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BREAKING
OUR SILENCE |
Breaking Our Silence is also distributed by the Media Education Foundation, one of the nation's leading distributors of videos about gender, race, and equality issues to high schools, colleges and universities. We highly recommend their website www.mediaed.org. |
BREAKING OUR SILENCE is only a few months old and news of it has begun to spread. So far, several women’s agencies have used it to spark men’s action. We also have positive reports from fathering groups, groups including batterers, and with church-based men’s groups. It has been shown on community access television in several places, and has prompted televised discussions involving local men and women. Even though the video was completed just before the end of the school year, teachers reported its effective use with middle and high school students, with groups of students at risk, and in anti-bullying programs. At least one large university plans to incorporate it in this fall’s orientation for all incoming students. Other campuses may use it for men’s and women’s athletic programs. Please email us at dontbully@strongmendontbully.com to let us know of other uses and offer comments.
LACK OF DIVERSITY IN BREAKING
OUR SILENCE
We are aware that BREAKING OUR SILENCE , while it includes many
men of very diverse backgrounds and experiences, does not have strong
representation of men from communities of color or a wide range of ethnic
diversity. This is because
BREAKING OUR SILENCE is not a public
service announcement or a constructed educational film-- it is a documentary
of what is happening in our city. Historically, Gloucester's diversity
has involved wide class differences and large populations of Portuguese
and Italians (mostly Sicilians), as well as a smaller but very vital Lebanese
community.
Currently the only large foreign language speaking part of the population
is Sicilian, though very recently many Portuguese speaking Brazilians
have arrived and we are sure many of these men will be joining us. Latino
men from Lynn, Massachusetts are leading an effort to have
BREAKING OUR SILENCE translated, subtitled
and narrated into Spanish, Portuguese, and possibly Khmer. Our brothers
in Lynn have already done a community access television program on these
issues in Spanish. (Copies can be obtained for use in your local area).