To honor the women of Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, their families and the grassroots groups that have worked tirelessly on their behalf, V-Day and Amnesty International invite you to March on Ciudad Juárez on V-Day; Saturday, February 14, 2004.
Hundreds of young women have been abducted and murdered with impunity in the past decade in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua. V-Day and Amnesty International are joining with the women of Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua and their families to demand the end to impunity and the prevention of further violence against women.
The day will include a discussion on gender violence by Mexican feminist, Marcela Lagarde; an ecumenical remembrance of the victims and honoring of their mothers and families at the Benito Juárez Monument; lunch with music and meals provided by local vendors; a poetry reading by local students from Ciudad Juarez and El Paso; and conclude with a special V-Day benefit performance of V-Day Founder/Playwright Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” performed by Lilia Aragon, Marinitia Escobedo, Laura Flores, Monica Alicia Juarez, Ensler, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Christine Lahti, and Shiva Rose.
Following are the local and international women’s and human rights groups, political leaders, and celebrities who are traveling from all over the world to convene in Ciudad Juárez to take back the streets and show that we will wait no longer for more bodies to appear.
They are (list in formation):
Amigos de las Mujeres de Juárez
CARe: Communities Against Rape Initiative
Center Against Family Violence
APAMAC
Lilia Aragon
Asociación de Trabajadores Sociales, A.C.
Centro de Asesoria y Promoción Juvenil AC
Casa Amiga, Centro de Crisis, A.C.
C.A.S.A.
Casa YMCA., AC
Casa de la Peregrina, A.C.
Católicos por el Derecho a Decidir, A.C.
CCOMPAZ, A.C.
Center Against Violence in El Paso
Centro de Asesoria y Promoción Juvenil A.C.
Centro de Estudios y Taller Laboral, A.C.
Centro de Investigacion y Solidaridad Obrera, A.C.
Centro de Protección de Mujer a Mujer.
CETLAC, Centro de Estudios y taller laboral, A.C.
Ciudadanos Comprometidos con la Paz, A.C.
Coalition of Students Seeking Change from Arizona State University
CodePink
Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de Derechos Humanos.
Comité Cristiano para Los Derechos Humanos en América Latina
Comité fronterizo de obrer@s A.C.
Comité Quebequense de la Solidaridad con las Mujeres de Ciudad Juárez
COREF
CSP Sexual Assault Victim Services, Orange County, CA
El Paso Community College
Marintia Escobedo
Fédéderacion des Femmes du Québec
FEMAP
Sally Field
Laura Flores
FOCO, A.C.
Jane Fonda
Martine Forand
Frente Autentico de los Trabajadores, FAT
Grupo Fronterizo de obrer@s A.C.
Grupo 8 de Marzo, Cd. Juarez, A.C.
Grupo 8 de Marzo, Cd. Chihuahua, A.C.
Hospital de la Familia A.C.
Justicia para Nuestras Hijas
Kasa de Kultura
Marie-France Labrecque
Christine Lahti
Mujeres del Barzon
Mujeres por México, A.C.
Mujeres de Negro, A.C.
Mujeres Profesionistas y de Negocios de Cd. Juárez, A.C.
National Compadres Network
New Mexico State University
OPI, A. C.
Organizacion Popular Independiente A.C.
Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo
Programa Compañeros, A.C.
REDIV, Refugio Esperanza Dignidad y Vida
Red del Suroeste por la Justicia Ambiental y Económica de Alburquerque, New México.
Refugio Esperanza y Vida
Reto a la Juventud
Geneviève Rioux
Telón de Arena
Shiva Rose
SADEC
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Congresswoman Hilda Solis
Unión Nacional de Trabajadores y Sindicato de Telefonistas de la República Mexicana.
