dios escape a lifetime of poverty and abuse in y su espíritu indomable. her small village back home, she came with Juanita es la historia colectiva little more than hope for a better future. del Círculo de Mujeres para la Juanita had started working as a child to Justicia en New Jersey, mujeres help support her family. Yet despite her que viven en el espacio donde strong work ethic, she faced daunting dos culturas se cruzan, con hijos challenges in her new home: limited nacidos en Estados Unidos que English, exploitation, low wages, poor saben muy poco de la lucha housing and alienation. What she counted de sus madres y la fortaleza on through it all were her faith in God and que necesitaron para superar her indomitable spirit. numerosos obstáculos. Como Juanita is the collective story of the acción de su Círculo, ellas crearon Women’s Justice Circle in New Jersey— una obra de 8 actos a fin de women who walk in the liminal space conectarse con sus hijos, compartir between two cultures, raising US-born sus historias de pruebas y triunfo, children who know little of their mothers’ y unir dos mundos distanciados Beatriz García in “La Vida de Juanita” an original journeys and the strength that has carried por la edad y el modo de crianza. Off-Broadway Play them through their many struggles. They La obra fue un esfuerzo colectivo created an 8-act play designed to connect stereotyping, lack of a permanent address de la Parroquia St. Joseph en New with their children, share their stories for job applications, and low wages. “I’ve Brunswick, en que el Padre Kevin construyó of trial and triumph, and bind together been on housing waiting lists for 4 years. I el escenario y el diácono Nelson ayudó con the two worlds distanced by age and make minimum wage. Most (of my income) la música. “La Vida de Juanita”, un éxito upbringing. The play was a collaborative goes to my children and transitional fuera de Broadway, les abrió los ojos a los venture of St. Joseph Parish in New housing. How can I save for a security hijos para que vieran lo que sus madres Brunswick with Father Kevin building deposit, fees, first and last month’s rent?” tuvieron que pasar y guió a las mujeres the props and deacon Nelson assisting Almost 70% of funding for homeless para para que redescubran su fortaleza. with music. “La Vida de Juanita,” an Offservices in King County comes from Broadway hit, opened the door for children Life on Hold a modest $40 real estate document to see through their mothers´ eyes and eattle, WA—From backgrounds and recording fee. This fee was set to decrease guided the women to rediscover their countries as varied as the world itself, by 75% by 2017. The Circle decided to write power. the women of Sojourner Place found that their state legislators about fully funding they all share one thing in common when the Housing Trust Fund and maintaining Un Testimonio de Pruebas y Fe they formed their Circle: the need for the recording fee. They co-authored a ew Brunswick, NJ—Cuando Juanita affordable housing. “I feel on hold,” one speech presented in front of hundreds emigró a Estados Unidos para escapar woman shared. “Everything is magnified of advocates at Catholic Advocacy Day de una vida de pobreza y abuso en su when you’re homeless: fear, risk, rage. and delivered letters to their senator and pueblo de origen, no trajo casi nada, Addiction. Every problem you thought representatives in Olympia. sólo sus esperanzas para un futuro you’d overcome, comes The campaign to revive the Document mejor. Juanita empezó back, and you can’t get Recording Fees bill paid off. It passed— “Me encantó descubrir a trabajar de niña para away.” with caveats. ayudar a mantener a su que hay muchas mujeres Women who are The women of Sojourner Place will familia. Pero a pesar de luchadoras y valientes con homeless are caught be counting on you to join them in ser muy trabajadora y las que puedo compartir y in a cycle of poverty, championing the Housing Trust Fund in cumplida, un nuevo país fueled by untreated the next state budget. trajo consigo difíciles luchar y de quienes puedo medical issues, barreras que superar: aprender mucho” inaccessible treatment, poco conocimiento del

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of mass violence: Isla Vista, Virginia Tech, Newtown. Yet 1 in 4 Americans will experience a diagnosable mental illness in a year, and those with severe mental illnesses—such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder—are much more likely to be the victims of crime than the perpetrators. “Mental health issues affect your family, friends, neighbors,” one member said. “So Enfermedad Mental y Estigma why aren’t we talking about it?” eattle, WA—Para las mujeres del The Jubilee Women’s Justice Circle Círculo de Justicia de Jubilee, todo decided that they wanted to talk about aquel que padece una enfermedad mental it. They set up a Facebook page called está condenado a cargar con el estigma. Mental Health and Healing to share stories Asimismo, afronta la doble dificultad of those with mental health diagnoses que conlleva tener una enfermedad que and to normalize behavioral illnesses. a menudo se ve con temor y se sufre They reached out to area mental health en silencio por miedo a los prejuicios y organizations discriminaciones que se recibe por to include local “ M e n t a l h e a l t h padecerla. Cuando oímos hablar de available resources, enfermedades mentales, a menudo a n d t a l k e d t o issues affect your es en el contexto de la violencia t h e i r c h u r c h f a m i l y, f r i e n d s , colectiva: Isla Vista, Virginia Tech, c o n g r e g a t i o n s neighbors... So why Newtown. Sin embargo, 1 de cada to find people to 4 estadounidenses padecerá una aren’t we talking interview for the enfermedad mental diagnosticable page. The site was about it?” en un año y aquellos con launched during enfermedades mentales graves, tales como Mental Health Month (May) and will be la esquizofrenia o el trastorno bipolar, an ongoing project of the Jubilee Circle. son mucho más propensos a ser víctimas The women are working with the National de la delincuencia que los perpetradores. Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to bring a “Los problemas de salud mental afectan a representative to Jubilee Center. Through a tu familia, amigos, vecinos,” dijo una de peer-mentor program called “In Our Own las participantes.”¿Por qué no hablamos Voice,” a class on mental illnesses and de ello?” stigma will be offered later this summer.

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El Círculo decidió hablar del tema. Crearon una página de Facebook llamada Salud Mental y Sanación para compartir historias de personas diagnosticadas con enfermedades de salud mental y para normalizarlas. Las participantes visitaron a organizaciones de salud mental del área para incluir los recursos locales disponibles y hablaron con sus congregaciones para encontrar gente para entrevistar. El sitio fue lanzado durante el Mes de la Salud Mental (mayo) y será un proyecto en curso del Círculo. Las mujeres están trabajando con la Alianza Nacional de Enfermedades Mentales (NAMI por sus siglas en inglés) para llevar a un representante a Jubilee. A través de un programa llamado “En Nuestra Propia Voz”, se ofrecerá una clase sobre las enfermedades mentales y el estigma a finales de este verano.

Together we can make a difference in the lives of these women and our community as a whole! Contact Giselle Cárcamo at 206.223.1138 or gcarcamo@ipjc.org for details.

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