TAKING ACTION ON THE FEMICIDE IN JUAREZ

What You or Your Chapter Can Do

• Organize a viewing of the documentary "Señorita Extraviada" or "Preguntas Sin Respuesta"

  Organize a viewing of the documentary "Señorita Extraviada" or "Preguntas Sin Respuesta" in your community as part of an educational event. You can purchase a copy of the video through NOW’s action center. If you wish, we can arrange for a staff from the Action Center to come to your chapter and co-present with these powerful documentaries. Contact Zenaida Mendez at the Racial Diversity Programs 202-628-8669 ext. 143

• Sponsor a speaking tour

  Sponsor a visit by the International Jornada for Justice in Juarez: End the Femicides, End the Exploitation. Activists from Juarez, struggling against a decade-long string of largely unresolved femicides and injustices in the maquila sector will travel to the United States. NOW works in coalition with the Mexico Solidarity Network’s Washington office and Network Organizer Macrina Cardenas (1247 E St., SE Washington, D.C. 20003, 202-544-9355). Next tour starts in March 2006.

• Contact your representatives’ offices

  Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) and Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) have reintroduced resolutions condemning the murders of more than 400 young women in Juarez. Both resolutions will help raise awareness of the tragic violence against women in Mexico and encourage the Mexican authorities to seek justice in these cases. Urge your representative to become a cosponsor of these resolutions (H.Cons. Res.90/S.Con Res 16).