Universidad Autonoma de Cd. Juárez “Campana todos contra la violencia”
Universidad de Nuevo México en las Cruces
Women In Black, Maricopa County, AZ
World March of Women/Marcha mundial de las mujeres
Bring six friends! Bring your mothers, your sisters, your brothers, your best friends. March for the safety, freedom and rights of the Women of Ciudad Juárez.
Stop the violence in Ciudad Juárez and the entire state of Chihuahua - let it be the beginning of ending violence around the world.
JOIN US!
V-day is inviting you to a public demonstration; participation is voluntary and you assume all risks inherent in the activity and any associated activities.
MARCHA EN JUAREZ
este 14 de febrero de 2004
En honor de las mujeres de Cd. Juárez, de los grupos y oranizaciones que trabajan por las mujeres; El Vday y Amnistía Internacional los invitan a
marchar en Día V Juárez, este 14 de febrero de 2004. Cientos de jóvenes mujeres han sido raptadas y asesinadas con impunidad en la pasada década en ciudad Juárez y chihuahua. V-day y Amnistía Internacional se unen a las mujeres de ciudad Juárez, y Chihuahua junto a sus familiares para demandar el fin a dicha impunidad y prevenir más violencia en contra de las mujeres en el futuro.
El día se incluira una discusión acerca de la violencia de géneros ofrecida por la feminista mexicana Marcela Lagarde; se ofrecerá un ecuménico recordatorio honrando a las madres de las victimas y sus familiares en el monumento Benito Juarez.; una comida con música y alimento que vendedores locales prepararán; los estudiantes de las ciuadades de Juárez y El Paso leerán poemas, y el día terminará con un V-Day beneficio de “los monólogos de la vagina" por la fundadora del V-Day, Eve Ensler. Las actrices son Lilia Aragon, Marinitia Escobedo, Laura Flores, Monica Alicia Juarez, Ensler, Sally Field, Jane Fonda y Shiva Rose.
Para más información sobre la marcha en Juárez visita: www.vday.org/juarez para el horario y la localización de los acontecimientos del día; participa con nostros y distribuye este correo a todos tus colegas, amigos y conocidos!!, gracias!
A continuación nombraremos los grupos locales que difienden los derechos
humanos, lideres sociales y algunas celebridades que viajarán de distintas partes del mundo a Cd. Juárez para tomar las calles y mostrar nuestra indignación ante los crímenes contra mujeres, no queremos más mujeres asesinadas.
Ellas son:
Amigos de las Mujeres de Juárez
Center Against Family Violence
APAMAC
Lilia Aragon
Asociación de Trabajadores Sociales, A.C.
Centro de Asesoria y Promoción Juvenil AC
CARe: Communities Against Rape Initiative
Casa Amiga, Centro de Crisis, A.C.
C.A.S.A.
Casa YMCA., AC
Casa de la Peregrina, A.C.
Católicos por el Derecho a Decidir, A.C.
CCOMPAZ, A.C.
Center Against Violence in El Paso
Centro de Asesoria y Promoción Juvenil A.C.
Centro de Estudios y Taller Laboral, A.C.
Centro de Investigacion y Solidaridad Obrera, A.C.
Centro de Protección de Mujer a Mujer.
CETLAC, Centro de Estudios y taller laboral, A.C.
Ciudadanos Comprometidos con la Paz, A.C.
Coalition of Students Seeking Change from Arizona State University
CodePink
Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de Derechos Humanos.
Comité Cristiano para Los Derechos Humanos en América Latina
Comité fronterizo de obrer@s A.C.
Comité Quebequense de la Solidaridad con las Mujeres de Ciudad Juárez
COREF
CSP Sexual Assault Victim Services, Orange County, CA
El Paso Community College
Marintia Escobedo
Fédéderacion des Femmes du Québec
FEMAP
Sally Field
Laura Flores
FOCO, A.C.
Jane Fonda
Martine Forand
Frente Autentico de los Trabajadores, FAT
Grupo Fronterizo de obrer@s A.C.
