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- Subject: ACTIVISM: Protest Navy's Sexual Harassment ("Operation Tailhook")
- Message-ID: <bayWAC.11Sep1992.1pm1@naughty-peahen.org>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 21:49:18 GMT
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- [bayWAC Press Release]
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- Over 25 women, half of them officers, have charged that they
- were sexually assaulted at the Septmber 7th, 1991 Tailhook
- Convention of Naval Aviators in Las Vegas.
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- Approximately 400 Navy personnel have been interviewed.
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- Their CODE OF SILENCE has not been broken.
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- NO CHARGES have been filed.
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- NO JUSTICE has been served.
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- OPERATION TAILHOOK: WAC DEMANDS NAVY UNZIP ITS LIPS
- INSTEAD OF ITS PANTS
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- The Bay Area Women's Action Coalition (bayWAC) will stage a
- protest demonstration at the east gate of Alameda Naval Base,
- on Saturday, September 12th, at 12 noon -- in solidary with the
- women of Los Angeles WAC, who are leading the protest at the
- Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego. WACs in other cities
- will join in the protest.
-
- The protest marks the one year anniversary of the infamous
- Tailhook Scandal at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel where a large
- body of our country's elite aircraft pilots and "top guns"
- forcibly passed 26 women through a gauntlet and assaulted
- them -- half were fellow officers.
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- WAC is incensed that a year has passed and the code of silence
- is still being honored. The guilty have not been charged.
- WAC will make the following demands to the Navy:
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- o Break the code of silence.
- o Prosecute the guilty.
- o Give women full equality in the military,
- including combat duty.
- o Support the whistleblowers' protection act.
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- Tailhook is not an isolated incident. Two out of every three
- women surveyed in a 1990 study of sexual harassment in the
- military said they had been sexually harassed. Tailhook and
- other incidents occur in an atmosphere of permission which
- condones hostility toward women.
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- For the honor of all women, WAC wants the Navy to know: This
- Will Not Stand.
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- WAC IS WATCHING
- WE WILL TAKE ACTION
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- Bring Water / Carry ID / Wear Black / Pack a Lunch
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- ________________________________________________________________
- Women's Action Coalition Mission Statement
-
- The Women's Action Coalition (WAC) is an open alliance of women
- committed to Direct Action on issues affecting the rights of all
- women. We are witnesses to the current economic, cultuural and
- political pressures that limit women's lives and to the horrify-
- ing effect of these limitations. We will exercise our full
- creative power to launch a visible and remarkable resistance.
-