Black and Blue: The Many Ways of Domestic Violence World

Posted 2022-11-29, Dissident Voice Headlines video

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We are in a rape culture. We have a million examples in this neoliberal and neocon country of that. We have the fact of one out of 12 or 15 girls and women losing their viriginity through sexual assault. We have what — one out of five in this country experiencing sexual assault by the time they hit 40 years of age. The... read full story

"absolutely did not happen."

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