Grupo 8 de Marzo, Cd. Juarez, A.C.
Grupo 8 de Marzo, Cd. Chihuahua, A.C.
Hospital de la Familia A.C.
Justicia para Nuestras Hijas
Kasa de Kultura
Marie-France Labrecque
Christine Lahti
Mujeres del Barzon
Mujeres por México, A.C.
Mujeres de Negro, A.C.
Mujeres Profesionistas y de Negocios de Cd. Juárez, A.C.
National Compadres Network
New Mexico State University
OPI, A. C.
Organizacion Popular Independiente A.C.
Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo
Programa Compañeros, A.C.
REDIV, Refugio Esperanza Dignidad y Vida
Red del Suroeste por la Justicia Ambiental y Económica de Alburquerque, New México.
Refugio Esperanza y Vida
Reto a la Juventud
Geneviève Rioux
Telón de Arena
Shiva Rose
SADEC
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Congresswoman Hilda Solis
Unión Nacional de Trabajadores y Sindicato de Telefonistas de la República Mexicana.
Universidad Autonoma de Cd. Juárez “Campana todos contra la violencia”
Universidad de Nuevo México en las Cruces
Women In Black, Maricopa County, AZ
World March of Women/Marcha mundial de las mujeres
Venga con sus amigos, sus familiares, y sus vecinos. Marcha por el derecho a la seguridad y libertad de las mujeres de Cd. Juárez-Paremos la violencia en Cd. Juárez --que este sea el principio de el final de la violencia en el mundo.
V-day le está invitando a una demostración pública; participación es voluntario y en su propio riesgo.
On V-Day, Saturday, February 14, we invite you to:
*Join us in our march to take back the streets and demand justice for the 300 murdered and missing women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua. The details for Saturday’s events are below:
*10:00 a.m. “Gender Violence,” a lecture given by Mexican feminist, Marcela Lagarde, will be held at Sala de Usos Multiples del Centro Cultural Universitario (CCU). The lecture will be moderated by Elena Ramos. Entrance-free. (Location: corner of Plutarco Elías and Hermanos Escobar streets).
*11:00 a.m. Marchers staying in El Paso will meet at San Jacinto Plaza in El Paso (from there they will meet marchers from Juárez at 12:45 p.m. on the Mexican side of the Lerdo Bridge).
*11:15 a.m. Press Conference at the Sala de Usos Multiples del CCU. (Location: corner of Plutarco Elías and Hermanos Escobar streets).
*12:45 p.m. Marchers staying in Juárez will meet marchers from El Paso at the Lerdo Bridge on the Juárez side, with a welcome address by Professor Mónica Alicia
Juárez Correa.
*1:00 p.m. The March commences at the Lerdo Bridge on the Juárez side. Marchers will walk to the Benito Juárez Monument. (Location: At Vicente Guerrero and Constitución streets).
*2:00 p.m. An ecumenical service to remember and honor the missing and murdered women of Juarez and Chihuahua will be held at the Benito Juárez Monument. (Location: At Vicente Guerrero and Constitución streets). There will be a moment of silence.
*2:45 p.m. Go to local dance hall, Morocco’s, located at the Jardines Carta Blanca (#1688 Ave. Reforma, Col. Barreal).
*3:00 p.m. Lunch will be available at Morocco’s, with music provided by musicians from Juárez. Local vendors will be participating and selling their food at reasonable prices. Information from different local women’s and human rights groups will be available. (Located at #1688 Ave. Reforma, Col. Barreal).
*4:15 p.m. A group of University students from El Paso and Juárez will read poetry at Morocco’s. (Located at #1688 Ave. Reforma, Col. Barreal).
*4:30 p.m. A special benefit performance of “The Vagina Monologues” will take place at Morocco’s performed by Lilia Aragon, Marinitia Escobedo, Laura Flores, Monica Alicia Juarez, Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, and Shiva Rose. (Located at #1688 Ave. Reforma, Col. Barreal). Entrance free.
