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The violence unleashed on September 11 has radically altered the political stage by raising questions about the relevance of routine political work in the U.S. Compared to the enormous tragedy of September 11, this year’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October) seems insignificant. I find myself asking: Is violence against women a relevant concern for all? Has the domestic violence movement made itself relevant to the broader calls for a safe and peaceful world?
Anannya Bhattacharjee is currently Program Officer at the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program and is co-editor of Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization (forthcoming from South End Press, March 2002). She is the author of “Whose Safety?: Women of Color and Law Enforcement Violence,” co-sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and the Committee on Women, Population and Environment. She is the former Executive Director of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities; founder and former Executive Coordinator of Sakhi for South Asian Women; and co-founder of the SAMAR Collective (a South Asian progressive media resource). She writes and speaks widely on social justice work.
