Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After hearing horror stories of torture, murder and rape in Central America, this Massachusetts community of 95,000 people first opened its doors to political exiles when the City Council voted to designate Cambridge as a "sanctuary city"--one of more than a dozen localities which officially pledge to provide relief services to refugees in open defiance of federal immigration authorities...
...crowd continued through the Law School and Cambridge Common as they chanted, "However We Dress, Wherever We Go, Yes is Yes and No is No." The group stopped briefly in front of the D.U. to protest against date rape before proceeding to the river...
Martha Friend of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center opened the rally, saying, "We found ourselves living in a culture that condones and in fact, promotes it [rape]. Every time a whistle or jeer is defended as a compliment, our rape culture is enforced...
...longer can we dismiss rape as perverts ordeviants dragging their victims into darkcorners," Friend said of the high rate of date oracquaintance rape. "Some of us may have learned toexpect it, but we do not accept it," she said...
...march route includes the river houses in order to stress the the most common form of rape at Harvard--date or acquaintance rape--according to Garber. Several speeches will also focus on date rape...