Events are subject to change. Please check www.vday.org/juarez for the most up to date information.
PROGRAMA:
10:00 A.M. Conferencia "Violencia de Genero" por parte de Marcela Lagarde. Lugar Sala de Usos Múltiples del CCU (Plutarco Elías Calles y Hermanos
Escobar) Moderadora Ma. Elena Ramos. (Entrada Gratuita)
11:00 A.M. Las personas en El Paso van encontrar al Plaza San Jacinto.
11:15 A.M. Rueda de Prensa, Lugar Sala de Usos Múltiples del Centro Cultural Universitario (CCU) (Plutarco Elías Calles y Hermanos
Escobar).
12: 45 P.M. Reunión en Puente Internacional Lerdo, bienvenida a la gente que nos acompaña de la Cd. de El Paso, por Profra. Mónica Alicia
Juárez Correa y comisión.
1:00 P.M. Inicio Marcha, partiendo del Puente Internacional Lerdo (Ave. Lerdo) a el Monumento a Benito Juárez. (Calle Vicente Guerrero y
Constitución).
2:00 P.M. Celebración Ecuménica. Lugar Monumento a Benito Juárez (Vicente Guerrero y Constitución). Se pedirá en el transcurso de la Ceremonia "UN MINUTO DE SILENCIO POR LA PAZ".
2:45 P.M. Traslado a los Jardines Carta Blanca Salón "Moroccos"
(Ave. Reforma # 1688, Col. Barreal).
3:00 P.M. Módulos informativos en los que contaremos con la participación de distintas ONG's, Instancias que colaboran en la Prevencióny Atención a la Violencia en Cd. Juárez.. Lugar Jardines Carta Blanca (Ave. Reforma # 1688, Col. Barreal), habrá música y comida a precios módicos.
4:15 P.M. Poesía Coral de Estudiantes Universitarios de Cd. Juárez - El Paso. Lugar Salón "Morocco's" de Jardines Carta Blanca (Ave. Reforma # 1688, Col. Barreal). Entrada gratuita.
4:30 P.M. Obra de teatro " Los Monólogos de la Vagina", con la participación de las actrices mexicanas: Lilia Aragón, Laura Flores y Marintia Escobedo, y en Inglés por Jane Fonda, Sally Field y Eve Ensler. Lugar Salón "Morocco's" de Jardines Carta Blanca (Ave. Reforma # 1688, Col. Barreal).
*BE RESOURCEFUL-TAKE A PLANE, TRAIN, BUS, CAR, VAN, TAXI, TRUCK. GET THERE. THE NEW PARADIGM BEGINS IN JUAREZ WITH YOU.
If you cannot make it to Juárez, there are still ways you can help; scroll down and see
Action Steps below.
*V-Day is inviting you to a public demonstration; participation is voluntary and you assume all risks inherent in this activity and any associated activities.
How to get to Juárez: Helpful travel tips
If you’re coming from most anywhere in the USA, fly into El Paso, Texas via Continental, American or Delta Airlines—these are the major carriers that go there:
Continental: 800/525 0280
Delta: 800/221 1212
American: 800/443-7300
Southwest: 800/435-9792
Once in El Paso, you can rent a car from Hertz, Dollar, National, or Avis for the ten minute ride to Juárez. (To get directions for the short ride from El Paso to Juarez, simply ask the car rental agency or the hotel you’ll be staying at in Juárez -see below for a list of hotels).
Hertz: 800/654 3131
Dollar: 800/800 4000
National: 800/468 3334
Avis: 800/331 1212
***Remember, BRING YOUR PASSPORT! You’ll have to go through border patrol on the way over—this usually does not take more than ten minutes on the way over. HOWEVER, WHEN YOUR RETURN TO THE U.S. FROM JUAREZ GIVE YOURSELF A FEW HOURS before YOUR FLIGHT DEPARTS IN EL PASO BECAUSE BORDER PATROL OFTEN TAKES A LONG TIME RETURNING TO THE STATES (we also recommend that both ways, make sure your planes arriving and departing El Paso are during the day).
