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This isn't about DV per se, although an increased incidence in DV is associated with households who take in less than £20k, and is also associated with increased stress and financial worry.
Welsh DV campaigns more recently have highlighted the subtleties and behaviours that are not healthy in relationships.
We want to get messages out about the impact of cuts from the perspectives of unpaid care, employment, benefits and education.
The idea behind gathering examples of a range of successful campaigns/communication methods is to inspire reps to think out of the box about projects of their own and how they will communicate to their members. Clips of people telling their personal stories always has an impact.
This breaks the stereotype that its always man on women abuse; that D|V is somehow an exclusively "womens" issue; and encourages men to identify with the abused rather than the abuser.
It would be interesting to see how male viewers "cope" with the video: often with sarcasm/humour/evasiveness - and blame the man for not being a real man for allowing it to happen. - this comes from the same of thought form stable that the blames the female victim for "asking for it" by not being sufficient sweet/amenable/compliant or whatever.
You could role play it - and video some vox pop reactions to the video - and the advice they give the victim on how s/he should have reacted, or bystanders should have reacted. Or how you would have reacted. Or what you thought was the underlying cause, and what could be a lasting solution.
Put all the prejudices/hang-ups out there as expressed by people reacting to the role play so that the reactions become part of the role play experience. Actors responding to the advice given from the audience - harassing a member of the audience - also role played - who gives "the WRONG answer".
Confuse people by implying they are implicated in the violence - it was there fault it happened because they did nothing. Break the conventional performer/detached observer convention.` YOU knew your neighbour was being beaten up, didn't you?
etc. Index of Frank's Diaries
The difficulty is getting people to care about issues that they think have nothing to do with them and never will.
Accessibility of public transport - Julie
Use if you like. At least it is not a poster that has been here since the 50ies... Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
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