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I attended the Domestic Violence Survivors’ Recognition Day event The
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence Survivors’ Caucus,
of which I am a member.
http://wscadv.org/Networks/sis_page.htm

The event was held in the rotunda of the Washington State capitol in
Olympia.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/249050070/249051535BnreTu
http://community.webshots.com/album/249050070CJBcoa

Here is the newspapeer report of the event:
http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051016/NEWS01/510160333/1006

On display, indoors and outdoors on the steps of the capitol, were 20
newly-created female images in the Silent Witness Project.
On a board in the rotunda were 11 statements describing men who had been
murdered in domestic violence situations.

http://www.silentwitness.net/sub/photo_washington.htm

I spoke with Linda Olsen, Executive Director of the Eastside Domestic
Violence Program (EDVP).
http://edvp.org/AboutEDVP/default.htm
She told me that they are in the process of creating the life-size
wooden cutouts for these 11 male victims.
I thanked her for her use of inclusive language in her presentation and
that I appreciated the move towards inclusiveness which the male figures
in the updated Silent Witness Project represent.
She told me that her contact with me (I spoke at an EDVP event last
year) has been part of her inspiration for moving in this direction.

I found that the Silent Witness Project for Southwestern Washington
includes a male victim:
http://www.silentwitness.net/sub/photo_washington.htm