***Please note, Juarez is often cold this time of year so be sure to check the weather before you pack
If you’re coming from California, sometimes, depending on flight availability, it’s easier for you to catch an Aeromexico flight that will take you directly to the airport in Juárez via Mexico City. There, you can catch a taxi to take you to your hotel (or arrange one before hand with your hotel. A list of hotels is below).
Aeromexico: 800/237-6639
Southwest: 800/435-9792
LOCAL HOTELS:
Because of the close proximity of El Paso, Texas to Juárez, it is completely convenient to stay in a hotel in El Paso—please check www.vday.org in a few days for a list of hotels in El Paso.
Juárez Hotels:
HOTEL HOLIDAY INN LINCOLN
ADDRESS: Lincoln and Coyoacán Cd. Juárez Chihuh.
TELEPHONE: (656) 6 13 13 10 and (656) 6 11 24 50 fax. (656) 6 13 00 84
www.holiday-inn.com/lincoln.mx
HOTEL SUITES EL PASEO
ADDRESS: Paseo Triunfo de la República #4850 Cd. Juárez
TELEPHONE: (656) 6 11 50 00
EMAIL:
info@suiteselpaseo.com
www.suiteselpaseo.com
HOTEL FIESTA INN
ADDRESS:Paseo Triunfo de la República #3451 Circuito Pronaf
TELEPHONE: (656) 6 86 07 00 fax: (656) 6 86 07 01
EMAIL:
resficdj@fiestainn.com.mx
www.fiestainn.com.mx
HOTEL LUCERNA
ADDRESS: Paseo Triunfo de la República #3976 Col. Partido Romero
TELEPHONE: (656) 6 29 99 00
EMAIL:
reservaciones@lucerna.com.mx
HOTEL COLONIAL
ADDRESS: Ave. Lincoln #1355 Col. Córdova Américas
TELEPHONE: (656) 6 13 50 50
EMAIL:
www.hotelescolonial.com.mx
HOTEL HILTON GARDEN INN
ADDRESS: Ave. Tecnológico #3750 Col. Partido Iglesias
TELEPHONE: (656) 6 29 09 94 fax (656) 6 49 03 03
EMAIL:
www.cdjuarezgardeninn.com
HOTEL CASA GRANDE
ADDRESS: Ave. Tecnológico #3620 Col. Partido Iglesias
TELEPHONE: (656) 6 29 40 00
EMAIL:
reservjz@hcg.com.mx
www.radisson.com
El Paso Hotels:
downtown:
* to contact the El Paso Convention Center call (915) 534-0600
CAMINO REAL
ADDRESS: 101 South El Paso.
TELEPHONE: (800) 769 4300
hotels near the airport:
THE HILTON
ADDRESS: 2027 Airway Blvd.
TELEPHONE: (800) 742-7248
THE RADISSON
ADDRESS: 1770 Airway Blvd.
TELEPHONE: (800) 333-3333
THE MARRIOTT
ADDRESS: 1600 Airway Blvd.
TELEPHONE: (800) 228-9290
THE CHASE
ADDRESS: 6791 Montana
TELEPHONE: (800) 531-9420
THE HAWTHORN
ADDRESS: 6789 Boeing Dr.
TELEPHONE: (800) 618-0555
surrounding area:
EMBASSY SUITE:
ADDRESS: 6100 Gateway East
TELEPHONE: (800) 362-2779
LA QUINTA EL PASO
ADDRESS: 6140 Gateway Blvd. East I-10
TELEPHONE: (800)531-5900
COMFORT SUITE
ADDRESS: 949 Sunland Park Dr.
TELEPHONE: (800) 228-5150
HOLIDAY INN
ADDRESS: 6655 Gateway West on I-10
TELEPHONE: (800) 658-2744
ACTION STEPS
Even if you cannot make it to Juárez (or even if you can!), there are still a few simple, powerful ways you can help stop the violence against women and girls there. Please see below:
- On October 20, 2004 the International Caravan for Justice will travel across the United States and Mexico to fight for justice for the women in Juarez and Chihuahua.
- Write to the Governor of the State of Chihuahua, Lic. Patricio Martinez. For more details on what to include in your letter and Lic. Martinez’s address, please click on the following Amnesty International link: http://web.amnesty.org/pages/mex-251103-action-eng
- Contact your local newspaper and urge it to cover V-Day’s march on Juarez; This will help make Juárez the focus of the world on February 14. Direct them to press@vday.org for additional information and interviews with march organizers, supporters, and participants.
- Write your member of congress and ask him or her to support. Resolution 466 that was intiated by Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis (D-CA). Resolution 466 encourages increased United States involvement in bringing an end to the murders and abductions of women in Juárez; resolves that the House of Representativs supports multinational efforts to create a DNA database that would allow families to positively identify the remains of victims and encourages the Secretary of State to facilitate US participation in such a DNA database; recommend that the United States Ambassador to Mexico visit Juárez to meet with the families of the victims. To Contact your congress person go to www.house.gov and enter your zip code.
- International Tip Line: Anyone with information about the murders is asked to call a special toll-free line manned by the El Paso police and FBI at (800) 237-0797 or by email at tips@ci.elpaso.tx.us.
- Support the women of Juarez and women all over the world, attend a V-Day benefit in your community, http://vday.org/events. In 2004, each event will donate up to 10% of their proceeds to the women of Juarez.
- Organize a Screening of Senorita Extraviada! February 1-14
In solidarity with the V-Day March on Juárez, V-Day has joined with Women Make Movies, a multicultural, multiracial, feminist media arts organization located in New York, to offer a discount on Lourdes Portillo's extraordinary film Senorita Extraviada. This documentary is a groundbreaking investigation into the mysterious murders of the women in Juárez. Portillo relies on testimonies of the families of victims as she unravels the layers of complicity that have allowed for these brutal murders to occur. The film brings issues of violence against women to the international arena and is one of the many powerful documentaries from WMM that serve as invaluable tools in helping create a global culture that says no to violence.
WMM is keenly aware of the power of documentaries to raise awareness and compel action. It's offering V-Day groups a $200+ discount on the film and its screening rights so members can view it before the march.
Take up a collection at your next meeting and purchase Senorita Extraviada for $89 plus $6 s/h at: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c579.htm
Links To Articles and information about Juárez:
- Download a PDF of "The City of Murdered Women" (file size: 4.56 MB), written by Eve Ensler for the March issue of Marie Claire. Photographs by Paula Allen.
-
At University of Texas at El Paso for the women of Juarez during V-Week:
http://utminers.utep.edu/jkokina/index.htm
- An article, “Impunity and Women’s Rights in Ciudad,” published by Carnegie Council’s Human Rights Dialogue 2.10 (Fall 2003).
http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmID/1056
- Amnesty International:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/juarez/
- Filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo, made an amazing documentary about the missing & murdered women of Juarez:
http://www.lourdesportillo.com/senoritaextraviada/index.html
- The federating of American unions, the AFL-CIO, has done a substantial amount of research on maquiladoras, or assembly factories where so many of the women who were murdered or abducted worked:
http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/globaleconomy/ns10092003.cfm
- The federating of American unions, the AFL-CIO, has done a substantial amount of research on maquiladoras, or assembly factories where so many of the women who were murdered or abducted worked:
http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/globaleconomy/ns10092003.cfm
and
http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/globaleconomy/upload/Juarezflyer.pdf
For more information email:
juarez@vday.org
